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In the fourth episode of "Axe to Grind", Noah LefevreofPolyphonic takes a look at how the 1970s became the "Golden Age" of the guitar solo.

A busy beaver named JB who loved using his rescuers bathtub whenever he liked was given a custom pond of his very own.

David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars performed "Starman" on the July 6, 1972 episode of 'Top of the Pops".

LEGOannounced the releaseof an amazing scale model of the sleek glass and metal Avengers Tower from "The Avengers" movie series.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and DR Big Band performed the theme from the classic "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.

Adam Cole explained what happens to humans under under extreme atmospheric pressures and how this can be measured in real time.

Musicianfxsnowy performed the iconic Rage Against the Machine anthem "Killing in the Name" using audio samples from SEGA Genesis.

A shy service dog named Samson wasn't sure how to play with other dogs, so his humans adopted a kitten who coaxed him out of his shell.

eli_handle_b.wav cleverly edited scenes from the video game The Last of Us to include Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

A blind cow named Helen, who had spent 19 years chained up in a cage on a dairy farm, lovingly hugs her humans at Uncle Neil's Home daily.

Doritos Silent is AI powered crunch-cancelling software for Windows that eliminates the distracting sound of snack chips during group gaming.

Kurzgesagt animated a brilliant timeline of the 4.5 billion years it took for the Earth to evolve into its current form.

60 Second Docs spoke with James Warren, a man in Denver, Colorado who builds benches for bus stops that have no seating.

A lovestruck bowerbird in Papua, New Guinea performed an expressive dance for a female to show his interest in mating with her.

An affectionate parrot adorably adjusted her crop while nuzzling her human, thus distracting her human from getting any work done.

15 year old Noah Faulker performs wonderful covers of New Wave and alternative rock songs on pedal steel guitar.

Name Explaincompiled an amusing listof common words used in the English language with unknown origins.

Robert E Fullerdocumenteda patient kingfisher father repeatedly returning to the nest to encourage each of his seven chicks to fly.

In the 2023 edition of the John Lewis Holiday advert, a boy named Alfie finds a box with a seed to grow a "perfect Christmas Tree".

When Edwin Gonzalez Montoya of Chicago was riding Greenville, South Carolina, a deer came out the brushed and jumped over his bike.

Laurence Fishburne read aloud a powerful, and at times, humorously deadpan letter from freed slave Jourdon Anderson to his former master.

During the encore of their final 2022 show in Las Vegas, singer Eddie Vedder and The Earthlings covered "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure.

DreamTrack shared exhilarating POV footage of various Hot Wheels toy cars racing down an empty (and dry) waterslide.

Dan Hryhorcoff of Justus, Pennsylvania built a giant street-legal replica of a classic bumper car, specifically a 1954 Lusse Auto Skooter.

A little lion cub accidentally fell into a small, highly-vegetative river in an adorably failed effort to play with the birds walking on top.

Brandon Ethridge provided amusical piano accompaniment of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" to the ubiquitous "Kars4Kids" commercial.

Luna Leeperformed a lovely cover of theStevie Wonder song "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" on a traditional KoreanGayageum.

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across North America, starting in Mexico, then the United States and ending in Canada.

Etiquette coach William Hanson explained the proper way to neatly eat peas so that they don't go flying by using a simple spearing method.

NYC polyglot Xiaomanyc traveled to Cardiff, Wales and was excited to use his newfound knowledge of the Welsh language to surprise locals.

The Bryant Park public bathroom is arguably the most elegant and luxurious of its kind in all of New York City, if not beyond.

Brick Technologybuilta LEGO machines that would sink different LEGO boats that were floating inside a fish tank.

A sneaky bear in Florida used the time between the doorbell ringing and the front door opening to steal a Taco Bell delivery left on a porch.

"Antidepressants or Tolkien" is an amusing game that asks if a word is an antidepressant drug or character from a J.R.R. Tolkien story.

An insightful and timelyessay byThe School of Life looks at strategies to remain resilient and how to stay going in the face of adversity.

David Friedman took a deep dive into the history of the "Celebrity Talking Taxi" program in New York City, which ran from 1997 through 2003.

A tiny lactose intolerant baby red squirrel grew big enough to play his toys after gaining weight from a modified lactose-free formula.

Popular Mechanics shared a meditative technique used by US Army pilots in World War II that would help them fall asleep within ten minutes.

TIFF Originals took a look at the distinctive cinematographic style of director David Fincher, noting four overarching themes in his work.

On the CNBC show "Make It" Mike Kurtz of Mike's Hot Honey explained how he turned a side hobby into a multi-million dollar business.

Three cleverbell-ringing cats watched in fascination as they set off a rollingRube Goldbergchain made of colorful dominoes.

Name Explainshared theoretical insight about the origin of both the question mark and the exclamation point in Latin-based languages.

Language instructor Helen Day captured stunning footage of a starling murmuration flying just inches from the ground in North Wales.

Your_Kryptonite7 inserted the very quippy Leslie Nielsen from "Police Squad!" and "The Naked Gun" into the futuristic world of "Star Wars".

George Washington rallied his troops to lay out his plan of inconsistent weights and measures for the new nation on "Saturday Night Live".

Public transit app Transit created the "NYC Subway Rat Detector", a map that shows at which subway stop the city's rats are most populous.

Classic FM posted a disconcerting performance on a Sinhakken piano, which has no black keys thus forcing all songs to be played in C Major.

A kitten adorably crawled under a backwards baseball cap, stuck his little head out of the back, and began walking like a turtle.

Max Miller of Tasting History shared the interesting history of the word pumpkin before preparing a "pomkin" pie from a 1796 recipe.

The enigmatic Moyun covered the Michael Jackson songs "Smooth Criminal" and "Beat It" on a traditional Chinese Guzheng.