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HBO released the second trailer for season six of Game of Thrones that reveals a lot of new footage of the battle between living and dead that is fast approaching. Season six is currently scheduled to premiere on HBO April 24th, 2016 at 9 PM EST.

Researchers in Italy are currently constructing a multi-armed soft robot that functions in and out of water. Employing the concepts of embodied intelligence and biomimicry, the team looked to the incredible abilities of an octopus as its guide. To build their squishy aquatic robots, a team of researchers in Italy drew inspiration from the octopus. […]

Broad City actors Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs are starring together in the new Comedy Central special Time Traveling Bong in which the two characters get stuck in time and space when their glass water pipe is deliberately smashed. The special premieres April 20, 2016 (420).

Animator Uri Lotan has created an absolutely hypnotic music video for the Jane Bordeaux song Ma’agalim (Circles). Throughout the video, a wooden penny arcade doll endlessly wanders into different scenes and exiting quickly, visually representing the lyrics of the song. Nights turn into days Days turn into years And among them I was going faster […]

Conan O’Brien recently visited South Korea after receiving an invitation from a fan. While there, O’Brien and guest Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on Walking Dead, visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone and traveled several feet into North Korea to host that country’s first late night talk show. O’Brien and Yeun also starred in a music video for […]

Keeping Up With the Queen is a really entertaining interactive site that allows users to put in their age in order to learn what the Queen of England was doing at that very same age. The site was put together in celebration of HRH’s 90th birthday on April 21, 2016. Cool site that shows you […]

The Kurzgesagt series In a Nutshell asks whether the concept of a space elevator is science fiction or the true future of humanity’s space exploration in their latest episode. The video explains the benefits of a space elevator over current space travel methods as well as the challenges in building one.

image via Mark Hamill Mark Hamill recently wished Daisy Ridley (Rey) a happy birthday on Twitter (April 10th) sharing a photo of Mark and her recreating an iconic scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. In the photo Hamill hopped on Ridley’s back, just as Yoda did with Luke Skywalker while training him on […]

Wizard Newt Scamander and his beasts arrive in 1920s New York City after being expelled from Hogwarts in a new teaser for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the latest film set in the Harry Potter universe. The movie will be released on November 18, 2016. image via Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The talented Tatiana Maslany, the actress who plays many of the lead roles on Orphan Black, showed her incredible range for emotion by performing live reaction GIFs while appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert With the extraordinary range Tatiana Maslany shows in “Orphan Black,” we thought she would be the perfect person to […]

In the second season trailer for the hit Netflix drama Bloodline, the inquisitive ghost of Danny Rayburn haunts his confused guilt-ridden siblings while their mother becomes increasingly suspicious. You can’t escape the past. The Rayburns struggle to conceal an unthinkable crime and begin to unravel in the midst of mounting lies, betrayal, and paranoia. Season […]

Celia Gómez has created a wonderful compilation video that features the first and final scenes of 18 popular television series played side by side. She presents the opening and closing scenes from shows like Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Friends, and more. Celia was inspired by Jacob T. Swinney‘s First and Final Frames […]

Jumpy, the amazing Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix whose talents seem to know no end, painted a lovely little impressionist-style landscape with the help of his dog trainer human Otto Van Muller. It seems that Jumpy has made quite a bit of progress in his artistic endeavors since writing his own name with a paintbrush just […]

The Atomic Trimmer is an electric nose and ear hair trimmer that looks like a futuristic raygun. It is currently available to purchase from the Fred & Friends website. Pull the trigger on Fred’s retro-styled ATOMIC TRIMMER and stand back as unwanted nose and ear hair gets blasted away! Safe-to-touch stainless steel blades are housed […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon and Melissa McCarthy took to the stage and faced off in a hilarious lip sync battle. The went back and forth with songs like “Pillowtalk” by Zayn and “Colors of the Wind” from Disney‘s Pocahontas.

Wellington City, New Zealand audio and visual post production technician Tom Fisher has created a fantastic Star Wars mega trailer that includes footage from all seven films.

