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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 […]

In a video by Vox, Joe Posner interviews graphic designer Michael Bierut about what makes a logo great, but Bierut also explains why logos themselves ultimately don’t matter much on their own. Bierut is known for creating logos for Hillary Clinton, Verizon, and the Museum of Sex, among many others.

For their 23rd annual Gingerbread Village event, the Sheraton Seattle hotel culinary staff teamed up with local architecture and construction firms to build a gigantic Star Wars themed gingerbread town in honor of the release of The Force Awakens. The event, hosted by the Sheraton Seattle hotel and the JDRF Northwest Chapter, is currently on […]

An animated visualization by Dr. Stuart Grey shows the increase of space debris between 1957 and 2015 using data from Space-Track.org. Grey shows that as humanity increases its space exploration we are leaving more and more things behind. The video was featured as part of the Royal Institution‘s 2015 Advent Calendar. via The Presurfer

Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister, the beloved bass player and larger than life frontman of the legendary heavy metal band Motörhead, suddenly and sadly passed away on December 28, 2015 from a very aggressive form of cancer that was only recently diagnosed. Lemmy had just turned 70 years old on December 24. Messages of condolence, memories […]

During a live BBC performance in 1971, a smiling 26-year old Neil Young spoke with the audience about a new song that he had written. The song, he explained, was about the caretaker of a ranch he recently purchased from “two lawyers” and was called “Old Man“. This is a new song I wrote about […]

News Be Funny has posted their year-end compilation of some of the best weather news bloopers of 2015.

Every year with the lunar cycle, the red crabs of Christmas Island make their way across land and to the beach. AJ+ explains why this happens and how the residents of the island accommodate the amazing migration. Tens of millions of red crabs live on Christmas Island, a small Australian territory near Indonesia. Each year, […]

The heroes of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow have one chance to save the future in the new trailer for the CW series. Legends of Tomorrow centers on a team of DC superheroes and villains as they travel through time to prevent a catastrophic future. The series premieres on January 21, 2016. image via DC’s Legends of […]

Without a single word being uttered, Earth Touch demonstrates how a teeny tiny pygmy seahorse is able to completely camouflage itself into the coral sea fans where the petite syngnathid will spend the rest of its life. Now you see me, now you don’t! These pygmy seahorses are the masters of disguise. Smaller than a […]

Photographers Emily Dryden and Zahydé Pietri have created “Fresh Faces“, a remarkable photo series in which faces are constructed out of strategically placed produce. The portraits are reminiscent of the 16th century works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the series won second place in the Professional: Advertising, Food section of the 2015 International Photography Awards. images […]

Envious of all the attention that a tiny toddler was getting, a playful yellow lab stole the show when she successfully slid across the snow on her belly. This dog is very reminiscent of another yellow lab named Stella who drags her legs across the lawn whenever she wants to stop.

Portland, Oregon based Brian Kidd (aka “The Unipiper“) recently dressed as Kylo Ren from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and rode BB-8 while playing the song, “The Final Countdown” by Europe, on his flaming bagpipes in the rain.

GoPro takes a look back at some of the best moments in 2015 that were captured using a GoPro camera.

In a video posted by DJ Mark Zabala, his girlfriend Maggie tries to recap the story of the original Star Wars trilogy after a few glasses of wine and despite the fact that she’s never seen the films. Maggie’s version tells the story of Lucas (played by Richard Gere), as he uses his army of […]

photo by Michael Muller Benedict Cumberbatch brings the magic in Entertainment Weekly‘s first look of him as Marvel‘s superhero and powerful sorcerer, Doctor Strange. The Sherlock star will play Doctor Strange is the upcoming live-action Marvel film of the same name, which is currently scheduled to release in theaters on November 4th, 2016. The entire […]

“Rise and Shine” by filmmaker Robert McIntosh is a stunning aerial tour of Venice, California at taken at the quiet of sunrise before the seaside community wakes up and starts their respective days. McIntosh used a GoPro Hero mounted onto a 250 sized mini-quadcopter in order to get the tight shots just right. Using a […]

Ryan and David of Eclectical Engineering built a custom air cannon and 3D-printed a projectile housing to launch a GoPro HERO4 Session camera across a San Francisco park. For anyone interested in replicating the launch, the Eclictical Engineering duo has posted instructions and a how-to video on their site. via 3D Print, Technabob

HunterNormandy demonstrates 100 different ways the Sole Survivor can die in the video game Fallout 4. Ever thought of all the ridiculous possibilities of ways to die in Fallout? Well I set out on a quest to find 100 ways to meet an unfortunate end in our latest and greatest fallout game. Join me and […]

They Might Be Giants has released “I Love You for Psychological Reasons”, the new music video directed by Paul Sahre, that was created for week 51 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

NASA has released a spectacular Earthrise image composite captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The images used were captured on October 12, 2015 while the LRO was about 83 miles above the Compton crater on the far side of the Moon. image via NASA

With the premiere of the X-Files reboot less than a month away, the cast and crew of the iconic show offer an extended behind-the-scenes view of the upcoming series and how the mythology of the original series continues. Show runner Chris Carter explains much of what is being planned without revealing too much while actors […]

Norwegian musician and home-brewer Espen Westum has put a heavy metal spin on Dudolf’s “Find the Panda” visual search paradigm. Instead of snowmen, however Westum hid a panda in a room full raven-haired, corpse-painted black metal frontmen whose kohl-lined eyes can easily be mistaken as those o a panda. Most people have seen the “find […]

Sesame Street has released a new trailer for its upcoming season on HBO. The new season premieres on January 16, 2016 with episodes that will debut on HBO nine months before they are freely available on Sesame Street‘s longtime home at PBS.

Animal photographer Christian Vieler who is based out of Waltrop, Germany, has captured the confused elation of dogs as their muzzles flapped, their eyes focused and their mouths opened in eager anticipation of an incoming treat. In an interview with Design You Trust, Vieler explained his technique. Every shoot I am looking for that specific […]

Four-time international whistling champion Christopher Ullman demonstrated his winning techniques for the cameras of National Geographic. Ullman also offered up handy advice such as drinking ice water, not kissing before a performance and the copious use of Chapstick in order to create the clearest sound possible. Four-time national and international whistling champion Christopher Ullman believes […]

Tom BetGeorge decorated his Tracy, California home with approximately 70,000 LED lights for Christmas and synced them all to iconic songs from the original and the prequel Star Wars trilogies. We previously wrote about Tom’s elaborate Star Wars Christmas light show from 2014. I sequenced the show using LOR, mixed the music/sound effects with Digital […]

The ArcaBoard by ArcaSpace is a $20,000 hoverboard powered by 36 electric fans that put out 272 horsepower. The vehicle can hover up to one foot over land, water, rough terrain, and snow at a top speed of 12.5mph for six minutes. ArcaSpace is taking preorders now and will begin shipping on April 15, 2016. […]