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A man in a silly bear suit had a blast scaring the crap out of a co-worker in this video from America’s Funniest Home Videos. View post on imgur.com via reddit

Concerned about the environment and the ever decreasing number of fish in the ocean, Chef James Corwell CMC came up with an ingenious alternative vegan recipe, which uses a sous-vide method to prepare tomatoes in a way that captures texture, taste and appearance of sushi grade tuna. Overfishing is destroying our oceans, and if we […]

Amateur astronomer Gary Hug has used his homemade telescope and Sandlot observatory to discover more than 300 near earth asteroids. Hug recently discussed his work in a video by Great Big Story. Gary Hug turned his fascination with asteroids into more than just a hobby. He built an observatory behind his house, and courtesy of his […]

Brothers Stephen and Chris Muscarella have created the Field Skillet, a smoother, lighter version of the beloved classic cast iron frying pan that reside in kitchens around the world. The Field Skillet is a meticulously designed smoother, lighter cast iron pan reminiscent of the best vintage American skillets—but with a modern twist. This is your […]

Dave Hax shares a pretty important life hack, how to open a bottle of wine using a key. How to remove the cork from a wine bottle using a house key. Fun life hack if you haven’t got a cork screw, or use it as a party trick. Works with synthetic corks but not real […]

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how Deadpool should have ended. When Negasonic Teenage Warhead causes the whole Helicarrier to collapse, Wade is forced to use maximum effort.

A little dog named Sunshine went for a slow ride upon the back of an accommodating giant tortoise named Nicholas. The two just walked around in circles in their human Artist Esmeralda‘s backyard, only stopping when Nicolas got a bit hungry. Sunshine also likes to go for rides on the back of Esmerelda’s bike, while […]

HBO has released the trailer for season 6 of Game of Thrones, which preimiers on April 24th.

Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks used LEGO to create a fairly accurate orrery that depicts the relative rotations of the orbits of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. The model makes an impressive approximation of the time it takes for these three bodies to move in relation to one another. Allemann has also posted building instructions for anyone looking […]

Radu Caraus demonstrated how to build a motorized toy car using a Sunlu SL – 300 3D Printer Pen. The video details the processes of building up the frame of the car and wiring the toy with a motor and working headlights. via Digg

On a recent episode of SourceFedNERD, host Matt Lieberman digs up as much information as possible to figure out approximately how many people are still alive in The Walking Dead universe. via BuzzFeed, Neatorama

Ithaca Audio created an incredibly brilliant 15-minute mashup that tells the pretty comprehensive “History of Rock” via a mock Facebook timeline in which clips of the bands were featured and where quotes from other rockstars were submitted as comments and likes. This creative design allowed the creators to really play with timelines and combine a […]

Japanese artist Shinrashinge has created a two new animated comics, based on the Dragon Ball Z and Doraemon anime series, using three paper cups with cutout sections that he rotates around to reveal each panel. We previously wrote about Shinrashinge‘s One-Punch Man comic. via Tugyatchi, RocketNews24

Weather For The Blind is on Mixlr The Weather Warlock by musician and inventor Quintron of Quintronics is a low voltage weather controlled drone synthesizer that is currently being used for the amazing project entitled “Weather for the Blind“. Based out of the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans, the synthesizer interprets weather conditions as a […]

Vat19, the online purveyor of unique gifts, recently dipped some of their oversized gummy candy offerings as well as their real life counterparts in liquid nitrogen before dropping them off a roof. The team freezes giant gummy and real world peppers, coke bottles, and pizza before letting gravity smash them to pieces.

