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Yesterday KTVU San Francisco Bay Area reporter Alex Savidge and his cameraman Chip Vaughan were almost hit hit by a car during a live TV report they were shooting. Vaughan saw the car coming a yelled at Savidge allowing him get out of the way just in time. Savidge followed up with an emotional live […]

Editor and director Joey Scoma of Rocket Jump Film School explains the basics of film cuts and transitions available to filmmakers, using scenes from a number of different movies to demonstrate his point. In this video essay, Joey lists and defines the different cuts and transitions available to you as an editor, with examples from […]

Last month Mike Doughty performed a really great solo version of the classic Soul Coughing song “Super Bon Bon” on The Howard Stern Show. Mike is currently on tour with Big Head Todd & The Monsters. When Howard loves a song, he loves it for life. Whether from his formative years (Neil Young’s “Old Man”) […]

Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor of SORTEDFood offered an amusing demonstration that showed how to build a burrito-sized sushi roll. They also generously provided a step-by-step pictorial recipe on their website. Sushi are gorgeous dainty morsels and burritos are crammed full of filling making them dense and heavy. Both fantastically satisfying in their own right… […]

SciShow explains how Precision Medicine Initiative will try to help fight disease, and why Boston Dynamics researchers pushed around their new Atlas humanoid robot in a recent episode. Today on SciShow News we talk about a new research effort that is aiming to revolutionize how we treat disease. We also discuss the video where Boston Dynamics shows off […]

Paramedic Shaun Cunningham used his quick reflexes to save his son Landon from being hit in the face by a flying baseball bat during a spring training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves. Landon was texting a photos of the game to his mother and didn’t see the bat headed his way. […]

Aaron Rollins demonstrates a handy hack on how to efficiently remove unsightly popcorn ceilings using putty knife duct taped to the end of a Shop Vac hose. via reddit

Conan O’Brien fell in love with a brown bear cub during a recent Conan segment with animal expert David Mizejewski. Mizejewski also had a black bear cub and was happy to report that the populations of both species in North America are doing well. Despite how cute Conan’s new friend is now, Mizejewski assured Conan that […]

On the latest episode of PBS Game/Show, host Jamin Warren explains why the mega popular video game, Minecraft, has such a blocky design. He then explores the pixelated world of voxels. Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. And yet, the graphics are a bit… blocky. It seem like a strange […]

Conan O’Brien encounters a case of extreme manspreading in the audience while taping one of his shows. Conan just learned about the nasty habit of men who sit with their legs splayed open, and sure enough, there’s a manspreader right up front.

The Nerdwriter Evan Puschak recently re-watched the 1990s Nickelodeon series The Ren & Stimpy Show to understand what made the cartoon so unique. The show’s creator John Kricfalusi pushed back against the commercialism and morality he saw in the work of his peers, and the result was a children’s show that was bizarre, peculiar, and hilarious.

On their latest episode of Trailer Mix, Mashable Watercooler created a interesting new trailer for the Rocky film series sequel, Creed, that imagines what the movie would have looked like if it were produced as a VHS home video release in the 1990s.

In his first video since his cancer diagnosis, the indestructible Jake Roper of VSauce3, spoke about the incredibly existential questions that arose when he started thinking about logical paradoxes. To clarify his point, Roper described four different paradoxes – the Ship of Theseus paradox, the Sorites paradox, the Grelling–Nelson paradox and the teleportation paradox. If […]

Adult Swim has released an amusing mid-season trailer for their hilarious stop-motion animated show, Robot Chicken. The trailer is filled with pop culture mashups and gives us a glimpse at some of the new, tasty shorts that poke fun as popular movies, television series, and more. Season eight returns on Sunday, March 13th, 2016 at […]

A photo posted by Tal Peleg (@tal_peleg) on Nov 22, 2015 at 10:20am PST Artist Tal Peleg has shared her ongoing series of beautiful eyelid makeup art that features scenes from popular movies, musicals, and books. Tal’s entire collection eyelid art is available to view on her Instagram and Facebook pages. We previously wrote about […]

A bicyclist captured hilarious, albeit probably terrifying, footage with of a tenacious ostrich sprinting along the road after his two friends as they rode around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. According to National Geographic, “the cyclists were going 31 miles per hour but the ostrich kept up with them”.

