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On the opening night of his River 2016 tour in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen took a moment to verbally remember his late friend and mentor David Bowie. “The Boss” and the E Street Band then broke out into a fantastic cover of “Rebel Rebel” in musical tribute. The video, which was graciously posted by Dustin […]

After former US Army helicopter pilot Dr. Mark Garrison published his book GUTS ‘N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam, he came across remarkable audio from a 1969 mission in Vietnam. In the clip he posted, Garrison and two other pilots are heard calmly coordinating a troop extraction. The […]

A TED-Ed lesson by Matthew Borths and Adam Pritchard of the Past Time podcast and Mike D’Emic looks at past mass extinction events, their causes, and what they can teach us about preventing the next one. Evidence strongly shows that humans are having a considerable impact on the environment and other species, which could lead to another mass extinction event if […]

Eater has put together an informative video that explains via animation the three distinct waves of coffee, how it’s consumed, its availability and what the next wave of caffeinated brews may be. If you’re addicted to pour-over and know your barista by name, you’re a product of third wave coffee. This latest stage of coffee […]

The latest animated episode of “The Science of Us” by New York Magazine, makes an excellent case for tossing out the need for traditional resumés and cover letters within the recruiting process, citing various studies showing that this manner of job application doesn’t provide enough information and can even lead to discriminatory practices, whether intentional […]

Prop builder and cosplayer Gordon Tarpley of GT Props specializes in building C-3PO costumes that are very detailed. Norman Chan of Tested recently met up with Tarpley to chat with him about his “build process, how he’s improving his suit, and what it takes to perform as this iconic Star Wars character.” Chan also helped […]

I was all in until I tasted it. Comedians Ali Spagnola and Maxnosleeves embarked on an interesting experiment when they put various beverages through their Brita water filter, only to find that most beverages come out tasting like water. Except for the Clamato. We Brita filter a bunch of drinks and see what they taste […]

Randall Munroe of xkcd graphs the possible undiscovered planets in our solar system by size and distance from his current location.

“Types of Motivation” by Grant Snider on Incidental Comics

American Chemical Society series Reactions explains the chemistry of how snowflakes form and what makes each one unique. Because of how the water vapor that forms snowflakes freezes, snowflakes all start in a basic hexagonal shapes, but as temperatures change while they move through the air, the ice crystals freeze, warm, and expand in a variety of […]

On the January 21 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the great Iggy Pop and Josh Homme, founder of Queens of the Stone Age, announced for the first time that the two of them recorded Post Pop Depression, a new collaborative album that they secretly recorded in the desert of Joshua Tree, California. […]

Who is Rey? Pen: Namiki Falcon. Ink: Noodler's Ink. #animation #illustration #starwars A video posted by Pinot Ichwandardi (@pinot) on Dec 29, 2015 at 6:37am PST New York City artist Wahyu Ichwandari (a.k.a. “Pinot“) has created an incredible series of animated Vine and Instagram videos where his drawings of characters from Star Wars:The Force Awakens […]

It’s Not Rocket Science is a new animated comedy science series starring Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. The show will be written by Evan Hadfield, and animated and produced by DC Turner and Tracy King. Evan Hadfield wrote in the show’s Patreon profile, We’re creating what we believe will be the best science comedy animated series of […]

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly plays ping pong with a floating ball of water on the International Space Station using two paddles made of a hydrophobic material that repels the liquid. Kelly is currently serving as the station’s commander during his year-long mission in space, and the video was filmed with the station’s RED Epic Dragon […]

Hannah Elliot, who covers car news for Bloomberg, recently test drove a 1914 Ford Model T and learned a few surprising things about the car. First she learned that they operate very differently than modern cars. They don’t have gas pedals, but they were rugged and get better gas mileage than some cars on the […]

This is the coolest video you will see today. pic.twitter.com/Bx5LATTxio — Sheikh Spear (@FailedRckstr) January 21, 2016 Siri answers the question, “What is one trillion to the tenth power?” and helps three musical coworkers lay down an impressive beat. via Nerdcore

Ian Fisher of Brampton, Ontario came up with a clever way to clear the snow off of his walkway by firing up his Millennium Falcon drone and using it as a mini snowblower. “Built the Millennium Falcon drone from scratch and decided I could use it to clear the snow from my walkway. I tried […]

