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For a high flying episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured 4k slow motion footage of Gruchy riding inside of a giant inflatable hamster ball equipped with powerful, tentacle looking water jets. Dan’s bravery reaches new heights as he ventures inside a water hose...

Ozark, Missouri mother Michelle Blackmann McNew captured slow motion footage of her teenage son, Dylan McNew, jumping onto his friend’s ice-covered trampoline. The ice instantly shattered and then gathered in the center of the trampoline. Diving Onto a Large Trampoline Filled With 1,000 Mousetraps in Super Slow MotionDan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys Gets...

The Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in South Korea hosted a Edge of Robot: Ski Robot Challenge on February 12th, which was about an hour from the actual PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018. It featured a group of robots competing in a friendly downhill skiing event, but the real treat was when the robots hilariously...

In 2014, Adam Rogers, an editor at Wired and author of the book Proof:The Science of Booze, gave a fascinating talk entitled “The Mother Eve of Booze” at The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco. In this short clip, Rogers spoke about a shard from the world’s oldest known container from 10,000 years ago,...

In the very thought-inspiring short film “Way to Artist” by TeamVOID, an artificially intelligent robotic arm and a human artist sit alongside one another to sketch the same image at the same time although with different skills. Without a word spoken, film loudly questions the role that artificial intelligence has within the creative process by...

As part of their Planet Earth series, Great Big Story profiled the very rare, recently discovered black beauty stick insect. Despite having specific defenses, their numbers are dwindling due to the very small area in which they live and the great deal of human interest in these beautiful creatures. Hope for the future of this...

Whenever his human’s wife walks in the room, a flirty little cockatiel named Doppler shows off his wings, dog whistles and then lovingly serenades her with a romantic cover of the classic whistling theme to The Andy Griffith Show. David Kelly, the bird’s human, lamented that he can’t teach the cockatiel anything whenever his wife...

71-year old Paul Alexander is one of the last people to live inside an iron lung. In 1952, Alexander had contracted a polio when he was six years old, which destroyed his muscles, including his diaphragm, leaving him paralyzed and unable to breathe. To save his life, Alexander was put into an iron lung, where...

In an earthshaking episode of “Built for Science“, host Tom Scott traveled to Göttingen, Germany to visit the oldest working seismic lab, where they create tiny earthquakes by dropping a four ton steel ball off of a tower that is 14 meters (46 feet) high. The information that these artificial earthquakes provide information of what’s...

“I’m Just a Robot” is an amusing music video, created by producer Louis Hudson of Dice Productions and director Craig Bush, for the UK band GorillaBot. It follows a guy who thinks he is a robot singing about trying to not kill his human pets. GorillaBot‘s single is available to purchase from iTunes. We previously...

A beautiful baby white rhino named Zohari, who was born on December 24, 2017 at the Toronto Zoo, gleefully discovered the fun of playing in the snow for the very first time. His keepers provided the little pachyderm with two small piles of snow that he sniffed, tasted, rolled in and adorably charged to his...

New treacherous villains arise and make life even more difficult for the Baudelaire orphans in the new official trailer for the upcoming second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Season two of the Netflix series, based on a collection of books by Daniel Handler, will premiere on March 30th, 2018. The Baudelaire Orphans Embark...

Swedish photographer Henrik Trygg captured amazing footage of mathematician and skating enthusiast Mårten Ajne as he gracefully skated across millimeters-thin fresh black ice and the remarkable laser-like sounds reminiscent of old science fiction films and old-school video games that his blades made as they propelled him across the frozen Lissma Kvarnsjö near Stockholm. This is...

The Liberty University Wind Symphony in Lynchburg, Virginia pranked their band director by playing an awesome rendition of Kazumi Totaka‘s Mii Channel theme song, instead of a Bach composition that the director had ready to go. The cover was written and orchestrated by Drew Harris. Here is the original song. via reddit Volkswagen Ad Channels...

Orlando photographer Brian Carlson, the man behind the short documentary Mr. Gold, and the Orlando Creatives released a new inspirational short film, titled 41x, that is about lawn mower racing. Mike Graves races. He always has because it’s in his blood. The funny thing is he races lawn mowers. The Avon Park Mower-Plex in Avon...

On January 19, 2018, two compassionate animal control officers from the Daytona Beach Police Department held close a shivering puppy who had been found abandoned in the Halifax River, near the Seabreeze Bridge. The weather that week was very cold and the wet puppy could find no warmth. Luckily, a good samaritan alerted the police....

Zbynek Šuba and Michael Podešva have created Snowfeet, a lightweight pair of mini ski attachments that clip on over your boots, allowing you to hit the slopes, and take out the burden of carrying around large skis and poles. They are available to purchase from the Snowfeet store. You don’t need to carry any heavy...

