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Canadian math, science, and IT consultant David Petro was inspired by a video, created by Matt Parker back in March, where he explained the double domino effect. Petro decided to demonstrate the chain reaction himself by lining up a row of bricks, pushing one over, and watching as the clickety-clacking row fell over perfectly into...

Jimmy Fallon, The Lonely Island, and The Roots joined forces last year on The Tonight Show to play their hilarious hit song, “I’m on a Boat,” using classroom instruments. Here is the original song. Jimmy Fallon, The Lonely Island, and The Roots Play ‘I’m on a Boat’ Using Classroom InstrumentsJimmy Fallon, Ed Sheeran, and The...

In another of their very insightful video essays, film and television analysis platform ScreenPrism took a look at the films of Denis Villeneuve and noted the very distinctive features of estrangement, environment, lighting and a search for meaning as found in such films as Arrival, Sicario, Prisoners, Enemy and Incendies. Blade Runner 2049 is the...

“Agent of Connection” is a short film by Ivan Cash, a wonderfully prolific filmmaker and interactive artist. In the film, Cash profiled Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station agent William Cromartie, whose face is known to the thousands of commuters he happily greets on a daily basis. Cromartie’s sincerity, warmth and self-confidence is exactly what...

While driving along the highway near Lancaster, California, the adventurous Tom Scott passed over the area’s “Civic Musical Road“, which was supposed to play the “William Tell Overture” in theory, but in reality played something far less musical and far more dissonant. Scott cited research by David Simmons-Duffin, who addressed the problem both mathematically and...

The creators of the GaZelle Next vehicle hid a very clever easter egg in the digital dashboard console. By simply manipulating the knobs next to both the speedometer and RPM meter, the driver of the vehicle can unlock a basic but playable game of Tetris. It is not advised, however, to play the game while...

Splat! Watch a 600-kilogram pumpkin destroy a car in Saskatoon https://t.co/vJZQRUdcXt #yxe pic.twitter.com/UGy3AFPcbb — CBC Saskatoon (@CBCSaskatoon) October 16, 2017 A group of businesses in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada partnered with the insurance fraternity Honourable Order of the Blue Goose International to raise a 1,300 pound pumpkin up to enormous heights and then drop it straight...

Someone cosplaying the actual convention center. pic.twitter.com/KcfI10Iu1w — Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) October 7, 2017 DC Comics writer Scott Snyder posted a photo from New York Comic Con 2017 of one clever attendee who went dressed up as the actual Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City where the convention is held. The wonderful...

Puddles Pity Party, the golden throated singing clown, performed with the band Tongo Hiti, a rather ominous but oh so melodic cover of the classic Simon and Garfunkel hit “The Sound of Silence“, injecting in a bit of the Disturbed version of the song as well. You guys asked for it and here it is....

Marvel released the first official trailer and the poster for Black Panther, their upcoming superhero film directed by Ryan Coogler based on the comic book character of the same name. King T’Challa (Black Panther), played by Chadwick Boseman, returns to Wakanda to take his place on the thrones, but comes face to face with the...

A really clever border collie named Lava jumped up and down on her human’s chest and then checked his breath and repeated the motions until sat up. She then took care of another patient, again jumping up and down and checking her breath in a brilliant demonstration of the proper steps one must take when...

In April 2016, an ailing 59 year old chimpanzee named Mama was refusing food and preparing to die when her beloved caretaker Jan van Hooff came to visit. Mama, who was matriarch the chimpanzee colony of the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, had known van Hooff since the formation of the colony in...

A post shared by James Fridman (@fjamie013) on Jul 8, 2017 at 9:20am PDT British graphic designer James Fridman, who is known for trolling people who ask him to Photoshop their pictures, continues to make his hilarious and quite literal photo interpretations public for all to see and enjoy. James’ entire series of awesome photo...

Expert woodworker and engineer Matthias Wandel created a unique singing bell that rings in two different tones. Using the concepts behind the Lissajous Curve, Wandel sanded down a section of steel pipe in four equidistant spots and then struck the pipe bell crossways so that it rang two notes at once, specifically an rough major...

NASA Johnson Space Center posted a video of NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Mark T. Vande Hei, Joseph M. Acaba, and ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli performing zero gravity flips and fidget spinner tricks while on board the International Space Station. Allowing the fidget spinner to float reduces the bearing friction by permitting the rate of the...

Nightmares Fear Factory, a haunted house in Niagara Falls, Canada, is back with a new hilarious collection of “fear pics” from 2017 (here’s 2016). Their entire series of photos, featuring many of their frightened guests completely freaking out, are available to view on Facebook, Instagram, and their website. A post shared by Nightmares Fear Factory...

While visiting the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in the Vaalwater region of Limpopo province, South Africa, Cole and Marmalade‘s human Chris Poole played a very feline version of fetch with a beautiful and lively lioness named Serabie, who eagerly chased after the big sticks he threw over the fence but took her time returning them....

