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In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, computer pioneer Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley opened up about survival, how she and her siblings escaped from the Nazis, how she got started in the burgeoning computer field, the tacit sexism of the industry and her iconic name change. The interview […]

“Wastelabd Cocktail” is a fantastic music video, created by Bit Juice, that was made entirely from the sights and sounds of Bethesda‘s great post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 4. Thanks Scott Devaney!

A recent episode of the online series Today I Found Out took a look at the U.S. Marshall Service Witness Security Program (WITSEC), to what lengths it goes to protect witnesses from dangerous situations that arise because of their testimony and how the WITSEC program has evolved over time. Once a witness has finished testifying, […]

Minute Physics has joined the ongoing conversation about transporters and logical paradoxes with a really quick and concise explanation of the no-cloning theorem. The theorem postulates an that an object cannot be duplicated while in a quantum state, thus making human teleportation impossible. …quantum teleportation has one pivotal property: it is impossible to create an […]

???????????????? pic.twitter.com/Mz38gCfEyL — ?? ??? (@ikuya_10969) March 10, 2016 A video posted to Twitter by @ikuya_10969 shows a paper airplane being thrown out of a window and then flying back into the very same window after a highly improbable flight. via reddit

In the 19th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland as modeled by actress Stephanie Koenig, whose hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the trends of each country in […]

redditor FragmentedChicken spotted this amusing Formaldehyde vs Casualdehyde illustration on the board during class. via reddit

Doctor Popular and Betabrand have collaborated to create the Houndstoof shirt and Houndstoof dress using Doctor Popular’s Houndstooth Glitch pattern. The pattern features a number of digitally created glitches in the traditional houndstooth print, meaning each article made from the fabric should have its own unique artifacts. The design is a submission that Doctor Popular […]

The Industrial Light & Magic art department shared their portfolio filled with the incredible conceptual artwork that they created for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Since Industrial Light & Magic’s inception in 1975, every idea dreamt into existence found its genesis within the ILM Art Department. Forty years ago, legendary concept designers like Ralph McQuarrie […]

Jelle Bakker of Jelle’s Marble Runs recently used a 1,244-foot track, which he built back in 2015, to host his epic four-part World Cup Marble Race 2016. 40 marbles represented 40 different countries as they flew through the massive track and competed to take home the world cup win. We previously wrote about the 750-foot […]

Arrow star Stephen Amell recently announced his involvement in an upcoming sci-fi film, titled Code 8, and shared the first trailer on Facebook. Not much is known about the mysterious film at this time, but according to the trailer it takes place in Lincoln City, Oregon and revolves around people with “abnormal abilities” who make […]

Inventor and developer Simone Giertz created a hilarious Comment Assistant robot to help people argue online when fighting internet battles. It has finally arrived! Let the Comment Assistant™ fight your internet battles for you. A sample of the logical arguments the Comment Assistant™ is capable of: DFGJKNABEHOÖägk’åD^KFIål’kuähiostöeagrlu­efykdtsrDY4579UEHOTI

Netflix has released a special Daredevil and The Punisher featurette for season two of their fantastic Marvel series Daredevil, which will be available for binge-watching starting on March 18th. Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell’s Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take […]

Improv Everywhere enlisted a group of four sets of twins to pull off an elaborate time travel prank on a New York City subway car. One of each of the twins was planted on the subway car and their counterparts gradually entered the scene, escalating the scenario. For our latest mission, we staged an elaborate […]

Wryfield Lab, the maker of “ASMR, binaural, slow motion, macro and other weird, strange, unusual audiovisual experiments”, has posted the oddly comforting and absolutely mesmerizing ASMR video “[Un] Chopping Tomatoes“, footage in which the slicing of tomatoes is shown in reverse. Wryfield Labs also created a similarly comforting ASMR video in which tangerines were “unpeeled“. […]

A photo posted by Bel&Bel (@belybel_artworks) on Mar 26, 2015 at 2:16pm PDT The Spanish studio, Bel & Bel, has created the “Scooter Chair,” an awesome collection of chairs made from the recycled original parts of classic Italian Vespa scooters from the 1980s. The limited edition chairs are available to view and purchase from the […]

