Watch the world’s biggest airplane successfully land in the desert.
The Stratolaunch, the world's largest airplane, flew over the Mojave desert in California this weekend. Its wingspan is wider than a football field.
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Sylvia Plath reads poems from Ariel.
“Her short life has been trampled and retrampled under the biographer’s hoof, her opus viewed and skewed through every conceivable lens of interpretation.” So let's listen to Sylvia Plath read some poems instead. According to Open Culture, the readings are from recordings made on October 20, 1962.
A workout video for ladies like Debbie Reynolds.
For 1983's Do It Debbie’s Way, Debbie Reynolds invited Hollywood friends to sweat it out together. But the real star is Shelley Winters, who shows up and then refuses to participate. Winters shows up wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt that reads “I’m Only Doing This for
The Weather Channel flooded Charleston.
A mixed-reality segment from the Weather Channel puts meteorologist Jen Carfagno in the very-flooded year of 2100. “We’re always trying to figure out a way to tell climate change in a way that resonates with people, and it’s extremely difficult,” says Nick Weinmiller, Weather Channel creative
Visitors shred a massive paper artwork at the Louvre.
The French artist JR created a paper illusion to make the Louvre's pyramid seem to extend deep into a quarry of white Parisian rock. It took visitors less than a day to destroy it.
Why slow is the way to go.
For the next time you need some meditative white noise: "Call Me Maybe," by Carly Rae Jepsen, slowed down by around 1000 percent.
How to do the Dutch reach.
Our world—the car world—would be much safer if everyone practiced the Dutch reach. As the "Dutch Reach Project" charmingly explains: Drivers & passengers each use far hand to open car door. Reach across for the door handle. Forced to swivel, you automatically look out, at mirror
To enjoy cheese doodles so much.
In case you haven't seen this in a while, or perhaps not at all, here's what happiness sounds like when you find something nice in a hole in the ground, after 86 days of near-starvation, while crossing the South Pole. You'll want the
Collected local LA news footage of frenzied Depeche Mode fans in 1990.
Collected local LA news footage of Depeche Mode fans in a frenzy over the release of Violator in 1990.
How to make a no-bake cheesecake (that looks like cheese).
Here's a video on how to make a cheesecake that looks like cheese. But it is also a weird, soothing demonstration of cooking with no narration, watched over by a pair of tiny toy mice. H/t The Kid Should See This