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This thing was so adorable and annoying that I had to share it with the whole world. You won’t be able to get the song out of your head.

An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun…

We need to stop using the term “atheism” because it refers to something that does not exist.

Here’s a short demonstration of a Buddhist singing bowl.

This is my cat, Spot, making an unusual sound. I can only guess it’s some sort of hunting sound, but I can’t imagine why it would be advantageous to announce…

That one time when I made Kevin Smith’s day.

The legality of their citizenship is ultimately irrelevant. We can devise any number of laws to make people criminals (just look at the population of our prison system thanks to…

Here’s a decent example of a Moluccan cockatoo speaking. https://youtu.be/clKLct2FSjM

This was a sudden and *massive* hail storm that hit west Texas on March 19, 2011. This video was taken in Levelland, Texas. I picked up a piece of hail…

I tried to get Rosie to say something, but she was just confused by the black thing I was holding in my hand. https://youtu.be/6k3sUvfHGCQ

The music is José González’s version of “Teardrop” by Massive Attack. The video is nature’s version of a massive storm attacking the field in front of me. It’s mostly dark,…

This is just one minute of a relaxing storm that rolled into Dallas, Texas for the evening. I wish it’d never ended. https://youtu.be/A47wpqfIPio

My friend, filmmaker, and funnyman Jeremy Snead gives us a quick tour of his shrine to the bygone era of video rentals where people had to travel to specific places…

Thanks to Jeremy Snead’s documentary about video games, Weird Al’s invasion of the Internet, and the resurrection of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, this is turning out to be the year of…