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How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

Adults Mental Health Music
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

Kayakers Lifted Out of Water: 'We're on Top of the Whale!'

Adults Animals Nature Sports
The kayakers were paddling through a marine sanctuary near Puerto Madryn as they reached a pod of whales. They were surrounded ever so calmly, then hoisted onto the back of a whale. The duo captured the event on a GoPro camera and uploaded the incredible footage to YouTube.

Word Crimes

Adults Internet Culture Language
Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic performing Word Crimes.

Deep Sea Explorers

Adults Animals Nature World
While there's no shortage of weird and wacky ideas in science fiction about what creatures from other planets might look like, few are quite as remarkable as those that can actually be found right here on Earth.

Best goals World Cup 2014 flipbook

Adults Creativity Sports
The World Cup in Brazil was nothing short of a fantastic! Therefore we recreated the three greatest goals of the tournament as a flipbook.

She Takes A Photo Every Day For 6.5 Years

Adults Life Photography
I'm Rebecca Brown, born 4th December 1992. Start: Sep 12 2007, 5395 days old Last photo here: March 12 2014, 7769 days old. I intend to do the project for as long as I can, it's still going

This Amazing Video Takes You Through The City Of Barcelona In 2 Minutes

Adults Cities Creativity Film
YouTuber Robert Whitworth pulls off his incredible "Flow Motion" technique and spent 363 hours to create this 2-minute clip. It totally worths it.

The Making of "29 Celebrity Impressions, 1 Original Song"

Adults Creativity Music
"29 Celebrity Impressions, 1 Original Song" was created with the help of eleven impressionists and one trumpet player, all exceedingly talented. I hope it was fun to watch, and that you enjoyed my song "Perfect."

7 Myths About The Brain You Thought Were True

Adults Mental Health Science Health
Blow your mind with these brain myths!

Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?

Adults Creativity Film Visual Design
There are filmmakers we love and then there's Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception.

Leaked Footage From The New "Star Wars" Movie

Adults Film Marketing
Star Wars Episode VII footage "leaked" from the film set at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany, thanks to YouTuber Frank Wunderlich.

Bruce Lee- Ping Pong

Adults Gadgets Marketing Sports
To promote a cell phone from Nokia, Bruce Lee was sponsored by Nokia in a Ping Pong tournament. But as a twist, he plays with his nunchucks.

Willy Bogner Film

Adults Film Sports
Chuck Patterson is a professional skier, waterman, standup paddler, and all-around adventure-seeking lunatic who likes to charge open ocean swells in full alpine ski gear.

29 Celebrity Impressions, 1 Original Song

Adults Creativity Music
If you close your eyes, you'll actually believe Gwen Stefani, Willie Nelson, Cher, Shakira, and Peter Griffin did a song together.

Perspective painting

Adults Art Visual Design
This painting will play with your mind until you get right next to it, then its secret is revealed.

Turkish Ice Cream Man

Adults Creativity Food
This Turkish ice cream man has gotten the act of trolling down to an art. His tricks combined with his delicious ice cream always attract a crowd in Istanbul.

Crowds Cheer as Sea Turtles Return to the Sea

Adults Animals Nature
A sea turtle rescue center in North Carolina cares for and rehabilitates injured sea turtles, and returns them to the ocean amid cheering crowds. Sea turtles are resilient, but they are slow to recover. So the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center spends a lot of time and effort to help save loggerhead and other Atlantic Ocean turtles.