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Trym Nordgaard demonstrates how one should properly drink their morning coffee in Norway. via reddit

The American Chemical Society reveals the chemistry of honey with the truth that it’s really just bee puke in an episode of Reactions. The video explains how bees at different ages process flower nectar different, and why it takes several types of bees to process the nectar into honey.

The only way forward, is to go back In the latest teaser trailer for the BBCAmerica series Orphan Black, the incredibly versatile actress Tatiana Maslany portrays Sarah Manning and her clone sisters as they recite an edited version of “Down the Rabbit Hole” from Lewis Carroll‘s classic tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – a quote […]

SciShow host Michael Aranda gives a simple explanation for what happens when a person holds their pee too long. Besides the obvious risk of having an accident, there could also be real health risks for people who make holding it in a regular habit.

Jimmy Kimmel‘s “Agent Keith” joins agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) in a parody of The X-Files to celebrate the show’s return. Agent Keith helps his new colleagues deal with the differences between present day technology and the 1990s, and finally gets them to act on their feelings for each other.

Two days after the news of David Bowie’s untimely death, local fans added the name “David” onto the Bowie Street sign in Austin, Texas as a heartfelt tribute to the musician. Austin musician Christiane Swenson is seeking to make the renaming permanent in honor of the late performer, much in the way (the very alive) […]

In 2012, talented percussionists from the Irkutsk, Russia group Ethnobeat gathered together in -20 Celsius weather, 6 hours from their home, in order to make beautiful music upon the frozen waters of Lake Baikal. The Siberian lake is known as the oldest, deepest and clearest lake in the world, which made for a beautiful array […]

Beat Down Boogie has created a new music video featuring some of the best Star Wars costumes that they captured footage of at various events from the past five years. Fans of the Beat Down Boogie crew can help support their future videos on Patreon. music by DJ Demonixx – “R2-D2“

Jose Anaya has created “It’s Always Sunny in Tatooine,” a hilarious mashup of Star Wars and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Young Anakin Skywalker claims that no one can kill a Jedi and then grows up to be an evil Sith Lord who attempts to do just that. What a great setup for the It’s […]

“Apparences” is a short, surreal video from the French filmmaking duo Claire and Max of Menilmonde that imagines the buildings and iconic landmarks of Paris as site-specific props of an eerily deserted movie set. Has it ever happened to you to ask yourself the questions: “What if everything around us was false? And if our […]

Caitlinsdad has created a working electronic thermometer scarf that reads and displays the temperature using an Adafruit Flora Arduino board and neopixels. The full instructions for building one’s own wearable thermometer are available through Instructables, and Caitlinsdad writes that he believes the project is suitable for beginner-level makers looking for a simple wearables project. photos […]

Sploid created a new animated video, featuring illustrations by Toronto-based artist Scott Park, that takes a look at the evolution of robots in movies and television shows. We’ve previously written about Scott and his fantastic artwork. Science fiction movies and TV shows don’t really count unless they have iconic robot characters. That’s a completely true […]

Writer Karyn Tripp shares her design for Periodic Table Battleship, a scientific twist on the classic game Battleship to teach kids about the elements. The board can be created by printing out four copies of the periodic table, laminating them, and combining them using folders and a paper clip. Players circle lines of two, three, […]

Rolling Stone features the fashion evolution of David Bowie in an animated tribute to the late musician. Bowie was known for recreating his appearance with bold fashion choices throughout his life and career. He died on January 10, 2016 just days after turning 69 years old.

Demy de Zeeuw, who runs the popular soccer-themed Instagram account 433, recently shared a video that shows what it looks like when push notifications rapidly flood in after posting something to his eight million followers. via TechCrunch

Fox Mulder summarizes the history of the original X-Files television series in the one-minute opening scene, released by FOX, of the new series reboot. Episode one premieres as a two-night event starting on Sunday, January 24th, 2016 at 10 PM and then airing on the 25th at 8 PM. image via The X-Files

In the 16th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, Cut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in Japan as modeled by Mei Kurahashi, whose hair, makeup and dance were styled in correlation with the trends of each decade. Here’s behind the scenes footage of the photo shoot.