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has written a series of stories about the history of magic in North America and released them on the Pottermore site. The four stories will be released on the site daily beginning on March 8, 2016. The stories lay the groundwork of magic in North America for the upcoming film Fantastic […]

Artori Design has created a set of supergal bookends and wondershelves that feature a little caped superheroine who seemingly keeps your books upright or elevated. They are available to purchase online (bookend and bookshelf). We previously wrote about their superhero bookends and bookshelves. A photo posted by Artori Design (@artori_design) on Mar 8, 2016 at […]

In the short film “Life From Above and Beyond“, travel photographer Trey Ratcliffe combined three years worth of gorgeous drone footage he’d taken from his amazing trip around the world and set it to several incredibly insightful Alan Watts narratives from the book Tao of Philosophy and to ethereal music by Hans Zimmer. The exquisite […]

First person video taken by Brice Milleson shows a thrilling ride along a luge style alpine mountain roller coaster in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Milleson said he rode the coaster several times during a trip in 2013. via DesignTAXI

The folks at A Dumb Thing have created “The Joy of Mario Making,” a hilarious parody of The Joy of Painting television show. It features Bryson Wallace of A Dumb Thing getting into character as Bob Ross and building his own happy little Super Mario Bros. level using the Wii U video game Super Mario […]

Claimdog is a service that helps users track down money they are owed. Users search their name and their city to see a list of possible rebates being held by the government. Claimdog then helps them officially file their claim to get paid. When a business can’t get a hold of you to send money, […]

The Biem Butter Sprayer is a handheld kitchen device that melts and sprays butter in seconds. The Biem only melts the amount of butter being used while keeping the rest of the stick solid. The Biem is available now for preorder through a Kickstarter campaign, and is expected to begin shipping in September 2016. Thanks […]

In the beautifully animated narrative “Love is the Only Reason We’re Alive“, poet IN-Q speaks to the beauty of being in love at the age of 85, but wishes for all those listening to find love much sooner. Imma love her until she loses every last root and has to glue dentures to her gums […]

Musician and producer Exurb1a has put together the really funny video “First Contact” in which a representative from Earth finally connects with extraterrestrial life, only to find that they are impatient, condescending and sanctimonious and have a really strange sense of humor. via reddit

image via bobileo Redditor bobileo posted an amusing photo of a playful cat who touched the surface of the of a plasma ball with a single paw. It immediately appeared as if the little feline had harnessed the power of the globe and was planning to put it to shocking use later on, much like […]

Crazy Russian Hacker overfilled a couple of soccer balls with air and recoreded slow motion video of them exploding, with one shot at 1000 fps and the other at 25,000 fps.

Imgur user downtwobane has shared a wonderful tutorial on how to make a golden Avengers themed lamp out from action figures and spray paint. Their entire series of photos and detailed instructions are available to view on Imgur. images via downtwobane via Home Design, Design You Trust

Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys shot beautiful slow motion video of the sparks coming off a homemade Catherine Wheel created using burning steel wool connected to wire that was being rapidly spun around in circles by Dan.

Artist Sam Klemke (a.k.a. “ultimessence“) has shared some great footage, which he took back in 1976, of his friend Terry McCoy conducting interviews during an early Star Trek convention at the Northgenn Mall in Denver, Colorado. The vintage video features fans wearing Star Trek themed costume, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) signing autographs, James Doohan (Scotty) speaking […]

Artist Jason Freeny has created wonderful anatomical sculptures of a classic Balloon Dog and a Bathing Ducky. The balloon dog and duck models, which expose what might be inside of each object, are available to purchase from Mighty Jaxx. Balloon Dog Funny Anatomy – Manufactured by 4D Master and designed by Jason Freeny, the Balloon […]

In advance of the sixth season premiere of Game of Thrones on April 24th, Sky Atlantic commissioned the magnificent snow artist Simon Beck to stomp out atop an Alpine mountain, the Dire Wolf insignia of the House of Stark in memory of the fallen Jon Snow. Walking all day and all night, through 32.5 kilometres […]

T7 Production has created “Darth Maul: Apprentice,” an action-packed Star Wars fan film that follows the deadly Sith Lord Darth Maul (Ben Schamma) as he takes on a powerful group of Jedi. We worked incredibly hard on this film for almost 2 years! We always felt that Darth Maul should have had more screen time. […]

In an effort to understand what his friend with dyslexia sees, programmer Victor Widell attempted to recreate her visual effects in a fascinating interactive blog post that used JavaScript to make the letters of each word constantly rearrange themselves. A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but […]

In a new parody video of the Boston Dynamics Atlas demonstration video by Mr. King, an incredibly foul-mouthed robot went to work in a really bad mood and made sure that everyone, especially “Kevin”, knew it. The original demonstration video. via The High Definite

