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Motivational speaker Simon Sinek gave a talk to members of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), during which he spoke about how acting with contemplated consistency is far more productive than acting with impetuous intensity, using examples such as going to the gym, brushing one’s teeth and laying people...

As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the individual personalities of the characters on the now-classic sitcom series Friends, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism set their sights on Ross Geller. Ross started out in the series as a neurotic idealist who always felt the need to be right, even at the cost of...

Westminster, Massachusetts mother Amelia Cenotti sat down with her son Connor in 2010 to read him the text-to-teach book, It’s Time to Call 911. After typing in “911” on the book’s touch pad, which had a very low battery, they were greeted by an urgent response followed by a string of demonic screeching sounds. What...

In advance of the second season premiere of the badass Netflix series Jessica Jones on March 8th, actress Krysten Ritter appeared on The Late Show where she tried to teach host Stephen Colbert how to knit. While doing so, Ritter talked about the upcoming season and recounted what she’s been up to since The Defenders....

Osaka, Japan YouTuber kiwami japan demonstrates how he made a very sharp knife out of pasta noodles. As a reward for his hard work, he cooked up the pasta knife with some cheese and eat it for dinner. A Master Sushi Chef Makes a Complex Garnish by Cutting Super Thin Tomato Slices With an Extremely...

Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel posted a video showing him gloriously cutting through ten decks of playing cards, which were all stacked up on top of each other, with his hydraulic press equipped with a giant blade. Vuohensilta also sliced through other objects like a rubber band ball, a CO2 cartridge, and a...

Bon Apétit editor Amanda Shapiro spent a day in December 2017 shadowing Nana Araba Wilmot, first meeting Wilmot at her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and accompanying to her job as a line cook at the upscale restaurant Le Coucou in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. During Wilmot’s 11 hour shift, Shapiro learned that Wilmot doesn’t...

Nate of The King of Random conducted a viewer requested experiment to find out what happens to whipped cream and meringue when they are placed into a vacuum chamber. The results were quite creamy. In today’s video we’re finding out if you can de-whip whipped cream and meringue in a low pressure environment. An Experiment...

An artist named Simon (a.k.a. “lily-liver“) posted a great timelapse video that shows him drawing a scene from the 1993 first-person shooter video game, DOOM, on an Etch a Sketch. A Man Tells His Life Story While Drawing it Out on an Etch A SketchEtcher: Etch A Sketch for iPadArtist Draws Impressive Recreations of Iconic...

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NBC released “Star Warriors,” an unaired Star Wars sketch from Saturday Night Live starring host Charles Barkley. The sketch began with J.J. Abrams introducing a new standalone Star Wars film, titled The Mos Eisley Five, and then cut to a scene with Barkley struggling to understand all of the different languages being thrown around during...

??Sound ON?? When #science is done, it's fun to drop ice down a 90 m deep borehole in an #Antarctic ?? #glacier ??. So satisfying when it hits the bottom. Happy hump day. pic.twitter.com/dQtLPWQi7T — Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018 Seattle glaciologist Peter Neff captured fascinating footage of him and his crew dropping a...

“Life Is Pain” by the very clever animator 4096 RED is a wonderful series of vignettes capturing the sheer frustration of futile situations that often delay the satisfaction of resolution. Whether the problem is phone orientation, an inability to insert a USB properly, a broken pencil, a broken cork, burned toast, a stubborn thread or...

Lucas the spider Lucas the Spider, the animated arachnid by Joshua Slice who’s led quite an adventurous life thus far, adorably mistook Dexter, a very furry golden retriever who was sleeping on the kitchen floor, for a polar bear. In order to get a closer look, Lucas hopped off the counter and crawled right up...

Jeopardy!, the beloved game show that has been on television for over 30 years, made history last week. Defending champion Laura McLean and challenger Sarah Norris both dropped to scores of $6,799, after being stumped on the Final Jeopardy clue. Host Alex Trebek then had them both face-off in the first-ever sudden-death tiebreaker. Although the...

During the Oscars 2018 last night, Disney released a new teaser trailer for Mary Poppins Returns, their upcoming musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall and a sequel to the 1964 Mary Poppins film. The magical trailer features Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) descending from the sky 20 years after the original film to bring back...

Henry Rollins, musician, writer, actor and former lead singer for the legendary punk band Black Flag, sat down for an interview with The Sound of Vinyl to talk about his incredible obsession with (vinyl) records. Rollins specifically spoke about how he became obsessed, how he listens to vinyl, the best time to listen to vinyl,...

