This is a chart of the ten Wikipedia articles that received the most page views in 2024. The results may or may not surprise you depending on how much you suspected people rely on Wikipedia for their political information. Honestly, I was more surprised that the search results page for
The work of artist Thomas Deininger, this is a video of a sculpture of an endangered blue-and-yellow macaw that looks just like the bird from the front, but from the side reveals layers of carefully selected toys and non-recyclable plastic trash. Thomas’s work “thoughtfully addresses environmental concerns and critiques mass
This is Cartoon and Reality, a compilation of cat videos assembled by feline lover Tharoth featuring clips from the cartoon Tom and Jerry followed by similar situations with real-life cats. The paper airplane into the trash can (above) was probably my favorite, but there were some other real goodies in
This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —
This is a chart created by Visual Capitalist detailing about how much longer you have to live according to your age and the U.S. national average. The chart leads me to believe I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I’ve been running on lawnmower fumes (admittedly,
This is a video from Epicurious of third generation cheesemonger (“Getcha cheese here!”) Adam Jay Moskowitz tasting and discussing 21 of the world’s most expensive cheeses, ranging in prince from $29 to $108 per pound. I love watching experts in a field discussing what they love, especially when that field
This is a video of from Insider, which took a deep dive into the evolution of car chases in movies over the last 100 years, with the addition of techniques like using modified cars and chase vehicles, to undercranking the film (filming at a slower frame-rate so playback at regular
This is a video from The Cinema Cop, who analyzed all the crimes committed by Walter White in Breaking Bad and used Albuquerque, New Mexico’s laws to determine just how many years ol’ Heisenberg would spend in the slammer if he was convicted of said crimes. The result? A minimum