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A photo posted by @hypchk on May 29, 2016 at 11:56am PDT The Houston, Texas suburb Sugarland is at an unexpected center of controversy due to a bronze statue that depicts two long-haired girls, one with smartphone in hand, very distinctively posing for a selfie. By erecting this and another statue of a guitar player, […]

Firebox is featuring a scaly wax egg candle that melts away to reveal a porcelain baby dragon inside. Each egg contains a cute dragon with a random color. Thought to be extinct for aeons, these mysterious creatures are finally making a triumphant return. This Hatching Dragon Candle was painstakingly retrieved from the Shadow Lands beyond […]

John Oliver forgave nearly $15 million in medical debt during a Last Week Tonight segment about debt buying. With a steep discount, Oliver purchased a total of $14,922, 261.76 in debt for less than $60,000 to show how little regulation there is in the debt buying industry. Besides forgiving the debt because it was, “obviously […]

Adamlytics recently put on his inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume and chased a SUV, which was painted like a tour vehicle from Jurassic Park.

An absolutely magnificent Siberian Husky named Maya has an adorable habit of blowing bubbles through her nose whenever she takes a drink from her water dish, whether alongside her canine sibling or by herself. While her human Kent Duryee finds this behavior charming, but cautions the playful dog to be careful and not inhale. Don’t […]

Paul Marcarelli, the famous face of the long-running “Can you hear me now?” ad campaign for Verizon, has switched to Sprint in a new series of commercials. The spots focus on Marcarelli’s previous work for Sprint’s rival company and the claim that their network is now within 1% as reliable as Verizon’s.

Cracked imagines what it would be like if cell phone commercials were honest in their latest Honest Ads video. Enough with the maps! We don’t even understand their meanings anyway.

Laughing Squid partner David Klass visited the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday and while there he shot photo of the Harambe memorial visitors have created around the gorilla statue outside of the Gorilla World exhibit. Harambe, a 17 year-old male silverback gorilla, was tragically shot and killed by zoo officials on May 28th after a three year-old […]

“Dinner’s on Him” by Liz Climo

A photo posted by Mya The Pomsky (@myathepomsky) on May 6, 2015 at 5:16pm PDT Mya the Pomsky is a an absolutely gorgeous dog who’s half Husky and half Pomeranian heritage gives her the look of a vixen with stunning blue eyes and a foxy red coat. Mya enjoys a traveling around with her dedicated […]

A photo posted by Major Bigtime (@majorbigtime) on May 12, 2016 at 5:34pm PDT New York City street artist Major Bigtime has created a traveling installation that replaces the featureless heads on the ubiquitous “Courtesy Counts” subway posters with that of the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s distinctive open-mouthed visage. The effect is hilariously creepy, […]

While working in his Kapfenberg, Austria backyard, Adolf Krainz discovered firsthand the sheer impossibility of drinking a bottle a beer while operating a intensely vibrating dirt tamping machine. The beer splashed everywhere before Krainz completely gave up, tossing the offending bottle aside and proclaiming that it was not a laughing matter. Jo Jo des is […]

News Be Funny has created a compilation of some of the best news bloopers from May 2016.

Steve Carell got drunk with Stephen Colbert in a 2001 clip from The Daily Show about drinking responsibly. via reddit

Physics Girl host Dianna Cowern demonstrated how to curve a ball backwards using science in a recent video about the Magnus effect. Cowern used a soccer ball and a smooth ball of similar size to show how the effect can make a ball kicked the same way curve in different directions. The difference comes down to […]

Adult Swim released a fantastic animated parody of the How It’s Made television series that shows how the Plumbus, a pinkish device from Rick and Morty, is built from start to finish. The use of the peculiar device is still unknown. For homemade plumbuses, always push your dinglebop through a grumbo so your fleeb doesn’t […]

