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Stephanie Arne, the first female host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, was given an opportunity to swim (fully clothed) with the otter ambassadors of Nurtured by Nature sanctuary in Valley Center, California. Instead of swimming however, the gleeful host was adorably swarmed by the highly affectionate animals. This is the most amazing thing. You […]

“O” is a short film by Takahiko Watanabe shot with a water lens created using the surface tension of a drop of water inside the hole in the middle of a Japanese five yen coin held over the camera lens. The effect is a unique perspective through which Watanabe tells a story adapted from the poetry of […]

Leiden, Netherlands-based motion designer Iskander Krayenbosch has created “The Hero’s Journey,” a great animated look at the 12 stages that every hero has to walk through in movies. Iskander made the animated short as part of a graduation project for HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. Since the beginning of time people are fascinated by […]

While flying his DJI Phantom 3 Professional over a field in Norway, photographer Kolbjørn H. Larssen captured the sight of a wild moose serenely enjoying the crisp autumn day. As he flew his drone in closer, the curious animal became somewhat intrigued with the motion of the machine and even tried to follow it before […]

Sad Topographies is an Instagram account that chronicles the most depressingly-named places on Earth. The account posts screen grabs from maps of places like Shades of Death Road, Mount Despair, and Disappointment Island. images via Sad Topographies via The Atlantic

Pepsi will be releasing a limited edition of Pepsi Perfect, the iconic drink that Marty McFly purchased at the Cafe 80’s in Back to the Future Part II. Marty bought the drink on October 21st, 2015 in the film and that is the exact date that Pepsi will release the limited supply of bottled Pepsi […]

You want to watch Orange Is the New Black. Your roommate wants to watch Chef. You’ll probably end up watching Serpico for some reason. “Netflix Settle” is a sketch by the Mashable series The Watercooler about a new Netflix feature that helps couples pick something mutually disappointing to watch rather than arguing needlessly about it.

Vanity Fair imagines what it would be like if Game of Thrones took place in Silicon Valley with tech companies battling each other for superiority.

Baltimore-based filmmaker Jacob T. Swinney has created “First and Final Frames Part II,” a new supercut that plays the opening and closing shots of 70 films side by side. This time around, Jacob covers movies like Sunshine, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, and more. We previously wrote about part one of Swinney’s ongoing First […]

Screen Rant highlights their top ten worst video game glitches. Who says a video game has to actually work to be unforgettable? No matter how many hours developers spend making a game as polished as possible, some technical bugs are bound to make it through. Newer games, like the PC version of Arkham Knight, may […]

Bratislava, Slovakia Photographer Richard Silver has created the amazing photo series “Vertical Churches” that encompasses absolutely gorgeous vertical panoramas of the beautifully ornate houses of worship that he’s visited around the world. Silver started this project in 2012 in his hometown of New York City and has since visited at least 75 countries and 220 […]

CollegeHumor has created a painfully accurate drug commercial parody focused on the problem of chronic adulthood. The sketch plays on common tropes seen in drug commercials including overly-cute animation styles to portray serious problems.

Scientists Barna Páll-Gergely and Takahiro Asami from Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, András Hunyadi from Budapest, Hungary, Adrienne Jochum from the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland have discovered seven new species of land snails, including one so small that it fits inside the eye of a sewing needle. These microsnails were gathered through soil samples […]

Host Adam Conover explains how the TSA fails to stop terrorist attacks in a clip from his new truTV show Adam Ruins Everything. Conover explains that the agency mostly performs “security theater” to give the illusion of safety rather than provide any real protection. He also brings in security theater expert Bruce Schneier to discuss the issue.

Artist Alexandre Dubosc has once again created an incredible zoetrope for his stop motion animation “POP Melting.” The zoetrope, which features Pac Man characters appearing to eat popcorn kernels and Rolling Stones logos consuming the popped result upon a spinning chocolate cake, is Dubosc’s tribute to pop culture. Dubosc also generously provided behind-the-scenes photos. images […]

NASA has released beautiful enhanced color images of Pluto‘s moon Charon taking during the New Horizon mission’s closest approach to the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The images combine red, blue, and infrared images taken by the New Horizon’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) and show a much greater variety of surface features than scientists were […]

