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In his most recent video, Mr Sunday Movies explores some of the unused Star Wars concept art, scrapped versions of the script, and actual filmed scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of The Force Awakens. The deleted scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens extend beyond what was left on the cutting […]

A pickup truck carrying a couple of canoes on top and towing a boat behind it made its way across a tiny wooden bridge that appeared much more rickety than it was. While the trip seemed to be incredibly nerve wracking, the boards held and truck successfully crossed. Commenter David Beppler offered a viable explanation […]

Baker CharlotteSometimes showed off a cake that amazingly changed color as it spun around on a plate. Sometimes didn’t offer insight on how she made the cake, but former cake decorator Nyphetamine Blue explained in the comments, “this is not fake it is done by airbrushing the cake from opposite directions using different colors…”. Commentor […]

Jumpy, the talented Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix has now figured out how use a selfie stick. Now the clever dog can film himself as he jumps, flips, dances, rides a skateboard and paints, although his human Omar is probably very happy to continue doing so.

Slack, the incredibly useful messaging app, has taken their belief that “Slack Teams Do Amazing Things” and put it into two very different, but equally entertaining ads. The first ad features an office of different animals (including a Cal Henderson wannabe beaver) working together through Slack to successfully bring their concept of a “flying umbrella” […]

Miroslaw Magola, a self-proclaimed “human magnet“, demonstrates his remarkable ability to stick things to himself in a video by Caters. The video states that Magola is seeking to claim The James Randi Educational Foundation’s Million Dollar Challenge, an offer put out by skeptic James Randi for anyone who can prove they have supernatural abilities. It is unlikely that […]

A gamer, who goes by the name Kungkobra, recently set a world record by beating Fallout: New Vegas in a mere 20 minutes. Kungkobra soared right through the storyline by carefully managing his skills, changing the in-game language, and utilizing both a quick saving and loading exploit. 20 minutes is faster than the time it […]

On the 2015 Christmas episode of The Charlie Rose Show, legendary filmmaker George Lucas spoke with the straightforward host about parting ways with Star Wars and compared the production of the new film to a romantic breakup. It’s just a simple rule of life. When you break up with somebody, the first rule is no […]

An intense military situation heats up in the Rocket Jump sketch “Walk and Talk.” CIA Guy (Chase Williamson) and John Military (Anthony Alabi) march down a series of corridors while dealing with ever-heightening stakes and increasingly difficult and absurd security measures.

“Dirt” by James Smart National Geographic has announce the winners of their annual Photo Contest. Photographers from all over the world submitted photos and judges determined which pictures of each category – People, Places and Nature – evoked the deepest sense of emotion and meaning. The grand prize was awarded to Australian photographer James Smart […]

In episode nine of their series Nat & Lo’s 20% Project, Google employees “Nat” (Natalie Hammel) and “Lo” (Lorraine Yurshansky) take a behind-the-scenes look inside a giant hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield to see how Google tests its enormous Project Loon balloons. The goal of Loon is to provide Internet to people in remote areas that currently don’t have access, and […]

Kylo Ren’s legendary temper tantrums are not limited to First Order starships, as documented in this amusing animated Star Wars: The Force Awakens parody video by Bill Bergen. via reddit

Los Angeles-based baker Rosanna Pansino celebrated the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and paid tribute to her new favorite droid, on a recent episode of Nerdy Nummies, by demonstrating how to make adorable BB-8 cake pops. We previously wrote about her tutorial on how to make a Death Star cake. Baking with […]

Redditor louisesiuol went all out by magically making Hogwarts, the fictional school of witchcraft and wizardry from the Harry Potter novels and films, out of nothing but gingerbread. According to louisesiuol, it took her about a week to create the gingerbread castle and about a week to clean up the kitchen. Its all ginger bread! […]

In a video for New Scientist, a drone racing pilot navigates through abandoned buildings with a first-person view headset that provides a live feed from cameras mounted on the drone. The video was filmed near Grantham, England during the first national drone racing championships.