Rebel Scum is a Star Wars fan film, created by Blood Brother Cinema Co., about a rebel pilot who wrecked his snowspeeder and is now stranded on Hoth in Empire controlled territory. The clever pilot, who goes by Echo 12, does whatever it takes to survive and get back to his family. Rebel Scum was […]

In a wonderful tribute to the tragically late David Bowie, editors at Vox compiled a visual list of nine songs by other musicians that sampled his incredibly prolific and influential work. A complete list of these songs can be found on the sampling information site Who Sampled, which shows nearly 18 pages of Bowie songs […]

Christian Brandes, FunGt, and jedijosh920 recently teamed up to create a PC mod for Grand Theft Auto V that allows people to play the game as legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. The modders added in special commands to make the character smoke, drink, rock on the guitar, and more. The mod is available to download […]

An orange and white one-eyed cat named Kuli who was rescued from the streets as a tiny, malnourished kitten, amazingly took to water like a fish and loves to go swimming and surfing with his loving humans in the gorgeous blue-green waters of Honolulu, Hawaii. A photo posted by @kulithesurfingcat on Dec 22, 2015 at […]

In 1995, the late great David Bowie and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails joined together during their Outside tour, to perform a gorgeously haunting electric version of “Hurt“, Reznor’s banner ode to the tragedy of addiction from the 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Also in 1995, the two musicians sat down with Kennedy of […]

Wally the rescued squirrel, who once buried a bunch of nuts in the fur of his Bernese Mountain Dog buddy and politely used a fork to enjoy a bit of almond butter, was filmed chewing his yummy treat in slow motion by his human Shannon. It’s almost certain that Wally never has nor will ever […]

The New Yorker magazine and Amazon Studios have partnered with filmmaker Alex Gibney to present “The New Yorker Presents“, a weekly series that encompasses documentary and narrative subjects similar to their longstanding editorial content. The series will be available to stream on February 16, 2016 through Amazon Prime Video. From award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw […]

In the sixth episode of his new series “The Weird Lense Challenge“, French photographer Mathieu Stern took a 136-year old, early iris diaphragm lens from a large format camera from 1880, modified it so that it would fit and focus onto his Sony A7II and posted the resulting footage. The Lens is incredibly sharp for […]

In the second official trailer for Hail Caesar, an upcoming film by the Coen Brothers set in the later years of the Golden Age of classic American cinema, film director Laurence Lorenz (Ralph Fiennes) repeatedly demonstrates to Toby (Alden Ehrenreich) , an American actor, how to properly pronounce his lines. Hail Caesar! premieres February 5, […]

Charlie Goldberg of Brick Vault recently created a time lapse video that shows him building a massive 6,000+ piece LEGO AT-AT Walker in approximately 26 hours. photos via Brick Vault via Geeks Are Sexy

While at work in 2012, electronics store employee zfeydo placed a GoPro Hero 3 inside a washing machine and captured the strangely hypnotic motion of the demo spin cycle for several minutes. Tossed the Hero 3 inside a washer at work, it was only a demo cycle that lasted a few minutes and peaked out […]

In a fantastic razor commercial, created by BBR Saatchi & Saatchi in July 2015 for Super-Pharm‘s line of Life M6 razor blades, a man shaves his beard off after 14 years and his family reacts in utter shock. via reddit

Master impressionist and regular Walking Dead cast member Ross Marquand performed an amusing set of “nano-impressions” in which he portrayed famous actors in bite-sized odd and awkward situations for the cameras of Vanity Fair. Impression master Ross Marquand nails the tiny moments of A-list actors, including Antonio Banderas forgetting his password, Harrison Ford losing a […]

After being pushed out of her tree by a much larger koala, a young joey in Adelaide Hills, South Australia sat on the ground, had himself a good cry and then tried over and again to stake out hert territory, only to be chased over out and again. Luckily, the little one was persistent and […]

Gerard Jessie of the Philippines has set a new RecordSetter world record when he successfully extinguished five lit candles using only his farts.

A recent episode of the Mashable Watercooler series, Trailer Mix, reimagines the classic 1994 comedy film Dumb and Dumber as an Oscar worthy drama. The only dramatic thing about classic comedy Dumb and Dumber is Jim Carrey’s haircut. Now that’s commitment to the arts.

