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Amazing Ballpoint Pen Art

Amazing Ballpoint Pen Art

A lawyer by trade, Samuel Silva spends his free time creating masterpieces with common ballpoint pens. The drawings can take anywhere from five to 50 hours. Silva likes to draw…

Incredible Photo-Realistic Oil Paintings

Incredible Photo-Realistic Oil Paintings

Spanish artist Pedro Campos painstakingly creates these hyper-realistic works of art. From glass to plastic bags to fruit, Campos is an expert at fooling your eyes. Make sure to check…

Pixar Fan Builds His Own Wall-E

Pixar Fan Builds His Own Wall-E

Mike Senna’s life-size Wall-E can move and talk just like in the movies It took him two and a half years to build, and he crafted each and every piece…

Awesome Costa Rican Treehouse Village

Awesome Costa Rican Treehouse Village

Mateo and Erica Hogan didn’t want to see this beautiful forest chopped down and harvested. “[The land] felt really sacred from the get-go and we felt like this would be…

2012 Olympic Swimmers: In Pictures

2012 Olympic Swimmers: In Pictures

These stunning shots showcase all the hard work and training that went into these games. Strength, stamina, skill–these athletes have it all. Check out the link below to see even…

Awesome Tech: Simple Pedal-Powered Washer

Awesome Tech: Simple Pedal-Powered Washer

When Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You visited the poor neighborhoods of Cerro Verde, Peru, they immediately saw a need. Women in the towns had to carry water for miles…

Daredevil Surfers Hit the Arctic

Daredevil Surfers Hit the Arctic

Three surfers from California set their sights on chillier waters: the smooth winter swells of the Arctic. Wearing full wetsuits, gloves, and shoes to protect themselves from the cold, Dane…

Kim Rhode Takes the Gold in Women’s Skeet Shooting

Kim Rhode Takes the Gold in Women’s Skeet Shooting

Not only did she bring home the medal, she made history. Kim is now the first US athlete to win a medal in an individual sport five years in a…

Meet Piano Prodigy Ethan Bortnick

Meet Piano Prodigy Ethan Bortnick

He’s in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s youngest solo musician to headline his own tour. Ethan Bortnick has been playing piano since he was three, first picking…

2012 Google Science Fair Winners

2012 Google Science Fair Winners

Five awesome kids took home prizes at this year’s Google Science Fair. Grand Prize winner Brittany Wenger built a cloud-based data set to let doctors compare the results of breast…