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An Amusing Yet Informative Song About Locating the Squarest Country in the World
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men performed a rather amusing and quite informative song that helped them answer a viewer’s question…
‘What Drives Us’, A Documentary by Dave Grohl About Rock Bands Whose Earliest Tours Were Made by Van
What Drives Us is a feature length documentary about rock bands that started out touring by van, directed by Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters…
Remarkable Timelapse of Mushroom Growth in 30 Days
Photographer Jens of Another Perspective (previously) captured the remarkable process of growing mushrooms from tiny spores into beautiful capped giants over the course of 30…
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs a Coherent Cover of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
The very talented musicians of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (previously) performed a coherent cover of the iconic Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.…
How Synchronization Inevitably Arises From Chaos
Derek Muller of Veritasium (previously) consulted with Professor Steven Strogatz to explain the phenomenon of synchronization inevitably arising from chaos. In doing so, the pair…
Enticing Sensor Wearing Cats to Perform Tricks to Capture the Specific Manner in Which Felines Move
Digic Pictures, an animation studio in Budapest, Hungary, quite bravely put sensors on a variety of different cats and enticed them to perform tricks in…
The Size of Comets and Asteroids Compared to NYC
3D animator Alvaro Gracia Montoya of MetaBallStudios (previously) who created a fascinating animation that visually compared the size of exceptional asteroids in our solar system…
‘Street Gang’, A Wonderfully Nostalgic Documentary That Explores How ‘Sesame Street’ Came to Be
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street by Screen Media Films is a feature length documentary based upon a book of the same name…
How a Court Reporting Stenography Machine Works
Court reporting student Isabelle Lumsden showed how a stenography machine works, the concept behind the keys and how words are formed.
An Immersive Landscape Installation With Floral Sculptures by Kusama at New York Botanical Garden
View this post on Instagram A post shared by New York Botanical Garden (@nybg) Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (previously) partnered with the New York Botanical…