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In the Chinese village of Nanshan, a single family has passed down the recipe for hand-pulled noodles made from scratch for generations. The recipe for these noodles, known as Nanshan noodles or Suomian noodles, is only known by a few hundred people and require a gorgeously elaborate, meticulous and labor intensive process, which was captured...

A post shared by LOCAL PREACHER (@thisset) on Jan 4, 2018 at 6:34am PST In his photo series “Wet Neon“, Russian street artist Local Preacher has captured the beauty of neon lights as reflected at night in road puddles left behind after a rain. While this may be a common sight every where in the...

A lovestruck Simon’s Cat presented the pretty kitty whom he adores with a thoughtful gift of a heart-shaped balloon for Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, his beloved didn’t understand the gift and began walking away, but came right back when Simon’s Cat demonstrated how to play with the balloon. The two cats were having fun volleying the...

A post shared by MK Carving (@mkcarving) on Jul 5, 2016 at 2:51am PDT Woodworking artist Mori Kono of MK Carving and Sculpting in Vancouver, British Columbia, creates absolutely beautifully realistic hand carved sculptures of animals who reside on land, in the sea and/or in the air, although Kono has been known to also tap...

In 2014, James Nestor, freediver and author of the book DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves, gave a fascinating talk entitled “Humanity and the Deep Ocean” at The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco. To illustrate his the subject of his lecture, Nestor shared some absolutely stunning footage...

In a really charming clip from the BBC Earth/PBS series Animals with Cameras, a clever female chimp who wanted clean the mud from her hands, determinedly climbed a tree to visit a water source known to her and washed her dirty hands. Cameras also captured other chimps using leaves to brush their teeth and to...

Artist Cindy Chinn (a.k.a. “The Saw Lady“) used a plasma torch to hand cut a wonderful collection of cute winter scenes into metal snow shovels. Chinn‘s wintery shovels are available to purchase from Amazon and her Etsy store. via Bored Panda, Neatorama How to Shovel Snow Without Hurting Your Back Using Ordinary Rope and a...

Robert McIntosh has created “Muscle-Up,” a soothing aerial cruise through Muscle Beach in Santa Monica that he captured with his micro quad drone. McIntosh’s footage takes us on a relaxing reverse journey through the beach and obstacles, much like his mesmerizing Venice Beach video, “Fresh Squeeze.” World’s smallest HD drone cruises through Muscle Beach. Stabilized...

Geobeats, a creative network and video channel dedicated to exploring little known information, offers an interesting explanation as to the purpose of those tiny holes that drilled into the bottom of airplane windows. The reasons are simply balance and safety during altitude change. That’s just the breather hole or bleed hole and it’s there for...

YouTuber hntrains built the world’s tallest LEGO spiral train tower, which features 22 levels and is currently on display at the Cucubau toy store located in Baia Mare, Romania. The LEGO Ninjago themed city, under the massive spiral train tower, was created by Felix Mezei. Bananenbuurman captured POV footage of a LEGO train ride up...

The successful test launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy was such an multi-faceted event that provided a great deal to discuss and so many more opportunities to learn. With this in mind, vlogger Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day and The Sound Traveler created an incredible binaural immersion of the magnificent sounds that rang out,...

DIYprojects has made the Chess Bot, a wooden chess playing robot powered by Arduino Leonardo board and an Android smartphone. His brain is an Android smartphone, that sees the chessboard, analyzes position and sends this info about move to the robot via bluetooth. This manipulator works with Arduino Leonardo and with 4 servos Tower Pro...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released the first official trailer for Venom, an upcoming superhero film directed by Ruben Fleischer and based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The exciting trailer features Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) fighting his inner demons and slowly becoming the fourth recipient of the Venom Symbiote. Venom is currently...

The Italian nursery equipment specialists at Orlandi demonstrate how their RAP 10 industrial trimming machine effortlessly cuts a line of hedges into perfect spheres. The real trimming magic begins at 3:21. via Boing Boing An Industrial Rotary Egg Separator Effortlessly Cracking Eggs to Divide Whites and YolksRichard Birkett, Fantasy ClockmakerSomaFM’s Doomed Channel

Signs.com conducted a new experiment, for their ongoing Branded in Memory series, where they asked over 150 individuals to draw popular NFL team logos from memory as accurately as possible. The group of 157 people blindly drew logos for the Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Green Bay Packers with brilliant...

Airstream released a stunning timelapse video of their iconic rounded and polished aluminum travel trailers being assembled by their hardworking employees inside of the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio. A post shared by Airstream Inc. (@airstream_inc) on Feb 5, 2018 at 7:00am PST via The Kids Should See This Aether Opens San Francisco Clothing...