After being denied entry at the police barricades to his mother Katherine’s Santa Rosa, California neighborhood, Jack Weaver and and his brother-in-law Patrick Widen took a circuitous back route through the smoky woods to look for their dog Izzy, who fled in fear when their home caught fire due to the Northern California wildfires. The...

Taking inspiration from a LEGO lawnmower created by Josh David, artist Jason Allemann modified the design that he used for his amazing LEGO Sysyphus kinetic sculpture and updated it a bit. The result is a modern day version of the mythological greek character who endlessly mows the lawn rather than pushing a boulder uphill for all...

A post shared by Tim Hortons US (@timhortonsus) on Oct 12, 2017 at 4:39am PDT In celebration of their new line of drinks, Tim Hortons has announced a sweet and spicy Buffalo Wing flavored espresso drink called the Buffalo Latte. This unlikely pairing of flavors pays tribute to the iconic sauce named after its founding...

When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, “Americanism.” – Halford E. Luccock In a noble effort to provide information helpful to current times, director Marshall Curry...

Andy Rehfeldt has created another one of his fantastic mashups, this time pairing the iconic Iron Maiden song “Number of the Beast” with a swingy Bossa Nova beat. The effect is both disconcerting and amusing at the same time. Music arranged, performed and recorded by me. Mixed and mastered by Grant Cornish at Endless Noise...

20th Century Fox unleashed the first official trailer for The New Mutants, a dark horror film directed by Josh Boone and based on the Marvel superhero team of the same name. It will follow five young mutants — Wolfsbane (Maisie Williams), Magik (Anya Taylor-Joy), Cannonball (Charlie Heaton), Sunspot (Henry Zaga), and Moonstar (Blu Hunt) —...

A very friendly ostrich named Cascabel at the Out of Africa Park in Cottonwood, Arizona, very happily greeted his caretaker Courtney Palmer and copied every dancing move she made from the other side of the gate. Coyote Peterson Takes His Excited Daughter on a Nighttime Creature Adventure in the Arizona DesertToddler Breaks Out Into Hysterical...

The Austrian Domino Art group built part two of their gaming app series where they topple over 20,000 dominoes in a display designed to look like many more popular mobile video games. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Toppling Over 20,000 Glow in the Dark Dominoes272,297 Dominoes Topple Over In Massive ‘Enjoy Your Life’ DisplayAmazing Domino...

Joshua Redstone, an engineer who worked for both Google and Facebook and enjoys baking, has created the Euclid, an intelligently redesigned measuring cup that precisely apportions liquid, even when the amount is very small. The concept came to Redstone when he grew frustrated while trying to parse 1/4-cup in a 2-cup measuring cup. Being that...

Queen Elizabeth’s life in banknotes In July 2017, redditor Rocto posted a really clever animation that captures over 80 years of Queen Elizabeth II‘s image during various stages of her life as portrayed through banknotes. The first note in the animation is from 1935 and the final note is from 2017. International banknote expert and...

A post shared by MB&F (@mbandf) on Sep 19, 2017 at 4:57am PDT The creatives at MB&F collaborated with the clock makers at L’Epée 1839 to create the Octopod, a beautiful robotic clock that features eight individual kinetic legs, a transparent bubble head, and was inspired by both cephalopods and James Cameron‘s 1989 sci-fi film...

Arnold Bakshayev and Alona Massasa, students from Israel’s Habetzefer Advertising School, created a delicious looking CMYK cake print ad that showcases why “CMY Is the New Black.” The letter K in CMYK, represents the black ink. Not many people know that a deeper black could be achieved with a combination of CMY inks only. image...

An adorable herd of tiny two week old baby Nigerian dwarf goats clad in tiny cowboy hats hilariously romped around the yard of NAAAH-Maste Goat Yoga, an Austin, Texas studio that offers classes with the added benefits of hircine core stabilizing therapy. via Tastefully Offensive Tiny Baby Goats Play On Top of A Very Tolerant...

Netflix released the final trailer for their upcoming second season of Stranger Things that is packed full of action, panic, and supremely strange happenings. The trailer features Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) coming back to settle her own score and giving us a hint at Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) being the key to saving Hawkins from...

The animated series Half as Interesting explains why it’s okay to take pictures of the Eiffel Tower during the day, but definitely not at night. It all has to do with French law, the Freedom of Panorama provision, copyright expiration terms and the year that major changes were made to the iconic Paris landmark. …when...

The very talented British puppeteer Barnaby Dixon cleverly employed a smartphone and GoPro camera to put his own face onto his Bug puppet and performed a sweet serenade of “The Anniversary Song” by Al Jolson. A Lively Glowing Bug Puppet Dances Upon Drum Pads That Provide Musical AccompanimentAn Incredible Glow-in-the-Dark, Dancing Bug Finger Puppet That...