A post shared by Little Quill Studios (@littodino) on Feb 4, 2018 at 2:37pm PST Artist Rachel Beltz of Little Quill Studios creates amazingly realistic, miniature watercolor portraits that are truly no bigger than the size of a U.S. quarter. Each creation reveals such incredible detail that would seem so prohibitive in such a small...

In a snappy episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explain the etymological origins of the word “cool”, specifically how its connotative use has essentially remained the same within the English language for centuries. In other words, how cool stayed so cool...

Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi aka Blocko very succinctly and logically explained the very real mental disorder of schizophrenia, when it’s most like to appear, the symptoms, existing treatments and those currently on the horizon, the mythical suppositions around the disorder, and how one can help a friend or loved one with the disorder. …our...

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sabina Zweiacker performed a phenomenal cover of composer Jeremy Soule‘s bard song “The Dragonborn Comes” from the popular video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. via reddit Skyrim Dragonborn Statue Holding an Illuminated FireballBattle Damaged Skyrim Dragonborn Iron HelmetA Dragonborn From Skyrim Practices His Forceful Shout on Innocent Civilians...

Musicians BR Somashekar Jois and Kumari V Shivapriya performed a duet in which they both took turns reciting syllables in an impressively rhythmic, percussive manner known as Konnakkol for which they are both widely known. They will be reciting few exciting rhythmic phrases set to Mishrachaapu Tala followed by a special Mohara-Korvai composed by Vidwan...

Jeffrey Lipton, Adriana Schulz, Andrew Spielberg, Luis Trueba, Wojciech Matusik, and Daniela Rus, a skilled team of researchers from MIT‘s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), worked together to develop the Autosaw, a robotic carpenter that can cut mass quantities of wood on its own and help keep workers safe while building custom furniture....

Weird Al Yankovic is widely known for his good-natured habit remixing songs with new lyrics to make them funny, however when it came to Hamilton, Yankovic played it kind of straight. He kept the lyrics intact, but added his own unique spin with a fabulous polka beat to a medley of songs from the show’s...

Artist Chris Scalf released a fascinating timelapse featuring hin creating a detailed painting of an fearsome dragon with airbrush acrylic paints. Scalf’s realtime, 6.5-hour video is available to download from Gumroad. Was really desiring to get back into traditional art again. So I chose to do a basic pose to kinda “warm-up” back into it,...

In February, we wrote about the talented actor Doug Jones and his amazing ability to transform into fantastic creatures without complaint even though it rendered him completely unrecognizable when playing big parts in film and television. In an interview with Great Big Story, an rather amiable Jones personally shared some of these very sentiments, particularly...

Vox video fellow Tian Wang took a look at the concept of method acting, the actors who employ these techniques, the correlation between method acting and winning awards, the marketability of method acting and how these techniques allow an actor to become their character rather than portraying a role There’s been this sort of evolutionary...

A post shared by aloe design (@aloedesign) on Jan 1, 2018 at 12:32pm PST Aloe Design Studios created a bizarre 3D animation in Cinema 4D that shows a bunch of donuts flying at a man’s face and then going berserk. The donuts slide around all over the gentleman’s face, fly all over the place, and...

The Screen Junkies series The Dailies has reimagined the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey scene during which HAL-9000, the sentient computer onboard refused to open the pod bay doors to let Dave back inside the craft. In doing so they replaced HAL’s voice and functionality with that of Amazon Alexa, adding a hilarious bit of...

A post shared by Love Hulten (@lovehulten) on Mar 1, 2018 at 10:12am PST Swedish designer Love Hultén has created the PET De Lux, a luxurious handmade console built as a tribute to the classic Commodore PET 2001 series computer from 1977. The PET 2001 was released by Commodore in 1977 and was the first...

A tiny little fennec fox with gigantic ears named Kuzma and a British shorthair cat named Zima live happily together under the same roof in Moscow, Russia with beloved human Milana Valevskaya. The two adorable little creatures snuggle together, play together and even get a bit testy with one another, but in the end they...

A post shared by White on Rice (@white_onrice) on Feb 3, 2018 at 10:08pm PST “MiniatureGami” is a fun little project by Cape Town artist Ross Symons of White on Rice where he creates adorably tiny piece of origami art, designed by himself and other artists from around the world, every day for the next...

British animator Lee Hardcastle created a dark Simpsons claymation short where characters from Springfield reenact a concept robbery scene from Quentin Tarantino‘s 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. The animated short features music by ruiji. A post shared by Lee Hardcastle (@leehardcastle) on Mar 1, 2018 at 6:19am PST A post shared by Lee Hardcastle (@leehardcastle) on...