Jaywalk Cop (Nick Douglas) continues his war on pedestrian infractions, but gets more company than he can handle during a stakeout in the third episode of the series. Episodes one and two, “Pilot” and “Schmorld Star“, premiered in 2015 and set up a world where jaywalking is not only a serious crime, but the most […]

World's first equine tweed suit! Posted by Cheltenham Festival 2016 on Monday, March 14, 2016 In celebration of the annual Cheltenham Festival and Horse Race in Gloucestershire, UK, designer Emma Sandham-King created a stunning suit made from over 59 feet of luxurious Harris Tweed. Ahead of Cheltenham Festival this week we unveiled the world’s first Tweed […]

When Harry Met Wally by kcinsti DesignCrowd asked their community to use their graphic design skills to imagine what popular movie posters would look like if only one letter were changed in their title. The top 20 “One Letter Off” poster submissions, available to view on DesignCrowd, are quite hilarious and silly. Ghostbuskers by spjgraphics […]

Comedian Mark Malkoff sat down with some kids to find out what they really think of their homework.

A photo posted by Andrea Reed | Victoria, Canada (@girlgreybeauty) on Mar 8, 2016 at 9:42am PST Victoria, British Columbia makeup artist Andrea Reed of Girl Grey Beauty used her creative skill set to transform her lips into all sorts of beautiful works of art. Andrea’s entire collection of photos are available to view on […]

A photo posted by @john_boyega on Mar 14, 2016 at 3:32am PDT While dressed up as Finn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega recently visited a group of children at the Royal London Hospital. John and two adorable young patients, dressed as Rey and a stormtrooper, handed out Star Wars toys to the […]

Vox took a behind-the-scenes look at how the kiss cam at Verizon Center in Washington D.C. works through interviews with the team that produces the popular Jumbotron segment at sporting events.

20th Century Fox has released the first trailer for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, director Tim Burton‘s new fantasy film based on a novel of the same name by author Ransom Riggs. It follows 16-year-old Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield) as he ventures into a strange orphanage, run by Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), filled with […]

Luna Lee (previously) is back with a wonderful new cover of “With or Without You” by U2 played on a Gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument.

Michael Aranda explains why you can’t remember being a baby on the latest episode of SciShow. You’re pretty sure being a baby was awesome, but why can’t you actually remember any of it?

Steve Onotera aka samuraiguitarist performed a beautiful version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” using Google Doodles that can be played to created music. Help samuraiguitarist create even more awesome videos by supporting his brand new Patreon.

This House Has People In It is a surreal short horror film about a bizarre event that takes place inside of a suburban home, viewed through home security cameras. The film was created by Alan Resnick as an Adult Swim Infomercial and it is accompanied by a brilliant fake AB Surveillance Solutions website. Thanks to […]

Luís Azevedo of The A to Z Review shares his top ten famous movies that have subtle hidden meanings.

The Instant Dry Umbrella is made of water-repellant fabric that goes from wet to dry with just a simple shake. It allows the user to quickly collapse and store a dry umbrella after coming in from the rain. Shake off the rain—literally—with this revolutionary “wet-free” umbrella, featuring water-repellant fabric that lets you to knock off lingering raindrops […]

ElectroBOOM engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar demonstrates some of the practical uses of a thermal imaging camera, seemingly to spite a friend who suggested the device wasn’t useful. In the video Sadaghdar uses a Seek Compact Thermal Camera to measure the temperature of objects around his home, in a park, and out in the wild.

Lazarus, the tiny little kitten who was found nearly frozen to death on Thanksgiving day was able to return the favor after his beloved rescuer returned home from the hospital after suffering a pretty bad leg injury at a skatepark. Lazarus’ Thanksgiving rescue.

When a wonderfully brave bulldog named Bentley, who once moon-danced at the sight of his toy airplane, encountered a ladder and a crossed cable in the hallway, he made sure to face his greatest fears head on. Bentley addressed the situation by walking backwards, never letting either item out of his sight. Bentley has a […]

“The Terminator and the Washing Machine” by Retro Report takes a look at media fears about artificial intelligence. It focuses primarily on the chess matches between grandmaster Garry Kasparov and the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, but includes a history of robot fears and the current state of artificial intelligence.

