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Cartoonist Gergely Dudás aka Dudolf has created two wonderfully illustrated visual search paradigms that challenge viewers to find a panda amongst an avalanche of snowmen and to find a kissing cat amongst a parliament of owls. images by Dudolf

Big Bad Toy Store is selling a wonderful BB-8 sphere ice mold by Kotobukiya to help chill all of your Resistance drinks while preparing to fight the First Order. via That’s Nerdalicious

When WPRB DJ Nicky Steidel was traveling through Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), he very wisely snapped a couple of pictures of the iconic East Village punk rock club CBGB reincarnated as CBGB LAB – a simple restaurant/lounge with pricey family-friendly fare such as $9 deviled eggs, spaghetti and meatballs for $16 and a whopping […]

The Key Armory is a series of keys shaped like famous swords from popular culture such as Sting from The Lord of the Rings, Kylo Ren’s lightsaber, and the Master Sword from Legend of Zelda. The Key Armory is currently raising funds with a Kickstarter campaign with the keys themselves as rewards, and stretch goals that could unlock new […]

NASA offers season’s greetings with a short animation of a toy robot exploring its surroundings. The room in which the robot finds itself is full of photos and other references to NASA missions.

20th Century Fox has released a festive Christmas Eve trailer for Deadpool in advance of the trailer they are releasing on Christmas Day. Deadpool comes out February 12, 2016, join the Deadpool Core for more info. Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary […]

101 Facts presents 101 interesting facts about Harry Potter. From Hogwarts to Hogsmeade to Azkaban and back again, we cast 101-Factus-Maximus on one of the biggest franchises ever in the wizarding/muggle world.

In a new animated short by Dorkly, the real reason why Luke Skywalker is sent to Dagobah to train with Yoda is revealed. The Jedi Order send him away to keep his lips and mitts off of his sister, Princess Leia. May the Force be…way over there. Away from your sister.

Tesla Motors is celebrating a “Merry Model X-mas” with a video showing three of their Model X electric cars moving and flashing their lights in sync with Christmas music. The company has also shared a video of a crowd reacting to the display.

Actor and musician Oscar Isaac, who played the part of Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens, recently sat down with GQ and performed a beautiful acoustic cover of Bill Murray‘s iconic Star Wars theme song that he sang during his “Nick The Lounge Singer” sketch on Saturday Night Live. via The Roosevelts, The Awesomer

Las Vegas taqueria Frijoles & Frescas was burgled at 3:33AM on December 16, 2015 by two unknown criminals, but the restaurant has responded in a unique way. They have uploaded footage of the burglary to their YouTube channel with captions asserting that the thieves were only trying to break in to eat tacos. via reddit

With Christmas Day arriving tomorrow, Creative Lighting Displays has built a amazing 1.7 mile long drive-thru Christmas light show at the Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. Their colorful LED light display flow in perfect harmony with the music and vocals from two popular holiday songs, “Disco Santa” and “Do You Hear What I Hear.” […]

The music of The Beatles is now available to stream through multiple online services. Users of Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, Microsoft Groove, Napster / Rhapsody, Amazon Prime Music, Slacker Radio, Spotify, and Tidal.

The Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse has created an amusing new video that imagines what Wookiees would sound like in the Star Wars films if they were voiced by none other than Pee-wee Herman.

In the Veritasium video “How Long Will You Live?” host Derek Muller explains why humans age but lobsters don’t, and how that impacts human lifespans. The video focuses on telomeres, pieces at the end of chromosomes. The length of telomeres has been connected with life expectancy, but as scientist Dr. Fiona Ginty explains, the secret to longer life […]

In the latest episode of his instructional Sensei Series, Canadian guitarist and songwriter Steve Onotera a.k.a. samuraiguitarist offers really helpful pointers in improving one’s sense of rhythm through simple measures such as using a metronome, recording, playing with other musicians and moving with the music, even just a little bit. It’s going to be easier […]

“Mercury Rising: America’s First Steps Into Space” is a short documentary by The Royal Institution that looks back on the NASA Mercury missions that first sent Americans to space. The video was written by Royal Institution producer Ed Prosser as part of the Institution’s annual Advent calendar.

