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John Oliver takes a look at the inequality to access to voting in the United States on Last Week Tonight. Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.

HBO has released a new teaser for the upcoming sixth season of Game of Thrones that features quite a few familiar characters on display in the mysterious chamber known as the “Hall of Faces.” They also shared a collection of photos that give us a glimpse of what’s to come in season six, which is […]

Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee has just released realistic-looking latex gray tabby and black cat masks that will both instantly turn anyone into a friendly, undercover feline. Archie McPhee also released a catchy music video, titled “I’m a Kitty Cat,” to showcase their new cat masks. images via Archie McPhee

Roman Atwood woke his kids up to see how much it snowed overnight, little did they realize that their entire living room would also be filled with snow, as well as pine trees. The whole family had a blast playing in it. After months of planning we finally figured out how to fill my house […]

In 2008, game blogger Yehuda Berlinger wrote a fairly comprehensive article about the New Games, a movement of creative urban play that begin in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s, eventually spreading worldwide. The New Games held itself to high standard of inclusion and non-competitive, friendly play, with the motto of “Play […]

France In the new Above Average video series “Laughs in Translation“, American comedian Brooks Wheelan travels around the world to learn about what his peers in other countries find to be humorous, what is considered funny in their own countries and what they think of American humor. What’s funny around the world? People say there […]

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of ASAPScience explain via whiteboard animation the physiological reasons why most teenagers are as moody as they often are. Puberty begins in the hypothalamus where a protein called kisspeptin is produced triggering the pituitary gland to unleash the hormones testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. These activate the ovaries and testes but […]

Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman has captured the heart and the soul of performer Tanya Davis‘ absolutely gorgeous spoken word poem about embracing the beauty of being alone with oneself and how to be happy doing so. Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after […]

Microsoft Garage Works has created Fetch!, a very clever facial recognition app and a separate an online generator called “What is your dog?”, which allows users to determine dog breeds just by uploading a photo. What makes all of this really fun that submissions are not just limited to dogs. Cats, people and even superheroes […]

Conan and his hilariously deadpan associate producer Jordan Schlansky discuss love on Valentine’s Day.

Netflix shares some hilarious bloopers from season three of Orange Is The New Black.

Ross Thompson (The Unusual Suspect) cleverly edited together clips of words from 109 movies to sing “Basket Case” by Green Day.

Last night on Saturday Night Live cast member Kyle Mooney shared his lifelong dream to become the greatest rapper alive. In an attempt to return to his hip hop roots, he challenged this week’s SNL musical guest Kanye West to an epic freestyle rap battle.

Cracked presents their “Aladdin Fan Theory To End All Aladdin Fan Theories”, explaining why the main villain Jafar is actually a pretty good guy. Rule No. 1 for watching Disney: Just because they’re brooding and have dark color schemes doesn’t automatically mean they’re evil.

Norwegian YouTube comedy channel PistolShrimps recently did a really great interview with Ryan Reynolds and T.J. Miller who star in Deadpool, which opened this weekend breaking box office records.

Cartoon Network has posted a clip from “I Am Not A Princess”, the first episode of the new, rebooted version of the animated series The Powerpuff Girls, which premieres in April on Cartoon Network. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the original arbiters of girl power, are back on Cartoon Network! The Powerpuff Girls, the beloved global […]

CollegeHumor takes a look at how the social media version of your ex is worse than the real life version.

Elsa from Frozen is Norwegian, Ariel from The Little Mermaid is Danish, Jasmine from Aladdin is Arabic, Mulan is Chinese (Mandarin), and Rapunzel from Tangled is German. Movie Munchies imagines what it be like if Disney princesses sang their signature songs in their native language (part 1 and part 2). Belle from Beauty and the […]

In anticipation of the return of The Walking Dead (season six resumes on Sunday, February 14th), Mike Relm created an intense remix of the series. Join Mike’s Patreon to help him make even more great videos. @amoebahollywood haul. Gonna throw this in my computer and see if a remix comes out of it. #thewalkingdead A […]

TwoHeads666 modified a teddy bear so that it rips its face off to play a horrifying game of peek-a-boo. Phillip Blackman has been doing something similar with his UndeadTeds project. via reddit

Betty White saw Deadpool and thought it was “glorious”, here’s her review of the movie. I love @VancityReynolds…here are a few of my thoughts about his new movie #Deadpool.https://t.co/9Bkz9DpyF0 — Betty White (@BettyMWhite) February 11, 2016

In late January, musician Davie504 performed a brilliant bass mashup that combined the funkiness of “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie with the defiant brashness of the Motörhead (Lemmy Kilmister) classic “Ace of Spades” resulting in a tribute worthy of both legendary men. Here’s a little tribute to David Bowie and Lemmy Kilmister, I played and […]

With the departure of the beloved Clara Oswald in the most recent season of the long-running series Doctor Who, the BBC has put together a touching montage that includes some of the most emotional companion exits throughout the whole of the series.

In the wonderful short film “Kubrick in Color“, filmmaker Marc Anthony Figueras captured how the iconic director used very specific colors to influence a scene, portray a character and evoke a particular emotion from viewers. Figueras got this idea after watching “Red” by Rishi Kaneria. Rishi Kaneria put together a brilliant supercut based completely around […]

Taras Maksimuk wanted to see what would happen if he boiled a working iPhone 6s in melted blue crayons.

