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This is the first in a series of short videos featuring the many talents of Poppy the Wonder Cat.

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Jesus and Mary Chain’s Just Like Honey played as a piano duet.

The Kitten Covers reimagines legendary album covers with kittens instead of humans. Like this:

Ninja from Olivier Trudeau on Vimeo.

In 1996, Paul Lukas discovered hundreds of detailed student records from the Manhattan Trade School for Girls from the 1920s but never knew what to do with them.

The school tracked students’ employment history for years after they graduated and “many of the students’ records also featured assorted paperwork—letters to the students from the school staff , notes from social workers and doctors on beautiful old letterhead, reports of tragic family situations, postcards from parents and other family members.”

Recently, he decided to track down some of the students’ families and has written a fascinating five-part series about the records, the school, and what happened to the young women who went there.

“Even after doing it numerous times, I still find it a bit surreal to call a stranger on the phone and hear myself saying, ‘Hi, you don’t know me, but I have your mother’s report card from 1929. Would you like to see it?’”

A beautiful video, shot by a couple traveling through Mongolia, of people’s reactions to seeing photos of themselves for the first time.

mongolia! from wiissa on Vimeo.