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In “This Pi Day Is Round” mathematician Vi Hart argues that 3/14/16 is a more significant and accurate Pi Day than 3/14/15 even though the first five digits of pi are 3.1415. The argument is an unusual one for Hart, who has posted a number of rants over the years against Pi Day and pi itself, […]

Melbourne, Australia freelance artist Darren Wallace has created a fantastic new video that features Stay Puft Marshmallow Man sitting down and reacting to the new Ghostbusters trailer with his old pals Slimer and the Keymaster. “This is not necessarily a reflection of my opinion of the trailer but rather a satirical skit about the negative […]

Writer and filmmaker Peter Salomone has cleverly created the Walk of Life Project, a cinematic endeavor in which he seeks to prove that the 1985 Dire Straits song ‘Walk of Life‘ provides the perfect ending to any film. In order to prove his hypothesis, he attached the song to the final scene of 50 different […]

Bandai has created an awesome Darth Vader Toothpick Dispenser that will help keep your teeth from turning to the dark side. When a lever on Vader‘s back is flicked, the iconic Sith Lord reaches into his cape, grabs a toothpick, and then holds it out to prepare for the ongoing war on food-filled pearly whites. […]

On the latest episode of her cooking show Nerdy Nummies, Los Angeles-based baker and author Rosanna Pansino demonstrated how to make how to make mini Raspberry Pi Pies to celebrate Pi Day today (March 14th). A video posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Mar 9, 2016 at 6:10pm PST A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino […]

John Atkinson takes a look at how book adaptations devolve when going to a movie, then to a television show and finally to a video game in his latest Wrong Hands comic.

Upon noticing that their boxer was escaping from his crate on a regular basis, the dog’s humans set up a hidden camera to see how exactly how he accomplished this feat. It turns out that the tenacious canine used a bit of logic and a great deal of persistence to pull bottom out from the […]

Hank Green of SciShow offers a reasonable explanation as to why certain sounds are considered to be so universally unpleasant and cringe inducing. It turns out it’s the frequency. …it turns out that there’s a good scientific reason why certain sounds set most people’s teeth on edge: human ears are extra sensitive to a particular […]

In 2012, two adorable little babies, one human (Bella) and the other a Brazilian jaguar (Juma), enjoy their bottles side by side as if they were siblings. Being that Bella’s father is Airton Katsuyama, a well-known Brazilian biologist who rescues all sorts of animals, this particular sight isn’t as unusual as it seems. Bella is […]

Keith Emerson, the brilliantly passionate keyboardist who first incorporated Moog synthesizers into live shows, composer and founding member of the iconic progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California on March 11, 2016. He was 71 years old. Keith Emerson (1944 – 2016)We regret to announce that Keith […]

Vox contributor Phil Edwards researched the history of Wingdings fonts and how it is used in the video, “Why the Wingdings font exists.” The fonts derived from dingbats, special characters used in pre-computer printing, and are an early predecessor to emoji. As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. […]

This @iamlilbub piece is still available in my Etsy store :) #lilbub #embroidery #embroideryhoop #hoopart A photo posted by Emillie Ferris (@emillieferris) on Jun 28, 2015 at 7:32am PDT British artist Emillie Ferris employs her incredible hand embroidery skills to create beautiful animal portraits that are amazingly realistic. Making these portraits, however, came about almost […]

Electronic Arts has released the announcement trailer for Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, a mobile collectible card-based strategy game that pits superhero plants against zombies. The mobile game is currently being tested in select regions and will become available worldwide in late 2016. Collect hundreds of characters, including new roster favorites from Plants vs. Zombies Garden […]

The AxiDraw by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is a new plotter robot that writes and draws using a variety of pens and markers. The writing instrument can be angled, which allows the robot to use fountain pens for calligraphy and many other applications. The AxiDraw is an extremely versatile machine, designed to serve a wide […]

A tired pangolin (scaly anteater) named Katiti, worn out from the day’s events, sat a atop his human caretaker’s head as she headed home, curled into a ball and enjoyed the ride. When Katiti the pangolin ventures out on one of his foraging excursions, he’s never alone. The team from wildlife rehab centre REST follows […]

The Chart of Cosmic Exploration by Pop Chart Lab is a detailed poster of every space exploration mission to leave the Earth’s orbit. The poster features hand-drawn illustrations of each spacecraft and shows their path around the solar system. Probe the solar system from Mercury to Pluto with this stellar schematic of space exploration! From […]

Inventor Colin Furze blew his socks off while testing out his homemade fireworks rocket launcher. He also fired rockets at a tent and a moving truck, but as he put it, “I don’t really think accuracy is its strong point.” Furze posted a video about building the fireworks rocket launcher earlier this month.

