Incredibly fragile, many of the instruments hang from the ceiling during concerts so as not to be melted by their musician’s body heat.
Ice and music. Depending on your age, those two words might conjure up the infamous 80s band Vanilla Ice and their hit “Ice Ice Baby” or the more recent rendition of the song by North Carolina school administrators announcing a snow day. But what’s really too cool (too cool) is the Swedish musical group aptly named Ice Music, whose instruments are carved out of ice.
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There’s something compelling about the submarine genre of movies: the close quarters, the life-and-death nature of it, the mystery of what’s out there in the dark and vast ocean depths. By our unofficial count, there have been roughly 100 submarine-oriented flicks made since World War II. (The exact number depends on which movies you decide to include). Spot Cool Stuff has seen the vast majority of them. Here’s ranking of our personal favorite ten best submarine movies:
Note that our list seems to vary from the consensus opinion. To share your list, dive down to our comments section.
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Imagine that it’s a Monday morning in July. You are going out for a walk along the “Jurassic Coast” — a section of shoreline stretching from East Devon to East Dorset in southern England that’s famous for its 200+ million years of geological and paleontological history. Maybe you are looking down at the sand for one of the small fossils beach goers often find there. Then you look up and see this:
A giant dragon skull!
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Ropes, crampons and harnesses—none are required while scaling the Inflatable Climbing Iceberg
Summer fun is water fun. So to add some WOW factor to your water fun, we bring you two cool inflatable toys to bring with you to the beach, lake or swimming pool: a gigantic inflatable climbing iceberg and an inflatable trampoline.
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