Batman (Ben Affleck) is “too old to die young” in the fourth trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer also gives some more explanation about why Batman wants to v Superman (Henry Cavill) in the first place. It also gives new glimpses at Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. […]

When the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was replaced in 2013, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) needed a plan to responsibly disassemble and dismantle the older version of the span while taking the environment into account. Wired created a clever animation demonstrating how this tremendous task will be undertaken. The Bay […]

On a recent appearance on the television show Neo Magazin Royale, the German hip hop band Fettes Brot performed their 1996 hit song “Jein” along with a “Geekchester” band playing old computer equipment. We were at NEO MAGAZINE ROYALE guest we have brought something! Yes and no on electronic waste: 16x 3.5 “floppy drives 3x […]

Great Big Story paid a visit to the famous “Okunoshima Rabbit Island” in Japan to learn why so many feral bunnies have made the beautiful, balmy isle their forever home and why they are as friendly as they are. Imagine an island filled only with rabbits. Okunoshima is a small island in Japan’s Inland Sea. […]

In advance of the mid-season premiere on February 14, 2016, Paul Gulyas of the mobile television trivia game

Flapit is a physical counter that displays a company’s social media followers and ratings across multiple platforms. The device connects to popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp, and the company has also released an API to allow developers to use it to display whatever information they would like. photos via Flapit Thanks Shelby DeNike!

In December of 2015, we wrote about musician Cooper Carter and how he played all 31 parts of composer John Williams‘ classic Star Wars theme song on guitar by himself. Cooper recently released a new video that shows him playing only the brass section of the iconic Star Wars theme song. Carter’s cover is available […]

In 2014 mathematician and comedian Matt Parker led a team that arranged 10,000 dominoes into a working computer circuit capable of performing basic addition. The finished system takes two four-digit binary numbers and outputs their five-digit binary sum. In the video, Parker demonstrates the different functions of the circuits with smaller models. Parker also appeared […]

The prologue for the highly-anticipated upcoming film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tells a bewitching tale through hand-crafted tunnel book animation and gorgeous narration by Charles Dance, of how zombies came exist in Regency London. The prologue was created by The Mill, the production company behind the beautiful video for “Wide Open” by The Chemical […]

Industrial Light & Magic has shared a breakdown of the amazing visual effects work that their global team contributed to Brad Bird‘s 2015 science-fiction mystery adventure film, Tomorrowland. As the first-ever film finished and released in 4K high dynamic range, the work on the film presented numerous challenges not the least of which was creating […]

Mashable Watercooler presents The Westhamster Hamster Show The Westhamster Show is here to celebrate the best of the most lovely creatures around: hamsters. Prepare yourself for an exciting show that will keep you on your feet.

The daring Silvio Sabba recently set a RecordSetter world record for successfully performing a pistol squat while carefully standing on top of a 36-story Jenga tower. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

“Noisy Furniture” is an amusing fake movie trailer, written and directed Brooklyn-based comedian and composer Daniel Koren, about a paranoid man and furniture that goes bump in the night. Trying to solve the biggest mystery of them all.

Puzzle maker Tony Fisher created a gigantic fully functional Rubik’s Cube that measures 1.56m on each edge. via Digg

In the latest of their wonderful whiteboard videos, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually offer up a quick but fairly comprehensive history of the umlaut and its colorful misuse, particularly in the English language. But when we say umlaut we generally aren’t talking about the historical sound change process, but about […]

[Einstein’s] biggest blunder is thinking he made a blunder. That’s how smart he was. That’s badass smart. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the significance of gravitational waves and how they were detected during an appearance on the Anthony Cumia Show just hours after the discovery was announced on February 11, 2016.

A video posted by Christoph Niemann (@abstractsunday) on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:35am PST CHOMP is an interactive iOS app by illustrator and author Christoph Niemann that combines his “playful, humorous, and lovingly hand-drawn animations with live video.” Christoph’s fun new app is available to purchase at the iTunes Store. Repost from @billyboystergiou : great […]

Digg presents: The Most Satisfying Video In The World Have you ever seen something that makes your skin tingle and for some unknown reason provides you with a sense of unbridled peace and happiness? Gears working in perfect synchronization, a cake frosted with absolute precision, marbles rolling so smoothly it hurts. Something that is just…satisfying? […]

The Etsy shop Que Interesante has created a clever collection of chemical element labels to stick on crayons to help kids learn the periodic table while they draw. A fun and creative way to learn. Clear and colored crayon labels are available to purchase on Etsy. images via QueInteresante via Best of Etsy, My Modern […]

Over the course of a year a prankster son randomly threw eggs to his unsuspecting mother, who would almost always impressively catch them while shouting “Noooooooooo!” via reddit

Venture capitalist, company advisor, entrepreneur and Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca is known for wearing distinctly decorated cowboy shirts wherever he goes. Now some of these bespoke shirts are available for purchase through the aptly named Sacca Shirts. Comedienne Amy Schumer even sported a Sacca Shirt in the 2016 Bud Light Super Bowl ad. Hell […]

Owenergy Studios created a supercut showing how brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson frequently say the same lines in their movies.

Tom Fisher has created a modern style trailer for Star Wars: Attack of The Clones. Previously he created modern style trailers for the original Star Wars trilogy and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Smithsonian Channel shows how a bumble bee dislodges pollen from a flower in a slow motion video. Buzz pollination is a special technique for dislodging pollen from certain types of plants – and bumble bees are among the few species of bee capable of doing it.

Vox explores how the human heart became a popluar symbol representing love.