This is a clip of Carl Sagan’s final speech from the 1980 Emmy award winning PBS television series Cosmos, which has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and viewed by over 500-million people. Are you one of those people? If not, better late than never. Sagan’s farewell discusses science,
In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably,
A 17th century female ‘vampire’ was found buried in Poland with a sickle across her neck in order to prevent her from rising from the dead and feasting on the blood of the living. She also had a padlock attached to her big toe. Now I’m not sure if the
This is a heartwarming video from Wheel Of Fortune (of all places) during Veterans week in 2015 starring contestant Nura Fountaneaux intentionally guessing letters Q, X, and Z, as well as timing-out multiple times in order to give fellow contestant Steve (who had nothing going into the final round) a
This is a video of an orangutan at an Indonesian zoo trying on a pair of sunglasses that a woman accidentally dropped into its enclosure. It looks good! Like a Disney character. After a very abbreviated fashion week, the orangutan tries to throw the glasses back to the crowd, although
Created by former professor of urban studies Alasdair Rae of Sheffield, England, this is a 3D visualization of the world’s population density. As you can see, along all the coasts are generally very popular places to live. Also, absolutely everywhere in Asia. If there’s dry land to walk on there,
In don’t you know staring isn’t polite news, this is a video demonstration of a humanoid robot being developed by Disney Research with the intention of building a robot with as life-like a human gaze as possible. Did they succeed? No clue, it’s so disturbing that I really have a
An ultra-realistic robotic dolphin developed by Edge Innovations (who developed the animatronics for Free Willy, Anaconda, and The Abyss) aims to replace some of the 3,000 actual dolphins in captivity at marine parks and dolphin experiences. Some more info while I’m sad about my captive dolphin friends, but also a