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In a fairly recent episode of SciShow, host Hank Green explains the physiology and the purpose of that little dangly thing at the back of the human throat called the palantine uvula. the uvula is packed full of glands that can quickly make a large amounts of theme watery saliva. These glands are connected to […]

A gorgeous long-haired cat named Sir Silas has come a long way since being found on the side of the road, near death, with his beautiful white fur all matted and dirty and his beautiful blue eyes completely bloodshot and crusty. Since that time, Silas has grown into a majestic cat, with tons of glorious, […]

Hi, Billy Mays here for… J.T. Sexkik recreated a video he saw online featuring 24 infomercials by the legendary pitchman Billy Mays all playing at the same time. Mays, known for his ubiquitoius sales pitches on television, died in 2009. via The High Definite

Taras Kulakov (aka CrazyRussianHacker) shot super slow motion video of a basketball exploding after being overinflated using an air compressor.

Musician Keith Peskosky created a looping symphony while cleaning his apartment for the GoPro and Guitar Center collaborative contest Done in One, which challenged musicians to submit a compelling unedited musical clip shot with a GoPro camera for a chance at winning $20,000. GoPro recently shared a slightly trimmed version of Peskosky’s original submission as their […]

Japanese pet supply company Unihabitat, the makers of the Mewgaroo Sweatshirt, have expanded their comfy human-kitty line to include a new Mewgaroo Jumpsuit. The jumpsuit is an adult onesie that features a snuggly pouch in the front so that a beloved feline can snuggle in closely with his/her human. Like the sweatshirt, the jumpsuit has […]

Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York has started offering Mini Vinnie pizzas, pizzas topped with smaller slices of pizza. The pizza-on-pizza creation is not officially on the menu, but can be ordered by request for $5 per slice. photos via Vinnie’s Pizzeria via Messy Nessy Chic, 7Deadly, Incredible Things

In his latest video, Evan “The Nerdwriter” Puschak takes a look at the popular Pixar animation Inside Out and how the film put a new spin on emotions so as to make them appear to be elements of personality rather than crippling signs of weakness they were previously perceived to be. Puschak notes that while […]

Comedian Joe Bereta teaches us everything we need to know about how to become a fierce ninja warrior during a recent episode of the AWE me web series Epic How To. Who doesn’t want to a master of stealth and martial arts?

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler parody a Star Wars featurette with “The Farce Awakens” to promote their new film Sisters which shares a release date of December 18, 2015 with Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

In “Look Who’s Driving,” four-year-old Sophia drives a remote-controlled heavy-duty Volvo FMX truck through a dangerous obstacle course. The young lady smashes the truck through swinging crates, a concrete building, and even rolls it down a hill to test the truck’s durability and new features.

Björk is never known for being subtle and th music video for her single “Mouth Mantra” from her new album “vulnicura” is no exception. Directed by Jesse Kanda, the video takes viewers on a very trippy (and somewhat squeamish) tour inside the singer’s oddly lipsticked mouth. According Björk, the images are representative of “the power […]

Oregon-based Hudson Hongo, writer and creator of the Literally Unbelievable blog, has made a supercut remix of President Barack Obama singing “Freak on a Leash” by Korn. The original music video for comparison: submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In the latest episode of the video series “Cardboard Chaos“, the ever-creative company Signal Snowboards partnered with the Fender Custom Shop to make a working Stratocaster neck and body (“Strat”) completely out of cardboard. While various talented employees at Fender proclaimed the finished project to be a “real Strat”, Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson gave […]

The Drunk Series is a new web video series by Ganglebot Films that creates short genre films with scripts written by drunk writers and starring drunk actors. We previously wrote about the first installment, Star Drunk, which premiered in 2013. The new episodes in the series give the drunk treatment to the superhero, zombie, medical drama, […]

Madrid salon owner Alberto Olmedo masterfully employs flames from a blowtorch, slicing Samurai swords, razor-sharp talons and even the occasional pair of scissors to create his signature hair styles. Although Olmedo tells AJ+ that his methods are “practically primitive” and “medieval”, he believes that he can only achieve symmetry by addressing both sides at once. […]

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has created an unboxing video to show off their brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. An excited narrator reviews the plane’s new features as crew members remove the plastic and get the plane ready for flight.

