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A recent Chemistry Life Hacks episode by ACS Reactions demonstrates a simple and inexpensive way to easily sharpen a steel knife using the unglazed bottom of ceramic dishware. A stainless steel knife is sharp because of the way that the blade tapers down into a tight point. Now that tight point isn’t perfect, and there […]

Urban explorers Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov of On the Roofs filmed themselves climbing the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during what appears to be a secret nighttime operation. photos via Vitaliy Raskalov via Maxim

In a recent episode of The Real series, Vice reporter Casey Feldman travelled to Roswell, New Mexico to speak with several well-known “UFOlogists” including Stanton Friedman, the original investigator of the Roswell Incident and a real-life Fox Mulder along with paranormal investigator Joe Nickel whose skeptical style is more akin to Dana Scully. VICE meets […]

The 1938 Jam Handy short film “Back of the Mike” demonstrates, in detail, how dramatic sound effects were made for radio serials using specific devices and actors voicing different roles. A boy lies on his bed (wearing a white shirt and a necktie), listening to a radio western. We see the images the radio creates […]

The United States Postal Service is honoring Star Trek, the Moon, the planets of the Solar System, and NASA’s recent New Horizons mission to Pluto with commemorative stamps in 2016. The post office made the announcement along with their full stamp lineup for 2016. images via NASA

The Dynamic Systems Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology has created the HyQ2Max, an incredibly versatile and powerful robot that can lift itself up onto its four legs in the most challenging of terrains. According to project leader Claudio Semini, the design was inspired by quadruped animals. Much like a cat or a goat […]

For the brilliant campaign entitled “This Bike Has MS” developed by Grey Australia, a team comprised of neurologists, therapists, bicycle builders, Paralympian Carol Cooke and people with MS, worked together to deliberately design and build a wobbly bicycle that replicates the often painful, arduous and dizzying effects the disease. The campaign also promotes the annual […]

BlindTool is a smartphone app developed by Joseph Paul Cohen that audibly identifies objects using the phone’s camera and a neural network. Users simply point their phone’s camera and the app processes the image to identify what it is seeing, and the phone will vibrate to indicate how confident it is in its identification. The app is […]

Star Wars Intro Creator is a wonderful website, developed by Bruno Orlandi and based on the work of Tim Pietrusky, that allows users to write their own adventures and display them as a classic Star Wars style opening crawl. The final draft of your custom intro, which comes with a unique URL for sharing with […]

A new tmid-season premiere trailer for the highly awaited remainder of the sixth season of The Walking Dead features danger on all fronts by zombies and humans alike, with the loss of their home behind the walls, a gruesome discovery inside a trunk and a threatening encounter with a gang of motorcyclists. AMC had released […]

They Might Be Giants has released the new music video “Shape Shifter”, animated by Jason Willis. It’s the final video (week #52) of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

In a video by SlivkiShow, 10,000 sparklers are stuffed into a pot and lit simultaneously for a fiery display. The ignition causes a massive plume of fire and leaves a large burn on the ground around the pot. via reddit

In his latest video, “Who Owns Antarctica?”, the incomparable CGP Grey explains the complex territorial history of Antartica – the only continent in the world without a permanent human population, how the Antarctic Treaty System came to be and what the future holds for the snowy continent. …the United States and the Soviet Union gave […]

Griz and Norm Lemay, two very talented feature animation artists at Walt Disney Animation Studio, have recently shared a series of their cute illustrations on Instagram that show popular Star Wars characters nuzzling up to furry cats. images via Griz and Norm Lemay via DesignTAXI

Since 2003, the small Japanese town of Kamikatsu has participated in a stringent recycling program that has reduced their garbage output by over 80%. The Seeker Network visited the town to learn more about the program and spoke some residents who have participated over the years. Residents must wash and sort virtually anything that is […]

In the latest episode of his fantastic series Every Frame a Painting, filmmaker Tony Zhou explains the concept of ensemble staging in movies and how this technique subtly points where the audience needs to look without using closeups. In order to demonstrate his point, Zhou focused on scenes from the 2003 Bong Joon-ho film Memories […]

Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) becomes the first bunny police officer in a new trailer for Disney’s Zootopia. Hopps has to team up with fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) to solve a case within 48 hours or she’ll have to resign her position. The film will be released in theaters on March 4, 2016. image via Zootopia

Inventor Mike Moyer demonstrates how he created a pencil sharpener powered by a nitro engine from a discarded remote control car. Moyer first had to repair the engine before rigging it to the sharpener and added a braking system. via The Awesomer

News Be Funny presents part 3 of their year-end compilation of some of the best news bloopers of 2015. Here’s part 1, part 2 and their weather news bloopers.

JT and Russell of Mix Minus have recently edited the classic scene from Rocky, where Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) runs up the stairs of the Philadelphia Art Museum, by stripping out composer Bill Conti‘s motivational music and dubbing over the scene with silly, “realistic” audio. Rocky Balboa has a mission… and that means it’s time […]

Gabe Hohreiter shares a video of his two nieces Aubrey and Presley where one of the girls is delighted by her own farts. After letting loose with the fart, the girl laughs loudly and announces, “Stinky!” via YouTube Trending

YouTuber Tom F has created modern style Star Wars trailers for the classic films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. via Midtown Comics

“Pluto Through Stained Glass: A Movie from the Edge of the Solar System” is a NASA video captured by the LEISA infrared imaging spectrometer on the New Horizons spacecraft that shows the craft’s full spectrum view of Pluto during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The data provided by the video led to the discovery of […]

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