The world's first audio recording is creepy, not made by Edison
At the French site Anecdote du Jour you can listen to the world's first audio recordings, made in 1859 and 1860 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The recordings, one of a tuning fork being struck...
View ArticleThe climate change generation gap
October 2012 was the 332nd month in a row with a global average temperature that is higher than the 20th-century average. Put it another way: If you are younger than 28, then you have never experienced...
View ArticleYou've probably been using your can opener the wrong way
I feel like such a chump. Several years ago, I hadn't planned on buying anything at a Tupperware party that I had agreed to take place in my home (yes, they still exist). But then the hostess told us...
View ArticleDog has learned to "speak" with a soundboard: "Outside. Come now."
Koko the gorilla (RIP) amazed the world when she learned to communicate with humans, but now there's a dog whose learned to "talk." Not with sign language, but with a soundboard. According to her...
View ArticleIncredible artist simultaneously draws six portraits, upside down, with her...
Some people are just better than the rest of us, ok? Here's a woman who demonstrates how she simultaneously can draw six realistic portraits—upside down—using her hands and feet in just 40 minutes. Her...
View ArticleWatch: magical elevator to see a mall Santa
Watch this kid's mind get blown riding "Santa's Elevator Express" from inside a shopping mall directly into the big guy's North Pole workshop. The walls of the elevator are video murals that show the...
View ArticleBehold, magician Axel Adler's '3 legs'
Magician Axel Adler has three legs and you can't convince me otherwise. There's no other explanation, end of story. (via Born in Space, The Awesomer)
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