A post shared by Ulla-Stina (@uskonst) on Dec 29, 2017 at 4:23am PST Swedish embroidery artist Ulla-Stina Wikander has created a wonderful series of found household items from the 1970s covered in colorful cross-stitched designs. According to her website, Wikander got the idea to “dress up” these items in 2012 and has been doing so...

For a high pressure episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured 4k slow motion footage of Gruchy getting hit with water from a firehose. Super Slow Motion Video of a Swimming Cap Full of Water Being Dropped on a HeadSuper Slow Motion Video of...

On a gooey episode of Tooned Up! by Channel Frederator, host Jacob Atkinson explores the history of slime. Slime has taken over the world. Where did it come from? How do you make it? How many different kinds of slime are there? Channel Frederator answers these questions and more in A History of Slime. How...

Netflix released a heartwarming trailer for their upcoming reboot of the classic 1974 dog hero film, Benji. The family film, written and directed by Brandon Camp, will premiere on Netflix March 16th, 2018. Two school kids strike up a friendship with an orphaned puppy named Benji. When danger befalls them and they end up kidnapped...

Boston Dynamics posted an adorable video of their upgraded SpotMini, four-legged doglike robot, using an articulating arm and clamp to open a door for its SpotMini robot pal. An Amazing Demonstration of the Boston Dynamics SpotMini, A Doglike Robot For Home UseBoston Dynamics Is Releasing New Version of SpotMini, Their Four-Legged Doglike RobotSpotMini, A New...

Reigarw Comparisons created a new animated video where they compare the prices of some of the most expensive buildings, structures, and properties in the world. Includes most expensive house, most expensive mansion, most expensive penthouse, most expensive stadium, most expensive resort, most expensive skyscraper, most expensive castle, most expensive hospital and more. As well as...

John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke of GHOST + COW have tapped into their creative sound editing skills once again to create a series of videos featuring Olympic athletes farting their way to a smelly victory at the 2018 winter games. We previously wrote their flatulent coverage of past Olympic games. A post shared by The...

Experimental musician and artist Kamiel Rongen of Water Ballet captured the graceful slow motion movement of drowned color as it formed vivid threads and shapes that danced their way up to the surface. Rongen stated that this was all created in his Amsterdam studio for his original song “Barbapapa“. For several years I’m exploring the...

While waiting to cross a street in Manila, Philippines, a perceptive human captured footage of a very clever tortoiseshell cat who also wanted to cross, but was playing it safe by waiting for the pedestrian signal to turn green before doing so. As we were waiting for the light to turn green, this cat passed...

A post shared by Redbubble Create (@redbubblecreate) on Feb 10, 2018 at 11:09am PST British installation artist Alex Chinneck, who previously created a house facade that appeared to be sliding off and a car parked upside down on a curved piece of asphalt, moved his talent indoors. In a piece called “Birth, Death and a...

A post shared by Bruno Alencastro (@brunoalencastro) on Dec 31, 2017 at 2:01am PST During his travels to Spain, Brazilian photographer Bruno Alencastro created a gorgeous series of 360° panoramic photos that puts a number of the city’s scenic attractions of the city of Barcelona at the center of tiny worlds created by these shots....

Burger Fiction has created a new supercut video of every Oscar winner in the “Best Visual Effects” category since 1929. They cover everything from the 1927 silent war film Wings to The Jungle Book from 2016. Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’ Since 1927Supercut of Every Oscar Winner for ‘Best Visual Effects’...

After returning from their post-college adventures, conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel excitedly shopped and prepared for their first day of school as fifth grade math teachers. As their mother remarked, when they were younger, the twins each wanted separate careers from the other, but are now thrilled about embarking on their new shared career....

A post shared by Hop and Heat (@hopandheat) on Feb 8, 2018 at 9:38am PST The Aldwych Café, an award winning casual restaurant and ice cream parlor in Cardonald, Glasgow, Scotland, has created an incredibly spicy hot ice cream named “Respiro Del Diavolo“. This highly descriptive name comes from the Carolina Reaper peppers, which that...

Great Big Story visited with skeleton racer and two-time Olympic athlete John Daly to chat about his thrilling sport and find out what it feels like to slide downhill face-down, head-first on his skeleton bobsled at 90 mph. What It Might Look Like If New York City Hosted the Winter OlympicsSkull Masks and Colorful Smoke...

Chow Crown is an upcoming musical game by Hasbro where players put on a special crown, clip on their favorite foods to a rotating wheel, and try to eat as many snacks as possible before the music stops. The folks at Mashable gave the game a try and had a great time while doing so....