Tokyo-based product and toy designer S.J. Wang started a trend on Twitter by sharing an image of an adorable little cat that he made out of a bread bag clip. Many others have replied to S.J. with their feline creations, which also includes cute dogs and even rhinoceroses. ????? pic.twitter.com/e0Mdw1aLZL — S.J. WANG ??5/14?15 (@japalanw) […]

In the newest trailer for the anticipated film High-Rise, the residents of the lower floors stage an uprising against those of the higher floors who are literally and figuratively living the high-life. High-Rise stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places […]

Vice Principals is a new HBO comedy series starring Danny McBride and Walton Goggins as rival high school vice principals competing for a promotion. The series was co-created by McBride and Jody Hill the director of McBride’s first film The Foot Fist Way.

In October 2015, film production company Yestervid posited the question “How far back in time could you go and still understand English?” and then proceed to answer by using reverse chronology to find where the current iteration of the language drastically parted with the version of yore. If you had a time machine, how far […]

HK Project is a video game about a cat exploring Hong Kong that is being developed using Unreal Engine 4 by Koola & Viv. Players control a cat as it explores its stylized world by jumping and crawling. The team recommends that anyone interested in updates follow them on Twitter and Facebook. images via HK Devblog

In 2012, Taylor McKnight and Kaitlyn Reed left their Austin, Texas home, got rid of most of their possessions and set out to travel the world. Since that time, they’ve been a great many places, staying in local rentals offered by Airbnb for the past 1,353 days. 1353 days ago we got rid of our […]

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. After two child-murdering Super Bowls and one feature length prologue, The Hunger Games trilogy comes to an anticlimactic end in the 4th and final installment: Mockingjay part 2. Gear up for more of Katniss and her friend fighting a war […]

On the latest episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Odin Abbott demonstrates how to build your own version of the Caped Crusader‘s yellow utility belt from the classic 1989 Batman movie.

Great Big Story explores the fascinating history of pinball in New York City, why the game was banned in 1940 and the reasons that ban continued for decades. The ban was finally lifted in April 1976, when the state ruled that pinball was a game of skill rather than a game of chance. In 1940, […]

Wired recently tweaked the many trailers for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to create “Batman Meets Superman: Dawn of Just Us,” a hilarious new trailer that reimagines the superhero film as a romantic comedy. Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) were meant to be. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is currently […]

A team of six µTug Microrobots weighing a collective 100g work together like ants to pull a 3,900lb car in a video by the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab at Stanford University. The robots work slowly, but by using an adhesive pad inspired by geckos and a simple winch system they can move objects up to 2,000 times its […]

Reykjavik, Iceland band Bara Heiða has created a cute Star Wars themed music video for their song “Stormtrooper.” The video follows an Imperial Stormtrooper, played by Tómas Árnason (TK-22304) of the 501st Legion Icelandic Outpost, who is left behind on a strange planet and finds love. Bara Heiða’s track is available to purchase from Bandcamp. […]

Design students Harshita Murudkar, Shivani Gulati and Mehak Philip from the Maeer’s MIT Institute or Design in Pune, India, have created the Zoloka, a wonderful piece of furniture that provides the comfort of a hammock with the soothing motion of a rocking chair. The Zoloka “relaxiture” was designed as part of a challenge to create […]

NorthSurvival demonstrates a creative way to start a fire using a lemon in his latest survival tip video. via reddit

War erupts and new forces rise up throughout Hell’s Kitchen to challenge Matt Murdock in Marvel’s final trailer for season two of Daredevil on Netflix. Season two premieres on March 18th, 2016.

In the gorgeous video for the beautiful instrumental “Disco” by German musician Ralf Hildenbeutel“, director Boris Seewald incorporated over 1,250 paintings to illustrate the beauty, grace and elegance of dancing. via Vimeo Staff Picks