London-based film enthusiast Roman Holiday was commissioned by the international creative and media agency, Out There, to create a supercut video highlighting situations and emotions that occur in cinematic bedrooms. Roman‘s full list of featured movies are available to view on Vimeo. music by Yann Tiersen – “Comptine D’Un Autre Été: L’Après Midi“

Brave New World has shared an amazing visual effects breakdown of how they helped to bring George Miller‘s beautiful film, Mad Max: Fury Road, to life. via Aaron Muszalski

Mark Saunders, the legendary producer and engineer for such iconic British bands as The Cure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Siouxsie & The Banshees,The Mission (UK) and of course David Bowie, posted newly unearthed recordings of the late performer doing impeccable impressions of noted vocalists such as Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop and Tom […]

John Atkinson imagines what a map of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Neighbourhood might look like on his lastest Wrong Hands comic.

Creative BMX cyclist Tim knoll pulls off all sorts of crazy freestyle bike stunts throughout the streets of Berlin, Germany in a new Red Bull short film titled “BMX Meets Parkour.” The American rider describes his style as BMX Freestyle; think gymnastics meets BMX. Influenced by acrobatics, his riding takes tricks to a whole new […]

Artist Howard Lee has created a wonderful timelapse video, featuring his photorealistic drawings of food and candy, where he challenges viewers to choose between which object is the real and which is fake. It is quite hard to do with some of his amazing illustrations. More of Howard’s mind-bending pieces of artwork are available to […]

Boom Raider is a humorous Tomb Raider short film created by the Fury Fingers movie studio that follows Lara Croft, played by Melbourne-based cosplayer ShiveeeJam, as she tries to take out a group of enemy soldiers by blowing up an explosive barrel. Croft runs into numerous obstacles while trying to complete her main objective, a […]

National Geographic recently profiled Sara Mapelli, an energy healer and Bee Queen (see previously), who performed and explained the origins and process of her unique bee dance for them. While wearing the queen of the hive, Mapelli is surrounded by 10,000 bees, creating what she describes as a meditative atmosphere of movement, energy, and sound. […]

In a recent episode of “Frame by Frame” by the Film Theorists, host Kyle takes a look at the iconic style of director Martin Scorsese and how his films juxtapose the slow, simple and realistic pace of neorealism with the frenetic speed of postmodernism. Today Kyle is talking about the man, the myth, the Martin […]

Cry Translator is an app created by Biloop that attempts to translate the cries of a newborn baby to tell parents what the baby needs. The developers recorded over 200,000 cries from about 100 babies to identify the different types of cries and their root cause to create the app. images via Cry Translator via AJ+

Filmmaker Cristian Dimitrius and Fran Hutchins, the Director of the Bracken Cave Preserve for Bat Conservation International, captured absolutely magnificent GoPro footage of the moment that thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats took flight into the blue Comal County, Texas evening sky. Bracken Cave is the summer home of the world’s largest bat colony. With millions […]

British astronaut Tim Peak explains “How to use the loo” on the International Space Station in a video released by the European Space Agency. Because people seem endlessly fascinated by going to the bathroom in space, Peak is not the first astronaut to answer this question and he likely won’t be the last. NASA astronaut Sunita […]

Tom Grotting, prankster and member of the “Polar Vortex user group”, likes to entertain his Minneapolis, Minnesota neighbors with a group of strangely anthropomorphic pants he calls “the fellas”. The jeans, which have been frozen stiff in water and then posed around the neighborhood as ad-hoc statues. Grotting told Good Morning America that he started […]

NASA visualization scientist Robert Hurt discusses how realistic science fiction planets from the worlds of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 are in a video by Wired. Hurt gives real world comparisons to fictional planets like Hoth and Romulus, and also shows some examples of his work with the Spitzer space telescope.