Great Big Story has shared the tale of astronaut John Young, the man who snuck a corned beef sandwich into space during the Gemini 3 mission in 1965. NASA astronauts deal with many dangers in space: deadly debris, harmful cosmic rays and corned beef sandwiches. Wait, what was that last one? Oh yeah, here’s how a […]

A photo posted by nychos (@nychos) on May 5, 2016 at 4:51pm PDT IKON is the upcoming solo art show by Austrian urban art and graffiti illustrator Nychos of Rabbit Eye Movement at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City featuring some of his new signature dissections of pop culture characters like Darth Vader, […]

“Internet: Then Vs. Now” is a clever comic by artist Andy Kluthe and Tristan Cooper of Dorkly that compares how the world of the internet worked back in the 1990s compared to now. image via Dorkly

AsapSCIENCE explained the ways smartphones change the bodies and brains of users in their latest video. The video’s companion piece on the AsapTHOUGHT channel suggests six reasons that one could benefit from taking a break from smartphone use.

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George Gaspar of Toy Break set a RecordSetter world record on February 4, 2009 by fitting 2,222 toothpicks in his beard.

Vox looks back at the history of GIFs from the early days of the internet to present day with a focus on how companies like Giphy have tried to profit from them. The GIF was invented in 1989. And since its beginning, the GIF has been used to make money. At first, GIFs were sold as […]

Kuma Films recently captured footage of diabolo wizard ChihHan Chao, the Red Bull PAO 2015 champion, performing all sorts of incredible Chinese yo-yo tricks. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Jun 1, 2016 at 3:56pm PDT music by SevnthWonder – “1995“

In the BowserVids sketch “New Accounts,” a beleaguered man played by Andrew Bowser must deal with his two coworkers (also played by Bowser) to start a new account.

“Youtuber Simulator” is a video created by Jason Gastrow (a.k.a. “VideoGameDunkey“) where he plays a real life PC video game, titled Youtubers Life, and humorously outlines his “actual YouTube career.” Jason’s spoof features plenty of clickbait titles, copyright infringements, advertisement proposals, and more.

Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler share a few helpful tips for how to make work funner. The tips include fun office games and pranks to play on coworkers, but Crosby and Stanton can’t quite agree on what a “sniff tally” is.

In a 360° video for The New York Times Magazine, photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin climbed the spire of One World Trade Center to photograph a breathtaking view 1,776 feet above New York City. Chin’s photographs appeared in The New York Times Magazine’s recent “New York Issue.”

Prankster and magician Rahat Hussein recently performed an amusing prank where he surprised unsuspecting people on the highway by cruising down the road in a Tesla sedan that had an invisible driver. The Tesla’s autopilot feature really helped Rahat pull off his hilarious stunt.

Jon Stamm and Joey Graves of Vat19 recently made a gummy bear piñata, filled it to the brim with cereal marshmallows, strapped the piñata to a drone, and then attempted to smash it wide open with a baseball bat while blindfolded.

Caleb Kraft of Make: has created an edible version of Google Cardboard made from graham crackers and icing. The finished product is both fully functional and fully edible (except for the lenses) as demonstrated by Kraft who devoured the entire cracker assembly in the video.

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” performed an experiment where he dipped an exposed lightbulb filament into a beaker of liquid nitrogen to see what would happen. The nitrogen glowed brilliantly and prevented the filament from burning out as it would if it were exposed to oxygen.

Theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander explores the connection between physics and jazz in his book The Jazz of Physics. Alexander discussed the relationship and demonstrated his skills on the saxophone in a video for Wired.

