A typical breakfast in America includes items like coffee, orange juice, and high-carb treats like toast, hash browns, donuts, and cereal. Just how did we end up starting our days with these deliciously unhealthy foods? Weird History Food digs into what led to their popularity.
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Artist Guldies spent a year working on their latest short film, a wonderfully weird and inventive stop-motion animation featuring objects that morph between organic and man-made forms. In all, there are more than 4400 individual frames, each composed of hand-sculpted Plastilina and Fimo clay.
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One of the more interesting items you can produce in a machine shop is a sphere inside of a cube. Emil Hogslätt shows how he produced one such object using a DMG Mori 5-axis milling machine. The finished product is immensely satisfying, as are the soothing noises the machine makes as it cuts and smooths […]
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LCD screens struggle with contrast because their crystals have to selectively block out a backlight. DIY Perks wanted to see if layering a second LCD panel could improve contrast. He combined parts from two identical displays, depolarized their screens, and upgraded their backlight. It’s a cool hack, but an OLED is still better.
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Lord Cutler Beckett was a real jackass in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, so it’s no wonder he got what was coming to him. YouTuber Shrubbery imagines what it might have been like if an entire armada descended on Beckett to put him out of his misery and send his ship to Davy Jones’s […]
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This bright light from Klarus is ideal for camping, dinner parties, tailgating, and other outdoor activities. It packs four folding light blades that produce a total of 750 lumens. It can hang, be used in tabletop mode, or as a handheld flashlight, and offers multiple color temperatures, SOS, and red flashing light modes.
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Gold, silver, and platinum are just a few of the 118 elements which appear on the Periodic Table. Word nerd RobWords explains the etymology of some common chemical names, why their symbols don’t always line up with their full names, and how to pronounce the word “aluminum” once and for all… maybe.
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St. Patrick’s Day is one holiday when people usually don’t show much restraint when it comes to imbibing, so the concept of the World’s Smallest Irish Coffee is a fun novelty… and an authentic one at that, when made for a crowd with triple-distilled Tullamore D.E.W. Irish Whiskey.
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