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Trip Tips is a new feature from FourSquare that helps users easily compile a list of travel recommendations from friends. Before a trip, users share a link with their friends who can respond by adding their favorite restaurants, museums, or other sites to see and those suggestions are all put into a list complete with […]

Filmmaker Aron Mani of Gamerboy Media has released “Super Bakery Bros,” a wonderful stop motion animated video of World 1-1 from the classic Super Mario Bros. video game recreated on a spinning cake. Aron also shared behind-the-scenes footage of how he brought it all to life. image via Sploid via Sploid

On Friday January 22nd, commuters in Los Rios, Ecuador were surprised to find out that a wayward sloth was attempting to cross the busy road. Sloths beings sloths, however, meant that the adorable creature was moving very slowly and unfortunately got stuck at the median. The Transit Commission of Ecuador became involved and was able […]

In advance of the highly anticipated film Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, Sony Pictures has released a new set of official character posters, including one of Matt Smith as Mr. Collins. It’s difficult to imagine anyone refusing the former Gallifreyan, but if the film plot sticks to the Jane Austen original, then refuse him she […]

Pokémon celebrates 20 years of catching them all with an intense Super Bowl ad asking players to “Train on.” The brand has also introduced the an official site for the 20-year anniversary and are asking fans to use the hashtag #Pokemon20 on social media. In 2015 Pokémon announced a partnership with Niantic, the former Google […]

Redditor anneewannee took advantage of the heavy snowfall during last weekend’s Mid-Atlantic blizzard to create a backyard maze for her two dogs. Using a shovel, she carefully carved out turns and corners for her boys although it took a little bit for the dogs to understand the concept as “they didn’t realize there were dead […]

Brave physicist Andreas Wahl puts his life on the line to prove scientific laws in a series of videos produced by NRK Viten in Norway where he falls more than 40 feet tied only to a small kettle bell, slides through fire on a human barbecue, and fires a gun at himself under water. The […]

ryanmcell shot a really great GoPro time lapse video of snow accumulating on a deck behind a house during last weekend’s Mid-Atlantic blizzard in Purcellville, VA. via reddit

British Shorthair Lithuanian photographer Andrius Burba has captured a whole other side of finicky felines with his very clever photo series “Under-Cats“. In the series, Burba photographed cats of different breeds, sizes and shapes from underneath as they innocently sat atop a glass table. The photos were shot at the International Cat Show in Vilnius. […]

Skateboarders Ryan Thompson, Jonathan Bastian, Jason Bastian move in slow motion through brightly colored powder in the short film Chromatic 2 by Darren Dyk. The powder explodes into colorful clouds as the team performs tricks that are captured at speeds as high as 6,900fps with a Phantom V12.1 camera. via The Awesomer

In the latest episode of PBS Learning Media series “The Good Stuff“, host Craig Benzine traveled to the the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia to speak with author John Coski about the controversial, connotative and often contentious Confederate Flag, its complex history and versions and how the flag came to be what it […]

David Kronstein destroyed a series of computer peripherals and other objects by dropping them onto an inverted lawnmower inside a garage. The carnage is replayed in slow motion to capture the full effect of the rapidly spinning blades catching and cutting through the various items. via reddit, PetaPixel

FXGuide has created a 50-minute documentary that follows host John Montgomery as he heads to Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco and gives us an inside look at the incredible visual effects work that they put into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Hear from ILM’s senior visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, visual effects supervisor […]

A video posted by ?????? ??????, ????????????????? (@michael_zajkov) on Jan 17, 2016 at 4:52am PST Russian artist Michael Zajkov is an incredibly talented sculptor as demonstrated by his line of absolutely stunning, but eerily lifelike dolls that are anatomically correct and fully articulating. Each of the dolls is hand-crafted out of polymer clay, sculpted with […]

The Japanese company Hoshinchu Air Bonsai Garden is currently raising funds through Kickstarter to bring its new product, the “Air Bonsai” or “Little Star”, a tiny bonsai tree that magically floats above its “energy” base – to market. It comes as a kit and is highly customizable. It’s a very simple do-it-yourself kit. You have […]