New York City-based Venezuelan comedienne Joanna Housman, who has offers an insightful verbal tour of various Spanish speaking countries, performing each regional dialect herself (except for that of the Dominican Republic). Many people speak Spanish… but we speak it in TOTALLY different ways. Dominicans don’t sound anything like an Argentinians. Meanwhile, Chileans sound like they’re […]

Peggy Hill of the animated television series King of the Hill sings Nicki Minaj‘s vocals in a new Vulture Remix of the David Guetta song “Hey Mama.” The remix was created by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). Here is the original song for comparison:

Paleontologists at the University of Michigan recently unearthed the partial remains of a wooly mammoth who wandered the lands of Lima Township, Michigan approximately 12,000 – 15,000 years ago. James Bristle, farmer and property owner first came across the bones while digging a trench in his wheat fields. We didn’t know what it was, but […]

“Abilify for Candidates” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about curing republican candidates of their presidential dementia with medication. The sketch features Miley Cyrus who hosted the episode as the wife of candidate Jim Gilmore as well as Taran Killam playing Rick Santorum and Bobby Moynihan playing Mike Huckabee. For Rick Santorum (Taran Killam), Mike Huckabee (Bobby Moynihan) and […]

In a new video by Screen Rant, host Rob Flis explores seven dark and terrifying origin stories behind some of the most popular Disney movies. Rob covers Frozen, Snow White, Tangled, and more.

No Tech-Zone is an art project by Ivan Cash that is centered around “No Tech-Zone” signs placed in San Francisco parks, “encouraging people to question the role technology plays in our lives and environment.” Cash and his accomplices put a number of the official-looking signs up on poles near other signs to help sell their authenticity, and […]

Home security cameras caught the amusing sight of a 20 pound black French bulldog chasing after a couple of curious bear cubs who had innocently wandered onto his Monrovia, California property. Even though they were backed into a corner, one of the bears tried to make a break for it, but the dog was faster. […]

In honor of the release of The Martian, Burger Fiction takes a look at movies that have featured Mars.

In honor of the upcoming Fallout 4 video game and his newly built house, IT manager Trey Hill built an awesome functional Fallout-themed 404 Vault Door that leads to his basement gaming room. Trey has also posted finished and build process photos of the vault door on Imgur. images via Trey Hill via reddit, Fallout

Google behind-the-scenes series Nat and Lo takes a look at the history of easter eggs in Android releases. Previously they explored the tradition of Android releases being named after sugary foods.

Lionsgate has released a new clip for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, the fourth installment of the ongoing Hunger Games film series. The clip features Katniss Everdeen and Squad 451, the “Star Squad,” planning their dangerous attack on President Snow and the Capitol. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is set to […]

Actor Seth Rogen and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak joined host Jimmy Fallon to play “True Confessions” on a recent episode of The Tonight Show. Each player has to tell one of two stories, one being true and one being a lie, and then the other players have one minute to interrogate them before deciding if they […]

Pope Francis appears to perform a classic tablecloth magic trick at a mass at the Washington National Cathedral during his recent visit to the United States thanks to some impressive editing by The Ellen Degeneres Show. To clear up any doubts about whether the Pope would perform a magic trick during mass, Yoshiro Sato created a side-by-side comparison […]

Hollywood Reporter recently reported that CBS and Furious 7 director James Wan will be bringing the action-adventure series, MacGyver, back to television. There is no word yet on an official release date. Based on the Richard Dean Anderson starrer that ran for seven seasons on ABC, the CBS take is described as a reimagining of […]

bd594 created a wonderful cover of “Break On Through (To the Other Side)” by The Doors using vintage electronic equipment and a Stephen Hawking like sythensized voice. Here’s a full list of what was used: HP ScanJet 3C – Vocals DECTalk Express – Vocals Yamaha CX-5M Computer – Saw Wave Bass Yamaha CX-5M Computer – […]

They Might Be Giants has released “Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees and Hares”, the new animated music video co-directed by David Cowles and Jeremy Galante and designed by Alison Cowles, that was created for week 39 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

A little dog named Daisy acts as a capable driver for her young human Oliver in a tiny red car whose acceleration was being controlled by Oliver’s mom because “neither of them can reach the peddles”. While not even close to the subject matter, this adorable scened nice little twist on the title of of […]

