Creative Commons Launches a Streamlined Search Featuring 300 Million Images and Improved Attribution
Creative Commons, the organization that helps people legally share images and other data online for the common good, has launched a brand new, streamlined search…
A Baby Monkey Figures Out How to Best Climb a Tall Fig Tree Without Any Help From His Watchful Mother
In an adorable clip from the Smithsonian Channel series Monkey Island, a troop of tufted gray langurs follow the alpha male to a tall fig…
Man Performs Gnossienne No. 1 on Recorder Through a Birdhouse With the Help of an 18th Century Hand
Filmmaker Sean Reynard has created and embodied a rather interesting bespectacled, short-banged character he named Quentin Smirhes. As it turns out, Smirhes just launched his…
The Tallest Concert Grand Piano in the World
Great Big Story visited with master piano builder David Klavins at his studio in Vác, Hungary. Klavins, who has worked as a technician, concert tuner…
Why Train Wheels Require a Rigid Conical Shape
A researcher from the Civil Engineering Department at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany visually demonstrates scenarios in which different wheels are tested on a…
A Giant Colored Pencil Made Out of Colored Pencils
Woodworker Nick Zammeti cleverly built a giant colored pencil made out of many, many boxes of colored pencils. This very meta idea came to Zammeti…
Popping a Champagne Cork With a Champagne Flute
While attending a friend’s party at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark, champagne enthusiast Nikolaj Makar quite elegantly removed the cork from an ice cold…
How the Rock Opera ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Reinterpreted Judas Iscariot as Sympathetic Character
Music essayist Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic took a look at the classic Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice collaboration Jesus Christ Superstar. LeFevre first notes that the…
Ghost Box, A Touch-Controlled Interactive Sound Sculpture Modeled After WWII-era Shortwave Radio
Ghost Box by artist/musician Steve Parker, is a remarkable interactive sound sculpture modeled after a World War II-era shortwave radio and allows listeners to change…
Signman, A 42 Year Retrospective of Work by San Francisco Underground Artist and Prankster John Law
photo by John Beherens Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland is presenting Signman, a three month long retrospective spanning 42 years of work by legendary San…