Upturning Tornadoes | Explorers in the FieldWatch this video on YouTube The deadly 2013 El Reno tornado was 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and killed a team of tornado experts.… Read the rest of the article: Watch how crowdsourced citizen data demonstrated how tornadoes form
Every Race In Middle-Earth Explained | WIREDWatch this video on YouTube Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien's hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around… Read the rest of the article: Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth
Koko, a cat living in the Japanese city of Toyoma, was honored by local officials after alerting rescuers to an elderly man who had fallen supine into an irrigation canal.… Read the rest of the article: Officials honor hero cat who saved an old man trapped in a canal
Kehinde Wiley and Self Portrait Collage | Visual Art | ArtistYear Create #BHMWatch this video on YouTube The pandemic has inspired a slew of great courses for young artists, like… Read the rest of the article: Online course shows young artists how to make portraits in Kehinde Wiley's style
Twitter, JPMorgan, and other organizations have announced they will stop using racially-charged coding and hardware terms like master, slave, blacklist, whitelist, and others as part of a thorough review of… Read the rest of the article: Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive"
A New Dawn: The Restoration of L'Aurora Part 1Watch this video on YouTube Julian Baumgartner has been sharing wonderful videos of his amazing art restorations, including one of his most… Read the rest of the article: Spend a relaxing hour watching this amazing art restoration
A Message From Dogs: Enough With The FireworksWatch this video on YouTube As many parts of the United States have seen huge upticks in spontaneous evening fireworks, one anxiety-filled dog… Read the rest of the article: Pandemic-frazzled dog goes on anti-fireworks rant
Testing of the Masters – Part 4: Red Master ChallengedWatch this video on YouTube Move over, vintage fingerboards. Mr. Manos has arrived with vintage martial arts films, featuring finger ninjas.
New data visualization project to reveal bias in media coverage on transgender topics could use your support.
As Halloween approacheth, perhaps it's time to tour the world's most troubling and terrifying toilets, courtesy of Phil from Toilets With Threatening Auras.
The Breeders – Spacewoman (Official Video, directed by Richard Ayoade))Watch this video on YouTube The Breeders have been out and about this year supporting their first studio album in ten… Read the rest of the article: The Breeders are back with a new video for Spacewoman
Poolboy nails one of the three most pernicious forms of marketing trends: the ironic self-deprecating brand run by some douchey social media manager:
French illustrator Linda Bouderbala did a fun exercise where she gathered some of her favorite characters from geek and pop culture and organized them by color.
The Lord of the Rings and Kim Dotcom put New Zealand on the map for wealthy tech moguls seeking a safe space to hole up when disaster strikes. The Trump… Read the rest of the article: Why Silicon Valley doomsday preppers love New Zealand
DARK MONEY (2018) | Official Trailer HD | PBS DistributionWatch this video on YouTube PBS premieres Dark Money on Monday October 1. It's a sobering look at how the Supreme… Read the rest of the article: The documentary Dark Money exposes how corporations buy elections and lawmakers
How to Raise Baby Corals | bioGraphicWatch this video on YouTube Raising baby corals is a labor-intensive process that requires gathering the babies at the moment the corals spawn in… Read the rest of the article: Scientists raising baby corals plan to plant over one million by 2021
David Lynch in "Curtain's Up", from Stella McCartneyWatch this video on YouTube Stella McCartney profiles David Lynch in this moody piece on the joys of cinema and transcendental meditation.
This NSFW film examines a fictional incel named Sam, starting with his agonizingly tense interaction with a young woman and reaching a disturbing culmination.
The World's Most Beautiful Libraries is a lovely collection of some of the most awe-inspiring libraries ever built.
Phoksundo LakeWatch this video on YouTube Nothing like a relaxing bike ride where the slightest mistake will send you careening down jagged rocks and into a lake far below. The… Read the rest of the article: Watch a very brave biker zip along a lakeside cliff
