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Derek Muller of Veritasium explains why time appears to speed up as you get older and how to try to slow it down.

La Fabrique shows how to make a really cool frisbee launcher using a variable speed drill and wood. via Gadgetify, technabob

In keeping with the fascinating “beatboxing with Siri” trend, the ever-creative Steve Onotera aka Samurai Guitarist decided to try his hand at doing the same. While Siri performed a sweet back beat (“cats n boots”), she also “sang” the lead vocals on a cover of the great Chuck Berry classic “Johnny B. Goode“. Onotera admitted […]

Homer has a sad dream about The Simpsons’ couch in the new couch gag from the opening sequence of the episode “Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4”.

The remarkably talented Argentinian actor Luciano Rosso showed off his incredible emotive skills with a highly theatrical lip sync performance of the classic song “Mambo” as sung by the great Yma Súmac. This performance is the 30th in his “Playback” series. Rosso previously lip synched such songs as “Me and Mr. Jones” by Amy Winehouse, […]

Vox explains why pennies still exist in the United States, even though they are basically worthless. Pennies may hold sentimental value to Americans, but they are basically useless. It is not uncommon for people to leave them in a loose-change container when receiving money after a transaction. Americans for Common Cents, a pro penny group […]

On the latest episode of “Furze’s Invention Show”, British inventor Colin Furze shows how to build a thermite kettle to boil water even faster so you can enjoy your tea sooner. Here’s the making/testing video. Boiling water with Thermite???? Sounds mad but it boils water quicker than anything else…..even the JETTLE.

In the new trailer for the fourth season of the excellent political drama House of Cards, President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) fights doggedly to keep his seat against a whole host of adversaries, the most powerful being his dear wife Claire (Robin Wright). Frank and Claire continue their pursuit for power, battling everyone in their […]

“Upside Down & Inside Out” is a new music video by OK Go that was shot in zero gravity on board an S7 Airlines flight in one single take as the band flies around the cabin making a real mess of things.

Harry, Ron, and Hagrid go hard in “Straight Outta Hogwarts” by The Frost Bros, a hilarious Harry Potter parody of the classic N.W.A. gangsta rap song “Straight Outta Compton”. via reddit

MinutePhysics explains how concrete sets and why it does not simply “dry out.” The water in wet concrete does not evaporate out. Instead, it causes chemical processes that change the compounds in the concrete itself, causing it to strengthen for months or even years after it is poured.

cgmzz takes a look at the many film tributes that have appeared in The Simpsons over their 27 seasons. via reddit

Burger Fiction presents the entire Transformers quadrilogy in 90 seconds.

Droneboarding is a new variation of snowboarding using powerful drones to pull riders across the snow. In a recent video, snowboarder Kaspars Balamovskis demonstrated the technique, which appears similar to kite skiing, using a large Aerones drone. YouTube user Valplushka shared a video of a young child droneboarding with a much smaller drone. via IEEE Spectrum

Mike Relm presents a “Puppy Baby Monkey Remix” by Kevin Ryder of the disturbing, yet catchy, “Puppy Baby Monkey” Mountain Dew commercial that aired during Super Bowl 50. The track is available on Ryder’s SoundCloud account.

Screen Rant takes a look at ten movies scenes that were completely improvised. Movie fans never know just how much time, money and energy is spent creating the next Hollywood hit before cameras ever start rolling. But as polished or acclaimed as a script may be, there’s no predicting what will happen when the cast […]

A Team Black Sheep Vendetta FPV racing drone quickly descends Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building that stands at 2,722 feet. The product demonstration video also highlights the drone’s features as it zips around the city and its other skyscrapers. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In a recent episode of Science Channel, biologists Adam Ruben and Carin Bondar use animation to offer a quick explanation as to how the lyrebird is able to imitate just about any sound it hears. In 2007, naturalist Sir David Attenborough presented a wonderful BBC segment on lyrebirds.

After documenting his first Burning Man experience in 2014, filmmaker and photographer Ari Fararooy returned to the playa in 2015 and collected more of the surreal moments that make the festival what it is. Using digitally animated photos, he created second video, “Burning Moments II”, an extension of his first video. Fararooy also provided the […]

Netflix has just released a teaser trailer for Beat Bugs, an upcoming, original animated series that takes place in the grass and features over 50 songs by The Beatles performed by different artists. Five funny, charming young bugs have adventures and learn life lessons in their overgrown backyard, in new stories inspired by the songs […]

In advance of their new Explorer special Eyes Wide Open, science journalist Michael Stevens of Vsauce and National Geographic spoke with Dr. Marty Banks and Dr. William Sprague of UC Berkeley about why prey animals such as goats, have eyes on the side of their heads with rotating horizontal pupils. Marty noticed something that no […]

Video game vlogger Darkk Mane has created an absurd and hilarious honest review of the game Tetris. Mane takes issue with the game’s poor character development, voice acting, and graphics which he says are inferior to the video game Seinfeld. via Digg

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back as two single gals doing their thing in the new trailer for season three of their Comedy Central series Broad City.

