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Marvel released a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War, the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The action-packed trailer gives us a glimpse of the tension and conflict escalating between members of the Avengers. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 6th, […]

xkcd creator Randall Munroe rearranged the shapes of the 48 contiguous states to create a new map of the United States of America. image via xkcd

Mark Rober created a scale model of the solar system using a soccer ball on a football field as the Sun to show the scale of the solar system and to help give an idea of the true distance of the recently proposed ninth planet. Rober placed planets on the field at their relative distances from […]

The latest animated video from The School of Life gently postulates that the technology of the future will be able to read moods, detect emotional states and help humans communicate the nebulous world of feelings through the ever-advancing strides being made in artificial intelligence. One such emotional technology tool could be the yet-to-be-invented Socrates Mood […]

Sacha Baron Cohen appeared on The Howard Stern Show to promote his new movie The Brothers Grimsby. During the full interview Cohen told host Howard Stern how he managed to sneak his Ali G character into the 2016 Academy Awards against the organizers’ wishes. Cohen also explained how his Freddie Mercury biopic project fell apart over a […]

Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday In honor of the 33rd anniversary of the release of the New Order song “Blue Monday“, the talented Orkestra Obsolete played an old-timey version of the song for BBC Arts as if it were released 50 years earlier using only instruments available in 1933. Among the instruments played in the […]

The Royal Tenenbaums Manchester, England artist Jordan Bolton has created a wonderful series of movie posters that feature stunning flat lay photos of original objects he recreated from each film. Prints of his posters are available to purchase on Etsy. Amélie Breakfast at Tiffany’s images via Jordan Bolton via archatlas, The Khooll, DesignTAXI

St. Cloud, Minnesota-based gamer Comrade, also known as Merfish, has created a new video where the intro for the Pokémon cartoon series is recreated in Grand Theft Auto V. We previously wrote about Comrade’s GTA V remake of the intro to Full House and Arthur. Merfish also shared side-by-side footage with the original intro for […]

In a new animated short by Dorkly, based on a funny comic created by Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman in 2013, that imagines what it’s like for fans and non-fans to see Marvel movies. image via Dorkly

Dos Equis is retiring The Most Interesting Man in the World, an advertising campaign for the famed beer brand, by sending the bearded gentleman to Mars. They have plans to bring in a new face to play the part of The Most Interesting Man in the World in 2016. Andrew Katz, the vice president of […]

Bill Gates recently gave a reddit AMA, and for his identity verification he recreated a photo of himself from his 1973 high school year book. The new photo matches the original in surprising details, including Gates’ clothes, his pose, and objects in the room itself. I’m hard at work on my latest @reddit_AMA. Join me […]

RealmPictures, the group who created live action first-person zombie and alien shooters controlled by Chatroulette users, is back with a real life version of the video game Hitman. They gathered up a few groups of YouTubers and had them control an actual Agent 47 as he infiltrated a mansion and took down the enemies.

On a recent episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, Reggie Watts brought the cute Star Wars droid BB-8 on stage and serenaded his little friend with a song.

In 2014, Vietnam 1Cycle posted a wonderful video of a talented woman performing a lively tune on the lithophone, an ancient Vietnamese percussion instrument made from stones. Lithophone is the Vietnam oldest percussion instrument’s and one of the most ancient musical instruments of mankind. This is made of stones with different sizes of long, short, […]

Improv actor Planet Antonio logged on to the video chat site Blab and posed as a time travel from 1943 connecting to the Internet on an early ENIAC computer. Antonio stayed in character for more than an hour, gathering information about the future and answering questions about the past. via reddit

Yesterday KTVU San Francisco Bay Area reporter Alex Savidge and his cameraman Chip Vaughan were almost hit hit by a car during a live TV report they were shooting. Vaughan saw the car coming a yelled at Savidge allowing him get out of the way just in time. Savidge followed up with an emotional live […]

Editor and director Joey Scoma of Rocket Jump Film School explains the basics of film cuts and transitions available to filmmakers, using scenes from a number of different movies to demonstrate his point. In this video essay, Joey lists and defines the different cuts and transitions available to you as an editor, with examples from […]

Last month Mike Doughty performed a really great solo version of the classic Soul Coughing song “Super Bon Bon” on The Howard Stern Show. Mike is currently on tour with Big Head Todd & The Monsters. When Howard loves a song, he loves it for life. Whether from his formative years (Neil Young’s “Old Man”) […]

Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor of SORTEDFood offered an amusing demonstration that showed how to build a burrito-sized sushi roll. They also generously provided a step-by-step pictorial recipe on their website. Sushi are gorgeous dainty morsels and burritos are crammed full of filling making them dense and heavy. Both fantastically satisfying in their own right… […]

SciShow explains how Precision Medicine Initiative will try to help fight disease, and why Boston Dynamics researchers pushed around their new Atlas humanoid robot in a recent episode. Today on SciShow News we talk about a new research effort that is aiming to revolutionize how we treat disease. We also discuss the video where Boston Dynamics shows off […]

Paramedic Shaun Cunningham used his quick reflexes to save his son Landon from being hit in the face by a flying baseball bat during a spring training game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves. Landon was texting a photos of the game to his mother and didn’t see the bat headed his way. […]

Aaron Rollins demonstrates a handy hack on how to efficiently remove unsightly popcorn ceilings using putty knife duct taped to the end of a Shop Vac hose. via reddit

Conan O’Brien fell in love with a brown bear cub during a recent Conan segment with animal expert David Mizejewski. Mizejewski also had a black bear cub and was happy to report that the populations of both species in North America are doing well. Despite how cute Conan’s new friend is now, Mizejewski assured Conan that […]

On the latest episode of PBS Game/Show, host Jamin Warren explains why the mega popular video game, Minecraft, has such a blocky design. He then explores the pixelated world of voxels. Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time. And yet, the graphics are a bit… blocky. It seem like a strange […]

Conan O’Brien encounters a case of extreme manspreading in the audience while taping one of his shows. Conan just learned about the nasty habit of men who sit with their legs splayed open, and sure enough, there’s a manspreader right up front.

The Nerdwriter Evan Puschak recently re-watched the 1990s Nickelodeon series The Ren & Stimpy Show to understand what made the cartoon so unique. The show’s creator John Kricfalusi pushed back against the commercialism and morality he saw in the work of his peers, and the result was a children’s show that was bizarre, peculiar, and hilarious.

On their latest episode of Trailer Mix, Mashable Watercooler created a interesting new trailer for the Rocky film series sequel, Creed, that imagines what the movie would have looked like if it were produced as a VHS home video release in the 1990s.

In his first video since his cancer diagnosis, the indestructible Jake Roper of VSauce3, spoke about the incredibly existential questions that arose when he started thinking about logical paradoxes. To clarify his point, Roper described four different paradoxes – the Ship of Theseus paradox, the Sorites paradox, the Grelling–Nelson paradox and the teleportation paradox. If […]

Adult Swim has released an amusing mid-season trailer for their hilarious stop-motion animated show, Robot Chicken. The trailer is filled with pop culture mashups and gives us a glimpse at some of the new, tasty shorts that poke fun as popular movies, television series, and more. Season eight returns on Sunday, March 13th, 2016 at […]

A photo posted by Tal Peleg (@tal_peleg) on Nov 22, 2015 at 10:20am PST Artist Tal Peleg has shared her ongoing series of beautiful eyelid makeup art that features scenes from popular movies, musicals, and books. Tal’s entire collection eyelid art is available to view on her Instagram and Facebook pages. We previously wrote about […]

A bicyclist captured hilarious, albeit probably terrifying, footage with of a tenacious ostrich sprinting along the road after his two friends as they rode around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. According to National Geographic, “the cyclists were going 31 miles per hour but the ostrich kept up with them”.

A video clip taken from the Exploratorium Science Center‘s broadcast of the March 8, 2016 total solar eclipse shows the four-minute totality when the Sun was completely blocked by the Moon’s shadow. The total eclipse was visible Indonesia and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Another video taken from the European Space Agency‘s Proba2 mini-satellite in sun-synchronous […]

Tested editor Norman Chan and movie effect artist Sean Charlesworth recently worked together to create a fantastic, functioning ghost trap from Ghostbusters that features lights, sounds, and smoke. This prop pulls the best features from the traps that appear in the films, using as many original found parts as possible and the rest 3D printed. […]

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The Backyard Scientist melted kosher salt and poured the molten substance into a tank of water to cause a series of explosions with the goal of figuring out the cause of the violent reaction. The experiment was inspired by a similar video done by What We Made, but the Backyard Scientist version captured the explosions with […]

