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CineFix shares their picks for the top 10 best movie plot twists of all time. Who doesn’t love a surprise? That’s why we’re taking time to talk about the biggest surprise endings in movie history (spoilers abound).

CinemaSins presents everything wrong with the 1988 live action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Well, see back in the 80’s, they made this movie that was part live-action and part animation… named Who Framed Roger Rabbit… and while we loved it at the time… it has NOT aged well.

National Geographic recently visited Big Major Cay aka Pig Beach, the wonderful island solely inhabited by feral but friendly swimming pigs who paddle around in the beautiful blue-green water of Exuma, Bahamas. Big Major Cay, an uninhabited island in the Bahamas, is home to dozens of feral pigs. No one is quite sure how they […]

Bob Saget, John Stamos, and Dave Coulier appeared on The Late Show to debut a clip from Full House Nights, a new Full House reboot where the dads play detectives in a gritty crime series. Host Stephen Colbert also makes an appearance in the sketch as the suspect being interrogated by the other three men. […]

The wonderful online series Today I Found Out shared the absolutely fascinating history of what happened to the mail that was sent to Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street in London, even though the actual address did not exist until the 1930s. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first began writing Sherlock Holmes stories back in […]

AwesomeDisneyToys has created a fun video series where they demonstrate how to make giant gummies in the shape of popular bottled drinks. So far, AwesomeDisneyToys has created spot-on gummy versions of Powerade, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and Fanta Orange drinks.

In the latest episodes of her wonderful grammar series, the very amusing Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” of The New Yorker consulted a very old volume of Fowler’s Modern English Usage in order to understand the the true meaning of the word “massive” after hearing the word being used colloquially during a trip to […]

Footage taken with a thermal imaging camera by Scott Sorensen captured his process of preparing coffee, toast, and an omelet for breakfast. He also filmed himself doing the dishes afterwards. via Sploid

Amazon has introduced two new products that utilize its Alexa Voice Service, the Echo Dot and the Amazon Tap. The Echo Dot is a smaller version of the original Amazon Echo device released in 2014. Similar to its larger predecessor, the Echo Dot can serve as a voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that can be used to […]

In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the legendary activist, author, inventor and professor Temple Grandin opened up about the way her brain works like a search engine and how she got into animal rights activism in a 2008 interview. I was diagnosed with autism as a young […]

Max, German Shepherd (5 y/o), Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY A photo posted by The Dogist (@thedogist) on Feb 29, 2016 at 6:51am PST Photographer Elias Weiss aka The Dogist has captured the incredible beauty of New York City dogs in a candid photo series that has since grown by leaps and bounds to […]

The Food Surgeon, who performs all sorts of brilliant food procedures, went back to the operating room perform a “Spinal Kit Kat Implantation” into an innocent Three Musketeers bar, whose fluffy innards were removed very carefully with a scalpel and a tweezer. What am I up to? #teaser #foodporn pic.twitter.com/WjLrx7KZ3D — The Food Surgeon (@_TheFoodSurgeon) […]

Hugo García and Paola Falero, two creatives working at Ogilvy and Mather Bogotá who love side projects, have created Remaking a Murderer, a wonderfully interactive map that chronologically plots the specific locations involved in the now famous Steven Avery case from the Netflix series Making a Murderer. García and Falero have made the project collaborative, […]

Pranksters Rahat Hussein and Dennis Roady of howtoPRANKitup recently teamed up to freak out fast food drive-thru employees with a fake alligator. Each time that an employee reached outside of the window to hand Rahat his food, Dennis quickly jumped out and acted like he was taking a bite out of their arm with his […]

image via Vandelay Industries Vandelay Industries is a bot developed by Bertrand Fan for quickly adding GIFs from all nine seasons of Seinfeld to Slack conversations. Fan laid out his step-by-step process of creating the tool in a post on Medium. I’m happy to announce that I’ve completed my latest bot, Vandelay Industries. Vandelay Industries […]

A photo posted by Chris Cline (@christophercline) on Oct 28, 2015 at 7:26am PDT Photo editor Cris Cline has created an adorably clever photo series in which he digitally enhances the size of his beloved goldendoodle Juji. Cline then inserts the two of them going on adventures throughout the Minnesota area where they live and […]

Los Angeles-based writer, comedian, and “man of a kajillion voices” Brock Baker has released volume two of his ongoing series where he does amazing celebrity impressions using the face swapping app titled Face Swap Live. Bakers gets into character as Snoop Dogg, Jack Black, Bernie Sanders, Nicolas Cage, and many others. Fans of Brock can […]

CinemaSins presents their take on everything that is wrong with the 2005 DreamWorks animated film Madagascar Here is a movie with truly terrible zoo-safety protocols. Also has some sins. In honor of Zootopia’s opening, here are the sins of another movie featuring a bunch of talking animals: Madagascar.