HBO has released three new teasers for the upcoming 6th season of Game of Thrones. Each features a different tattered battle banner and threatening voiceover for the houses of Stark, Lannister and Targaryen. Season 6 of Game of Thrones premieres in April, 2016

Warner Bros. has released a new television spot for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice that features an angered Superman (Henry Cavill) demanding that Batman (Ben Affleck) play dead and bury the bat. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is currently scheduled to fly into theaters on March 25th, 2016. Fearing the actions of a […]

Posted by Jeffrey Perez on Saturday, January 23, 2016 Jeffrey Perez, a clever Millersville, Maryland man dressed up like a panda and gleefully rolled around in the snow, mimicking the adorable movements of Tian Tian the giant panda. Perez even challenged Tien Tien to a face-to-face snow battle. Good Morning America put together a side-by-side […]

“Boston Accent” is a Late Night parody trailer starring host Seth Meyers as multiple Boston characters performing a range of Boston accents from “The politician with the upscale Kennedy-type accent” to “The townie who says ‘bro’ in every sentence.” The video plays on tropes common in movies set in Boston.

Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have released a new television spot for Warcraft, the upcoming film directed by Duncan Jones based on wildly popular franchise by Blizzard Entertainment. The movie is scheduled for release on June 10, 2016. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome […]

photo by Gage Skidmore On Saturday, January 22, the BBC officially announced that show runner Stephen Moffat will be stepping down from his role as the Doctor Who Head Writer and Executive Producer after the last episode of Series Ten. Replacing Moffat in 2018 will be Chris Chibnall, show runner for Broadchurch and writer for […]

Blue Origin has successfully reused their New Shepherd rocket that launched into space and landed safely on November 23, 2015 and accomplished the same feat by launching and landing the exact same rocket again on January 22, 2016. In a letter on the Blue Origin site, founder Jeff Bezos discussed the repeat mission and how the […]

After a construction site for the new Crossrail system unearthed a bounty of artifacts from London’s very hearty past, the video team at National Geographic created an amazing stop-motion paper animation that recreates 40,000 years of the city’s history, era by era. Thousands of artifacts have been unearthed as a result of the construction of […]

Raymond Weil Ylagan has edited footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to make it look a cliché intro to an anime. Raymond’s great opening sequence features plenty of elements found in classic anime series, including the upbeat theme song to Code Geass. via Gizmodo

Software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul Rose demonstrate their Arduino controlled robot capable of solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube in just over one second. The machine uses a 3D-printed frame, six stepper motors, and four cameras to quickly analyze and solve the cube. Flatland and Rose are applying to for an official Guinness world record, which currently […]

Mashable Watercooler imagines what the Alice in Wonderland Disney movie would be like as a horror film.

Mode takes us all on an enjoyable ride down memory lane in their new video looking at how cars have changed over the past 100 years. They cover everything from a classic Auburn automobile from the 1910s to a sleek Tesla Model S from the 2010s.

Iraq War veteran Justin Anderson plows snow in his Bellevue, Nebraska neighborhood using a modified off-road wheelchair with a snow plow attached to the front. Anderson was recently profiled by WOWT News in Omaha where he talks about his chair and the feeling of gratification he gets from giving back to his community that has helped him […]

Jacob T. Swinney takes a look at the subtle way David Fincher uses extreme close-ups in his films. The extreme close-up may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of David Fincher’s unique visual aesthetic. That’s because Fincher’s extreme close-ups don’t call attention to themselves. The filmmaker stitches the shots […]

Las Vegas-based video editor Robert Jones has created a new supercut video of 92 dance scenes in movies. Robert synced part five of his ongoing montages of cinematic dance scenes to C+C Music Factory‘s hit song from 1990, “Gonna Make You Sweat.”

John Oliver is back with Volume Two of “Lost Graphics”, where he shares more of his favorite ridiculous graphics that were cut from Last Week Tonight. Here’s Volume One of “Lost Graphics”.

