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Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff from The University of Nottingham explains the properties of the element thorium in a new video from the Periodic Table of Videos series. Poliakoff also explain how the use of thorium could make nuclear energy safer, and gets into more detail about that point in a second video.

Stop & Go Production recently shared footage in 2015 of a crazy accident that took place during the second race of the Porsche Carrera Cup France championship at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain. After taking a nasty turn, one Porsche 911 race car hit and drove up perfectly onto the roof of another car. […]

Rachel Bloom, the talented creator and star of the CW musical comedy-drama Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, performed the original song “Heavy Boobs” a really amusing, but painfully accurate tribute that accurately portrays the burden that women with a large bust have to endure every single day. I got them heavy boobs, heavy Boobs, dense like dying stars. […]

It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson explains how bees make honey and how they control which bees become queens or workers. The video explains the full process from how bees collect nectar and signal each other where food is, to how bees regurgitate nectar into each other’s mouths to process nectar. The episode is the […]

New York Horizon, the first place winning design of the EVolo 2016 Skyscraper Competition by architects Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, uses an incredibly novel horizontal approach in order to provide a maximum of space. The “skyscraper” would surround the perimeter of a newly sunken Central Park and provide an enormous amount of housing while […]

The latest installment of SciShow News gives new insight into the taxonomy of the mysterious Tully Monster, a strange creature that lived around 300 million years ago. The episode also explains how a fish was able to fertilize its own eggs to reproduce through a process known as “selfing,” which is very rare in vertebrates.

Jennifer Lopez and James Corden sing some “Carpool Karaoke” and discuss butt insurance on The Late Late Show. Corden also borrows Lopez’s phone to send a weird text to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Joe Penna (a.k.a. “MysteryGuitarMan“) used “some fruits, Snapchat, and a lot of free time” to create a stop-motion animated video of an orange adventuring through a side-scrolling video game world.

A photo posted by ??? (@chien.chu.lee) on Dec 13, 2015 at 10:19am PST Taiwanese self-taught artist Chien Chu Lee has created a series of beautiful miniature sculptures that are intricately carved into pencil lead. More photos of Chien’s amazing work are available to view on Instagram and Facebook. A video posted by ??? (@chien.chu.lee) on […]

The Austrian Domino Art group has simultaneously broken the three Guinness World Records for “Most Disc Cases Toppled in a Domino Fashion,” “Longest Domino Wall,” and “Largest Stick Bomb” in a single glorious chain reaction. The event was held on March 22, 2016 in Tulln an der Donau, Austria after a four-day build by a team of […]

On a recent episode of Nerdy Nummies, Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino demonstrated how to make and decorate Incredible Hulk pudding cups. A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Mar 29, 2016 at 11:56am PDT A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Mar 29, 2016 at 11:58am PDT A photo posted […]

Twitch streamer and video game designer Seth Bling used various Super Mario World glitches to cleverly inject code, written by p4plus2, for Flappy Bird using only SNES hardware. According to Seth, this was the “first time a human has ever completed this kind of exploit.” Bling also released his fifteen pages of notes that help […]

Filmmaker and cosplayer Mars Mel of Red Planet Productions recently captured footage at WonderCon 2016 in Los Angeles of an adorable little girl’s transforming BB-8 costume. The girl emerged from the costume by popping her hands and head out of a couple of holes. She then stuck her thumb up, which had a fake torch […]

SciShow host Michael Aranda explained what eye boogers are made of and how they form in a recent installment of Quick Questions. Different factors impact the make up and consistency of the discharge that builds up in the corner of the eyes.