The Martian Ali Gray, Matt Looker, and Ed Williamson of The Shiznit have created a collection of brutally honest movie posters for 2016 Oscar-nominated films. It’s a particularly open race at this year’s Oscars, which is interesting, so interesting, so incredibly interesting. Could this film win? But what about that film? Does this actor deserve […]

In response to the adage that “using the handrails on the subway is like shaking hands with 100 people”, typographer, illustrator and artist Craig Ward, whose work often involves microscopes, conducted an artistic experiment entitled “Subvisual Subway“. In the experiment Ward gathered samples of bacteria from subway poles, cultured each sample to see the resulting […]

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele embark on a dangerous mission to rescue a kitten named Keanu in their first feature film Keanu. The comedy was directed by Peter Atencio and written by Peele and Alex Rubens. Both Atencio and Rubens worked with Peele and Key on their Comedy Central series Key & Peele. Keanu appears to be an […]

A friendly chess game between two older gentlemen escalates into a high action special effects battle in “Elder Wars,” a short film by Andrew McMurry of AndrewMFilms. The film stars Seth McMurry and Michael Scott as the combatants who use everything from machine guns to magic wands to try to destroy each other. submitted via Laughing Squid […]

Aldo Jones gave his incredibly bizarre “weird trailer” treatment to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Bubbleissimo is a series of photos, taken by New York City photographer Mindo Cikanavicius, that feature a dapper group men sporting amusing beard and mustaches made of soap bubbles. The full collection of photos are available to view on his website. photos via Mindo Cikanavicius via Ufunk

The MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, imploded a railway tanker car with a powerful vacuum in a clip from an episode of their show’s final season. The tanker is now the largest prop the team has ever used on the show, and it was sacrificed to test a myth about whether under the right […]

CineFix presents their picks for the top 10 opening shots in movies of all time.

On the latest episode of DIY Prop Shop on Break’s AWE me channel, host Dylan Thomas demonstrates how to build your own version of a Phaser from Star Trek: The Original Series.

In a promotion for a new PBS Nature series Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle, a group of highly-intelligent but thieving long-tailed macaques at the Pura Luhur Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, are ready to surrender their ill-gotten treasures for a piece of fruit. A group of long-tailed macaques at the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, […]

In April 2015, a tiny kitten named Rosie came into the home of Lilo the Husky and her two canine brothers and each of them, particularly Lilo took to her right away. Unfortunately Rosie was cold, lethargic and unresponsive, so the maternal dog stepped right in and snuggled with the tiny feline until she felt […]

The KeyCatch by KeySmart is a simple light switch magnet for keeping keys easy to find by quickly securing them to the wall. The device is easily installed by replacing one of the screws in a light switch panel, so it can be put into place in seconds. A four-pack of KeyCatch magnets is available in our […]

Luís Azevedo of Beyond the Frame has compiled together an absolutely wonderful film montage that demonstrates the infinite joy,intrigue, wonder and knowledge that can be found amongst the many pages housed in bookstores and libraries. Bookstores and Libraries – The Most Wonderful Places on Earth

FootGolf is a relatively recent sport that combines soccer and golf for a fun and unique activity. Players kick a soccer ball along a golf course while adhering to a set of official rules similar to golf. According to Atlas Obscura, some golf courses are embracing the sport as a way to compensate for a […]

Host Joe Sabia of Vogue recently asked Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) 73 questions while taking an interesting tour of Zoolander’s “really, really ridiculously good-looking” apartment. Zoolander 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2001 comedy film Zoolander, is currently scheduled to release in theaters on February 12th, 2016. It comes as no surprise that Derek Zoolander’s […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new “Zequel” TV spot for Zoolander 2, a sequel to the 2001 comedy film Zoolander directed by and starring Ben Stiller. Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are teaming up once again to save the day in the most hilarious way possible. Zoolander 2 is currently scheduled to […]

Comedian Alyssa Onofreo created “An Honest GoFundMe Video” that showcases different types of desperate pleas for cash people make on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe. There are many noble causes on GoFundMe, some just don’t add up. Share this video to help us guilt trip as many people as possible. In 2014, Onofreo created an “Honest […]

Mike Seymour of Wired goes behind the scenes and takes a look at the incredible, Oscar-nominated visual effects used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. See how Industrial Light & Magic crafted complex action sequences, detailed environments, and realistic characters with the help of advanced motion-capture technology and performances from actors like Lupita Nyong’o.

Disney and Lucasfilm have announced the that Star Wars: Episode VIII, the follow-up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will open on December 15, 2017. The film was originally scheduled for release in the Summer of 2017. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII is currently in preproduction and will begin principal […]