A gorgeous hyacinth macaw named Ringo thinks nothing of cracking open a cold beer for his human brother, an effort that was much appreciated by said sibling. Loving me some head scratches from my big brother. A video posted by Elena (@ringo.and.friends) on Dec 22, 2015 at 10:58am PST via Daily Picks and Flicks

HYPEBEAST recently toured the Bollman Hat Company facility in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, America’s oldest hat factory. CEO Don Rongione lays out some of the history of the factory, its alleged haunted status, and the company’s commitment to American manufacturing. The Bollman Hat Company is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to bring the manufacturing of Kangol brand […]

Michael Phillips, the 2010 World Barista Champion and Director of Education at Blue Bottle Coffee demonstrated his trusted method for crafting the perfect cappuccino for the Vice culinary video series Munchies. Who knew so much went into making everyone’s favorite, frothy morning go-to? Now, if we could only find a way to master the art […]

pic.twitter.com/BqELa6bC8k — Lyraull (@Lyraull) November 25, 2015 In November 2015, Microsoft employee Lyraull posted an adorable video of two matching guinea pigs simultaneously munching on each end of the same cilantro stem and meeting in the middle for a “kiss”. Whether or not this was intentional, the two little rodents almost perfectly recreated the iconic […]

In honor of The Force Awakens releasing in theaters, Los Angeles-based impressionist Mikey Bolts performed funny impressions of popular characters from the ongoing Star Wars film series.

Kurzgesagt gives a complicated animated answer to the deceptively simple question, “What Is Something?” The video looks at the smallest known particles in the Universe and how they interact with each other to make matter. What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave […]

In the latest episode of SciShow, host Michael Aranda offers a simple but detailed explanation as to why heart cancer is so extremely rare, particularly in adult patients. Heart cancer isn’t a thing you hear much about. That’s because it — almost — doesn’t exist. Most hospitals report fewer than one case of heart cancer […]

The Red Hot Nickel Ball celebrates the holidays by melting through a bowl of flame retardant Christmas tree tinsel in a video by carsandwater. We’ve covered the RHNB melting and burning through many different materials over the years.

The MiPosaur by WowWee is a robotic dinosaur toy that play, dances, and can respond to hand gesture or app control from any Bluetooth enabled phone. MiPosaur can chase its toy ball that can also be used to activate six different game modes, and the dinosaur interacts with the WowWee MiP robot. The MiPosaur is available now […]

Old Sport is a new iOS app that offers up suggested cocktails based upon what ingredients are readily available. The user chooses ingredients from a prepared list and the app uses the information to provide curated recipes that are both easy-to-read and easy to prepare. Old Sport is a tool that tells you which cocktails […]

In anticipation of The Force Awakens hitting theaters last week, filmmakers Oscar Boyson and Nate DeYoung teamed up and created a video for Time Magazine that explores what makes the Star Wars film series so special. The unique technology, alien planets that look like they have actually been inhabited by humans for quite some time, […]

The short film “Madeline the Robot Tamer” documents the wonderful work of researcher Madeline Gannon. During her residency at Autodesk Pier 9, Gannon developed Quipt, amazing gesture-based software that uses wearable markers to “teach” industrial robots to follow, mirror and avoid its human partner in a shared space. Quipt is a gesture-based control software that […]

In the latest episodes of her wonderful grammar series, the very amusing Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” of The New Yorker explains the proper context in which one should use an ellipsis. The ellipsis indicates that something has been omitted. It could be something you’re trying to gloss over, like a mistake or an […]

A reticent dog named Bennie gathered up all of the courage he had to leave his room at the high-kill Carson Animal Shelter in Gardena, California. Upon doing so, he was greeted by the loving family who had just adopted him. The warmth of their hugs and the open door leading to the outside fully […]

Paramount Pictures has released the very first trailer for the new Richard Linklater movie, Everybody Wants Some, the long awaited “spiritual sequel” to his classic film Dazed and Confused. While the the latter was steeped in a Texas high school of the 1970s, the new film takes place during the 1980s, where a brand new […]

Television writer John Matta has been drawing witty one-panel cartoons on napkins every day for the last four years and posting them all onto his Matta Napkin website for everyone to enjoy. He also released a book, titled Matta Napkin: A Daily Comic… On A Napkin… In A Book, that features over 300 of his […]

A NASA video looks at the history and future of space suit design and technology from the first space suits designed for the Mercury missions, to those currently in use on board the International Space Station, and prototype suits being developed for future missions.

