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Photographer Dawn LaPointe of Radiant Spirit Gallery captured incredible video showing the absolutely stunning natural phenomenon of ice stacking along the shores of Lake Superior in Brighton Beach, Minnesota. During this process, sheets of ice covering the lake were pushed to the side as warmer water passed through. Once ashore, the ice began to melt, […]

James Corden eagerly auditioned to be Ryan Reynolds‘ official Deadpool sidekick on a recent episode of The Late Late Show. Through all of James’ failed attempts at becoming a spectacular sidekick, they finally decided on forming a butt-kicking “Double Deadpool” team. A photo posted by The Late Late Show (@latelateshow) on Feb 19, 2016 at […]

In a new POV video from Red Bull, we can watch as Austrian climber David Lama and his American climbing partner Conrad Anker take on the massive Lunag Ri mountain that is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet. They became the first ever to reach the upper section of the 4-mile high mountain […]

photo by Rob Carr/Associated Press Nelle Harper Lee, the legendary award-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in in 2007 and made news with the unexpected publication of Go Set a Watchmen in 2015, passed away on Friday, February 19, 2016. She was 89 years old. Michael Morrison, […]

The Wizards of Aus is a comedy series, created by LateNite Films, about a Jack the Wizard who travels to Melbourne, Australia to escape his war-filled fantasy world. The six-episode series is available to watch on the timtimfed YouTube channel, including six episodes of behind the scenes content.

In a hilarious skit on Late Night with Seth Meyer, the provocative Game of Thrones character Melisandre the Red Priestess of the Lord of Light (Carice van Houten), found herself at a loss while awkwardly attending a baby shower for Seth and his wife. Whether it was her thoughts on motherhood, her choice of present, […]

In 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio music prodigy Ben Lapps created an amusing video in which he showed off his great sense of rhythm, timing and coordination by continually playing a short riff on his guitar while shooting hoops. He then later extended the riff into a song because he liked it so much. About my songs […]

When imagination meets real life. Pejac, a Spanish artist who creates wonderful street art, sculptures, and paintings that combine elements of minimalist fantasy with realism, has created the heartbreakingly startling short film “Heavy Sea“, which heavily features a single orange life preserver ring atop seemingly endless pile of discarded automobile tires. Born from his earlier […]

Lovely actress Felicia Day recently modeled a beautiful full set of intricately 3D printed Dreamer Regalia armor that was created by New York artist Melissa Ng of Lumecluster and printed by Shapeways. The entire series of photos, taken by Eric Anderson, are available to view on Geek and Sundry. The project was challenging not just […]

The Explanimator video “Why space and time have a cryptic connection” by New Scientist explains how time and space behave for different things in the universe like humans, photons, and quantum particles. It also raises the question of where time and space come from. Space and time seem like the simplest, most fundamental, concepts there […]

Sir David Attenborough examines a fossilized titanosaur egg in a clip from the PBS Nature documentary Raising the Giant Dinosaur. The clip also shows a CGI reconstruction of what a baby titanosaur would have looked like as it tried to break free of its egg. In the documentary, Attenborough explains the discovery of the titanosaur […]

Mike Seymour of Wired goes behind the scenes to explore the visual effects of Marvel‘s new Deadpool movie and discovers that it took five actors to bring the mighty Colossus to life. And one was nearly 7 feet tall.

Acme Streaming shared a 1985 news report by WDIV in Detroit that heralded the debut of the compact disc format. The video includes an interview with an avid music collector discussing the new format’s advantages over vinyl, and a look at how compact discs are made and operate. via reddit

Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams have announced today that the official 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, an annual event that welcomes fans to make their own creative Star Wars themed short films, is now open for submissions on StarWars.com. In the Star Wars Fan Film Awards, fans create their own short films based on […]

Wired takes a closer look at some of the tools NASA astronauts could use on the other planets in the recent video “The Gear of Exoplanet Exploration.” The video highlights the NASA RASSOR digging robot and the Z2 prototype spacesuit.