A video clip taken from the Exploratorium Science Center‘s broadcast of the March 8, 2016 total solar eclipse shows the four-minute totality when the Sun was completely blocked by the Moon’s shadow. The total eclipse was visible Indonesia and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Another video taken from the European Space Agency‘s Proba2 mini-satellite in sun-synchronous […]

Tested editor Norman Chan and movie effect artist Sean Charlesworth recently worked together to create a fantastic, functioning ghost trap from Ghostbusters that features lights, sounds, and smoke. This prop pulls the best features from the traps that appear in the films, using as many original found parts as possible and the rest 3D printed. […]

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The Backyard Scientist melted kosher salt and poured the molten substance into a tank of water to cause a series of explosions with the goal of figuring out the cause of the violent reaction. The experiment was inspired by a similar video done by What We Made, but the Backyard Scientist version captured the explosions with […]

Ivan Owens, a designer of “oddities overtly orchestrated for ocular observation” in Bellingham, Washington taught his 10-year old daughter how to design and cast a pewter ring for herself. My 10 year old daughter wanted to learn how to make her own metal ring by melting down the metal herself. …The video shows her learning […]

Bethesda Softworks has released a trailer for the multiplayer version of the highly anticipated reboot of DOOM, which is scheduled for release on May 13, 2016 and is currently available for pre-order. DOOM’s multiplayer is not for the faint of heart. It’s bloody. It’s brutal. And it’s VERY FAST. Prepare yourself with a glimpse into […]

A photo posted by naomiuno (@naomiuno) on Jan 21, 2016 at 5:55am PST A couple of incredibly well behaved cats in Japan enjoy the view of beautifully prepared meals from the lap of their culinary inclined human. The sweet felines, named Hatchan and Oko-Chan, let their humans enjoy their food Sometimes however, the kitties can’t […]

Moon Shot is a series of nine short documentaries about some of the teams working to land a robot on the Moon to claim the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. The series was created by director Orlando von Einsiedel and executive producer J.J. Abrams, and it will be released digitally on March 15, 2016. image via Google Lunar XPRIZE […]

ThinkGeek is currently featuring a furry, officially licensed Star Wars Chewbacca messenger bag featuring a strap that looks like his iconic bandolier and bag flaps that resemble his fur. There’s a story that during the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) Chewbacca carried a bag which in the script reportedly contained tools and stuff […]

This post was sponsored by Be Less Stupid via Syndicate Ads. It’s being hailed as “The Daily Show meets Popular Science.” From a 14 time Emmy nominee and former show runner of Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t who also spent five years writing on Politically Incorrect, comes Be Less Stupid, a new show for anyone interested […]

In their wonderful whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill of verbally and visually explain why the English language has so many synonyms – words that mean exactly the same thing. English is at base a Germanic language, part of the family including German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. […]

London animator James Curran of SlimJim Studios has created “NYC Gifathon,” a celebratory animated short made up of 30 amazing GIFs that James created while visiting New York City for a month. James’ entire collection of New York inspired GIFs are available to view on Instagram and his website. I spent a month in New […]

Japanese LEGO builder Dr. Pei has created a crowded sushi restaurant scene complete with a working conveyor belt. The scene features a variety of patrons like samurai, aliens, and even BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. photos via Dr. Pei via Mental Floss, DesignTAXI

In the latest video of his weekly cooking series, the famously mercurial chef Gordon Ramsay offers helpful tips, shortcuts and methods for five different kitchen scenarios. We’ve compiled five previous videos into one, helping you to master your basic skills in the kitchen. Cooking rice, chopping an onion, sharpening a knife, deboning a fish and […]

Red Bull recently captured footage of extreme snowmobiler Levi LaVallee visiting his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota and performing all sorts of insane stunts throughout the city. Some people see the world as a playground, where anything and everything can and will be a shreddable obstacle. As a kid growing up in Minnesota, Levi LaVallee […]

Sir George Martin, the multi-talented legendary music and television producer, musician, composer and engineer who became known worldwide as the “Fifth Beatle”, passed away at his home near Swindon in southwest England. He was 90 years old. Ringo Starr announced the sad news to the world via Twitter . Thank you for all your love […]