An Airbus A350 XWB airplane is pushed to its limits to test its structural integrity before its first flight. The plane is loaded into a giant steel structure that is built to bend its wings and fuselage further than they would likely bend in a real world scenario, and also put the plane under extreme […]

Seven-year-old Tiluck Keisam from Manipur, India has set a new distance record for limbo dancing on roller skates by rolling 116 meters under bars set just 28cm off the ground, well under the maximum allowed height of 35cm for the record. Keisam nearly doubled the previous record of 60 meters, set by Little Rithika in […]

Adult Swim has released a great new video that features the top 10 stop-motion animated Star Wars scenes from their show, Robot Chicken. Hey you Nerf Herders, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now out at cinemas so here’s our Top 10 Robot Chicken: Star Wars moments.

Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund and his little brother Oakley were recently dressed up as Star Wars characters and then engaged in an adorable lightsaber battle. Ryan Beauchesne, writer and creator of celebritydachshund.com, has a book out titled Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund: Adventures of the Wiener Dog Extraordinaire that is available to purchase from Amazon and […]

“Violin Noobie” Therese from Norway shared a video that compresses two years of progress into less than five minutes. The video includes clips starting from her first week with the instrument through two full years of regular practice with a variety of songs including the theme song from Super Mario Bros. and a medley from The Lord of the […]

Icons Unmasked is an upcoming book, created by brilliant Chicago-based artist and b-boy Alex Solis, that will feature his amusing illustrations that reveal the true identities of iconic pop culture characters. Alex is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to help publish his new book filled with fantastic surprises. Ever wonder if the characters you see […]

Real trash. Won’t find that on the Internet. “F the Internet” is a peculiar video by comedian Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough about how the Internet compares to real life. McDonough stars as the character Diane Millhouse, a woman who tried to use the Internet in the past but wasn’t impressed. Along with the quirky character, the video is […]

Glorious Eye Candy has captured footage of Star Wars LEGO sets exploding in super slow motion to the song “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against The Machine. The entire process was filmed at 3,000 FPS with a Phantom Flex4K high-speed digital camera. image via Leg Godt via Leg Godt

A stealthy raccoon emerges from the ceiling to steal a donut at a donut shop. “He is doing it!” via reddit

A recent Chemistry Life Hacks episode by ACS Reactions demonstrates any easy and inexpensive way to recover a spoiled bottle of wine with a clean copper penny (or a silver spoon). The copper in the penny turns the strong smelling sulfur molecules (thiols) into innocuous odorless copper sulfate thus removing the stink. The stinky smells […]

When a compassionate man stopped his car to help a deer from drowning in an icy lake, he did everything he possibly could to make sure the beautiful animal stayed alive. After doing so, he recounted the episode in sign language, which redditor and sign language interpreter ceejface translated what the heroic man had to […]

Yarn is a new search engine that lets users find clips from television shows, movies, and music videos based on lyrics and quotes. There is even an emoji search feature that offers a fun way to find more general results. via The Awesomer

Fallout 4 gamer Leon Hurley of GamesRadar+ conducted a very interesting experiment. After dismissing the companion canine “Dogmeat” at “The Castle” in the southeast corner of the in-game map, Hurley decided to follow the loyal pooch back home to Sanctuary Hills. What he found was that Dogmeat didn’t have it easy, but he managed to […]

Champion sidecar racer Stan Dibben is the subject of the short documentary “No Ordinary Passenger” by Cabell Hopkins. Dibben was the “passenger” on the winning motorcycle alongside driver Eric Oliver for the 1953 Sidecar World Championship. In the film, Dibben looks back on his thrilling life before suiting up to take the track again at the […]

Joe Sartore, a wildlife journalist and photographer for National Geographic, is on an ambitious mission to capture images of over 12,000 captive endangered animals, before each species is gone for good. The project, called Photo Ark, is ongoing and on a global scale. Photo Ark is a multiyear National Geographic project with a simple goal—to […]

Adult Swim has released a new compilation video of some of the best stop-motion animated shorts from their show, Robot Chicken, that feature Gary the Stormtrooper. The 29-year-old family man and stormtrooper finds it difficult to spend time with his daughter while on the job and always seems to be in the wrong place at […]