Kyoot Kids has shared an adorable video of a tuckered out toddler, named Cody, falling fast asleep while skiing after a long day on the slopes. The cute little guy finds it hard to stay standing while taking a nap.

Warner Bros. has released a new “Blitz Trailer” for Suicide Squad, the superhero film directed by David Ayer and based on the DC Comics supervillain team. In the new trailer, DC‘s villainous team of outlaws bring the bad attitudes, the heat, and the pain. It stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, […]

I’m on a boat motherfucker take a look at me! After its historic landing on the drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket excitedly declared “I’m on a Boat!”, as one does in reference to the 2009 song by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain.

Yesterday SpaceX made history when the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket sucessfully landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching from Cape Canaveral to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA as part of their CRS-8 Dragon Mission. Congrats SpaceX on […]

In their newest video, the incredible 2CELLOS, comprised of Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, performed an absolutely brilliant mashup, combining the classic “Symphony No. 5” by Beethoven on acoustic cellos with a soulful rendition of “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin on electric cellos. Absolutely amazing. Tomorrow!! #2cellos Posted by 2Cellos on Thursday, April 7, 2016 […]

Jason Headley, the creator of the F*ck That: An Honest Meditation video and the accompanying app has also penned a book of the same title which will be available for purchase on April 12, 2016. Let this book help you find peace with the challenges that surround you. Because they are f*cking everywhere. We all […]

Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht is a physicist at Caltech who studies how snowflakes form. Dr. Libbrecht served as the “Snowflake Consultant” for Disney’s Frozen, and in a video by Great Big Story he explains how he creates snowflakes in the lab.

A cool little dog at the beach allowed his human to protect his sensitive underbelly from the sun while he was lying supine on the sand. While doing so, the person also protected his eyes with a pair of stylish sunglasses and left his legs and head free for a quick escape.

Dozens of colorful Crayola crayons melt together in a hot pan in a video by the Let’s Melt This channel. Melting crayola crayons! It is clear everyone wants to see us melt more with acid, molten metal, torches and fires in excess of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Trust us, there is plenty more of that to […]

Marvel released a new featurette for Captain America: Civil War, titled “In Good Company,” where the powerful heroines (Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, and Emily VanCamp) talk about the struggles and challenges that they face in the new superhero film. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled to crash into theaters on May 6th, 2016. Marvel’s […]

In the latest of their incredibly insightful videos, the School of Life explains and defends the importance of hugging, the vulnerability one admits to when needing a hug and how its common everyday use is diminishing its true meaning. It seems very strange to make a case for hugging after all, hugging has become deeply […]

Spoil Me is an open online database of movie spoilers. Users can search for a movie title to find spoilers about the film, or submit their own. The site was created by the Paris digital agency Buddyweb. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

As part of their report on Yellowstone Park, the cameras of National Geographic captured amazing footage of “Bear Bathtub“, a swimming hole that has become a favorite bathing spot for the local bear community. Bear Bathtub, a colloquial name given to Yellowstone’s own version of a natural swimming hole, can be a busy place for […]

The Vox video “The pneumatic tube’s strange 150-year journey” explores the history of transportation via pneumatic tube, the basic technology behind the Hyperloop. The Hyperloop is attempting to combine pneumatics with magnetic levitation to finally bring fast, reliable, and safe pneumatic transportation to the world, a mission that was started by engineers and designers in […]

Batman battles Superman in a lot less violent ways in a new animated short by Dorkly. Chess, tennis, verbal assaults, and video games keep the destruction of the city down to zero. Do you bleed? I have some band-aids on standby just in case. Anyways, your turn.

The new trailer for the third season of the deliciously eerie Showtime series Penny Dreadful offers a new threat, a new love interest, a death and a darkness that threatens to fall upon the world and commence the end of days. The new season premieres Sunday, May 1st at 10:00 PM. Master your demons. The […]

Quartz recently interviewed Lauri Vuohensilta, the mad genius behind the popular Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube. We have posted some of the channel’s best crushes in the few months since it launched back in October 2015. In the short time, the channel has already grown to become the eighth most popular YouTube channel in Finland.