The European Space Agency (ESA) teamed up with Novespace and Rêves de Gosse on August 24th, 2017 to allow a group of disabled children and adults to experience what it was like for astronauts to float in space. As part of their “Kid’s Weightless Dreams” flight, they brought five ESA astronauts along with the excited...

xkcd provides some excellent suggestions on how to fix problems with state borders in the United States. A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting. The World’s Strangest Borders Part 1: PanhandlesThe World’s Strangest...

Kevin Kohler (a.k.a. “The Backyard Scientist“) demonstrates how to make a heavy five-pound sword with thermite, with assistance from James Hobson (a.k.a. “The Hacksmith“). Kohler put his sword to the test by chopping pop cans and pumpkins in half. A Hot Dog, Ketchup, Mustard, and Relish Cooked With 4,000° F ThermiteInventor Colin Furze Builds and...

On the latest episode of Glove and Boots, internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario share thirteen different ways to celebrate the dreaded Friday the 13th. The Onion comes to San Francisco1234567890 Day, A Celebration of Unix TimeGraphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films

The Auralnauts created an amusing new video where Kylo Ren reacted, with a level head, as he watched the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Kylo enjoyed seeing his handsome self and the amount of “rawness” that the trailer exuded, but was thrown for a loop by the amount of misdirection that popped...

A fascinating TED-Ed lesson written by Tien Nguyen and animated by Anton Bogaty entitled “The Strange Case of the Cyclops Sheep” tells the story of how a litter of one-eyed goats born in 1953 eventually led to the development of effective skin cancer treatment almost 60 years later in 2012. In the 1950s, a group...

In a jittery episode of AsapSCIENCE, creators Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explain via whiteboard animation, the physiology behind generalized anxiety disorder, the wide array of physical symptoms caused by anxiety, how medication treats anxiety and how phobias are forms of anxiety. Moffit and Brown also offered a number of helpful tips in dealing with...

A rather enterprising chicken at the Ashley Herb Farm in Market Harborough, Northamptonshire UK, hilariously began jumping up and down in pursuit of an apple that was hanging low from a tree. While it’s not clear whether or not the chicken’s picking mission was successful, the bird was very entertaining to watch nonetheless. Apple Bobbing...

On a tear jerking episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, fast talking entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk aka Gary Vee sat down with host Sean Evans and shared his thoughts about becoming an American through football, how Facebook is a mirror to society and his love of hip hop, all while eating increasingly spicy...

Aerial cinematographer Douglas Thron captured beautiful yet truly heartbreaking drone footage of a lone United States Postal Service worker delivering mail to a Santa Rosa neighborhood that had been destroyed by deadly wildfires that continue to rip through the California Wine Country as of this date. Hours after the fires in Santa Rosa I filmed...

Nick Brown of the LoreCraft channel, a sculptor who has no professional training, created an amazing timelapse video showing him sculpting and airbrushing a bust of the fearsome Night King from Game of Thrones. Brown shared more photos of his process on Instagram and Facebook. A post shared by Nick Brown (@lorecraftr) on Aug 23,...

BioLite has created the BioLite FirePit, a small portable wood burning device that allows you to cook food and then share a warm fire with friends without any of the pesky smoke. BioLite is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help with production costs. Across the body of the FirePit we’ve got 51 airjets that...

An adorably vocal border collie named Blue hilariously mistook the rising moon in the sky for her favorite ball and tried to fetch it on two different occasions. This so amused Blue’s human Jessica Raspbury and her husband, that they encouraged the dog to keep chasing that ball for just a little bit longer. via...

An individual at this year’s Shades of the Past Hot Rod Roundup in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee captured footage of Richie Parker, an inspiring man who was born without arms, driving away in his beautiful Impala with only the use of his legs. Simply amazing, to say the least. Tisha UnArmed Shows How She Performs Daily...

In the rather intense but very informative TED-Ed animation entitled “Why Is it So Hard to Cure Cancer?” educator and scientist Kyuson Yun explains the challenges that researchers and doctors face in the seemingly never ending quest to eradicate cancer for good. Unfortunately, due to the many variations of cancer, the strength and ability of...

Adam Savage of Tested went incognito at New York Comic Con 2017 dressed as Moon-Watcher from Stanley Kubrick‘s 1968 sci-fi film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The creator of the mask, Steve Neill of SNG Studio, released a four-part video series showing how he brought Savage’s man ape disguise to life. A post shared by Adam...

In a really amusing series of vignettes for Halloween 2017, a very curious Simon’s Cat unintentionally scares his rather skittish human who’s deeply afraid of both spiders and things that go bump in the night. On a rare trip to the attic, a bored Simon’s Cat happily played with the light switch, which unfortunately brought...