Mad Quickies

Mad Quickies 3.1

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It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

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Oreo separator machine

{via Anne S.}

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It’s a basic human desire to separate an OREO cookie. Humans love either cookie or creme. And sometimes a man just needs to invent a machine to do the hard work of separating the two. Today, that man is physicist and cookie-part preferrer David Neevel. Watch him operate the machine he created that separates OREO cookies.

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The Finest Bird Song of 1890

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A mechanical singing bird mechanism. Made around 120 years ago in Paris, probably by Bontems. In the film I hope you can identify all the major parts and see them working together to make the sound. The mechanism was in a rusted and seized state and has been restored. Surpisingly the bellows are in good original condition. See our channel for more, much more.

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This will kill you…
Sir David Attenborough close up with blind rhino

Follow Little Nicky’s progress at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.

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Sir David Attenborough concluded his BBC One series about the wildlife of Africa with an extraordinary close up meeting with a blind baby rhinoceros.

He described how the rhinoceros may have its sight saved by an operation and thus be given a chance of survival in the wild like another orphaned rhino called Elvis who had been released after being cared for in the same reserve.

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Really cute animals!

That’s it. Just really cute animals. Because it’s Friday.

{via BonnieBeth}

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Sea Otter Hoop Dreams
More about little Eddie here.
{via Emily}

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Eddie the sea otter plays basketball to exercise his arthritic elbows. Turns out he is pretty good!

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Featured image is a still from Choros.

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Donna

Geologic Universe, vault-keeper. Sheer Brick Studio, principal. Empty Set, designer. Bethlehem Mounties, media. WDIY 88.1FM NPR station programmer. Skepchick.

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  1. I am proud to say that state I was born and raised (New Jersey) and the state I’ve lived and worked my entire adult life (Maryland) both have official state dinosaurs, and that I knew what they both were.

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