Tag Archives: TED

The best beatboxing you’ll ever hear

Tom Thum: Armed with just a microphone, Thum pushes the limits of the human voice to create incredible soundtracks of impossible beats and phenomenal sounds, with scratched vinyl, the Michael Jackson back-catalog, the didgeridoo and an entire fifties jazz band among his vocal repertoire.

Bohemian Rhapsody on the ukulele

The ukulele is a beautiful instrument and Jake Shimabukuro proves that with his stirring rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I realize this song is overexposed and tire by now, but I promise you this version will move you.


(via One Cool Thing a Day)

A passenger talks about crash landing on the Hudson River

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549 as it crash-landed in the Hudson River in January 2009. What went through his mind as the plane went down? Watch this video and learn the 3 things he learned in those short moments before he thought he would die. I could not imagine the horror.