Put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don’t care. What looks like a dubstep rave is actually styrofoam dancing to sound waves in a massive flexiglass pipe. The faux mosh pit is the result of a process called sound looking which demonstrates what audible vibrations may actually look like. Watch […]
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Andy Warhol appears in the weirdest Super Bowl commercial ever
Given the Super Bowl’s lackluster performance, I found some strange excitement in Burger King’s #EatlikeAndy ad taken from the 1982 film 66 Scenes from America. The original clip shows Warhol chewing on a Whopper for a good four minutes. According to fast-food aficionado Bill Oakley, Warhold had originally requested a McDonald’s burger. While you can’t […]
In the search of greatness
Great athletes break the mold. They’re not just gifted. They get creative in the arena, using their intuition and imagination to do things never seen before on stage. The same genius can be said for select actors, musicians, scientists, thinkers and the like. In the fortchoming documentary In Search of Greatness, director Gabe Polsky takes […]
The ultimate leap of faith đ€
If you think you’re brave, think again. This skydiving chick makes a steep jump and somehow (somehow!), survives multiple crushing hits on the way down. Unbelievable. “The resilience of barnacle goose chick is extraordinary,” says the show’s commentator. Yes, indeed.
Surfing a world-record 80 foot gigantic wave
Nature always makes you feel small. Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa surfed a record-setting 80-foot wave in November 2017 off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. Just look at the lighthouse and onlookers in perspective to the surfer surrounded by the mountainous wave, or shall we say avalanche. Watch it for yourself.
Penguins turn to a life of crime
Penguins can be thieves. They can also be nihilists.
The truth about algorithms
Mathematician Cathy O’Neil explains why algorithms are programmed and curated with bias. She is the author of Weapons of Math Destruction (Amazon) and runs ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing firm. An algorithm is an opinion embedded in math. Cathy OâNeil
Peculiar Pyongyang
A strange yet beautiful time-lapse tilt-shift look at Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea. Such peculiarity can also be seen in the country’s late 20th century advertising.Â
Hear me roar đŠ
For anyone who’s seen The Lion King but yet to hear a lion actually roar (me included).