TerraLiving makes all kinds of gorgeous desktop terraria, like the Vertex model shown above, or The Time Fragment show below: So beautiful! Image: YouTube / TerraLiving

The competitive world of STOL (short takeoff and landing) includes some impressive feats using specialized planes: Kevin Quinn has a global stole competition going on and a couple of weeks… Read the rest of the article: Pilot takes off in 2.5 feet, lands in 16.5

Longtime fans of cymatics will love this water-filled Tibetan singing bowl: Singing bowl with water played with a large suede covered mallet to produce water fountains. The singing bowl filled… Read the rest of the article: Relax with water dancing in this singing bowl

This video on how to use a vein viewer was interesting. The hand-held option seems less useful, as having it mounted frees up both hands for other work. No phlebotomist… Read the rest of the article: Handy little vein viewer illuminates any vein

Austine Wood Comarow creates lovely pieces like "Garden Gold," which shift in hue as the pieces move. The materials themselves have no colors: We perceive the color as a result… Read the rest of the article: Kinetic polarized light art

Six years after dismissing 'Breaking Bad' as unworthy of his time, host Sir Martyn Poliakoff of the popular YouTube channel Periodic Videos was persuaded to watch the show about chemistry's… Read the rest of the article: Chemistry prof from Periodic Videos finally watches 'Breaking Bad'

Hari Panicker and Deepti Nair create paper cut light boxes that have captured the imagination of many children who came to know them through their book The Seekers. This post… Read the rest of the article: Hari & Deepti's paper cut light boxes

My post about a cool instrument got me wondering, what's the difference between a tube and a pipe, so I went on YouPipe to learn more. Via Commerce Metals: Tubing… Read the rest of the article: What's the difference between a pipe and a tube?

Sarah Lee makes amazing sculptures using eggshells, like this two-headed croc covered in quail eggshells. Her Instagram has lots of other onderful pieces like this molting ouroboros:

YouTuber LetsDig18 specializes in recovering excavators that get stuck in the mud, but this was "the worst excavator recovery of my career." This 41-minute epic struggle with the elements is… Read the rest of the article: Excavator extricated

An impressive amount of planning, trial, and error went into this rendition of Gershon Kingsley "Popcorn" played on a homemade percussion instrument made of narrow PVC pipe. Here's the original… Read the rest of the article: Maker creates a tiny PVC tube instrument, plays "Popcorn"

With the apple ][ in 1977, Apple ushered in a case color that had an outside influence. But what are the exact values of Apple beige? Ben Zotto took a deep… Read the rest of the article: One man's search for the exact shade of "Apple Beige"

Bri Benton's border collies and other delightful doggos have been impressively trained to hold until called by name. @sostarbcs #stitch with @emileedoglady because without name recognition you have nothing #dogtraining… Read the rest of the article: Very well-trained dogs all know their names

In this remarkable double-sided embroidery, one artisan embroiders a dog on one side, the other artisan creates a monkey on the other. This art form originated in Suzhou province about… Read the rest of the article: Double-sided embroidery with different images

Naomi SV is harpin' around with her heavenly harp cover of Grouplove's "Back in the 90s," aka the Bojack Horseman theme. I also love her cover of Tom Waits' "Green… Read the rest of the article: Bojack Horseman theme on harp

Furex makes a cool magnetic levitation sushi conveyor which they tout as easier to maintain and clean. Sushi boat places are lots of fun, but they seem to be getting… Read the rest of the article: Maglev sushi conveyor

This sweet wedding proposal at an Australia zoo involved a beautiful red-tailed black cockatoo, a five-dollar note, and a charming couple. Let's hope they also have the cockatoo be their… Read the rest of the article: Cockatoo helps with marriage proposal

On the anniversary of its win at Sundance, enjoy Bernardo Britto's "Yearbook," the animated short that put him on the map. With the end of the world imminent, a man… Read the rest of the article: A guy must record human history before aliens blow us up

If you like EDM and you like pigeons, then Emmit Fenn's "Who Dat" might be just the combo for you. Fun fact: they held a naming contest, and the pigeon's… Read the rest of the article: Pigeon dances to a catchy EDM beat by Emmit Fenn

The Swedish royal family wants kids to be less sedentary, so they rolled out a cool way for kids to get 10000 steps in through a new dance routine. Via… Read the rest of the article: "Dance 10000" is getting Swedish kids to exercise