John Perry Barlow, the prolific Grateful Dead lyricist who collaborated with Bob Weir from 1971-1995, visionary internet pioneer, political activist, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of many thoughtful essays including the widely read “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace“, sadly passed away in his sleep on February 6, 2018 at the...

Great Big Story visited with Luis Javier Sànchez Alvarez, the proud deputy manager of Restaurante Botín, a legendary eatery in Madrid, Spain that holds the honor of being the oldest restaurant in the world. More amazing, however, is that the very flame that’s being used currently to cook their delicious meals, has been burning for...

In a revealing trailer for the second season of the badass series Marvel’s Jessica Jones created by Melissa Rosenberg, the titular character, played by Krysten Ritter, acquiesces to learning more about her past while meeting new people, hunting a killer and gaining her very own sidekick. If all that wasn’t enough, someone from Jessica’s more...

Indie Designers, an artist collective in Krakow, Poland is currently raising funds through Kickstarter for their gorgeous CityWood minimalist 3D wooden maps that can be customized to a huge list of cities from around the world. Each map is laser cut using updated site specific data. These maps are extremely detailed in design, come in...

During the late 18th century, United States founding father Thomas Jefferson established the fledgling country’s first public land survey to ensure that land would be divided and sold to “yeoman farmers” fairly. To do this Jefferson created a grid known as the Rectangular Survey System, which parceled out land in accordance with the Land Ordinance...

Team BlackSheep drone pilots RensenFPV and BanniUK teamed up to capture beautiful footage, edited by Aufmschlau.ch, of aerial drone flying through snow covered terrain in “Long Range Paradise 3.” We previously wrote about part 1 and 2 of their amazing ongoing series.

French luxury manufacturer S.T. Dupont has created a out of this world Star Wars themed fountain and ballpoint pen that resemble an X-wing Starfighter, when fully assembled. Both the fountain and ballpoint X-Wing pens are available to purchase from Harrods. Assemble the pieces inside to create your very own X-wing holder that showcase your pen...

A really sweet and entertaining boxer named Prince hammed it up by repeatedly dancing in circles with a toy in his mouth and tickling toes in order to make a five month old baby girl laugh out loud. According to his human, Prince absolutely adores this little girl. My boxer Prince loves our 5-month-old baby....

New England illustrator and graphic designer Chris Piascik is in the process of creating 10 Years of Daily Drawings, a 100-page book featuring his favorite daily drawings that he created from the past ten years. Piascik is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. The book will be about 100 pages and...

Great Big Story went to Hajji’s Blue Sky Deli at 110th Street and 1st Avenue in Harlem to speak with manager Salah Alhubaishi, the man who created the famous “Chopped Cheese Sandwich” of New York City. A very amiable Alhubaishi shared his inspiration for this combination– his Arabic roots, his love for Harlem and his...

The LAIKA animation studio released a wonderful behind-the-scenes video that gives us a look at how the talented team created the beautifully complex stop-motion world of The Boxtrolls. New Trailer Shows How Laika Animation Studio Created the Tiny, Stop Motion World of ‘The Boxtrolls’Animation Studio LAIKA Celebrates 10th Anniversary With a Look Back at Its...

In an occupational episode of the Cut series Lineup, three willing yet unwitting contestants comprised of two men and two women, were asked to match nine different people to their jobs without any information other than the way they looked. Among the occupations were Tarot reader, horse listener, bounty hunter, bartender, porn producer, ER nurse...

Reigarw Comparisons created a new animated video where they compare the prices of some of the most expensive foods in the world. They broke up their mind-blowing comparisons into separate categories. Animated comparison of some of the most expensive food from each categories such as most expensive ice cream, most expensive pizza, most expensive drink,...

Programmer and designer Proto G is in the process of building a six-digit clock that his electromechanical decimal to binary to hex converter and two-digit display will be a part of. Proto G captured 60fps footage of his current high speed seven-segment mechanical display numerically going through its noisy, yet rhythmic paces. He shared his...

xkcd looks at how for some choosing the right backpack is often the most important decision in their life. "This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart." "That seems...

In a disarming episode of the Condé Nast Traveler series Many People from Many Countries Say Things, 70 different people from all over the world shared the most common stereotypes that others have assigned to their respective countries. While people from Scandinavian countries talked about the assumption of being tall and blonde, others talked about...

Alvaro Gracia Montoya of MetaBallStudios created a animated visualization that compares the sizes of microorganisms up to 1mm. How Microorganisms Move, A Parody of ‘How Animals Eat Their Food’ by Coma NiddyAsapSCIENCE Explains the Human Microbiome, The Microorganisms That Share Space With the Human BodyTardigrades, Plucky Microorganisms That Can Survive in Space

English bulldogs are known to have some quirky personalities. Some skateboard, some do a backwards moonwalk, some watch television in an upright position, some like to work out on a treadmill, some warn of televised danger and some just like to sit around snoring. One such English bulldog named Bosco became a fixed object while...