Washington Canadian artist Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geeky Ideas has designed wonderful maps of major city subway systems from around the world in the style of Super Mario Bros. video games. The entire series is available to view on Dave’s website. Poster versions of his maps are available to purchase on Imagekind. Vancouver Pittsburgh Montreal […]

Inventor Colin Furze built a rocket launcher that shoots fireworks and detailed his build process in a recent video. Furze’s next video will be released on March 10, 2016 with a demonstration of his unique device in action. Based on Furze’s earlier fireworks videos it’s likely to be a spectacular display.

In order to dispel swirling rumors of a band breakup after the Oscar Awards, the Foo Fighters pushed back with a hilarious video in which an overdressed Dave Grohl entertained the thought of becoming a solo artist, while the rest of the band held a brain storming session about who should replace him. We can […]

For a recent episode of MythBusters, co-host Adam Savage built an elaborate fart machine to test a myth about farts appearing on infrared video footage. To properly test the myth, the simulated farts had to leave the machine at body temperature, so Savage used a heated water bath to bring an air chamber up to […]

In April 2015, the California Assembly voted unanimously to rename the rainbow decorated Waldo Tunnel in honor of the late great Robin Williams, who had been a longtime Bay Area resident. On March 1, 2016, CalTrans District 4 announced that the tunnel had been officially renamed. Williams resided in Marin, and his character Mork on […]

Great Big Story recently sat down to interview America’s real life Time Lord, Dr. Judah Levine, to discuss his work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) creating the Internet Time Service (ITS). Although Dr. Levine doesn’t have a TARDIS, he earned his Doctor Who themed nickname because he is the person in charge of keeping […]

The first official trailer for Sony‘s upcoming Ghostbusters reboot film, directed by Paul Feig, was released on a recent episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The trailer brings a new team of paranormal monster hunters together 30 years after New York was saved by the original group of guys. It will star Kristen Wiig as […]

Tested editor Norman Chan recently teamed up with movie effect artists Frank Ippolito and Sean Charlesworth to create a stop-motion animated video using detailed Star Wars action figures (Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader) from Sideshow Collectibles. Parts two through four of their stop-motion video process are available to view in the premium section of Tested’s […]

The Cinefix series What’s the Difference compared the film and book versions of Andy Weir‘s novel The Martian to highlight their differences. While Ridley Scott did a fairly straightforward adaptation of the book, there were still some things that were handled differently for the sake of the film. The video is hosted by Casey Redmon, Clint […]

On the latest episode of PBS Idea Channel, host Mike Rugnetta explores the fan theory that the clumsy Jar Jar Binks was actually a Sith Lord and the main evil mastermind throughout the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Jar Jar Binks… evil genius? A recent Star Wars fan theory has been doing the rounds on the […]

Kuma Films captured footage of yo-yo professional Ryo Yamashita performing all sorts of amazing yo-yo looping tricks in Osaka, Japan. The high-quality Yomega yo-yos used by Ryo are available to purchase from their web store. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Feb 25, 2016 at 9:31am PST

Los Angeles-based baker and author Rosanna Pansino demonstrates how to make Emoji Eggo Waffles on the latest episode of her cooking show Nerdy Nummies. The template for her Emoji Waffles is available to download from MediaFire. A video posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Mar 1, 2016 at 6:47pm PST A photo posted by Rosanna […]

Discovery has posted a preview of the MythBusters epic Grande Finale, which airs on March 5, 2016, followed by a special reunion episode featuring all five hosts of the show. Since 2002, Adam and Jamie have used science to separate fact from fiction in spectacular style! But, as the saying goes, all good things must […]

Crazy Russian Hacker decided to find out what would happen if marshmallows were put in a vacuum.