Pune, India-based director and illustrator Pranay Patwardhan has created a wonderful animated short that looks back at some of the major event that took place in 2015. Events in order of appearance: Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015) – New Horizons’ Pluto flyby – Nepal earthquake – Ebola epidemic end in sight – Peace for Paris […]

Canadian DJ and producer Skratch Bastid recently created an awesome remix of David Bowie‘s hit song “Let’s Dance” as a heartfelt tribute to the music legend. Late night in the studio… took a break from working on a new mix to check my feeds… only to find it flooded with news that the legendary David […]

Ylvis, the Norwegian talk-show duo who created the hit song “What Does The Fox Say?,” is back with their new parody music video “A Capella.” Ylvis and a group of fellow singers shows a young man the true power of a capella music by dropping the “Boodelooap” and sipping Nigerian soft drinks to fight off […]

Ruggie is a new alarm clock floor mat that gets people out of bed in the morning by forcing them to stand on the mat for three seconds to silence the alarm. The mat also features speakers that can play a customizable motivational message to help start the day on a positive note. The makers […]

Aliaksei Zholner has improved upon their design for a working paper model of a V8 engine with a paper throttle that controls the flow of compressed air through the model. The impressive replica is created using almost entirely paper with some tape included to reduce friction in the valves. via reddit

CNN senior reporter Chris Moody and video producer Alex Rosen teamed up to create a fantastic video that reimagines the upcoming State of the Union address as a quirky Wes Anderson film. President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 at 9 PM EST. While each […]

Hassan S. Ali, a writer at The Onion‘s Onion Labs and editor at Medium, has created a great video imagining what Chewbacca would sound like in Star Wars if his roars were swapped out with Tim Allen‘s grunts from Home Improvement. via reddit

video by Doug Wellman On January 9th our friends at Cyclecide gathered together in San Francisco to give the late, great Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister a proper fiery Viking funeral in effigy (Lemmy passed away on December 28, 2015). Here’s a write-up on the event by Laughing Squid partner John Law. Here is Puzzling Evidences […]

Chris Cooper sends James Franco back in time to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the latest trailer for the Hulu original series 11.22.63 based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63. The trailer for the series, executive produced by J.J. Abrams, gives more details than the previous trailer about exactly how Franco’s character Jake […]

Comedian Ricky Gervais hosted the 73rd annual Golden Globes on January 10, 2016 and began the night with a monologue poking fun at the celebrities in attendance and even the award ceremony itself. Gervais also reminded the audience that he has won three Golden Globes in the past, and then outlined in graphic detail exactly what […]

In December 2015, photographer Connie Levenhagen captured absolutely adorable footage of a tiny 1-day old otter as she snuggled comfortably asleep against her mother’s chest as they floated supine in the tide pool outside the Monterey Bay Aquarium. According to Levenhagen, the audio portion was from an aquarium employee who was “doing a Periscope broadcast.” […]

Chewbacca John, a father who dresses up as the Star Wars Wookiee on the weekends, recently posted a funny Vine video of Chewbacca doing laundry and accidentally shrinking his bandolier. via Tastefully Offensive

An adorable two-year-old named Clara tries her first Warhead sour candy in a video posted by her father. Judging by her reaction, it appears the candy’s sour coating is a bit too much for Clara’s young palate. Clara’s older brother Ben also gave the candy a try. via reddit

In a new trailer for season four the Netflix political series House of Cards, President Frank Underwood tells the people of America that he is the leader they deserve. I believe in pointing people in the right direction but in the end we should all be free to make our own decisions. They say we […]

RocketJump has created a new video that imagines what would happen if Marty McFly from Back to the Future had a real, modern day hoverboard with wheels. So much for making it to school on time! Teachers hate him! This local teen figured out one weird trick to get to school on time! submitted via […]

A man in the Netherlands struggles against ice and a slight incline to take his trash out in a video filmed by an unhelpful neighbor. via Digg

Improv Everywhere held their 15th annual No Pants Subway Ride on January 10, 2016 in cities around the world. The group claims tens of thousands of people participated in the event with over 4,000 participates in New York City where the event started. Each year, the date for No Pants Subway Ride is announced in […]