Netflix has just released a fashion themed teaser for season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which will be availble to binge on April 15, 2016. Ellie Kemper stars as Kimmy Schmidt, a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. After living in a cult for fifteen years, Kimmy […]

Marvel has released a new motion poster, titled “Character Artwork,” for the upcoming second season of Daredevil that features Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) chained to the side of a chimney. Season two of Daredevil will be released March 18th, 2016 on Netflix. image via Marvel’s Daredevil

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a 4K resolution timelapse video of the Sun’s activity in 2015 taken from the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). The video covers the sixth year of the SDO mission during the period from January 1, 2015 to January 28, 2016 with a frame taken every two hours. The sun is always […]

Brian Schreck MA, MT-BC, an incredibly thoughtful and talented music therapist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, takes the individual heartbeat rhythms of the terminally ill juvenile patients in his care and incorporates them into original songs written specifically for the child and his/her family. In an interview with People, a very modest Schreck […]

The tall and friendly actor Peter Mayhew, best known for playing Chewbacca, is currently sharing a few pages per day from the original Star Wars script as he leads up to a “big announcement.” #chewscript 002 Lol, "a flurry of electronic swearing"… Can't you just see Kenny doing it? Love it. @starwars pic.twitter.com/U9bzmXS3tV — Peter […]

Prankster Luke Donohue surprised some unsuspecting students by escorting them to class on a rainy day using a giant patio umbrella he “borrowed” from a nearby Starbucks. It started raining really hard while we were filming a video for LAHWF so we took refuge under this giant green umbrella outside of Starbucks. I decided I wanted […]

Burger Fiction celebrates the all the movies that have won an Academy Award for “Best Visual Effects” at The Oscars. Previously they took a look at all the movies that won “Best Picture”. For the 1927/28 Academy awards, the award was for engineering effects. There was no award again until 1938 where it was called […]

Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” combined 100 ping-pong balls and some aluminum foil to create a simple but impressive smoke bomb. As usual, Kulakov warned his viewers not to attempt to recreate his easy to follow step-by-step instructions.

“Jurassic Paso Park!” is a great short video by Gascon Horsemanship featuring championship horseback rider Michael Gascon of Poplarville, Mississippi wearing a Tyrannosaurus rex costume while riding a horse that kicks around a large soccer ball and performs all sorts of impressive tricks. via Digg

In March 2015, the wonderful U.K. feline rescue and advocacy organization Cats Protection, about whom we’ve previously written, put together a three-part infographic series that offered humans a better understanding into how their cats communicate through their body language, facial expressions and their behavior. Learning to understand your cat by reading their body language is […]

BBC Earth Unplugged has captured the beautiful and hypnotic flight pattern of a murmuration of over 70,000 starlings as they flew in synchronized order with one another above a field in the English country side. It has been suggested that starling murmurations occur because starlings gain safety in numbers, confusing potential predators such as birds […]

Artori Design has created a new set of handy balancing shelf hangers shaped as playful cats and silly parrots that conveniently utilize their respective paws, tails, beaks and feathers to provide a simple but adorable way to easily store small items such as keys, purses and even plants. Decorative balance hanger for a shelf or […]

In an adorable video featuring a number of different cat memes, Nissan Motors reminds drivers to knock-knock on the top of the hood before starting the car in order to gently startle away any cats who might have sought warmth and shelter in or on the vehicle. You can save a cat’s life just by […]

Filmmakers Veena Rao and Emily Sheskin spoke with scientific artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg about “Stranger Visions“, her line of eerily realistic portrait masks that were crafted with materials that incorporated the DNA left behind on discarded gum, cigarettes and fingernails. “It all started with wondering what I could learn about someone from a little piece … […]

“1.21 Gigawatts” is a fan edited trailer by Tyler Hopkins for a Back to the Future prequel about how Doc Brown acquired the plutonium to build his time machine from Libyan terrorists. The fake thriller is pieced together from multiple films including Back to the Future, Camp Nowhere, Iron Man, and Zero Dark Thirty. via The AV Club

The steady hands of the Food Surgeon, who once performed an Oreo transplant on a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, skillfully perform a clinical dissection of a garlic bulb, peeling off each delicate layer in a deliberate, precise manner. Hope you like garlic. #teaser pic.twitter.com/A1sYOOAur2 — The Food Surgeon (@_TheFoodSurgeon) February 16, 2016

“Weird Al” Yankovic shared a promotional video he created for SundanceTV to tell viewers where they can find the channel. The problem, as Yankovic put it, is that the channel number is different for each carrier, so he had to record several versions. The videos were directed by Liam Lynch, who worked with Yankovic previously […]

The Warp Zone recently performed a fantastic a capella cover of The Walking Dead theme song in honor of the television series’ season six mid season premiere. The original theme song for comparison:

The team from What’s Inside? recently partnered with Shonduras to cut the top off a lava lamp and drop a GoPro inside to film its swirling goo. The trio then used what they learned from dissecting the lamp to try to create a giant lava lamp from a six-gallon water cooler bottle.

