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Candace Hicks crafts incredibly realistic composition notebooks using canvas, needle, and thread with "written" pages within.

Nahre Sole visited the Czech Museum of Music in Prague to play an incredible and extremely rare microtonal grand piano.

Beatbox champion Wing performs "Dopamine", a hypnotizing song where he uses only sounds entirely generated from his mouth and throat.

Harrison Ford gently urges us to listen to the quiet around us and celebrate a planet rich in biodiversity in a beautiful video essay.

Apple released a short documentary showing the thoughtfulness behind the editing of the sublime "Severance" season two finale.

Steve Coogan played four separate roles in the stage adaptation of the legendary Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove".

Fabricio H. Franzoli programmed his quartet of handcraftedTesla Coilsto perform a galvanic cover of the classic Toto song "Hold the Line".

Theincredibly talentedguitarists of40 Fingersplayed a beautifully multilayered cover of the Nirvana anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Herald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period is known as the Middle Ages because it sits between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

A golden retriever named Finley Molloy set the Guinness World Record for "Most Tennis Balls Held in the Mouth by a Dog".

Too Many Zooz performed Theodore Shapiros brilliant intro theme for"Severance" in their signature funky "brass house" style.

"Pangolin: Kulu's Journey" is a Netflix documentary by Pippa Ehrlich that focuses on a man who raises a rescued endangered baby pangolin.

A fluffy Maine Coon named Mr. Pugsley Addams broke the Guinness World Record for "longest tail on a domestic cat (living)" at 1.5 feet.

Architectural historian Tony W. Robins took an in-depth look look the Woolworth Building, the Chrysler Building, and the Empire State Building.

BBC Earth's "The Wonderful World of Puppies" explains how dogs communicate using a rescue puppy named Boomer as an example.

Artist Joshua Vides very cleverly wrapped a number of cars so that they looked they belonged in monochrome Pop Art comics.

After a little orange tabby kitten was brought home to a big German shepherd, the kitten started copying everything the dog does.

Celebreabird shared the story of how a man named Sam Gamgee wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in 1956 after he found out that his name was used in LOTR.

Posha is a small kitchen robot that sits on a countertop and automatically cooks programmed recipes with fresh ingredients.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs covered Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" in the style of David Bowie' "Let's Dance".

Leigh Lahav and Oren Mendez created "Severance for Introverts" for those like to spend time indoors while their outie faces the real world.

Artist Brooke Connor explained how people created "emojis" on typewriters during the mid-20th century by typing combinations of characters.

In a quenching TED-Ed Lesson, Manish Kumar explains what happens to the human body when saltwater from the ocean is ingested.

Half-Asleep Chris built ten different cat forts, each of different materials, inside his house to see how his kittieswould react to them.

The Harp Twins joined with the Volfgang Twins to perform a Nordic inspired drum and harp cover of the classic Black Sabbath song "Paranoid".

GingerofOz was so inspired the illustration "Playstacean" that he built a real-life version with a PSOne and 3D-printed orange plastic.

Kurzgesagtexplains how the human brain edits time and space on a completely different plane, constructing a predictive reality.

JunkboxAI turned the unique characters of "Severance" and co-creator Ben Stiller into babies using a combination of art and AI.

Nahre Sol spoke about 19th century Czech composer Leo Janacek who used the melodies and rhythms of speech in his distinctive compositions.

German champion bread sommelier Axel Schmitt has perfected the art of sourdough bread by playing heavy metal music to speed up fermentation.

Tattoo Cartoo animated the four bars of a Black Flag tattoo making them sing a song about the tattoo owner's son thinking they are iPhones.

A little munchkin cat named Ringo adorably "jumped" into perfectly shaped white outlines and then froze in sync with the beat of the music.

Dr. Erica Brozovskyof Otherwords explained the evolution of the universally understood term "OK" and its alliterative form "okay".

Bloxsyperformed a nostalgic medley of 18 iconic guitar riffs from the 1950s, expertly playing some of the most famous sounds of the decade.

Artist HOXXOH put a subwoofer on a track, attached a hose and used the beat coming out of it to paint distinctive patterns on the wall.

"Shopping for Superman" is a powerful documentary that tells origin story of independent comic book shops across the United States.

A stubborn parrot named Nelson was not pleased when his human brought home a puppy but the bird eventually came to love the dog.

Musician Sam Griffin noted the innie and outie variations within the "Severance" theme and played the song beautifully on classical guitar.

It's History traveled to Sweden todive into the history of Vasa, a 17th century warship that sunk within minutes of setting sail.

Busted" is an amusing animated short in which a husband comes home early for work and finds a naked man hiding around his house.

Brian David Gilbert created a delightful 1990s style computer animation featuring an enthusiastic frog playing the trumpet.

Map historian Daniel Steiner talked about how Spanish Conquistadors in the late 18th laid out the map for the city of Los Angeles.

Adrian Smith of Ant Lab captured slow motion video of 23 species of insects to compare how each species takes flight.

A pit bull named Ginger channels her beautiful maternal instincts to the many foster kittens and cats who come through her rescuer's home.

Jack Coyne of Public Opinion went on an incredible tour of the landmark Steinway & Sons piano factory in Astoria, Queens.

"Bill's Records" by Chuck Przybyl is a short documentary about Bill Wisener, the owner of Bill's Records and Tapes in Dallas.

The "Back to the Future" Blu-Ray included a series of auditions that took place in 1984 for roles in the first movie of the franchise.

A cool cat named Fitz who lives in Canada, loves to get all bundled up in a warm coat and his oversized "bat-eared" hat to go for sled rides.

Reel Knewz captured footage of the infamous "Atherstone Ball Game", an annual town-wide football game that started in the year 1199.

Hormuz Island in Iran has a beach with incredible red sand that when it rains, looks like the land is bleeding into the sea.