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In a recent Ted-Ed Lesson adorably animated by Maria Savva, educator Steven Zheng explains the history of anesthesia, what substances are used as anesthesia and what occurs in the body once anesthesia is administered. When under anesthesia, you can’t move, form memories, or — hopefully — feel pain. And while it might just seem like […]

A 60-year-old man entertains his family at Thanksgiving by performing an impressive feat of beer yoga by balancing a beer on his head and drinking it without using his arms or hands. In the video posted by alysemv, the man says that he learned the trick from someone who claimed to be able to do […]

Filmmaker Kaipo Jones of Kaipotainment has created “Darth Vader Cat,” a special effects video of an angry feline who dons a Darth Vader mask and takes on its owner in a frisky lightsaber battle. Vader cat ends the battle by blowing up its master’s house with a TIE fighter, with him in it. submitted via […]

Since 2008, a talented and compassionate craftswoman named Jan Brown of Knittedwithlove in Seaburn, Sunderland, UK, has spent thousands of hours creating sweaters, coats and neck warmers and snoods for homeless and rescued Sighthounds, a category that includes Greyhounds, Lurchers and Whippets. For the first few years, Brown had been doing this on the side, […]

Google has added a Reminders feature to Google Calendar that lets you track todo items alongside events.

Rapper G Wolf has remixed the classic 2009 Missy Elliot hip hop song “Work It” with original lyrics that celebrate the joy of Hanukkah. Bought a camel on Birthright now I ride gangsta Just to make y’all think that I’ve gone meshuggah Admit it I’m a schmooze and a mensch ya ya Please don’t feed […]

Earlier this year, Vimeo community manager Mark Cersosimo and his girlfriend, both American, traveled the city Havana, Cuba where they spent time immersing themselves in the local culture. Upon returning back to the United States, Cersosimo put together a wonderful guide explaining how to get to Cuba, what to bring and what to expect in […]

While visiting the Cleveland Centre shopping mall in Middlesbrough, England, Santa began to sign with a small child when he realized she was unable to hear him. The two shared a brief conversation and a hug in the short video. via Jason Scott

Artist Thomas Medicus employed the dual concepts of emergence and anamorphic format in his newest piece “Emergence Labs”. The piece consists of a rotating acrylic glass cube in which hand different painted portraits that occupy the same amount of space appear upon each turn. Through a plug system made out of 216 laser cut acrylic […]

The five Denmark-based members of The Bottle Boys recently got dressed up and played the “Cantina Band” song from Star Wars using beer bottles and a guitar. They used clips from A New Hope and Return of the Jedi to make it look like they were actually performing at the Mos Eisley Cantina in front […]

Warner Bros. has released the first official trailer for The Nice Guys, an upcoming comedy thriller film directed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3). The movie follows private detective Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hitman Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) as they team up to solve a crazy case together. The Nice Guys is currently scheduled […]

In the Saturday Night Live sketch “Close Encounter,” Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, and Cecily Strong play alien abductees being interviewed after their experience by government agents Aidy Bryant and Bobby Moynihan. McKinnon’s character appears to have had a wildly different experience than her fellow abductees, and her descriptions of the bizarre events causes her costars to all break […]

Photographer Marco Restivo captured striking images and timelapse video of the December 3, 2015 eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, the tallest active volcano in Europe. The eruption caused volcanic lightning known as a “dirty thunderstorm” as ash spewed from the volcano’s Voragine crater.

They Might Be Giants has released “I Am Alone”, the new music video directed by David Plunkert and animated by Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth, that was created for week 48 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series.

Mashable explains the Netflix series Narcos in under four minutes in their latest TL;DW video. Netflix’s Narcos is the story of notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. And a blonde dude with a mustache.

Marvel has released Chris Pratt (Star-Lord) and Dave Bautista‘s (Drax) funny screen test for Guardians of the Galaxy. This behind-the-scenes footage, plus much more, will be available to view on the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase 2 Blu-ray Collection being released on December 8th, 2015.