The Mistletoe Drone by Hammacher Schlemmer is a compact remote control drone with a festive mistletoe design. The drone comes with an infrared remote for line-of-sight operation, and multiple drones can operate together without interference. Writer Laura Hooper Beck took the drone to several holiday parties to test it out in a real world setting for a post […]

Vice takes a close look at whether life on Mars can be sustainable, what Paris is like after the tragic attacks in November and the worldwide fight for women’s rights in the upcoming fourth season of their investigative HBO documentary series. We’ve got a ton of new and exciting stuff planned for the 18-episode season, […]

Gamer Kyle Hinckley of The Weirdist YouTube channel recently finished a 37 episode video series where he manages to beat Fallout 4 on survival mode, the most difficult game setting, without killing a single thing. There are numerous quests throughout the game where you are tasked with killing certain characters in the game, but Kyle […]

The VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot created by ETH Zurich and Disney Research that can easily transition from driving on the ground to maneuvering up a wall. The robot gets its wall-crawling abilities from two propellers that provide thrust up against the wall, allowing the VertiGo to defy gravity. photo via Disney Research

The trailer for the highly-awaited final season of the post-Edwardian period series Downton Abbey promises a great deal of change within the household. The trailer hints at upcoming marriages, the admission of secrets, the resolution of problems and the mystery of a stranger, as shown in the first scene of episode one. The final season […]

In a new animated short by CollegeHumor, Kylo Ren reads off a list of bounty hunters and comes to realize that all characters in Star Wars have stupid names. At one point, Kylo even questions his own name. Some of the hilarious made up names in the short include Jar Jar Boinks, Doo Doo Stanks, […]

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to the original Die Hard film from 1988. Wrap out the holiday season with the best Christmas movie of all time – Die Hard! Yeah, we said it!

The Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton, Massachusetts offers their residents therapy visits with dogs, chickens and even fish. There’s also Travis, a friendly llama whose calm presence gives many of residents the opportunity to interact with others. Program director Lauren Gaffney explained the importance of animal therapy programs to National Geographic. A […]

Jumpy, the talented Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix who can jump, flip, dance, ride a skateboard and even perform a bit of parkour, showed off his new skill of painting words and symbols under the guided tutelage of his human Omar von Muller. Jumpy proudly demonstrated how he can now legibly write his name and the […]

Astronaut Leland Melvin explains some of the physical changes that happen to a person’s body in space in a video by Great Big Story. In zero gravity, the human spine stretches, eyesight is altered, and the heart changes shape.

Dave Hax shows how to turn an empty cardboard box into a table soccer/football (Foosball) game. How to make a table top soccer or football game by recycling a cardboard box. Trash to toy! Up-cycle an old Christmas box and some wrapping paper scraps, use some wooden sticks and cloth pegs, and make your own […]

Make: community editor Caleb Kraft has created a low-cost version of the lightsaber resistant Z6 riot baton a First Order riot control Stormtrooper used to fight Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. A clip from the fight scene was featured in a TV spot for The Force Awakens that we wrote about last month. […]

“The Tap Awakens” is a tap dance medley of iconic Star Wars by Postmodern Jukebox featuring tap dancer Sarah Reich.

Tito4re takes a look at what happens when molten copper is poured into antifreeze engine coolant.

A classic Sesame Street animated poem underlines the struggle of trying to build a snowman in summer.

Burger Fiction condenses the Pixar film Inside Out into 30 seconds (the full video is actually 59 seconds).

“My Life In Monsters” is a 22-minute documentary by VICE that chronicles the life work of Oscar winning Star Wars and Jurassic Park stop-motion animator Phil Tippett. Phil Tippett is the Oscar-winning stop-motion animator and designer behind some of the greatest fantasy creatures and sci-fi set pieces in cinema history. From his humble beginnings as […]

Keiichi Tanaami Volume 38 of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine has been announced and will be filled to the brim with amazing artwork created by contemporary artists from all around the world. Immensely talented Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue. Volume 38 of the quarterly art […]