Earthquake-Proof Bed Drops, Seals You In Vault
I feel like I posted this or something very on Geekologie back in another lifetime, but that may have just been a fever dream. Hard to say. This is a video of the ‘earthquake bed’ imagined by Chinese inventor Wang Wenxi. In the event an earthquake is detected, the bed
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Presumably manufactured entirely from artificial ingredients and sold by MSCHF, this box of cereal contains a single, half pound, 930-calorie Fruit Loop . You can tell it’s not an actual Kellogg’s product because Kellogg’s sells Froot Loops, and this is a Fruit Loop. And the last thing you want to
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Horse Runs Clear Across Pasture To Meet Cat Friend
Because animal friends will always be my best friends (I’m sorry you had to find out like this, honey), this is a video of a horse galloping across the pasture after spotting his little cat friend sitting on a fence post. They immediately give each other a sweet head rub
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Artemis 1’s Mission To The Moon In Just 60 Seconds (Plus 25 Min Highlight Reel)
Preparing for our return to the moon in coming years (it’s about time), the recently completed Artemis 1 mission successfully made unmanned moon-flybys with the Orion space capsule, which was just recovered from the Pacific ocean. Artemis 2 will see manned moon-flybys, and Artemis 3, humanity’s return to the moon
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Watch A CT Scanner Spinning At Full Speed With Its Cover Off
Ever wonder what it looked like inside a spinning CT scanner? Well wonder no more my curious friend (are you a cat?), because this is a video of exactly that. I always assumed it was just two wizards making a donut shape and pointing their wands at the patient, but
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Cat Sleeping On Metro Card Scanner Makes Commuters Scan Cards Underneath
This is a video from an Istanbul Metro station in Turkey where a commuter finds a cat sleeping atop the metro card scanner, and has to scan her card underneath the feline in order to activate the turnstile. Now that is a quality metro employee, and I hope they pay
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Visualization Of The Most Used Social Networks, 2003 – 2022
This is a bar graph visualization detailing the most popular social networks from 2003 – 2022, measured by monthly active users worldwide. Remember 2006? Back when MySpace was king and Twitter was just being born. Things sure have changed, haven’t they? For the worse, just to be clear.
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Eye-Melting Optical Illusion Makes Dots Disappear
Both the top and bottom half of the image have the same number of dots, but the ones on top appear to disappear unless you’re looking at them. This is an example of a Hermann grid illusion, an optical illusion first documented by Ludimar Hermann in 1870. According to SharpBrains,
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