The Fort Worth, Texas, Police Department has created a clever recruitment video that features Darth Vader failing horribly while interviewing for a position on their force. The powerful Sith Lord’s noticeable breathing problem and dark side trickery just don’t cut it. Maybe we should’ve interviewed Yoda, right Darth?

Rob Pugh has obtained footage of Santa wiping out on one of those ubiquitous “Hoverboard” self-balancing scooters while trying to deliver presents. Santa is not alone, Darth Vader has similar coordination issues while riding a Hoverboard. via Tastefully Offensive

11. Italian loaf ???? A video posted by Bread Face (@breadfaceblog) on Nov 14, 2015 at 8:52am PST The Instagram account “Bread Face” documents an unnamed woman’s extreme fondness for smashing and rolling her face around on various types bread, “giving the people something they didn’t ask for”. 8. Bergen Bagel Everything bagel ???? A […]

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster alerts us to a recent sighting of the Pastafarianism deity in a pair of sacred headphones.

A “Hipster Santa” with a man bun has been spotted at the Pioneer Place shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon sitting in a PDX carpet chair, wearing jeans and a stylish sweater that appears to be simlar to the one worn by “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski. images via KOIN via KOIN

The ever-forthright Carrie Fisher and her wonderful dog Gary recently sat for an interview with Amy Robach of Good Morning America to talk about her latest role as “General Leia” in the highly anticipated upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 38 years after she played

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In a fairly recent episode of SciShow, host Hank Green explains the physiology and the purpose of that little dangly thing at the back of the human throat called the palantine uvula. the uvula is packed full of glands that can quickly make a large amounts of theme watery saliva. These glands are connected to […]

A gorgeous long-haired cat named Sir Silas has come a long way since being found on the side of the road, near death, with his beautiful white fur all matted and dirty and his beautiful blue eyes completely bloodshot and crusty. Since that time, Silas has grown into a majestic cat, with tons of glorious, […]

Hi, Billy Mays here for… J.T. Sexkik recreated a video he saw online featuring 24 infomercials by the legendary pitchman Billy Mays all playing at the same time. Mays, known for his ubiquitoius sales pitches on television, died in 2009. via The High Definite

Taras Kulakov (aka CrazyRussianHacker) shot super slow motion video of a basketball exploding after being overinflated using an air compressor.

Musician Keith Peskosky created a looping symphony while cleaning his apartment for the GoPro and Guitar Center collaborative contest Done in One, which challenged musicians to submit a compelling unedited musical clip shot with a GoPro camera for a chance at winning $20,000. GoPro recently shared a slightly trimmed version of Peskosky’s original submission as their […]

Japanese pet supply company Unihabitat, the makers of the Mewgaroo Sweatshirt, have expanded their comfy human-kitty line to include a new Mewgaroo Jumpsuit. The jumpsuit is an adult onesie that features a snuggly pouch in the front so that a beloved feline can snuggle in closely with his/her human. Like the sweatshirt, the jumpsuit has […]

Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn, New York has started offering Mini Vinnie pizzas, pizzas topped with smaller slices of pizza. The pizza-on-pizza creation is not officially on the menu, but can be ordered by request for $5 per slice. photos via Vinnie’s Pizzeria via Messy Nessy Chic, 7Deadly, Incredible Things

In his latest video, Evan “The Nerdwriter” Puschak takes a look at the popular Pixar animation Inside Out and how the film put a new spin on emotions so as to make them appear to be elements of personality rather than crippling signs of weakness they were previously perceived to be. Puschak notes that while […]

Comedian Joe Bereta teaches us everything we need to know about how to become a fierce ninja warrior during a recent episode of the AWE me web series Epic How To. Who doesn’t want to a master of stealth and martial arts?

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler parody a Star Wars featurette with “The Farce Awakens” to promote their new film Sisters which shares a release date of December 18, 2015 with Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

In “Look Who’s Driving,” four-year-old Sophia drives a remote-controlled heavy-duty Volvo FMX truck through a dangerous obstacle course. The young lady smashes the truck through swinging crates, a concrete building, and even rolls it down a hill to test the truck’s durability and new features.

