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NPR Posts Collection of ‘The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever’
NPR has amassed a collection of 300 particularly excellent commencement speeches from the past 240 years by famous and lesser known people. You can peruse…
Chinchilla Gleefully Rolls Around In a Dust Bath
Taro, an adorable chinchilla gleefully rolls around in a bath boat filled with dust like warm water.
Microsoft Announces the Surface Pro 3 Tablet
Microsoft today announced the new Surface Pro 3 tablet, successor to 2013’s Surface Pro 2, featuring a 12-inch display, 4th-generation Intel Core i3, i5, or…
Rhett & Link Point Out What the Contents of Your Fridge Says About You
In this video, comedian Rhett McLaughlin of Rhett & Link points out what the contents of your fridge says about you . After a thorough…
A Sleeping Pig Wakes Up To the Smell of a Cookie
Pheobe the mini pig wakes to the smell of a cookie placed within inches of her snoring nose, which she very happily consumes.
Artist Elsa Rhae Uses Makeup to Transform Herself Into Pop Culture Characters
Makeup artist Elsa Rhae transforms herself into all manner of characters — from Captain Planet to the Grinch — with the clever application of makeup.…
Cute Little Rodents Running and Riding on Turntables
The Division of Labor ad agency has created a short film that shows cute little rodents running and riding on turntables. They made the film…
An Incredible Time-Lapse Video of a Supercell Thunderstorm Forming Over Wyoming
Oklahoma-based tornado video coverage team Basehunters filmed an incredible time-lapse video of a supercell thunderstorm forming near Newcastle, Wyoming on May 18th. The team has…
Theme Song From ‘Back to the Future’ Played on Floppy and Hard Disk Drives
YouTube user Arganalth has created a video featuring a number of floppy and hard disk drives playing the theme to the 1985 sci-fi comedy movie…
David Bowie Opens Up About His Alter Ego ‘Ziggy Stardust’ In a 1998 Interview Animated By PBS
In the most recent episode of the PBS animated series “Blank on Blank“, the legendary musician David Bowie opens up about the birth and death…