33 Million Things - American Museum of Natural History

What if you could open up a drawer full of hundreds of pinned insect specimens to study them under a microscope, or unscrew the jar cap to scan a curious creature that swam in the deep sea decades ago? For collectors everywhere, this is a lovely series from the American Museum of Natural History: Shelf Life, episode 1 – 33 Million Things. From centuries-old specimens to entirely new types...

Stopmotion Skiing at Home - Philipp Klein Herrero

When avid skier Philipp Klein Herrero had to cancel a ski trip in the mountains, he decided to set up his GoPro and bring the mountains to him. The result: Freeride Skiing at Home. Filmed from above, this stop-motion short is a delightful escape from being stuck inside. He explains: Just before the...

The Worst World Map of All Time

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Apple OpenDoc Technology Intro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow The dogcow, named Clarus, is a bitmapped image designed by Apple for the demonstration of page layout in Mac OS. The sound she makes is "Moof!".[1] Clarus became the archetype of surrealistic humor in the corporate culture of the original Macintosh group,...

Geologic Time - A Visualization and Essay

Geologists have divided the whole of geologic history into units of varying length.  Together, they compose the geologic time scale of Earth history.  The major units of the time scale were delineated during the nineteenth century, principally by scientists in Western Europe and Great Britain.  Because radiometric dating was unavailable at that time, the entire time scale was created...

Hand-Welded TIE Fighter and X-Wing Candlesticks

Alex Dodson of Burned by Design has again added to his incredible Star Wars inspired collection with amazing TIE Fighter and X-Wing candlesticks. Like his other work, Dodson hand cuts and welds each piece himself. The battle-ready candlesticks are perfectly content to stay at...

When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving - Reginald Dwayne Betts

When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving by Reginald Dwayne Betts in the backseat of my car are my own sons, still not yet Tamir’s age, already having heard me warn them against playing with toy pistols, though my rhetoric is always about what I don’t like, not what I fear, because sometimes I think of  Tamir Rice & shed tears, the weeping all another insignificance, all another...

Vienna is Like... by Fernando Livschitz

Vienna is like... from Black Sheep Films on Vimeo. Statues and buildings float, Slinkys connect articulated buses, and carnival rides get supersized in Vienna, Austria with help from Argentine director Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films. Animation and live-action blend fantastical sights...

Can You Grow a Glacier?

In the 13th century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering countries and drawing them into his empire. But, legend has it that there was one obstacle that even he couldn’t overcome: a towering wall of ice, grown by locals across a mountain pass. Learn more about...

Glasswing Butterflies - KQED

Glasswing butterflies aren’t made of glass, but their transparent wings help them blend with their surroundings, protecting them from predators. This Deep Look episode from KQED takes the time to observe the life cycle of glasswing butterflies (Greta oto), as well as the special nanopillars responsible...

Clangers TV Show

Clangers is a BAFTA-winning British stop-motion children’s series about “small creatures living in peace and harmony on – and inside – a small, hollow planet, far, far away.” It first-aired in 1969 and returned to television in 2015. In this 50th anniversary celebration episode, which aired in 2019, renowned...

Squirrel Obstacle Course - Hilarious!

This man looked at squirrels defeating his anti-squirrel bird feeders, and turned them into quality entertainment. Here is a still of all the squirrels! ...

Building a Giant Furry Electric Dog Car

When eleven-year-old Alex designed her Giant Furry Electric Dog Car, the team at Kids Invent Stuff rose to the challenge of making it real. In this how-it’s-made video, makers Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown team up to weld, wire, staple, tape, glue, and screw together the canine-themed...

Neil Freeman's Fake is the New Real

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"The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music (1965)

In this classic scene from Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s 1965 film adaptation of The Sound of Music, Maria and the von Trapp children sing ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ during their marionette show, a performance for their father and his friends. Maria is played by the great Julie Andrews....