Brazilian artist Juliana LePine, who made a miniature sculpture of Freddie Mercury, is back and this time she sculpted an incredible mini model of Doc Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future films. Official LEGO ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean Time Machine PlaysetHUVr Board Video Claims to Show a Real Life ‘Back to the...

Death Wish star Bruce Willis sat down with Wired to answer the web’s most searched questions about himself during an Autocomplete Interview. Did Bruce Willis go to college? Was Bruce Willis in the military? Was Bruce Willis Batman?? Patton Oswalt Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About HimselfChris Evans Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions...

In a somewhat prescient departure from his usual subject matter of films, video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka the Nerdwriter takes on what he considers to be “The Most Disturbing Painting” – “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco Goya. This work was inspired by the legend in which Titan Cronus, fearing a prophesy...

A very determined border collie inexplicably decided to roll a giant snowball across the backyard. Being there was still snow on the ground, the ball got bigger as he rolled it and the tenacious little dog had to take a number of breaks to catch his breath. According to his human, this behavior came out...

A post shared by Dain Yoon ??? (@designdain) on Oct 22, 2017 at 8:01am PDT In 2016, we wrote about Dain Yoon, a talented artist who has an amazing ability to create highly detailed, real-looking illusions with makeup that can sometimes be appear a bit creepy. Since that time, Dain has created new illusory styles...

A chubby little squirrel in Washington, D.C. who scored big with an entire glazed donut, wasted no time climbing up on to a tree branch to enjoy the treat to its fullest extent. The combination of sugar and the squirrel’s own natural jumpiness nearly took hold when people came near, but in the end, the...

An incredibly rare yellow cardinal made a surprise appearance in the southern Birmingham suburb of Alabaster, Alabama. This bird is just like other cardinals but is yellow instead of red due to a genetic mutation that interrupted the metabolic process of pigmentation. Resident Charlie Stephenson, who captured beautiful video of the bird, told AL.com that...

While filming a music video for the Thunderpussy song “Torpedo Love“, producer Sylvia Massey struck a snare drum inside the abandoned Satsop nuclear cooling towers in Elma, Washington where they were shooting. After a moment’s delay, the sound rolled around the side of towers and exploded into a thunderous roar. During the recording of Thunderpussy...

It appears that the waters of Cabo San Lucas in Baja, California are filled with some very hungry sea lions who will ask boaters for food

Great Big Story went inside a Boeing plant in New Orleans that’s currently collaborating with NASA to build the Space Launch System, an incredibly powerful rocket that could quite possibly put the the first human on Mars. They spoke with a number of employees who are working on this exciting project, including Chad Bryant, the...

In a sinewy episode of their incredibly insightful and fascinating animations, the ever-philosophical design house Kurzgesagt explains the history of string theory, the possible uses for string theory, the limitations of string theory and how string theory was an elegant story created to account for gravity in quantum physics, but could not overcome the limitations...

Drone racer Paul Nurkkala (a.k.a. “NURK FPV“) shows off his insane skills while expertly piloting his FPV quadcopter drone through his extremely difficult obstacle course with hoops, walls, twists, and turns. This has to be one of the best courses we’ve ever made. It was SO much fun to fly when you nailed it. A...

Ben Cusick (a.k.a. “NightHawkInLight“) took a look at how magnets react to copper last week and, after his findings and his audiences curiosity, Cusick attempted to slow down or stop a magnetic cannonball by shooting it through electromagnetic induced force fields in copper. An Electromagnetic Quadcopter Demonstrates How Magnetic Levitation Works100 Pounds of Magnetic Putty...

An impressively intelligent German shepherd named Rambo, who’s learning how to read with the help of his human Lily, deftly demonstrated his comprehension by correctly following written commands like “sit” and “bow” on signs held up for him to see. 2.5 years old GSD Rambo is learning how to read Rambo and Lily in a...

A man, who was in the process of building a wall for a client, used the double domino effect to make a row of stone slabs almost all fall perfectly into place. Bricklayers Set Up a Row of Bricks That Fall Perfectly Into Place Like Dominoes to Cap a WallA Colorful Mountain Made Out of...

Mehdi (a.k.a. “DrMachakil“) has created a hilarious video where classic and modern films feature soundtracks literally picked up from random lines in a scene. They feature musically enhanced scenes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Terminator 2, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Blue Planet II, A Prequel to the...

Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital have created “Come Get Some!,” a new live-action short about a half naked matador (Jake Watson) who battles a zombie to prove his worth at a survivor camp. A Journalist Interviews Two Reformed Zombies in the Funny Animated Comedy ‘Less Than Human’Fighting Mad, California Bloodless BullfightsConan Gets...