In a sporting episode of the Olympic Channel series Burning Questions, a bearded host cheerfully explained a brief animated history of Olympic medals, the fairly recent advent of the gold medal, the odds of winning a gold medal and why athletes are often seen biting their gold medals. The tradition of biting into shiny, gold...

ZHL242 performed a trumpet cover of John Williams‘ “The Force Theme” from Star Wars in the stairwell of an empty music building at his college. The stairwell provided amazing reverb. via reddit A Marvelous Lightsaber Violin Cover of ‘The Force Theme’ Song From Star WarsOscar Isaac Performs an Acoustic Cover of Bill Murray’s Iconic Star...

A beautiful white fluffy cat in a slightly bewildered state watched as a toy SUV truck rode around and around in circles on a colorful toy track that had been built over her middle. After a while however, the cat felt that she should play a more active role and instead became a bridge under...

On February 2, 2018, Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan of the United States Post Office announced that they would be dedicating a forever postage stamp to Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the late, great children’s television pioneer who introduced generations of children (and adults) to new ways of doing things, to believing in oneself...

Jo Luijten of Squirrel-Monkey has created a VHS style video imagining what Siri would have been like in the 1980s. What Wikipedia Would Have Looked Like in the 1980sThe Real Voice of Siri Appears in a Mother’s Day Sketch About What Life Would Be Like With Siri for a MotherWhat Tinder May Have Looked Like...

Lucas the Spider, the adorable animated arachnid by Joshua Slice who has led quite a busy life thus far, decided that he wanted to show off a bit of his music talent, playing an adorable little ditty about being a spider while accompanying himself quite skillfully on a thumb piano (Mbira). Spiders can have big...

Intel used 1,218 drones to set a Guinness World Record on December 12th, 2017 in Pyeongchang, South Korea for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously. According to Wired, Intel planned on airing the same show live at the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018, filled with amazing drone-made animations of the Olympic rings and...

London musician and maker Sam Battle (a.k.a. “LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER“) has taken it upon himself to build The Furby Organ, an amazing functioning organ that is made from a large group of cute little Furbies. Dog Battles an Antagonizing Furby Toy That is Dangling on a StringFurlexa, A Furby Converted Into an Amazon EchoDas...

In response to a request from his fans, musician Ahmed Alshaiba performed a haunting acoustic cover of the theme from the film Intersteller with a combination of piano, drum and a traditional oud, which he played beautifully. Alshaiba remarked that the song was a bit scary at first. This song has been requested many times,...

Hummingbirds always seem to be in a frantic hurry, so when one stands still, it’s a quite an aberration. Luckily someone had a camera nearby to capture the beautiful image of a tiny, ruby-throated hummingbird relaxing for a moment on the feeder to truly enjoy a refreshing summer rain shower before flying away. This Ruby-throated...

Yarn artist Trevor Smith creates absolutely delicious looking meals, salads, appetizers and desserts using his immense talent for crochet. Smith lives in Portland, Victoria, Australia where he shows and sells his work. In addition to his fabulous foodstuff, Smith also crochets tea cosies that look like people from all over the world. A post shared...

Kinetic installation artist Rintaro Hara of the Hara Seal Factory of Japan created the “Projection Wall“, a very fun and clever hand operated framed netted wall that releases giant soap bubbles whenever the string is pulled and the wall is raised. Haru stated that he was inspired to create this by the James Cameron film...

In the very clever animated pictorial “Passing By“, the very talented, award winning illustration team Job, Joris & Marieke shows the styles of the past hundred years of the highly traveled Damrak in Amsterdam as seen through the window of the De Bijenkorf department store. This animation is part of the “Room on the Roof”...

The Monster Project has brought together 100 professional artists from around the world and all sorts of awesome elementary students to recreate drawings, made originally by the kids, in their own styles to help them “recognize the power of their own imaginations and to encourage them to pursue their creative potential.” Since their successful Kickstarter...

In February 2015, Because We Can co-founder Jeffrey McGrew, an architect and friend of Laughing Squid, gave a thought provoking talk entitled “Talking with Robots about Architecture” at The Interval at The Long Now about the realities of building industry automation with a Venn diagram noting the number of reasons why the industry cannot be...

Randy Williams, the general manager of Sino Sales & Support, created a video in 2011 that gives us a quick tour of their factory in China and shows how marbles are manufactured from recycled glass. via The Awesomer How Used Bottles Are Recycled and Turned Into New BottlesIncredibly Complex Art Marbles by Mike GongSteampunk Nintendo...

While on location in Australia, adventurer Coyote Peterson and the Brave Wilderness crew travelled into the arid outback in search of interesting reptile and located a gorgeous blue tongue skink. The reptile was very defensive at first, but slowly relaxed and even appeared to be grateful when Coyote removed two ticks from the skink’s back....