Warner Bros. has released a Mad Max: Fury Road featurette that goes behind-the-scenes and explores the genius of director George Miller and how his beautiful action film took shape.

A story by Quartz shows that some areas in China have begun fighting the country’s smog problem using large, expensive mist cannons that pull large particles out of the air with water vapor. The canons are effective at taking down large particles, but as the video points out, they do little against the much smaller particles […]

“Christmas Crazes” is a short video by Shopify that takes a brief look at some of the biggest Christmas toy crazes of the last 70 years. The video gives examples like the Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, and the Pet Rock and explains the history of their success.

Comedian Joe Bereta provides a handy guide on what it would take to become a real life Santa Claus during a recent Christmas episode of the ongoing AWE me web series, Epic How To. Maintaining a big belly, an army of gift-delivering drones, and an astronomical load of money are only a few of the […]

In a video by Kuma Films, contact manipulation specialist David Barron (a.k.a. “Mr-e Lull Abhay”) of Wizard of Flow and Daniel Musashi (a.k.a. “The FloWarrior“) dress up as a Jedi and a Sith Lord and sharpen their breathtaking lightsaber skills in the heart of the Vancouver-based Stanley Park. @kumafilms star wars video being released tomorrow! […]

Robotics company Boston Dynamics created a wonderful holiday video, which features three robot reindeer pulling Santa Claus on her Sleigh.

HouseholdHacker shows a quick method for turning an apple into a long-burning candle using cooking oil. You will need an apple, vegetable or olive oil, some string/wick and a knife. Using these items we can make a nifty Christmas candle or an emergency candle for a power outage.

When passersby heard a faint meowing coming from a storm drain in Southern California on Sunday, December 20th, David Loop of Sierra Pacific FurBabies came by to help. Although did everything he could by himself, he wasn’t able to reach the kitten. The next day, however, a whole group of rescuers, including All American Plumbing, […]

“More Stuff” is a winsome short musical animation by Blue Zoo in which Santa’s elves sing about the excesses of modern Christmas gifts. The creators also give a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

Tippett Studio has released a behind-the-scenes featurette that explores how visual effect master Phil Tippett and his Tippet Studio team recreated the iconic stop-motion Holochess set for the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the same one that was in the original Star Wars film. Tippett and his team discuss the process of […]

Charlie Proctor and Alfredo Tognetti created the awesome 5 second video, “Cane Wars: The Candy Awakens”, as a submission for this month’s “candy canes” animation project by Greyscalegorilla. via Geeks are Sexy

Just a few days ago, Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast members Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Gwendolyn Christie joined host Graham Norton on his eponymous show in a lively discussion about why some of the characters had a British accent while others used an American accent, how it difficult it was to […]

MinutePhysics explains how the Earth’s tilt and rotation make December 22 the longest day of the year. Despite the winter months having fewer hours of daylight, they are actually the longest days of the year because the elliptical orbit of the Earth around the Sun means a full rotation takes varying lengths of time throughout the […]

Artist Cindy Chinn has created a wonderfully detailed and tiny carving of a train, trestle and bridge carved into the entirety of a carpenter pencil, which gives the piece a sense of real movement. Chinn is currently offering the train and other custom-made carvings through her Etsy store. This is a one of a kind […]

The animation studio LAIKA celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a look back at its past films and its upcoming release Kubo and the Two Strings. The studio is known for its stop-motion animation work on films like Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. image via LAIKA via Neatorama

Taras Kulakov, known as the Crazy Russian Hacker, shared slow motion footage of a katana slicing through raw eggs. Kulakov partnered with the YouTube channel Zombie Go Boom to create the video.