Pastry chef Amber Spiegel of SweetAmbs, who’s known for creating beautifully intricate cookies, offers a step-by-step video demonstration showing how to make cookies that each look like a bowl of ramen with chopsticks on the side. Even Spiegel is impressed with these cookies, calling them her “favorite cookies yet!” After visiting Japan last year, ramen […]

A new teaser has been released giving us a first look at the full-cast table read of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The entire table read will be part of the amazing collection of bonus content found in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens DVD and Blu-ray combo packs. The film is scheduled to […]

Rather than fleeing back into the cold New Jersey winter air, a pregnant feral tabby cat allowed a generous woman named Katie Lanza to welcome her into a warm, inviting and loving home so that she could bear her kittens in a safe environment. The formerly feral cat was given the name Lipstick and gave […]

Didja, the incredibly talented skateboarding cat beat the heat of the Australian summer by taking a ride around the pool on the back of a very genial and obliging Weimaraner named Ice, who appeared oblivious to all the goings on. It’s a hot day in the land Down Under but Didga and Ice know how […]

In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the iconic primatologist, anthropologist and author Jane Goodall spoke about her incredible work with the Kasakela chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, how she got started in the field, her belief in the unlikely and the humility required in […]

The Blockhead by Ten One Design is a clever side-facing plug adapter for Apple laptop chargers. The adapter allows the charger to be plugged in from the side, giving users more options about where to plug in their MacBook or iPad. photos via Ten One Design via MacRumors

In the latest experiment by Tito4re, they poured molten copper on a McDonald’s Big Mac.

PostCups are an adorable collection of postcards, created by designers Ink Julep and Jenn Perng, that are only completed when you stain them with a coffee ring. The packs of seven different postcards (Bicycle, Boy and Balloon, Cat, Ferris Wheel, Panda, Planet, Snowman) are available to purchase on Etsy. Can’t go without coffee? We’ve bean […]

The cast of Community (particularly Danny Pudi and Alison Brie) goofs off in the gag reel from the show’s sixth and final season. The reel is one of the special features on the season six DVD release.

Dave Hax recently created a new video tutorial on how to soften a hard stick of butter in minutes. He did so by filling a drinking glass with hot water and letting it sit for a bit. Dave then dried the glass and placed it over a stick of butter for a few minutes. Voilà!

The MPC creative studio has shared a visual effect breakdown of their work on Terminator Genisys. They go into detail about how they digitally created a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the endoskeletons, the massive battle at LAX airport, and more. music by Phil Rey – “A Planet To Conquer“

I've given this place 4 stars. It's the all day breakfast that lets it down really. Apart from that the staff are… Posted by Christian Willoughby on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Christian Willoughby of Grimsby, England was being detained at the Grimsby Police Station over what he called a misdemeanor. While there he managed to capture […]

chihuahua or muffin ? pic.twitter.com/LzZ1lwoVrP — karen zack (@teenybiscuit) March 10, 2016 Freelance commercial and film producer Karen Zack has created a wonderfully funny Twitter photo series that compares dogs and other small animals with their edible counterparts. Tiny chihuahua faces that match exactly with the speckled tops of berry muffins, curled up sleeping dogs […]

Madrid, Spain-based film editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz has created “Hands of Nolan,” a fantastic look at films by Christopher Nolan through the hands of his characters. Jorge features scenes from Following, Memento, Batman Begins, and more. music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “Piano Concerto No.23 In A Major, K 488 Adagio” via DesignTAXI

Astronomer Mike Kentrianakis was on board Alaska Airlines flight #870 from Anchorage to Honolulu when it rerouted to give its passengers a unique view of the March 8, 2016 solar eclipse from 35,000 feet.