The incredibly talented musician Steve Onotera aka Samuraiguitarist effortlessly performed each track of the Daft Punk single “Around the World“, in one take. This was in tribute to one of his earlier videos. One of my first popular videos was a Daft Punk cover, so I thought, “why not do another?” Samuraiguitarist can also be […]

BrainCraft host Vanessa Hill explains the science behind the game theory problem the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” and why humans decide to cooperate or not. In the classic problem, two prisoners are interrogated separately and each is offered a deal if they blame their crime on the other. The problem was first proposed in the 1950s, but it wasn’t […]

KQED Arts recently profiled visual artist Sonja Hinrichsen who creates “Snow Drawings“, giant spiral imprints that she makes with her snowshoed feet on mountains around the world. Hinrichsen explained during the interview how she got started and why spirals are important to her . Snow drawings started out of play. I was at an artist […]

In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the brilliant Carl Sagan spoke about his concern that civilization didn’t have the ability to communicate with extraterrestrial life during a 1985 interview with veteran interviewer Studs Terkel. Look at timescales, you realize that our civilization is the most backward civilization […]

A vintage Facit ESA-01 mechanical calculator spins wildly while it tries to divide by zero in a video posted by MultiGlizda. Dividing a number by zero gives an undefined result, so the machine is incapable of providing an answer. via reddit

On the latest episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Dylan Thomas demonstrates how to build a replica of Daenerys Targaryen‘s dragon eggs from Game of Thrones. Ever wanted to be the mother of mythical dragons? Well. We can’t help you there. But we can help you make your very own Dragon […]

The TED-Ed lesson “Can You Solve the Locker Riddle?” by Lisa Winer gives a quick solution for solving the seemingly complicated riddle. The premise of the riddle is that a person stands to either be the sole inheritor of a large fortune, or to divide the money evenly as one of a hundred people. To […]

In 1958, Dutch filmmaker Bert Haanstra created “Glas“, a brilliant Oscar-winning, ten-minute film that compares the graceful, delicate art of glass blowing with the clunky, inefficient efficiency of bottle production machines, utilizing an incredibly appropriate soundtrack to highlight the film’s intentions. Aeon Video has brought the film back into the public eye, where it so […]

Wired has created a wonderful video highlighting a lot of the cool things that they saw this year at the first-ever Silicon Valley Comic Con, which was presented by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. Taking place at the San Jose Convention Center, it […]

Bootsowen has enhanced their washing machine washing a brick experiment by adding googly eyes.

In a world of “Likes”, Nikon is asking people to “Show Your Love Some Love” in a new ad encouraging people to use an actual camera rather than just their phones to capture important images in their life. We live in a world of likes. But what about Loves? Because the things you Love make […]

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to The Revenant. Strap into your horse skin and endure hours of Leo scratching and clawing his way to an Academy Award.

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how The Revenant should have ended. Glass wasn’t the only one on a cross country trek for revenge.

The School of Life explains through animation, the fascinating “Weakness of Strength” theory which essentially states that a person’s greatest strengths in one context are the source their greatest weaknesses in a different context. The theory goes like this, every strength that an individual necessarily brings with it a weakness of which it is an […]

A sweet, big-bellied yellow lab sleeping on her side repeatedly let out a giant snore that ruffled her muzzle and sounded as if she were blowing bubbles underwater.

In a recent episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains why old books and newspaper turn yellow with age using information from a post written by Matt Blitz. .Lignin is a compound found in wood that actually makes the wood stronger and harder. …Lignin is a dark color naturally (think brown-paper bags […]

Creator, Loren Bouchard, and the writers of Bob’s Burgers teamed up with Cole Bowden of The Bob’s Burger Experiment to create The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book: Real Recipes for Joke Burgers, a brilliant illustrated recipe book that shows how to prepare many of the joke Burgers of the Day from FOX‘s popular television series. The […]

10-year-old Jordan Reeves has invented her own prosthetic arm that shoots glitter that she calls “Project Unicorn.” Reeves was a participant in Superhero Cyborgs 2.0, an event where children with limb differences work alongside designers and engineers to create their own prosthetics. photo via KIDmob via Fast Company

YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart star in a modern, campy and comedic remake of the classic Sid and Marty Krofft live action television show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. ELECTRA WOMAN & DYNA GIRL follows two superheroes Electra Woman (Helbig) and Dyna Girl (Hart) as they move from Akron to Los Angeles in […]