On November 19, 2015, vintner Armand Foisy of Fort Berens Estate Winery in Lillooet, BC,Canada captured a wonderfully heartwarming video of Alvina, his 101-year old mother, as she spontaneously got out of the car to make a very respectable snowball that she threw into the woods by the side of the road while proclaiming “it’s […]

Timelapse footage captures the process of technicians disassembling and reassembling an entire Lockheed U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane for the intense routine maintenance the planes go through every 4,700 flight hours. This thorough maintenance process keeps U-2 planes in service for decades. via Sploid

In “Hypnotic Cardistry Kid” by Kuma Films, Los Angeles-based cardistry artist Zach Mueller of Fontaine Cards showcases his hypnotic ability to manipulate a deck of playing cards in a variety of different ways. music by Pogo – “Do Something Rhythmic“

Singapore Airlines demonstrates the differences in their seating classes with meticulously crafted paper models in a new commercial titled “No Detail Is Too Small.” As the first airline to fly the A380, we’ve turned the most comfortable and spacious aircraft ever to grace the skies into a unique experience with the world’s most awarded airline.

In a recent comedy sketch by Funny or Die, leaked footage is unveiled of Mystery Science Theater 3000 bots Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo auditioning for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. image via Funny or Die

It was suggested that imgur user morihime try something different with her hair, so she braided it into a marvelous Dwarven beard. via reddit

Puddles Pity Party, Haley Reinhart, and Post Modern Jukebox perform a vaudeville cover of the Gary Jules version of the song “Mad World” by Tears for Fears. For comparison, here are the Gary Jules version and Tears for Fears versions of the song.

Galway, Ireland-based musician Banjo Guy Ollie recently performed a multitrack cover of Rage Against the Machine‘s song “Killing in the Name” using a five string tenor banjo, a mandolin, and a u-bass. We previously wrote about Banjo Guy Ollie’s multitrack covers of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and the Eurythmics‘ song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of […]

Mark Hamill and Omaze recently teamed up to mingle with unsuspecting strangers on Hollywood Boulevard, disguised as a Stormtrooper, while spreading the news about a Star Wars: The Force Awakens charity auction. The auction will “present two winners with tickets for them and three guests each to attend the premiere of Star Wars: The Force […]

Sleepy Skunk presents their mashup of 2015 movie trailers. Here’s the full list of films used in the mashup.

Reactions takes a look at how capsaicin in hot peppers makes them seem hot and how milk helps. You have probably had the burning sensation of eating a jalapeno or other tear-inducing pepper. What causes this painful fire in your mouth? The short answer is capsaicin. But what exactly is capsaicin? How does it work? […]

Video editor and parody creator Bonecage and musician Mr. Gee have created a heartfelt heavy metal tribute to Dogmeat, the faithful German shepherd of the video game Fallout 4, who serves as devoted companion to those exploring the post-apocalyptic wasteland that once was Boston, Massachusetts. Even though he occasionally gets in the way, Dogmeat is […]

Daredevil Brandon Mikesell documented his recent 2,500m wingsuit flight down Le Brévent in Haute-Savoie, France with mounted GoPro cameras. Mikesell sails through trees and over rocks and cliffs as he flies down the mountain.

Steve Onotera (aka samuraiguitarist) created a wonderful bluegrass medley of the Star Wars songs “Star Wars Main Theme”, “Force Theme”, “Throne Room” and “Imperial Death March”, all composed by the great John Williams. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…in an alternate reality, a young Billy Luke Skywalker has befriended Ol’ Ben […]

Skyglow is an astrophotography book and timelapse video series by Gavin Heffernan of Sunchaser Pictures and Harun Mehmedinovic. The collection features photos and videos shot across North America including the beautiful timelapse “Dishdance” that features some of the large radio astronomy dishes used by SETI (Search for the Extraterrestrial Intelligence). The project is being crowdfunded […]

HBO has released a teaser trailer for the 6th season of Game of Thrones, which premieres in April, 2016.