In 2012, artist Stephen McCranie of Doodle Alley posted an incredibly insightful illustration that encourages artists of any type to “Be Friends With Failure” and to embrace the fact that it’s absolutely necessary to fail a few times before succeeding. Success is a sign that you’re ready to learn something new, failure is a sign […]

In her interview series focusing on unusual people, NRK P3 Verdens Rikeste Land reporter Silje Ese spoke with Nano, a 20-year old woman who is certain that she was born into entirely the wrong species. Citing her disdain for dogs, her ability to see well at night and her excellent hearing, Nano believes she should […]

A photo posted by ????Name:Pumpui????????Yuta,Nami,Hana???? (@yutafamily) on Mar 2, 2016 at 2:56am PST A wonderfully confident cat named Richie is the alpha to the Yuta family – an adorable pack of seven chihuahuas, who follow the commanding cat wherever he goes. While an able leader, Richie prefers to be a source of loving support for […]

Photographer Aaron Tilley and set designer Kyle Bean collaborated together to create “In Anxious Anticipation“, an absolutely brilliant photo series that captures the delicious pit-of-stomach, adrenaline-driven apprehension that spikes just a moment before disaster strikes. The photos accompanied a written piece by Jordan Kushins for Kinfolk Magazine, who spoke about that very moment in the […]

Hearts, stars, and horseshoes. Clovers and blue moons. You’ll become a bad guy when you wear the Good Guy Shoes. “Good Guy Shoes” by Froggy Fresh is a rap video that tells a cautionary tale about what happens to a good guy when he wears a pair of sneakers possessed by the spirit of a […]

The Riben Collective has created “Game of Thrones Kinda Life – The Tale of Jon Snow,” a Jon Snow themed recap of the first five seasons of Game of Thrones set to a musical parody of Third Eye Blind’s 1997 song “Semi-Charmed Life.” The original song for comparison: via Digg

The Goodyear Eagle-360 is a spherical concept tire proposed by Goodyear for improved road safety with future autonomous cars. The design would use magnetic levitation to suspend a car around four tires each equipped with advanced sensor technology to measure and adapt to road conditions. The spherical design would also allow the tires to rotate […]

A photo posted by bellcat (@1room1cat) on Feb 29, 2016 at 7:40pm PST An affectionate little cat named Gimo enjoys attention so much that when seeking it out, his big intense eyes, his short fuzzy neck, his long ear tufts and wide face give him the remarkable appearance of a large-eyed owl. A photo posted […]

The developers of Young Conker discussed how they created the holographic platformer game for the Microsoft Hololens. The character of Conker interacts with objects in the room, so gameplay can be changed by playing in a different room, or even by viewing a room from a different angle. Guide a playful, pint-sized hero through your […]

A sweet dog named Wesley had a bit of trouble closing his mouth properly since birth. In order to correct the situation Dr. Jim Moore DVM of Harborfront Hospital for Animals in Spring Lake, Michigan, installed braces onto Wesley’s teeth, which will better align his bite and allow him to eat, drink and breathe better. […]

In his incredibly creative portrait mashup series Mag + Art, Philippine visual artist Eisen Bernard Bernardo has incorporated the cover photos of such magazines as Esquire, Vanity Fair and Vogue into classic works of art, using each image from the magazine to seamlessly complete each painting. My Mag + Art series is a collection of […]

“Reasonable Max” is a great parody of Mad Max: Fury Road, that aired on a recent episode of Late Night, where host Seth Meyer plays the part of an annoyingly sensible War Boy. Seth tries to reason with crazy in this #MoreLNSM clip.

Linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill of Mental Floss verbally and visually explain through whiteboard animation, the concept of contronyms, words that are spelled and sound the same, but have completely opposite meanings. Such words include cleave, sanction, clip, dust and trim. Perhaps the most famous of these words is cleave. It can mean […]

Sony Pictures Entertainment has release the official international trailer for The Angry Birds Movie, the upcoming 3D animated comedy film directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly that is based on the popular Angry Birds video game franchise. The trailer follows the large community of birds as they fight back against the Bad Piggies who […]

Developer Simone Giertz, the hilarious creator of robotic devices that seek to help make daily life easier, starred in a silly parody of an infomercial touting her adjustable applause machine. Because clapping your hands can kill you. I made a TV Shop commercial for the Applause Machine https://t.co/8av0Kvs30O — Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) March 2, 2016

Lincoln and Dan, the father and son team behind What’s Inside, cut open hundreds of golf balls to see what’s inside. The pair cut open a number of different new golf balls and one 20-year-old ball to see the differences in how they were made. We cut the TOP 2016 Golf balls in half! Big difference […]

Filmmaker Spike Jonze has recreated the opening of The Late Show. In the new version, host Stephen Colbert wakes up in a park before meandering through the streets of New York City with some help from Sesame Street‘s Grover.

Mr. Gear demonstrates how to quickly force open a padlock using a pair of nut wrenches, which could be useful in situations where you lost the key. via reddit