Disney Family teamed up with Uncrustables Sandwiches to share a tasty recipe that shows how to make cute Monsters Inc. themed food art featuring Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan (Sulley). image via Disney Family

Disney shows how to make a punk pink pasta dish in the form of Animal from The Muppets. This veggie-rich pasta dish dances to the “beet” of a different drummer! Invite Animal to your next dinner party!

somersetVII takes a look back at the 16 wonderful films made by the Coen Brothers over the last 30 years. via The Awesomer

Néit Luggage is a London-based startup centered around the Néit, a smart GPS-enabled piece of hard shell luggage that folds flat for easy storage in small spaces. The design of the Néit is inspired by an armadillo shell, and the GPS capability means owners can track their luggage with the Néit travel app which stores an […]

Davie504, the incredible bassist who performed a montage of 200 of the most iconic bass lines, used a spoken answer from different versions of Google Translate to use as a backing track for a terrific slap bass solo. Google Translate Beat Box Meets Slap Bass. I used some samples of the old version of Google […]

The Sherp is an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with a simple but rugged design that features massive self-inflating tires that make the vehicle capable of going just about anywhere. A demonstration video shows the Sherp rolling through swamps, snow, ice, sand, and even swimming in water. We would like to present an ATV, based on develops […]

Prone to fits of mania, narcissism and power failure. In the new “main trailer” for the chillingly dark comedy High Rise directed by Ben Wheatley and adapted from the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, the introverted Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) learns how to become a bit more outgoing and neighborly, despite […]

Immersion is a new series by Rooster Teeth where they recreate elements of popular video games in real life. On their latest entertaining episode, members of Rooster Teeth to a fantastic job of bringing the classic arcade video game Space Invaders to life.

“RUN BABY RUN” is a short video by online filmmaker Eran Amir that uses various forms of a 3D printed baby to make it appear to run over water and sand on a beach, a main street in a small town, through the avenues of a city, over a bridge and through a market. The […]

Documentarian Pieter van Huijstee has created a wonderful media triptych tribute to Hieronymus Bosch, the brilliant Flemish Primitive, whose stunning masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is now the subject of an interactive online tour and is narrated by scholar Redmond O’Hanlon. The interactive documentary Jheronimus Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights provides an in-depth […]

Juggler and urban explorer Flaviu Cernescu made a daring descent down the outside of the 920-foot high north chimney of the Romag-Termo Power Plant in Piteå, Romania. The chimney second tallest structure in Romania. The brave endeavor took Cernescu about 14 minutes to complete as he made his way down the ladder which at times lacked any […]

For their exhibition “Van Gogh’s bedrooms” taking place February 14 – May 10, 2016, the Art Institute of Chicago physically recreated the sparsely beautiful painting “Bedroom in Arles” by the talented but tragic artist Vincent van Gogh. The Institute artists painstakingly captured every detail of the surrealist painting as they brought it in to the […]

16-month old Reed was confused when being held by his father Stephen Ratpojanakul and his father’s twin brother Michael Ratpojanakul. Reed couldn’t decide which man was really his father as he pointed at each saying “Da Da” while they passed him back and forth. via BuzzFeed

Actor Ben Schwartz, known for his roles on Parks and Recreation and House of Lies, recently chatted with fans via a reddit Ask Me Anything. He also sat down with reddit to talk about how he helped bring BB-8‘s voice to life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released a series of beautiful space travel posters for destinations in our solar system and beyond to show a possible future where space travel is more common than it is today. Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge […]

Last year, Catastrophic Creations created a fantastic Super Mario Bros. themed Chain Chomp Cat Bed. They are back once again with a revised design that they call the Mario Cat Complex 2.0. The large wall-mounted video game inspired cat climber comes equipped with warp pipes for the felines to slide through, Bullet Bills and iconic […]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited New Hampshire for his Hulu show Triumph’s Election Special 2016 where he spoke with college students at the University of New Hampshire about political correctness. In the clip, the foul-mouthed puppet voiced by comedian Robert Smigel asks questions about trigger warnings, “mansplaining”, and gender neutrality. Triumph also sold Donald Trump merchandise […]

Hollywood Records and American Recordings are releasing Star Wars Headspace, a new electronic music compilation album produced by Rick Rubin that is mixed with all sorts of Star Wars sound effects and audio clips. It will feature original songs by artists like Baauer, Flying Lotus, Röyksopp, GTA, and more. The upcoming album, which drops on […]

Dark Pixel Digital spent a year creating “Star Kart,” an awesome 3D animated mashup of Star Wars and the Mario Kart video game series. Mario Kart characters engage in a high-speed race in their Star Wars spacecrafts as Mario plays the role of Luke Skywalker and attempts to blow up the Death Star. via GameTyrant

The Tanner family returns to their San Francisco home and “damn they all still looks good” in the first official trailer for Fuller House, the upcoming Netflix original sequel series to Full House. Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) move in with widowed mother D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron-Bure) as she tries […]

Father and son team Lincoln and Dan crack open a giant rubber band ball for an episode of their series What’s Inside? As the ball is broken open, it falls apart in interesting ways as some individual bands fly off while some remain grouped.

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Experience the cult classic whining-hipster-gamer movie that wasn’t as good as the comic books: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

The IllumiBowl is a toilet nightlight with a range of colors to light up nighttime bathroom trips. The device attaches to the side of the bowl and turns on when a motion sensor is triggered. The IllumiBowl can cycle through its eight possible colors, or be set to one solid color. photos via IllumiBowl via […]

Photographer and filmmaker Semih Okmn has created “When the Evil Smiles,” a devilishly good supercut video of notorious villains smiling in movies. The Joker from The Dark Knight, Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and Hans Gruber from Die Hard are a few of the evil characters featured in Semih’s supercut. music […]

Los Angeles-based baker and author Rosanna Pansino is celebrating the theatrical release of Marvel‘s Deadpool film this week by demonstrating how to make an awesome pepperoni pizza that looks just like the Merc with a Mouth. A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Feb 9, 2016 at 9:41am PST image via Rosanna Pansino

How It Should Have Ended gives their animated interpretation of how Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have ended.

An intense supercell thunderstorm that formed off Australia’s Sunshine Coast near Maroochydore on February 1, 2016 was captured in dramatic time-lapse footage by Blue Dog Films. The storm was recorded on Canon 5D Mk3 using an intervolometer to record in regular intervals, and the finished video was edited in Adobe After Effects. via The Creators Project