Today we tried working with a broken down necklace. We topsy tailed each individual strand through the necklace as we braided 5 strands on each side. It's not a look I would go for often but fun to have tried. A photo posted by Braider: Shelley (@prettylittlebraids) on Jul 25, 2015 at 6:50pm PDT Shelley […]

Origami artist Tadashi Mori from São Paulo, Brazil has created a wonderful video where he demonstrates how to make an adorable origami Darth Vader. More amazing origami tutorials by Tadashi are available to view on his YouTube channel and the Origami Yard website. A photo posted by T A D A S H I M […]

Ray Tomlinson, the brilliant developer who created the first iteration of email and implemented the @ sign as a universal protocol, passed away this past weekend at the age of 74. The Internet Hall of Fame documented his pioneering work in his official biography. In 1967, he joined the legendary research and development company Bolt […]

Thomas Crenshaw put together a wonderful tribute to MythBusters, which recently ended its amazing 14 season run on the Discovery Channel with an epic grand finale and reunion. via Adam Savage

While exploring 14,000 feet below the waters of Necker Island, Hawaii on February 27, 2016, a remotely operated vehicle belonging to the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer made the rare discovery of a very rare incirrate octopus whose lack of pigmentation and ghostlike appearance led to the adorably appropriate nickname “Casper”. Deep-sea octopods are easily separated […]

Michelle J Moore of MJ’s Off the Hook Designs has created crocheted Star Wars X-wing starfighter blankets that will take you to a warm and cozy galaxy far, far away. The pattern to make your own X-wing blankets is available to purchase from her Ravelry store. Keep the Force Warm at any Stage of your […]

John Atkinson charts the anatomy of going out in his latest Wrong Hands comic.

Paris, France-based Antonio Da Silva of AMDS Films is back again and has created “Hell’s Club Part Two: Another Night,” the next installment of his massive meta movie mashup where tons of popular film characters meet up at a nightclub in a single scene. This time around deadly Aliens crash the star-studded party and are […]

In “The Trouble with Transporters“, the wonderful CGP Grey examines the real-life feasibility of the infamous mode of transportation employed in the many generations of Star Trek and concluded that in every case, the transporter would be 100% lethal, but not necessarily in the traditional sense. First the transporter scans you down to the park […]

A new in-home trailer has been released Star Wars: The Force Awakens that gives us a glimpse at all of the amazing bonus content that will be found in the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of J.J. Abrams‘ film. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is releasing on Digital HD on April 1st, 2016, and then […]

Great Big Story tells a fascinating story of how Tootsie Rolls helped save the lives of a group of U.S. Marines during the Korean War. In 1950, a group of U.S. Marines fighting in North Korea got stranded without enough ammunition. They managed to get to safety, but only with the help of … wait […]

Dane Boe, creator of The Annoying Orange, recently teamed up with visual effects artist Darren Wallace to created “Kylo Ren TV,” a fantastic new video where they use their editing skills to digitally add Kylo Ren to popular movie scenes. The dark warrior brings his pent-up anger to films like 300, Pulp Fiction, Back to […]

Photographer Tony Jones used a hidden camera in order to capture his dog Revy in the act of sneaking furtive peeks at his food, then hilariously turning away whenever Jones looked back at him. According to Jones, this has been going on for a long time. My dog likes to look at me while I […]

A beautiful Norwegian Forest cat named Naya repeatedly jumped up and down at the back door, peaking her head above the glass in order to invite her humans to come outside and play in the snow with her. Naya really loves the outdoors and attention from her humans, so this adorable behavior shouldn’t surprise anyone. […]

In a short clip posted by Kyoot Animals, a very determined dachshund leaped off the edge of a boat and into the water in order to doggedly chase after a dolphin who was just swimming by.

The Luuup is an ingeniously constructed litter box that makes an incredibly unpleasant and odiferous task much more pleasant with an ingeniously simple system created with three sifting trays that stack together. We understand that cat litter boxes are ugly and unpleasant to deal with but are a necessary and important household item. It was […]