The insightful native advertising software agency Sharethrough recently launched Hemingway, an online editor that analyzes headlines, scores them using a proprietary linguistic algorithm and offers suggestions about what to do in order to make it have more impact with the audience. The Headline Quality Score is based on a multivariate linguistic algorithm built on the […]

How It Should Have Ended has released an alternate version of how Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have ended. Here’s the original version. The Alternate Ending to How The Force Awakens Should Have Ended. This scene was originally written to be part of our Main Force Awakens HISHE, but it was cut because the […]

Twisted Doodles takes a look at the difference between a dog’s wallet and a cat’s wallet. via Neatorama

An adorable little long-tailed macaque named Fyodor, wrapped up tight against the snow in a child’s snowsuit, scarf, hat and mittens, excitedly hopped out into the snow ahead of his human so that he could check on his goat and chicken friends out in the barn. It appears that Fyodor really cares about all creatures, […]

image via David Zambito Builder David Zambito has created a life-size LEGO version of the vinyl cover for Led Zeppelin‘s untitled fourth studio album, often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV. Here’s the original cover for comparison. image via Amazon via The Brothers Brick

“Spintop Snipers” is a video by Kuma Films featuring a group of talented Taiwanese spinning top masters performing all sorts of amazing trick shots using their spintops. music by LVTHER – “Some Kind Of Magic (feat. MYZICA)“

Pee & See is a pee logging app that reminds users to drink water to stay hydrated. Each time a user goes to the bathroom they tap the “Log Pee” button in the app, and if they go more than three hours without peeing the app will alert them. Users can also track their progress on […]

The ever-busy Food Surgeon very carefully and precisely extracted the gooey liquid from the center of an entire box of Fruit Gushers, a fruity children’s snack and inserted it all into a pocket that was skillfully formed using a box of sticky Fruit Roll-Ups, another fruity snack. The result was very kid-friendly, to say the […]

Cartoonist and animator Johnny McHone has created Toys vs Toys, an incredible stop motion animated short film where the forces of evil battle evil to protect the future from being annihilated. Johnny’s short film, which is composed of over 160 clips that he made for Vine, features all sorts of iconic characters from video games, […]

The music video for “RUN and RUN” by the Japanese group Lyrical School was produced specifically for viewing on a smartphone, and gives the illusion that the group has taken control of the viewer’s phone. via Andy Baio

“The Old New World” by Alexey Zakharov is an absolutely stunning animation that uses historic photos of major U.S. cities to travel back to the turn of the 20th century via an elaborate steampunk time machine. It’s a travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine. The main part of this video was […]

OppoSuits has released a fancy Pac-Man suit with matching tie featuring a classic stage layout from the 1980 arcade game. The suit is available to purchase from the OppoSuits website and Amazon. The little yellow man with the big mouth finally has his own suit. And what a suit it is. Take a bow for […]

The country of Sweden has launched +46 771 793 336, an official telephone number that connects callers to a random Swede for a chat. The number is live now and anyone in the world can call to say, “Hej!” Since launching on April 6, 2016 the number has already received more than 15,000 calls from […]

The Warp Zone is back at it again with a new amusing animated short that imagines what it might be like if popular Star Wars characters had Facebook profiles.

New York City musician Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs recently joined forces with his vocal coach Ken Tamplin and Gabriela Gunčíková to sing 65 rocking songs in five minutes and take us on a journey through rock and roll history.

Apple has released behind-the-scenes clips of Cookie Monster on the set of his recent iPhone 6s commercial with Siri.

Richard Wiseman of Quirkology recently placed three segmented images on a brick wall and a couple of beams that come together to form an outlined cube. After lining up the images on his camera, he made the cube spin around without the use of video editing or CGI. The projected cube was one of many […]