James Baker
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These Freaky Talking Heads Will Be In Your Nightmares Tonight
These freakish heads, little more than disembodies mouths, were created for a poster for a festival — but then designers Dvein decided to breath life into their creations, animating and adding sounds from the event. Is this really how artists envisage their audiences and critics?
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Don’t Watch This If You Don’t Want To Freak Out About Your Life Choices
Video: Filmmaker Paul Trillo takes a look at the infinite options that fill our daily lives and how the consequences of our actions can transform the multiple paths that we can take, combining over a lifetime to define us as people. Some choices we think we can affect, others seem too small to contemplate.
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How A Desert Cat Uses Its Super Ears To Hunt Birds In Mid-flight
Video: This footage of a desert cat taking out a bird in mid-flight is another impressive reminder of the astonishing power of natural evolution. The small but agile caracal uses 20 muscles — in three distinct groups — to independently control each of its ears, which act as supersensitive parabolic sound antennas.
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Watch Water Doing Crazy Stuff On Hydrophobic Surfaces
Video: There are a lot of great applications for materials being developed that display extreme water repelling properties, inspired by nature and particularly desert life. This video doesn’t explain any of them and that’s fine — I just like to watch all those crazy water droplets doing crazy stuff.