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Cambodian fishermen caught a giant stingray in the Mekong River that they brought researchers who studied and released it.

Deep Look explains how silkworms in captivity unwittingly plot their own collective demise by spinning silk cocoons.

When Kai Neukermans learned that Pearl Jam's drummer tested positive for COVID-19, he texted Olivia Vedder to volunteer his skills.

Kurzgesagt offers an existential lesson in cosmic humility while looking at how humans move through an enormous universe.

Tom Scott went to southern France to fly amongst the birds in a microlight aircraft with Christian Moullec of Voler Avec Les Oiseaux.

Finnegan fox enjoys digging new dens for himself and is always excited to show them off to his human Mikayla of Save-A-Fox Rescue.

Beavers Filbert and Maple showed off the beautiful lodge where they make their cozy home inside the Oregon Zoo.

LEGO released its series of Star Wars Dioramas that includes the iconic Death Star Trash Compactor scene from "Star Wars IV: A New Hope".

Frederik Gran built an incredibly agile two-armed robot that can play bowed instruments such as the cello and double bass.

Traintrackr is a series of LED transit maps on printed circuit boards that use WiFi to track subway trains in various cities.

Ukrainian lampwork artist Nikita Drachuk of Glass Symphony has included gorgeously colorful translucent octopuses in his handblown menagerie.

Hank Green of SciShow excitedly explained why smoke gets in your face and follows you around a fire despite where you're sitting.

A cheeky African Grey parrot named Cosmo amusingly and loudly mimicked the sound of her human's sniffles and coughs due to a cold.

GeoBeats Animals met with Erin Amadon, a generous soul who adopted a Muscovy duckling who had been rejected at birth.

Good Samaritans in Florida stopped a car from crashing into traffic on the wrong side of the road after the driver suffered a medical episode.

60 Second Docs visited with Caroline Eriksson, a talented cake designer in Norway who sculpts fictional characters out of gingerbread.

Derek Muller explains how astronomers were able to capture such amazing shots of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Joe Scott takes an empathetic deep look into Clive Wearing, a renowned musicologist who now can only live his life seven seconds at a time.

MIOPS enlisted sound designer Kuntay Seferoglu to use their products to create a rhythmic symphony made up of camera shutter clicks.

Tommy Silk of Landmarks of New York explains the puzzling Brooklyn roots of the famous former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

James Weiss of Journey to the Microcosmos put coral under the microscope to discover what gives it such hard shells and bright colors.

Justin Johnson performed a haunting instrumental on a gorgeous custom lap steel guitar built by magician and luthier Charles Atchison.

SciShow host Stefan Chin explains several different reasons why certain animals might rain from the sky.

90 year old women Frances 'Effy' Jones and Berta Ruck recount growing up in the UK during the Victorian Era in a 1970 BBC documentary.

Tommy Silk of Landmarks of New York recounted the long history of Wyckoff House, the oldest standing building in all of New York City.

Skilled woodworker and filmmaker Frank Howarth crafted a striking chaotic pattern sphere using 30° triangular cuts of pine scrap.

Amusing archival footage from the EMI Archive Trust shows a dog that looks like Nipper from "His Master's Voice" getting a bit frisky.

Nicolas Bras of Musiques de Nulle Part built a wonderfully humorous droning bagpipe out of a smiling rubber duckie pool float.

Musician Luna Lee performed a Gayageum cover of "Suicide is Painless", the iconic theme song from the classic film and tv show M*A*S*H.

Robert Lordan of RobsLondon takes his viewers on a visual tour of No.10 Hyde Park Place, considered to be the smallest house in London.

Chloe Fineman did amazing impressions of fellow SNL cast members and Elizabeth Olsen during a segment called "The Understudy".

Baby goats in Huevelland, Belgium, played an adorable version of the classic kid's game "King of the Hill" on top of an overturned bucket.

Brickwall Films paid a tribute to the late John Cazale, a great but vastly underrated actor who acted in only five films, each an Oscar winner.

All Process of World posted a fascinating video showing how elaborate Korean billiards cues are made by master craftsman Eunjun Choi.

Matt Beat of The Beat Goes On provides a brief but detailed history of Pink Floyd over the course of 30 minutes.

A hairy blue puppet sang a beautiful cover of the Irish folksong "The Parting Glass" with talented puppeteer Barnaby Dixon on guitar.

Joe Porter performed the intros from several iconic heavy metal songs on a variety of percussion instruments played in a row.

Primitive Technology quite industriously fashioned bricks out of a mortar made up of wood ash to build a small weatherproof hut with a barrel tile roof.

Akiyoshi Nagai posted an adorable video of his young son making his debut in the ring where he knocked his opponent over with a single blow.

Mike Olbinski captured the devastating beauty of giant dust storms (haboob) over the American Southwest in a compilation from 2011 to 2021.

Blake McFarland of BM Sculptures crafted an incredibly detailed bald eagle with outstretched wings from steel, foam, and recycled tires.

Artist Andy Toutant of Retro Custom Art created a wonderfully nostalgic mashup toy that features the lovable E.T. as the badass Mr. T.

Dave and Joe of the Melodicka Bros performed an eerie cyberpunk cover of the iconic Pink Floyd anthem "Another Brick in the Wall" in its entirety.

Researchers at MIT have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any type of surface into an audio source.

A beautiful Great Dane named Zeus from Bedford, Texas was named the World's Tallest Male Dog by Guinness World Records.

Musician Howard Ho explains the six distinct styles of overlapping melodies most predominantly found in musical theater.

"George Carlin's American Dream" is an insightful two-part HBO documentary about the colorful life and career of the iconic comedian.

Bill McClintock combined a slowed-down version of "Eye of the Tiger' with the classic Merle Haggard tune "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me".

A phantasmic TED-Ed lesson written by Christopher M. Moreman explains the dark history and evolution of zombies.

Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, and Kathryn Hahn did a hilarious table read of the infamous Seinfeld "Shrinkage" scene during Netflix Is A Joke Fest.