The five Denmark-based members of The Bottle Boys recently teamed up with musician Gustav Hagner to perform the classic song “Fly Me to the Moon” with beer bottles and hand whistles. We are proud to present our first Bottle Monday video in 2016! For this one we’ve chosen to play the classic “Fly Me to […]

Filmmaker Casey Neistat, his brother Dean Neistat and friends Jesse Wellens and Oscar Boyson took advantage of the incredible snowfall that dumped itself over New York City during the blizzard, with an amusing stunt that combined skitching, snowboarding, and skiing, all in the best way possible. Neistat held onto a line that was hooked onto […]

The January 16th episode of Saturday Night Live featured a very funny parody of Undercover Boss that featured guest host Adam Driver. Driver reprised his Star Wars: The Force Awakens role as Kylo Ren and disguised himself as a bespectacled blonde radar technician named Matt in order to find out about what his Starkiller Base […]

This little dog has no idea what is going on outside, but they want no part of it. via reddit

Parth Perygl created a wonderful time lapse video over a 28 hour period showing what the snow accumulation was like in a Maryland neighborhood during Winter Storm Jonas. via reddit

An absolutely adorable giant panda named Tian Tian, who lives at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, had himself the time of his life, gleefully rolling around and trying to completely cover himself in the snow that dumped itself over Washington, D.C. and much of the east coast of the United States. Male […]

Photographer Leo Rosas of the Cooperative of Photography, demonstrated with a brand new Leica X-U, the various methods he employs to visually capture the spirit of the natural elements including wind, water, earth and fire. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

On the opening night of his River 2016 tour in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen took a moment to verbally remember his late friend and mentor David Bowie. “The Boss” and the E Street Band then broke out into a fantastic cover of “Rebel Rebel” in musical tribute. The video, which was graciously posted by Dustin […]

After former US Army helicopter pilot Dr. Mark Garrison published his book GUTS ‘N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam, he came across remarkable audio from a 1969 mission in Vietnam. In the clip he posted, Garrison and two other pilots are heard calmly coordinating a troop extraction. The […]

A TED-Ed lesson by Matthew Borths and Adam Pritchard of the Past Time podcast and Mike D’Emic looks at past mass extinction events, their causes, and what they can teach us about preventing the next one. Evidence strongly shows that humans are having a considerable impact on the environment and other species, which could lead to another mass extinction event if […]

Eater has put together an informative video that explains via animation the three distinct waves of coffee, how it’s consumed, its availability and what the next wave of caffeinated brews may be. If you’re addicted to pour-over and know your barista by name, you’re a product of third wave coffee. This latest stage of coffee […]

The latest animated episode of “The Science of Us” by New York Magazine, makes an excellent case for tossing out the need for traditional resumés and cover letters within the recruiting process, citing various studies showing that this manner of job application doesn’t provide enough information and can even lead to discriminatory practices, whether intentional […]

Prop builder and cosplayer Gordon Tarpley of GT Props specializes in building C-3PO costumes that are very detailed. Norman Chan of Tested recently met up with Tarpley to chat with him about his “build process, how he’s improving his suit, and what it takes to perform as this iconic Star Wars character.” Chan also helped […]

I was all in until I tasted it. Comedians Ali Spagnola and Maxnosleeves embarked on an interesting experiment when they put various beverages through their Brita water filter, only to find that most beverages come out tasting like water. Except for the Clamato. We Brita filter a bunch of drinks and see what they taste […]

Randall Munroe of xkcd graphs the possible undiscovered planets in our solar system by size and distance from his current location.

“Types of Motivation” by Grant Snider on Incidental Comics

American Chemical Society series Reactions explains the chemistry of how snowflakes form and what makes each one unique. Because of how the water vapor that forms snowflakes freezes, snowflakes all start in a basic hexagonal shapes, but as temperatures change while they move through the air, the ice crystals freeze, warm, and expand in a variety of […]

On the January 21 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the great Iggy Pop and Josh Homme, founder of Queens of the Stone Age, announced for the first time that the two of them recorded Post Pop Depression, a new collaborative album that they secretly recorded in the desert of Joshua Tree, California. […]

Who is Rey? Pen: Namiki Falcon. Ink: Noodler's Ink. #animation #illustration #starwars A video posted by Pinot Ichwandardi (@pinot) on Dec 29, 2015 at 6:37am PST New York City artist Wahyu Ichwandari (a.k.a. “Pinot“) has created an incredible series of animated Vine and Instagram videos where his drawings of characters from Star Wars:The Force Awakens […]