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Incredibly Tiny Paper Crane is Just 3 Millimeters Long
Animator Joaquin Baldwin used an X-Acto knife to fold a tiny paper crane that is just three millimeters in length. Baldwin made the origami crane…
Google Removes Clouds From Its Satellite Mapping Products
Last week Google rolled out improved satellite imagery across all of its mapping products. Based on imagery from the NASA/USGS Landsat 7 satellite, Google’s new…
Music Video For ‘Mutual Core’ by Björk, Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
“Mutual Core,’ a new music video by Björk, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. The “Making of” video:
Cat Tries to Keep People’s Hands Down on the Table
An orange cat tries to keep two people’s hands down on the table in this video uploaded by ignoramusky. via Tastefully Offensive
FaceMashups, Video Mashups of Two Different Looking Celebrity Faces
Will Ferrell & Natalie Portman FaceMashups is a channel on YouTube that takes two very different looking celebrities and creates a hilarious video mashup of…
Photos of U.S. Soldiers Riding Broomsticks and Playing Quidditch From ‘Harry Potter’
A group of U.S. soldiers appear to be playing Quidditch, a fictional sport from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe played on broomsticks, in these fun…
Why Tea is Better Than Coffee
Suck it, coffee! BuzzFeed explains the many reasons tea is better than coffee — including, but not limited to, the fact that tea is “the…
Superconducting Boat Levitating Around a Magnet-Covered Möbius Strip
A small, superconducting boat levitates around a Möbius strip covered in more than 2,000 magnets in this video from Ri Channel. Royal Institution science demonstration…
Google Maps Street View of Abandoned ‘Battleship Island’ in Japan
Google recently released Street View imagery for Hashima, an abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan more commonly known by its nickname…
Where is the True North Pole? by MinutePhysics
In this video, Henry Reich of MinutePhysics explains the difference between geographic, magnetic, and geomagnetic poles and where each sits on our planet Earth.