Rolling Stone recently went behind-the scenes with stunt and fight coordinator Philip J. Silvera to find out how he designed the amazing fight scenes for Deadpool. Philip J. Silvera is one of Hollywood’s premiere stunt choreographers, having worked on major projects for film (Iron Man 3), television (Daredevil) and video games (Star Wars: The Old […]

Runway of Dreams is an amazing non-profit organization that works with designers to make stylish clothing more available to kids and teens who are differently abled. Founded by fashion veteran Mindy Scheier who seeks to make the fashion industry all-inclusive. Runway of Dreams is a nonprofit organization working with the fashion industry to adapt mainstream […]

Redditor sunsetparkslope shared a video of his cute little sparrow named Sparky taking a bath. I found Sparky barely clinging to life, laying on a pile of other hatchlings that had all fallen from a height of about 8 feet onto concrete and died. Sparky is 2 years old now and he is the most […]

A man in a silly bear suit had a blast scaring the crap out of a co-worker in this video from America’s Funniest Home Videos. View post on imgur.com via reddit

Concerned about the environment and the ever decreasing number of fish in the ocean, Chef James Corwell CMC came up with an ingenious alternative vegan recipe, which uses a sous-vide method to prepare tomatoes in a way that captures texture, taste and appearance of sushi grade tuna. Overfishing is destroying our oceans, and if we […]

Amateur astronomer Gary Hug has used his homemade telescope and Sandlot observatory to discover more than 300 near earth asteroids. Hug recently discussed his work in a video by Great Big Story. Gary Hug turned his fascination with asteroids into more than just a hobby. He built an observatory behind his house, and courtesy of his […]

Brothers Stephen and Chris Muscarella have created the Field Skillet, a smoother, lighter version of the beloved classic cast iron frying pan that reside in kitchens around the world. The Field Skillet is a meticulously designed smoother, lighter cast iron pan reminiscent of the best vintage American skillets—but with a modern twist. This is your […]

Dave Hax shares a pretty important life hack, how to open a bottle of wine using a key. How to remove the cork from a wine bottle using a house key. Fun life hack if you haven’t got a cork screw, or use it as a party trick. Works with synthetic corks but not real […]

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how Deadpool should have ended. When Negasonic Teenage Warhead causes the whole Helicarrier to collapse, Wade is forced to use maximum effort.

A little dog named Sunshine went for a slow ride upon the back of an accommodating giant tortoise named Nicholas. The two just walked around in circles in their human Artist Esmeralda‘s backyard, only stopping when Nicolas got a bit hungry. Sunshine also likes to go for rides on the back of Esmerelda’s bike, while […]

HBO has released the trailer for season 6 of Game of Thrones, which preimiers on April 24th.

Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks used LEGO to create a fairly accurate orrery that depicts the relative rotations of the orbits of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. The model makes an impressive approximation of the time it takes for these three bodies to move in relation to one another. Allemann has also posted building instructions for anyone looking […]

Radu Caraus demonstrated how to build a motorized toy car using a Sunlu SL – 300 3D Printer Pen. The video details the processes of building up the frame of the car and wiring the toy with a motor and working headlights. via Digg

On a recent episode of SourceFedNERD, host Matt Lieberman digs up as much information as possible to figure out approximately how many people are still alive in The Walking Dead universe. via BuzzFeed, Neatorama

Ithaca Audio created an incredibly brilliant 15-minute mashup that tells the pretty comprehensive “History of Rock” via a mock Facebook timeline in which clips of the bands were featured and where quotes from other rockstars were submitted as comments and likes. This creative design allowed the creators to really play with timelines and combine a […]

Japanese artist Shinrashinge has created a two new animated comics, based on the Dragon Ball Z and Doraemon anime series, using three paper cups with cutout sections that he rotates around to reveal each panel. We previously wrote about Shinrashinge‘s One-Punch Man comic. via Tugyatchi, RocketNews24

Weather For The Blind is on Mixlr The Weather Warlock by musician and inventor Quintron of Quintronics is a low voltage weather controlled drone synthesizer that is currently being used for the amazing project entitled “Weather for the Blind“. Based out of the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, the synthesizer interprets weather conditions as a […]

Vat19, the online purveyor of unique gifts, recently dipped some of their oversized gummy candy offerings as well as their real life counterparts in liquid nitrogen before dropping them off a roof. The team freezes giant gummy and real world peppers, coke bottles, and pizza before letting gravity smash them to pieces.