With the historic launch and test flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy on February 6, 2018, wunderkind Elon Musk sent a red Tesla Roadster into space with the David Bowie song “Life on Mars” playing on the stereo in an endless loop, the graphic display reading “Don’t Panic” and a fully astronautical attired “Starman” behind...

Everything Sucks! is an upcoming Netflix original coming of age comedy series set in the 1990s. The official trailer follows a group of A.V. and drama club students as they navigate through the ups and downs of dating and trying to fit in with the cool crowd. Season one will premiere on Netflix February 16th,...

20th Century Fox released a hilarious new trailer for Deadpool 2, the upcoming superhero film directed by David Leitch based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and a sequel to the 2016 Deadpool film. The fourth wall shattering trailer features Josh Brolin‘s Cable making his debut and taking on Sheriff Deadpool (Ryan...

A beautiful but silly dog named Deefer who has a fondness for bringing home the largest stick he can carry, hilariously tried to fit his latest bounty in through a narrow window without much success. After several futile attempts, Deefer gave up and walked away. His human wound up bringing it inside for him, but...

ScreenPrism, film and television analysis platform known for their incredibly insightful video essays, takes a look at Han Solo and his enduring humanity in a world of Jedis, Androids, Wookiees and other characters. This particular feature made him very difficult to categorize, but very easy to like. Throughout the original Star Wars Trilogy, Han Solo’s...

A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag) on Jan 6, 2018 at 9:10am PST In March 2017, we wrote about the Kickstarter Campaign for Vampires vs. Unicorns: Floor War Game, a unique card throwing/tile game created by game designer Jim DuBois and Hi-Fructose co-founder Attaboy with incredible illustration by artists Travis Louie (Vampires) and Travis...

A helpless dog who had fallen through the ice of a small pond caught the attention of a Marshfield, Missouri man, who very carefully went out onto the ice with a rope and a pole. The man tried the rope first. The dog instinctively grabbed it with his teeth and allowed himself to be pulled...

Upon returning home from shopping at a mushroom farm, a grocery and his uncle’s garden, the very talented Jun Yoshizuki of Jun’s Kitchen prepared a lovely meal of sukiyaki with homemade tofu in view of his beloved long haired orange cats Kohaku and Nagi who were happy to just sit back and watch. The two...

In a highly informative episode of Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi aka Blocko enlisted the help of fellow YouTuber Anthony Padilla to explain the physiological and psychological differences between introverts and extroverts. One of the primary differences between the two is not necessarily in sociability, but rather the time needed to recharge from said sociability....

The Reels2Digital Moviemaker and the Reels2Digital Moviemaker Pro by Wolverine Data look like old school film projectors, but are amazing scanners that transform 8mm and Super 8 film to digital files (MP4), which are stored on an SD/SDHC card as well as play back on a television. Introducing the Wolverine Reels2Digital Moviemaker. A very simple...

Chairudo built the world’s largest wooden-style coaster, inspired by El Toro at Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey, out of LEGO. His gigantic LEGO wooden coaster was made out of around 90,000 bricks, it measures 21 feet long, 4 feet wide, 4.5 feet tall, and sports 85 feet of track. It is currently on display...

In a rather forthright video essay, a visibly bewildered Tom Scott spoke about the ethics of faceswapping software, particularly as it relates to non-consensual video to be used as “algorithmic blackmail” against someone for money or for political gain. All it requires, per Scott “a Windows 10 PC, a powerful Nvidia graphics card, moderate tech...

Your Date Is Here is a suspenseful horror short, created by Todd Spence and Zak White, about a mother and her little daughter (Becca Flinn and Dani Tiernan) who sit down to play grandma’s old Mystery Date-style board game while waiting for pizza to be delivered. Little did they know that the strange game would...

A really, really energetic rescued coyote named Kate jumped all around the living room, flying from couch to couch while her clumsier goat buddy tried to keep up with all the chaotic movement happening, preferring instead to butt the pillows where Kate was momentarily hiding. According to their human Seth Simpson, the two are good...

“Fifty Shades of DeVito” is a hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey parody, created by Funny or Die and Boo Ya Pictures, that features scenes from the erotic romantic drama film and numerous Danny DeVito films and TV shows. Move over Christian Grey, DeVito takes center stage as Anastasia Steele love interest in this tale. A...

For part six of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured 4k slow motion footage of two professional sumo wrestlers engaging in battle. Gruchy also hopped into the ring to challenge one of the amazing wrestlers. The Slow Mo Guys Perform Action Hero Stunts and Hollywood...