Jonathan Burdett of Films&Stuff has created “Spider-Man 2: Marvel At Its Best,” a video where he explores how director Sam Raimi blended comedy, action, and drama into the 2004 superhero film Spider-Man 2. While we indulge ourselves with the recent superhero summer blockbusters, I think it would be good to explore the best film of […]

The Moto Roster car club has released a series of “connected badges” that can be attached to a vehicle for others to gather information about the car and its owner from their smartphone. They are available to purchase from the Moto Roster store. Badges on car grills have always been a subtle mode of communication […]

Life Noggin asked and answered the question, “Could you survive 2.5 million years ago?” That would put a modern human in the Pleistocene epoch when the world was colder, diseases were different, and early hominids roamed the Earth. Although there’s no definitive way of knowing how a modern person would fare, the challenges of the […]

Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler answered the question, “What is the hottest temperature possible?” in his latest video. Whistler gives a simple explanation for the complicated answer, but he has to go all the way back to the Big Bang to do it.

Dilara Mundy recently animated a sketch from 2012 for Team Coco where Aziz Ansari teaches old man Conan O’Brien about the world of computerized online dating. Aziz’s friend used one of them high-tech computer gizmos employing a highly-specialized search algorithm to find his future wife. Here is the original sketch:

Madrid filmmaker and video editor Albert Gómez has created a supercut video featuring side by side comparisons of character’s first and last appearances in Quentin Tarantino films. He gives us a look characters in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1, and more. via DesignTAXI

SciShow host Hank Green addresses the often cited internet claim that humans replace all their cells every seven years. While many cells do die off and replace themselves over time, some don’t, and the lifespan of cells varies greatly by type.

In a recent Saturday Night Live sketch, J.J. Abrams shared bonus footage of celebrities failing their auditions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. SNL cast members, Daisy Ridley (Rey), and John Boyega (Finn) get in on the fun as Matthew McConaughey, Emma Stone, and Jon Hamm try to nail their Force Awakens performances. Here is […]

In the pilot for the new Motherboard video series Greatest Moments in Hacking History, Samy Kamkar recounted the time he took down Myspace in 2005 when he discovered a vulnerability that allowed him add code to his profile that quickly replicated itself across the site. The pilot is one of five that Motherboard is considering […]

New York City video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak (a.k.a. “The Nerdwriter“) recently explained how the dragons in Game of Thrones may have stopped progress in Westeros. Fans of The Nerdwriter can help support his future videos on Patreon.

Genki Sudo and his group World Order were joined by more than 100 performers to sing their song “Have a Nice Day” and do their signature robotic dance moves in Tokyo’s Shibuya scramble crossing, considered to be the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world. An earlier video featured the group singing the song and doing their robot move around in […]

In episode nine of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of talented actor Paul Bettany, the actor who voiced JARVIS and played Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Brandon dives in and looks at his past his roles as Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight’s […]

New York Magazine associate producer Christine Nguyen has created a video for Vulture that explains the story behind “A113,” the mysterious code that appears in numerous animated television shows and films. It’s hidden in movies and TV shows everywhere. In The Simpsons, The Hunger Games, Avengers, American Dad, Mission: Impossible, Doctor Who. And in every […]

The awesome RocketJump crew recently created “Pool Fart,” a special effects video featuring a group of friends who are enjoying a fun-filled day in the pool. That all changes when Jimmy Wong farts in the pool for a laugh. The fart quickly becomes a massive gas bubble that Clinton Jones accidentally pops with his cannonball […]

When supplied with a brand new Nikon D810, filmmakers Wriggles & Robins created “Nightlife” a stark and stunning experimental low-light, stop-motion film that features animals running through a park. The effect was achieved through a “sequence of looped unedited photographs” captured at different speeds and exposures. Nikon gave us a D810 and asked us to […]

Eclectic Method, in collaboration with 16-year old Genranon, has created a very danceable remix of the jazz-heavy, highly acclaimed film Whiplash In true respect to jazz this is one of those rare electronic tunes that goes through multiple keys in a 2-5-1 chord progression in 5/8 time signature…… Only joking it’s a 4 to the […]

Students from the Academy of Music for the Blind performed an absolutely beautiful original song to accompany the equally stunning “Please Touch the Art”, a poignant film about the beauty of tactile art to those with limited vision. Filmmaker Cantor Fine Art spoke the remarkable talent of these students. he Academy of Music for the […]