Beat Down Boogie has created a new music video featuring incredibly creative cosplay footage from BlizzCon 2015, Blizzard Entertainment‘s annual video game convention held in Anaheim, California to promote their many franchises. Beat Down Boogie’s full collection of BlizzCon video grabs are available to view on Facebook. Fans of the Beat Down Boogie crew can […]

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, narrates the animated story of her recurring dream of returning to space in a video by The Royal Institute. Sharman flew to the Mir space station on the Soyuz TM-12 mission which launched on May 18, 1991.

In 2014, a woman who calls herself Sleepy Sarah Elizabeth, bravely decided to share a video that showed what physically happens to her when she is subject to attacks of cataplexy and narcolepsy while performing normal tasks, such as dancing. I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, and it can be very frustrating to try to explain […]

ThinkGeek has created a beautiful glassware set based on planets (Alderaan, Dagobah, Hoth, and Tatooine), a moon (Endor) and a space station (The Death Star) from the Star Wars universe. When you’re little, you are bombarded with mobiles and models made with styrofoam balls and shoebox dioramas and all sorts of interactive, creative ways to […]

A large tortoise came to the rescue of a much smaller tortoise who unfortunately became stuck on a rock, neither able to move forward nor backward. The bigger terrapin used the force of his own weight to knock the little one off the rock and back onto the ground where he could continue on his […]

Designers Vedat Ulgen and Deger Ceniz have juxtaposed the concept of modernity with nature, the sleek with the rough, and transparent with opaque in their novel lucite chair that houses a large, prickly barrel cactus sitting directly under the seat portion. The cast acrylic planes make the chair completely transparent. The geometric shape gives the […]

“Crafting Anomalisa” is a featurette that explores the intense level of detail that went into building the world of Anomalisa, the first stop-motion animated feature by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) in collaboration with Duke Johnson (Community‘s “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas” episode). Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for the film earlier this year. image via Anomalisa

The Wreath of Khan, created by our friend Josh Ellingson as an awesome way to celebrate the holidays.

Filmmaker Phil Whitehead has compiled together wonderful footage from a vast variety of sources that epitomize the very meta concept of Actors Playing Actors Acting. Whitehead stated that he was inspired by a Nick James article in Sight and Sound magazine about the the satirical surreal theater film Birdman While making this video, I noticed […]

IGN has created “Every Jedi Ever,” a video timeline infographic that details every Jedi Knight in the Star Wars canon universe. They cover everyone from Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn to the legendary Jedi Luke Skywalker. More information about each member of the Jedi Order is available to view on the IGN blog. In tribute to […]

In a recent Ted-Ed lesson beautifully animated by Johan Sonestedt, educator Cláudio L. Guerra explains how an octopus thinks with such intelligence and is able to act upon its thoughts through a complex neural ganglia system that encompasses its entire body. Octopuses have the ability to solve puzzles, learn through observation, and even use tools […]

Newdigi has released black and yellow leopard Transformers USB memory sticks that come in 8GB, 16GB, and 65GB sizes. They are available to purchase on Amazon. About the Products: – Compact size, light weight, lovely design – Compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS 10+ and Linux – Easy plug […]

A kinetic sculpture by artist Jason Allemann depicts Sisyphus pushing his eternal boulder up a hill. Allemann demonstrates the inner workings of the sculpture in a video, and has also posted building instructions to his website. photos via JK Brickworks via Adam Savage

Oldweb.today is an online tool developed by Rhizome that lets users browse web archives using emulations of legacy browsers like Netscape Navigator. Users can choose a legacy browser version and the archive date and time they want to view to load the content of the Internet’s past. image via Oldweb.today via Fred Benenson

In the first part of his three part sustainable kitchen series, designer James Stumpf of Stumpf Studio has created a brilliant concept toaster that is slim, transparent and made of sustainable materials such as glass and bamboo. Welcome to a three part series of kitchen appliance design using unconventional and sustainable materials. Part one of […]

Mr. Sunday Movies points out some of the easter eggs and hidden references in the new trailer for the upcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

In “Snow Cat “, the latest episode of Simon’s Cat, the lovable feline sets out to make a snowcat, but gets a bit too much assistance from a well-intentioned but dim-witted dog who ruins the plan.