An outside look at filming a train scene: https://tinyurl.com/2c6rddjw

The “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” song, but for kids!: https://tinyurl.com/wf4dn44z

Worldwide telescope isn’t really a telescope, but it uses a suite of free and open source software and data sets that let’s you explore the wonders of space like a pro: https://tinyurl.com/jzwabyu4

A brilliant and somewhat creepy scarecrow: https://tinyurl.com/hjrwexr6

The inescapable horror of (fake) transition contact lenses!: https://tinyurl.com/fxjzruvu

The original, unaltered period photo into which actor Jack Nicholson was composited to create the iconic photograph seen in the final shots of The Shining: https://tinyurl.com/je4zd6xw

Don McLeish is a real life seahorse whisperer. “The saga of Lucy” is a great story with lots of photographs: https://tinyurl.com/36z2s8t6

This sounds so annoying, yet I kinda want one: https://tinyurl.com/cvctat9z

The lovely South Philippine dwarf kingfisher: https://tinyurl.com/3kx4jah3

Chefs of three different skill levels make Paella, and have their creations tested and analyzed by a food scientist: https://tinyurl.com/asvjpeke

100 mug handles in 100 days: https://tinyurl.com/3v559469

Follow two LGBTQ trailblazing couples­—Angelica and Jahaira and Luis and Ngoc—on their way to compete at the World Latin Dance Cup: https://tinyurl.com/9m2kjr47

This virtual group show of 27 women-identifying artists is curated by Philippa Adams, former director and curator of London’s Saatchi Gallery: https://tinyurl.com/bd4aza7d

A lovely/sad abandoned church in Russia: https://tinyurl.com/5y4d6ztu

Inflatable fashion by Feyfey Yufei Liu: https://tinyurl.com/a973sw46

The Kamenstein MKII World of Motion Carousel Kettle is a steam-driven kettle with cute horses that start spinning as your water is boiled: https://tinyurl.com/j3vp8prm

Lightograph is a new way to make still photos come alive by manipulating light: https://tinyurl.com/2f75h7jf

Another fun little interactive musical tool, but this time it’s designed like a Rubik’s Cube: https://tinyurl.com/y5yhvx37

Madehow is a website that lists all kinds of things in alphabetical order. All you have to do is click on a thing and you’ll get a complete rundown of how that thing is made: https://tinyurl.com/4jkudx5p

A small 3d model of the planet, on which you can visualise various data such as current wind or current patterns, or current temperature, or the charrningly-named ‘misery index’ which tracks the degree of economic distress felt by ‘regular’ people worldwide: https://tinyurl.com/54whybv2

The Mutoid Waste Company is a performance arts group founded in London. It started in the early 1980s, emerging from Frestonia’s ‘Car Breaker Gallery’. They are probably best known for their recycled art installations at Glastonbury Festival: https://tinyurl.com/7jbj6rh2

You never know when you might need a ginormous marker: https://tinyurl.com/feh5zbb4

Relax and enjoy a Katmai Natl. Park bear cam: https://tinyurl.com/t9m2vzz5

A short Tumblr thread of marble statues carved to look like they’re covered in sheer fabric (A couple pics are mildly NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/m8uzuxmt

Delightfully animated illustrations of moths and bugs by Vladimir Stankovic: https://tinyurl.com/k3h5yyuh

Ken Hermann has a love of Kolkata and the flower men at Malik Ghat Flower Market: https://tinyurl.com/5xvjxep2

Designer iris van Herpen debuts five amazing dresses made from up cycled ocean debris: https://tinyurl.com/y9nppedw

The strange flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome: https://tinyurl.com/br2w3a2r

Marc Burckhardt paints wonderful scenes of from fables, myths, and imagination ((Click on the options under the Gallery Works label to see more paintings): https://tinyurl.com/5a77x3yv

Exploring an interesting phenomenon known as “choice blindness”: https://tinyurl.com/4cz48etp