Thai designer Nattakong Jaengsem has created Sweet Kills, a deliciously disturbing diabetes awareness campaign that gives us a bizarre look at what too much sugar can do to our bodies. Using his Photoshop skills, Nattakong edited images to make it look as if people are suffering from out of control infections made of chocolate, vanilla, […]

The third episode of “Buck the Cubicle” by P2 Photography profiles Tim Linhart an incredible ice sculptor and the creator of the annual Ice Music Series (previously), a magical musical symphony of frozen, playable instruments played in a hand-carved igloo within the Swedish Lapland town of Luleå,. During the interview, Linhart spoke to volatile nature […]

Star Wars UK has shared a new sneak peek at Daisy Ridley‘s powerful audition that landed her the part of Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This is one of many bonus features in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens DVD and Blu-ray combo packs, which are scheduled to release on April 5th, 2016. […]

Great Big Story profiled inventor Lonnie Johnson, creator of the Super Soaker, in their latest video. Although the iconic water gun is Johnson’s most well-known invention, he holds more than 100 patents and has worked for NASA and the United States military. While he was developing the Super Soaker, he was working on the classified B-2 stealth […]

Mr Sunday Movies looks at the easter eggs, cameos and hidden references in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is packed with all the Easter Eggs and References towards DC Comics, previous DC Comic films, the animated universe and other blockbuster projects. Of course not all could be considered […]

In the latest episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually offer a history of certain verbs made from existing nouns, which were considered to be objectionable at the time, but have been since incorporated into the common English lexicon. Here are […]

Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) makes the world a more colorful place in the new trailer for season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which will premiere on Netflix on April 15, 2016.

Christopher Sherwood has created a wonderful video that follows the epic journey of Luke Skywalker‘s lightsaber beginning with Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and ending with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We get a look at how the legendary lightsaber started out in the possession of Anakin and ended up with Rey, who tracked down […]

Vox explains the history and science behind lens flares and how they are used in movies. Although they are very popular in modern cinema, lens flares used to be considered a mistake that cinematographers had to avoid. Aesthetically, trends have shifted from masking flare to embracing it. Once Cool Hand Luke and other ’60s movies […]

A photo posted by @samurai_armor_hoodies on Mar 10, 2016 at 2:34am PST Bamboo, lead singer of the anisong band milktub, teamed up with Tokyo Otaku Mode and Studio696 of Japan to create a line of fierce and fashionable hoodies that resemble sets of Japanese samurai armor. They are currently raising funds on Indiegogo to help […]

On their latest episode of Trailer Mix, Mashable Watercooler created a fantastic new trailer for Jurassic Park that imagines what the film would be like as a joyful nature documentary.

Fashion designer, mixed artist, and cosplay model Kay Pike is bad with another awesome time lapse video that features Kay painting a Superman costume on her own body at 1,000x speed. Pike captured the footage while she was streaming live on Twitch. Her full series of Superman photos are available on Imgur and Instagram. Fans […]

Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for Lights Out, an upcoming horror directed and written by David F. Sandberg and produced by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring). The creepy movie follows an evil creature that is dead set on terrorizing and destroying a family when the lights go off. Lights Out is scheduled to […]

Filmmakers Jenna Close and Jon Held of P2 Photography have created “Buck the Cubicle“, an absolutely wonderful series spotlighting creative occupations that are practiced far from any kind of office. In the second episode of the series, artist Bruce Gardner demonstrates the meditative practice of hikaru dorodango, an art in which a perfect sphere is […]

Hydraulic Press Channel is back with two new videos where they crush a ringing alarm clock and a bunch of coins using their hydraulic press.

The beautiful sport of fencing comes to life with the help of motion tracking and gorgeous visual effects by Japanese fencer Yuki Ota and the Fencing Visualized Project. Each fencer’s weapon is illuminated with trailing color as they attempt to hit their opponent. The technology could be used to make televised fencing easier to follow […]

Powerful electrical arc flashes move across power lines in a fascinating video posted by SaeLow. via YouTube Trending