How Gregor Clegane aka ‘The Mountain’ Embodies All That Is Brutally Violent in ‘Game of Thrones’
With the final season of Game of Thrones swiftly approaching, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take the opportunity to inscribe another chapter…
A Curious Cat Figures Out How to Play With the Swinging Spheres of a Newton’s Cradle
An adorable rescued tabby cat named Pickle began playing with the Newton’s Cradle that was sitting on his human’s desk. The curious kitty grabbed the…
MetaFly, A Durable, Flexible Flying Robot That Mimics the Movements of a Delicate Insect for Accurate Flight
Inventor Edwin Van Ruymbeke of Marseille, France, who created the furtive Bionic Bird drone, has crafted another biomimetic flying robot called the MetaFly. This highly…
How a Variety of Musical Oddities Make The Beatles’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ a Very Messy Song
In a rather forthright video essay, the host of You Can’t Unhear This addresses the mysterious goings on that make very messy work of The…
A Robotic Arm That Picks Up Unfamiliar Objects With Great Precision and Places Them Where They Belong
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a highly intelligent robotic arm that is able to gently pick up…
A Hot and Thirsty Koala Seeks Cool Refuge in the Air Conditioned Environment of a Winemaker’s Car
After checking to his family’s vineyard in South Australia, vintner Tim Withrow of Withrow Wines returned to his car and found that a hot and…
The Kids of Hawkins Start to Grow Up During the Summer of 1985 in ‘Stranger Things’ Season Three
The third season of the wildly popular series Stranger Things takes place in the summer of 1985, where the kids of Hawkins, Indiana begin to…
TV Star and His Stunt Double Try to Break Into Film In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
In Quentin Tarantino‘s ninth feature film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, famous TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff…
Why Trees Stop Growing After a Certain Height
In an arboreal TED-Ed lesson written by Valentin Hammoudi and animated by Doug Alberts, narrator Addison Anderson explains the “hydraulic limitation hypothesis,”, which posits that…