Japanese Artist Turns Old TV Sets into Cool Percussion Instruments
Japanese artist Ei Wada discovered that old cathode ray tube television sets make great percussion instruments by mistake, but he managed to turn this accidental discovery into an art. Today, his unique Braun Tube Jazz Band is famous all over the world. Wada first became interested in percussion music at age four, after attending a Gamelan music performance in […]
The Space Poop Challenge – NASA Is Offering $30,000 to Whoever Solves the Problem of Pooping in Space
When you gotta go, you gotta go! But what if you’re in space, stuck in a spacesuit for hours on end, even days? The current solution is the good ol’ diaper, but NASA is looking for something better, and is offering a prize of up to $30,000 to whoever comes up with the best idea. Astronauts […]
City Comes Together to Buy 32 Tonnes of Potatoes in One Day to Help Farmer in Need
In what can only be described as a touching display of kindness, the residents of a neighborhood near Shenzhen, in southern China, came together to help a total stranger sell 32 tonnes of potatoes in a single day, after he was rejected by a local wholesale market. 60-year-old Ma, a potato farmer from Qinghai Province, in northwest […]