Ivan Owens, a designer of “oddities overtly orchestrated for ocular observation” in Bellingham, Washington taught his 10-year old daughter how to design and cast a pewter ring for herself. My 10 year old daughter wanted to learn how to make her own metal ring by melting down the metal herself. …The video shows her learning […]

Bethesda Softworks has released a trailer for the multiplayer version of the highly anticipated reboot of DOOM, which is scheduled for release on May 13, 2016 and is currently available for pre-order. DOOM’s multiplayer is not for the faint of heart. It’s bloody. It’s brutal. And it’s VERY FAST. Prepare yourself with a glimpse into […]

A photo posted by naomiuno (@naomiuno) on Jan 21, 2016 at 5:55am PST A couple of incredibly well behaved cats in Japan enjoy the view of beautifully prepared meals from the lap of their culinary inclined human. The sweet felines, named Hatchan and Oko-Chan, let their humans enjoy their food Sometimes however, the kitties can’t […]

Moon Shot is a series of nine short documentaries about some of the teams working to land a robot on the Moon to claim the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. The series was created by director Orlando von Einsiedel and executive producer J.J. Abrams, and it will be released digitally on March 15, 2016. image via Google Lunar XPRIZE […]

ThinkGeek is currently featuring a furry, officially licensed Star Wars Chewbacca messenger bag featuring a strap that looks like his iconic bandolier and bag flaps that resemble his fur. There’s a story that during the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) Chewbacca carried a bag which in the script reportedly contained tools and stuff […]

This post was sponsored by Be Less Stupid via Syndicate Ads. It’s being hailed as “The Daily Show meets Popular Science.” From a 14 time Emmy nominee and former show runner of Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t who also spent five years writing on Politically Incorrect, comes Be Less Stupid, a new show for anyone interested […]

In their wonderful whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill of verbally and visually explain why the English language has so many synonyms – words that mean exactly the same thing. English is at base a Germanic language, part of the family including German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. […]

London animator James Curran of SlimJim Studios has created “NYC Gifathon,” a celebratory animated short made up of 30 amazing GIFs that James created while visiting New York City for a month. James’ entire collection of New York inspired GIFs are available to view on Instagram and his website. I spent a month in New […]

Japanese LEGO builder Dr. Pei has created a crowded sushi restaurant scene complete with a working conveyor belt. The scene features a variety of patrons like samurai, aliens, and even BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. photos via Dr. Pei via Mental Floss, DesignTAXI

In the latest video of his weekly cooking series, the famously mercurial chef Gordon Ramsay offers helpful tips, shortcuts and methods for five different kitchen scenarios. We’ve compiled five previous videos into one, helping you to master your basic skills in the kitchen. Cooking rice, chopping an onion, sharpening a knife, deboning a fish and […]

Red Bull recently captured footage of extreme snowmobiler Levi LaVallee visiting his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota and performing all sorts of insane stunts throughout the city. Some people see the world as a playground, where anything and everything can and will be a shreddable obstacle. As a kid growing up in Minnesota, Levi LaVallee […]

Sir George Martin, the multi-talented legendary music and television producer, musician, composer and engineer who became known worldwide as the “Fifth Beatle”, passed away at his home near Swindon in southwest England. He was 90 years old. Ringo Starr announced the sad news to the world via Twitter . Thank you for all your love […]

Rolling Stone recently went behind-the scenes with stunt and fight coordinator Philip J. Silvera to find out how he designed the amazing fight scenes for Deadpool. Philip J. Silvera is one of Hollywood’s premiere stunt choreographers, having worked on major projects for film (Iron Man 3), television (Daredevil) and video games (Star Wars: The Old […]

Runway of Dreams is an amazing non-profit organization that works with designers to make stylish clothing more available to kids and teens who are differently abled. Founded by fashion veteran Mindy Scheier who seeks to make the fashion industry all-inclusive. Runway of Dreams is a nonprofit organization working with the fashion industry to adapt mainstream […]

Redditor sunsetparkslope shared a video of his cute little sparrow named Sparky taking a bath. I found Sparky barely clinging to life, laying on a pile of other hatchlings that had all fallen from a height of about 8 feet onto concrete and died. Sparky is 2 years old now and he is the most […]