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Classic Rock Songs Elegantly Played on Baroque Lute
The incredibly talented instrumentalist Daniel Estrem performs wonderfully elegant covers of classic rock songs on a beautiful baroque lute.
A Fascinating Portal Into the Tiny World of Tardigrades
Julie Laurin, an artist with a fascination of the microscopic, posted a live stream of adorably resilient tardigrades (water bears) as they make their way…
A Very Patient Pug Sits Incredibly Still While His Human Performs Tablecloth Tricks on His Little Head
A very patient and very dapper dog named Puggy Smalls sat incredibly still as his giddy human Neil Henry performed various tablecloth tricks with a…
Playing the 20th Century Fox Theme While Frying Tofu
Alex Becker quite expertly performed the distinctive bombastic 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) theme by pressing the spatula into tofu that he was…
A Single Person Sets a Off Surreal Sequence of Connected Events in Experimental Film ‘Concatenation’
Filmmaker Donato Sansone has created “Concatenation”, an experimental film in which a single person sets off a surreal sequence of events, each one connected to…
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Safely Performs ‘One More Minute’ in His Bathrobe on ‘The Tonight Show: Home Edition’
While staying at home, Jimmy Fallon hosted an episode of The Tonight Show: Home Edition with “Weird Al” Yankovic as featured remote guest. The bathrobe-clad…
Creative Dad Elegantly Plates and Serves His Son’s Lunch as a Waiter in a High-End Restaurant
After a couple of weeks at home, sommelier and stay-at-home dad Jason Booth found that he missed being in a restaurant, so he began plating…
xkcd Takes an Insightful Look at the Transmission of Viruses From the Viruses’ Point of View
xkcd creator Randall Munroe created a very insightful comic that looks at the transmission of viruses from the viruses’ point of view. To the disappointment…
Imaginative Series Reinterprets How Anne Frank Might Have Expressed Herself If She Made a Video Diary
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam presents “Anne Frank’s Video Diary”, a 15 episode web series that reinterprets Frank’s iconic diary and supposes how she…
Helpful Dog Delivers Groceries to Neighbor
A sweet golden retriever named Sunny who lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado became an essential employee to his neighbor Renee Hellman who is required to…