Jenny Morgan Volume 39 of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine has been announced and will feature stunning artwork made by contemporary artists from around the globe. New York painter Jenny Morgan will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue. Volume 39 of the quarterly art publication is currently available to pre-order from […]

On a recent episode of One Day Builds by Tested, host Adam Savage created Hellboy‘s massive demon-slaying sword from the Hellboy comics. It comes complete with a charred demon skewered at the tip.

Oliver Taylor has created an amusing comedy sketch where he and a group of Star Wars and Joker fans surround Mark Hamill to ask for autographs. To avoid all of the chaos, Hamill performs Jedi mind tricks on the group and persuades them to go bother Harrison Ford instead. via GeekTyrant

Screen Rant takes a look of ten actors who died during the production of a film.

While appearing on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian and musician Michael McKean discussed how scenes from the (now) classic rock parody film This Is Spinal Tap essentially predicted the future for other bands in real life. Well in some cases it was about them, it just hadn’t happened yet. Part of the […]

Director Alex Winter (who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to preserve the very precious memory of the incredible Frank Zappa. If enough money is raised, Winter plans to make a definitive documentary about Zappa’s life, share the unreleased materials Zappa kept inside his famous […]

Walton Goggins, the brilliant actor who’s played such characters as the ill-fated Shane Vandrell on the sublime series The Shield, the menacing bible-thumper Boyd Crowder on Justified and the wild Billy Crash in Django Unchained, spoke with Conan about the role he played on Sons of Anarchy, a sultry transgender woman named Venus Van Dam. […]

The first official trailer for the new Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping features the behind-the-scenes life of singer and rapper Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) and his entourage. The film was written by Samberg and his Lonely Island partners Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Schaffer and Taccone directed the film and Judd Apatow produced. Universal Pictures’ Popstar: […]

While solemnly reporting on a tornado that hit in the East Texas town of Malakoff, KYTX reporter Andrea Martinez was completely caught off guard by the sight of an intense yellow lab perched on top of a riding lawn mower with his paws on the wheel looking like he was ready to go to work. […]

AsapSCIENCE gives a scientific answer to the question “Can You Actually Eat a Bus?” The video focuses on how human digestion works and the unique diet of Michel “Mr. Eat Eveything” Lotito, a French performer who ate unusual things including bicycles, chandeliers, and even an airplane.

Kubo (Art Parkinson) joins forces with Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey) to save his family in the latest trailer for the Laika stop motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings. The film is about a boy who uses his magical instrument to tell stories, but learns his powers can do so much more. Kubo […]

The mysterious Food Surgeon once again donned a pair of latex gloves and went back into the operating theater in order skillfully harvest the tiny legumes from the pod of a sugar snap pea. The patient was a bit resistant at first, but eventually gave up the goods. Surgeon’s notes: 1:24 – C’mon pea! Let […]

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal posted a wonderfully heartwarming video about a retired bricklayer named Joao Pereira de Souza who lives off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the unusual friend who visits him every year from colder Patagonian climes. The visitor is a fiercely loyal Magellanic penguin named Jinjin whom de […]

Professor Paolo Pedercini asked his students at the Carnegie Melon University School of Art animation program to rotoscope footage of a galloping horse taken from an Eadward Muybridge plate from the 1870s. The class then created a series of unique interpretations of the horse’s motions. I Told My Students To Rotoscope The Muybridge Horse… You Won’t […]

Kuma Films captured footage of the professional Taiwan-based KARAT Fingerboarding team performing awesome tricks on top of a rotating table in a fancy restaurant. A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Mar 9, 2016 at 12:49am PST music by AudioTreats – “Solitaire“

CinemaSins presents everything wrong with Watchmen, the 2009 film directed by Zack Snyder based on the DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. With a new Snyder superhero film coming up, we take a look at one of his earlier superhero films: Watchmen. For the hell of it, we went with the […]

Craig Benzine aka Wheezy Waiter of the Mental Floss series “Big Questions“ very quickly and concisely explained the genetic and biological reasons explaining why some people have curly hair and while others have straight hair in answer to a viewer’s question. What makes hair appear a certain way? When they’re actually affected at the follicle […]

A photo posted by Kerby Rosanes (@kerbyrosanes) on Mar 8, 2016 at 2:42am PST Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes used his black pens to create Geometric Beasts, a series of intricate drawings that beautifully fuse together animals and geometric shapes. Kerby’s entire collection of illustrations are available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and DeviantArt. “Each piece […]