Beat Down Boogie has created a new music video featuring incredibly creative cosplay footage from Katsucon 2016, annual three-day anime convention at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Beat Down Boogie’s full collection of Katsucon photos are available to view on Facebook. Fans of the Beat Down Boogie crew can […]

Barney and friends perform the song “Get Money” by Junior M.A.F.I.A. and The Notorious B.I.G. in the latest delightful mashup by Mylo the Cat. Here is the original music video for “Get Money.”

While attending the wedding of Dieter Bohn and Lisa Brewster last weekend in the Dominican Republic, Casey Newton took a photo of the couple’s hilarious wedding cake topper featuring a bride and groom checking their phones behind each other’s back. Congrats Dieter and Lisa! This cake topper really captures modern romance #dieterandlisa pic.twitter.com/V7lteEVn68 — Casey […]

Screen Junkies host Hal Rudnick takes a look some of the early roles played by 2016 Oscar nominees before they were famous. Even Oscar nominees have to get their start somewhere. Check out what nominees like Jennifer Lawrence, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and Christian Bale were doing long before anyone knew their names!

Back in May 2015 we posted about the “Mewgaroo Hoodie” by UniHabitat, a convenient hoodie with a nice big front pouch for kitties to snuggle in close. Later that year, the company released the “Mewgaroo Jumpsuit“, a footed pajama onesie with the same pouch in a limited range of colors. Since that time, however, the […]

In the new trailer for the fourth season of the BBC America show Orphan Black, a determined Sarah Manning seeks answers by “going back to the beginning of all this” with the warning that “Hiding doesn’t work.” Orphan Black Season 4 premieres Thursday, April 14th at 10:00 PM.

Dr. Andy Mathis, an incredibly compassionate veterinarian in Elberton, Georgia, sat inside the crate of a beautiful Pit Bull named Graycie, eating his cereal out of a dog bowl while hand-feeding the frightened canine. Graycie had come to Dr. Mathis’ care at Granite Hills Animal Care several weeks earlier in absolutely horrific condition. Rather than […]

AJ’s Toy Boarders are a collection of clever skateboarder figurines styled to look like classic green army men toys. They are available to purchase from the AJ’s Toy Boarders and Vat19. ToyBoarders Skateboarders are a different kind of army: 48 skateboarding figurines that are styled like classic plastic army men. With sixteen different poses, you […]

“X-Ray Audio: The Documentary” by The Vinyl Factory and Antique Beat focuses on banned rock & roll records copied onto medical x-rays in 1950s Russia through interviews with people who helped make and distribute them. The iconic images of gramophone grooves cut onto x-rays of skulls, ribcages and bones have captured the collective imagination way […]

The legendary, stylish Slack Socks, worn by the creators and fans of the beloved real-time communication service Slack, are now available for purchase in the Slack Shop, where you can also find fun things like stickers, wooden coasters and someday, a flying umbrella. Frequently admired, much desired, but very rarely available, the Slack Sock brings […]

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a striking image of Earth and the Moon from the perspective of the red planet using its onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. On October 3, 2007 when the image was taken, Earth and Mars were 88 million miles apart, meaning that each pixel of the image covers […]

Host John Green takes a look at odd things some people do that hardly anyone else does, making them a bit “weird”, on Mental Floss “List Show” Episode 407.

Australian photographer John Hatfield recently created an interactive 360 degree video, from a 2D video created by Omni Verse in 2014, that features 500 episodes of The Simpsons playing at once. You can drag your mouse around within the video and easily see each episode in their animated glory. Here is the original 2D video […]

In an episode of Periodic Videos, Sir Martyn Poliakoff demonstrated what happens when lithium is added to 7Up soda. When a piece of metallic lithium was added to the drink it began to heat up, bubble, and change color. Poliakoff went on to explain how he and his team attempted to figure out exactly what caused the […]

RC MEDIA WORLD has shared footage of the world’s largest remote control airplane, created by Adi Pitz, taking flight at Airlinertreffen 2015 in Oppingen, Germany with pilot Rainer Kamitz at the controls. The 1/13 scale model, which was built as a stunning replica of a Virgin Atlantic 747-400 aircraft, is approximately 131 pounds with a […]

Screen Rant takes a look at “The Pixar Theory”, which suggests that all Pixar movies are connected and exist within the same universe.