Photo archivist Kipp Teague has uploaded more than 8,400 high-resolution photos from the NASA Apollo missions to the Moon to the photo sharing site Flickr. According to Teague, the page includes every photo taken on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions as well as many others taken by astronauts during spaceflight to and from the […]

To prepare players for the upcoming release of the video game Fallout 4 on November 10, 2105, Bethesda has released “Charisma”, the fourth video from their new 1950s style animated educational video series covering the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes used in the game. Here are the previous videos on “Strength”, “Perception” and “Endurance”. Following total atomic […]

The online comedy group PistolShrimps has created a fantastic mashup of the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and animated Disney films. 3D work for the mashup was created by Andreas Næs. Star Wars – Where Dreams Come True

Digg senior editor Bryan Menegus edited together a nauseating compilation of all the burps in the first two seasons of ‘Rick And Morty’.

Quercus USA book editor Anna Hezel and Maxim senior editor Gabriella Paiella has teamed up to reimagine four popular Disney Princesses (Rapunzel, Ariel, Belle, and Pocahontas) as deliciously adorable hot dogs. They posted their fun creation process on the online food journal, Lucky Peach. photo via Lucky Peach via Refinery29

French line artist Qui Be has teamed up with Geek Art and French Paper Art Club to create a minimalist single-line illustration of four iconic Batman characters. The massive illustration features Batman watching over Gotham City while Catwoman, Commissioner James Gordon, and Robin stand behind him. A limited edition of mini-prints of Qui Be’s Batman […]

Here it is, more than 1600 hours of work, Standing at 9'6" tall and weighing in at OMG to much…The HULKBUSTER ! Click like if you enjoyed, share if you liked :) Photography by Ian Travis Barnard photography with Thomas DePetrillo and Quin Mae Posted by Extreme Costumes on Thursday, October 1, 2015 Thomas DePetrillo […]

Sony Pictures has released their final trailer for Spectre, the 24th James Bond film in which Agent 007 follows the trail of a secret criminal organization with villainous intentions. The legendary agent James Bond dodges all sorts of bullets, bombs, and bruises in the last trailer. Spectre is set to release in theaters on October […]

The Watercooler by Mashable reimagined the entire cast (except for Ross) of the now-classic television show Friends as bubbly little hamsters finding comfort, support and companionship in one another while grabbing a snack at a rodent-friendly replica of “Central Perk“. ‘Friends’ is one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, but what does that […]

Barcelona-based illustrator and architect Federico Babina has created Style-Life, an illustrated evolution of everyday objects from the early 1900s to the 2010s. Prints are available to purchase online from Society6. We’ve previously written about Babina’s series of architectural designs. images via Federico Babina

In a video shared by Alphons Net back in May, techno street drummer Dario Rossi amazes a crowd of people by performing an incredible drum roll on a collection of old buckets, pots, and pans at the Dam Square in Amsterdam. via Digg

Internet prankster Jack Vale and magician Rahat Hussein are back to baffle even more fast food drive-thru employees by secretly switching places in the driver’s seat whenever the employees look away. We previously wrote about part one of this comical prank.

Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant recently left a custom sign on a local drugstore that lists off silly things that you are not allowed to do while shopping. Wood nymphs and horses are not allowed in the store, no up-close street magic, and more. image via Obvious Plant

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert asks “Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars” with his guest Tom Hanks. The two men look up at the stars and ponder life’s big questions like what they would do with a time machine and what Santa Claus does in the summer.

“Cool Dad” is a rapidly escalating comedy sketch by Lemonade Stand about parenting, boundaries, and bad decisions. The sketch stars Nick Skardarasy as the titular “Cool Dad” who repeatedly interrupts his daughter’s party with increasingly ridiculous attempts to prove how cool he is.

In their most recent video, Foodbeast shares eight essential beer life hacks that will help keep the party going. They demonstrate how to use a lighter as a bottle opener, use rubber bands to mark your beer bottle, make beer ice cubes, and more.

Lucy is an intelligent solar-powered robotic mirror that reflects sunlight to the same spot indoors or out by following the Sun and repositioning itself throughout the day. Lucy can provide a unique lighting solution for the home or office, even in places without power. The device was developed by Diva Tommei, CEO of Solenica, who developed Lucy to […]