Imagine finding one of these on your window. Link: http://youtu.be/9e9NCAfp5-E Link: http://youtu.be/y1dY59vhQlo I’m not etymologist, but I believe these are hornets, which are large “eusocial” wasps, meaning they live in cooperative colonies like ants and honeybees. The term is derived … Continue reading
Movies of the 1930s and 1940s often featured black actors in secondary comic-relief roles, frequently playing racial stereotypes. I recently suffered through an extreme example of that in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935, reviewed here), which is a pretty bad … Continue reading
Brilliant, and possibly the best thing the pro-union side could use as an ad: Link: http://youtu.be/-YkLPxQp_y0 by … Continue reading
A 3-year-old boy in Hawaii born with a hand missing its fingers gets a computer-printed Iron Man hand from a group called E-Nable, and the hand is actually functional, able to move and grasp things under the boy’s control. This … Continue reading
Not sure what to make of this. The dog apparently likes to watch television, but doesn’t really get enthusiastic about it until the NFL comes on: Link: http://youtu.be/xCfZOIDXqpI by … Continue reading
A gargantuan new dinosaur, similar in shape to the one that was the symbol of Sinclair gasoline stations decades ago, has been discovered in southern Patagonia near the tip of South America. What’s particularly noteworthy is that almost the entire … Continue reading
The previous post features a video shot in a vertical orientation, so in the interest of aesthetics and all that is holy, let me point show you a couple of educational videos explaining why you shouldn’t shoot videos that way: … Continue reading
Several segments of the U.S. news media have run reports to the effect that the internationally popular Hello Kitty character is not a cat but a little girl. But the company behind Hello Kitty, Sanrio, has clarified that Hello Kitty … Continue reading
When wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park after a 70-year absence they had a remarkably wide-ranging set of effects. Most immediately they helped control the elk and coyotes, not just by killing some but by altering their behavior. As … Continue reading
Highlights of a performance featuring soap bubbles, the most elaborate I’ve seen. Worth at least a look: Link: http://youtu.be/KMrvR836TFI by … Continue reading