Björk is never known for being subtle and th music video for her single “Mouth Mantra” from her new album “vulnicura” is no exception. Directed by Jesse Kanda, the video takes viewers on a very trippy (and somewhat squeamish) tour inside the singer’s oddly lipsticked mouth. According Björk, the images are representative of “the power […]

Oregon-based Hudson Hongo, writer and creator of the Literally Unbelievable blog, has made a supercut remix of President Barack Obama singing “Freak on a Leash” by Korn. The original music video for comparison: submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

In the latest episode of the video series “Cardboard Chaos“, the ever-creative company Signal Snowboards partnered with the Fender Custom Shop to make a working Stratocaster neck and body (“Strat”) completely out of cardboard. While various talented employees at Fender proclaimed the finished project to be a “real Strat”, Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson gave […]

The Drunk Series is a new web video series by Ganglebot Films that creates short genre films with scripts written by drunk writers and starring drunk actors. We previously wrote about the first installment, Star Drunk, which premiered in 2013. The new episodes in the series give the drunk treatment to the superhero, zombie, medical drama, […]

Madrid salon owner Alberto Olmedo masterfully employs flames from a blowtorch, slicing Samurai swords, razor-sharp talons and even the occasional pair of scissors to create his signature hair styles. Although Olmedo tells AJ+ that his methods are “practically primitive” and “medieval”, he believes that he can only achieve symmetry by addressing both sides at once. […]

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has created an unboxing video to show off their brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. An excited narrator reviews the plane’s new features as crew members remove the plastic and get the plane ready for flight.

On November 19, 2015, vintner Armand Foisy of Fort Berens Estate Winery in Lillooet, BC,Canada captured a wonderfully heartwarming video of Alvina, his 101-year old mother, as she spontaneously got out of the car to make a very respectable snowball that she threw into the woods by the side of the road while proclaiming “it’s […]

Timelapse footage captures the process of technicians disassembling and reassembling an entire Lockheed U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane for the intense routine maintenance the planes go through every 4,700 flight hours. This thorough maintenance process keeps U-2 planes in service for decades. via Sploid

In “Hypnotic Cardistry Kid” by Kuma Films, Los Angeles-based cardistry artist Zach Mueller of Fontaine Cards showcases his hypnotic ability to manipulate a deck of playing cards in a variety of different ways. music by Pogo – “Do Something Rhythmic“

Singapore Airlines demonstrates the differences in their seating classes with meticulously crafted paper models in a new commercial titled “No Detail Is Too Small.” As the first airline to fly the A380, we’ve turned the most comfortable and spacious aircraft ever to grace the skies into a unique experience with the world’s most awarded airline.

In a recent comedy sketch by Funny or Die, leaked footage is unveiled of Mystery Science Theater 3000 bots Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo auditioning for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. image via Funny or Die

It was suggested that imgur user morihime try something different with her hair, so she braided it into a marvelous Dwarven beard. via reddit

Puddles Pity Party, Haley Reinhart, and Post Modern Jukebox perform a vaudeville cover of the Gary Jules version of the song “Mad World” by Tears for Fears. For comparison, here are the Gary Jules version and Tears for Fears versions of the song.

Galway, Ireland-based musician Banjo Guy Ollie recently performed a multitrack cover of Rage Against the Machine‘s song “Killing in the Name” using a five string tenor banjo, a mandolin, and a u-bass. We previously wrote about Banjo Guy Ollie’s multitrack covers of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and the Eurythmics‘ song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of […]

Mark Hamill and Omaze recently teamed up to mingle with unsuspecting strangers on Hollywood Boulevard, disguised as a Stormtrooper, while spreading the news about a Star Wars: The Force Awakens charity auction. The auction will “present two winners with tickets for them and three guests each to attend the premiere of Star Wars: The Force […]

Sleepy Skunk presents their mashup of 2015 movie trailers. Here’s the full list of films used in the mashup.