A new kind of temporary tattoo that lasts up to a year: https://tinyurl.com/pdjmf3ze

Cool little gif showing the different gravities on each of our solar system’s main bodies: https://tinyurl.com/pbn8h63a

Volcanic sand blows across a frozen lake: https://tinyurl.com/wezh7u66

“Listen, we need to talk about wombats”: https://tinyurl.com/dkt324yh

A lovely website dedicated to tracking the seasonal migrations of various N. American species, using citizen reporting to gather data (I particularly like the “Maps” section): https://tinyurl.com/5y849fst

Great macro video of Ladybug larvae hatching (Contains brief shots of bug sex): https://tinyurl.com/t2zp8sw2

The band “chipmunks on 16 speed” does a range of rather creepy/moody/awesome covers: https://tinyurl.com/r77btht7

Feni is a rare liquor made from cashew fruit, and it’s produced only in Goa, India. While some brands are pushing to take feni to the mainstream, this family has survived by hand making small batches and selling locally: https://tinyurl.com/n6633trv

If you’ve seen posts about an ice cream place selling Mac & Cheese flavored ice cream, now you can make your own at home! Yay?: https://tinyurl.com/4v4ueyt2

Paste Magazine published a list of the 50 best dystopian movies. Some of the entries surprised me, and there are a few I’ve never even heard of: https://tinyurl.com/uf6za2v4

In 2020 people all over the u.S. started receiving packages of mystery seeds from China. One reporter decides to find out why: https://tinyurl.com/cmmpxmur

It’s a chair, but it’s a log!: https://tinyurl.com/54n2dz68

Kevin Parry shares how he made one of his optical illusion TikToks: https://tinyurl.com/fmw2nt4c

A rather interesting list of 50+ short films you can watch on YouTube (“The Birch” is one of my favorites): https://tinyurl.com/hruzx8t3

Some odd, amusing, and disturbing maps from the Atlas Of Prejudice by author Yanko Tsvetkov: https://tinyurl.com/44z3y4ep

Some lovely seashell sculptures to brighten your day: https://tinyurl.com/tykwvdb

The Order of the Good Death is a collective of professionals who want to help people understand that death is a natural part of life, and help them release their fears and misconceptions related to death, dying, and decay: https://tinyurl.com/3u7ussbe

An interesting look at how the pointy shoes trend in 1300s Europe affected the health and shape of people’s feet: https://tinyurl.com/5wrjhhe8

TIL there’s a plant that has no chlorophyl and looks like a candy cane: https://tinyurl.com/3hkzndye

The wonderful range of traditional masks from New Guinea: https://tinyurl.com/8dy2eww

The science of colored shadows: https://tinyurl.com/3ed37ejr

Ringheiligtum Pömmelte is a late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age henge monument from the late third millennium BC. The site was discovered in 1991 through aerial photography near the present-day village of Pömmelte in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: https://tinyurl.com/k77x5sw

The difference between a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Watch, clearly illustrated: https://tinyurl.com/ny4r3zd3

Check out the vegan menu at this upscale NYC restaurant: https://tinyurl.com/wkk5j4

The Huldremose woman is one of the best preserved bodies from Denmark’s prehistory. This Iron Age mummy from year 55 AD was naturally preserved in the Huldremose bog on Djursland, Denmark. Today, almost 2,000 years later, you can see her remains at the National Museum of Denmark: https://tinyurl.com/42upck39

That one time when the U.S. government thought it might be cool to build a new highway using nuclear bombs: https://tinyurl.com/67yb2sdv

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about needle felting, this 5 minute video for beginners is an excellent place to start: https://tinyurl.com/zmnayn4p

Artvee is a website with an enormous database of searchable, public-domain classical art: https://artvee.com/

The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture of Eastern Europe was one of the oldest and longest-lived in the world: https://tinyurl.com/2navsadr

