Happy Tuesday ladies & gents!
We now have our latest and greatest Miniz helmets available at all Target locations, as well as on this very site!
Miniz are perfect for ages 18 months all the way up to three years depending on melon size.
If you’re like us, you’ve probably seen Frozen a bazillion times by now, and you’ll also get a total kick out of this:
The Royal Observatory of Greenwich, England, has crafted three simple animations to explain three very complex things: What’s inside a black hole, how do we know the age of the sun—did you know the Sun weighs 4,000 trillion trillion hippopotamuses?—and how big is the Universe.
What’s Inside A Black Hole? from Beakus on Vimeo.
How Do We Know How Old The Sun Is? from Beakus on Vimeo.
How Big Is The Universe? from Beakus on Vimeo.
Watch Denver-based Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panicker build Rise and Skate, a six foot by six foot paper cut light box for skateboard art fundraiser Bordo Bello at the AIGA National Center, New York. On their work, from Black Book:
They started experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes in 2010 with hand painted watercolor paper which was then cut and assembled in a wooden box to create a diorama, with years of practice their art became more intricate and minimal at the same time. They started experimenting with lights and simplified their pieces by losing the colored aspect of the paper. They have since then evolved to add their own style of paper cut art incorporating back-lit light boxes using flexible LED strip lights.
This is absolutely priceless and will make you feel extremely old. Kids are given a rotary phone and asked how to operate it.
Video cameras have been attached to hula hoops, trombones, and Fijian crab lairs, but this is the first time we’ve seen one do a kickflip backside lipslide (at 1m02s in slow motion). Watch what it’s like to be pro skater Dean-Paul Denniston’s board.
We all need this. Literally. Here’s a little refresher course on grammar to improve your Facebook statuses, Twitter updates, and forum posts.
Check out this awesome tutorial about how to make your breakfast and snacks a little more happening.
A lifetime of training to be the best athelete in the world, and your gold medal only has six grams of gold on it. Find out this and other amazing Olympic facts in AsapSCIENCE’s Olympic video series.
Gather some stuff from around the house to make music with because it’s time for another Songs for Unusual Creatures with Michael Hearst and special guests The Kronos Quartet: A Song for the Sea Pig (Scotoplanes Globosa).