What an opera singer looks like in an MRI scanner: https://tinyurl.com/ed75788z

From 2017, a visual voyage across the US-Mexico border, stitched together from 200,000 satellite images: https://tinyurl.com/45krwmm4

How radical gardeners took back New York City: https://tinyurl.com/8bfk6tm2

Take a virtual tour through the Darth Vader House in Houston Texas: https://tinyurl.com/yppb8cr5

Just a few of the 331 entrants battling for the title of Cuprinol Shed of the Year: https://tinyurl.com/fvnmdway

Exploring a mysterious, stinky, and rather threatening mud puddle that moves under its own power: https://tinyurl.com/8ku9kvwt

The story of a wealthy American industrialist who died a horrible death due to a radioactive “health tonic.” This is why we have regulations now: https://tinyurl.com/v3a7vvkz

In 1899, six years before her death at age 70, Aboriginal Tasmanian Fanny Cochrane Smith made five wax cylinder recordings of traditional Aboriginal songs and language. They are the only recorded example of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and the only recorded example of any Tasmanian Aboriginal language: https://tinyurl.com/9tys84t2

A Flickr page dedicated to people who love control panels: https://tinyurl.com/f593fht6

Pop artist James Ritzi’s gloriously bizarre building: https://tinyurl.com/j4mecdv7

A stop-motion video of the insides of fruits, as well as video of how the artist did it (He has WAY more patience than I do): https://tinyurl.com/h935ewm2

Rarely seen 1976 16mm footage from the Star Wars Archive shows actors Kenny Baker who played R2-D2 and Anthony Daniels who played C-3PO trying out their new costumes at Elstree Studios, while others were testing out unfinished droids for the film: https://tinyurl.com/47nrehx5

A 3D printed, 11 gear Mobius Strip: https://tinyurl.com/bxzfs9aa

If you’re in the market for a charming house with a resident 95-year-old tortoise, I have the perfect place for you!: https://tinyurl.com/sa6wb6mn

If you’ve ever been around mourning doves and wondered why they make that squeaky noise when they fly, here’s why: https://tinyurl.com/rvwh443k

I’d never heard of a fractal vise until now, but these things are rad!: https://tinyurl.com/ukrckaf3

A model of the Heidelberg Letterpress made entirely from cardboard and paper: https://tinyurl.com/49y4w3ny

A website dedicated to the history of Italian car design: https://tinyurl.com/dyy58bns

Man Khanna’s charming Claymen: https://tinyurl.com/tbrurc26

Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan artist who crafts stunning sculptures (As well as amazing collages): https://tinyurl.com/2xn5dhr7

Wonderfully unique and creative ceramics from Jan Howlin: https://tinyurl.com/tvm59c

“Over the last month, I challenged 3D artists with the Alternate Realities CG challenge. I provided an animation for everyone to work from, and the results were stunning. 2,400 artists delivered, the top 100 were chosen for this montage”: https://tinyurl.com/fkuvy3mm

Hydraulic press videos as interpretive dance. I LOLed: https://tinyurl.com/2e3hhzjk

European ideas of African illiteracy are persistent, prejudiced and, as the story of Libyc script shows, entirely wrong: https://tinyurl.com/3w72d3zu

This guy makes AMAZING things with wire: https://tinyurl.com/csdkpy2

A fascinating spider web: https://tinyurl.com/4bdw83zk

The Vølfgang Twins demonstrate how they make their handbuilt Tagelharpa: https://tinyurl.com/ytbzrthu

Meet the Ringed caecilian, a super weird amphibian that looks like a worm: https://tinyurl.com/nt6vhnyk

Beautiful botanical gifs by digital artist Shane Griffin: https://tinyurl.com/3p8zjkw5

How one man built a simple-yet-brilliant water computer: https://tinyurl.com/tettw7ea

The lovely, flowing patterns of sheep, captured by a drone: https://tinyurl.com/tn9453zf (More videos on his website here: https://tinyurl.com/3c5w2vkj)