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“Um, what are you planning on doing with that booger?” “Poo Poo Parents Say” is a video by Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton of Tripp and Tyler about many of the weird things parents say that non-parents don’t. The video is a family-friendly parental version of the popular “Shit People Say” video trend from around 2012. Those videos […]

Italian artist Giula Bernadelli takes playing with one’s food to a whole new level when she creates beautifully detailed and delicate illustrations using spilled coffee, wine, and chocolate. Bernadelli recently spoke with Huffington Post France about how she gets her inspiration. I never plan my work in advance, I’m just my instinct based on what […]

After three years of intense preparation, professional base jumper and wingsuit pilot Uli Emanuele successfully completed an insane wingsuit flight through a tiny two-meter wide opening between rock formations in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The breathtaking flight was recorded using a GoPro camera.

A series of photographs by Maurice Mikkers titled Imaginarium of Tears takes a microscopic look at crystallized tears harvested from Mikkers’ friends. The project started out with the intention of seeing if the composition of tears would be visually different whether the tears were basal, reflex, or emotional, but Mikkers admits the results are more likely caused by […]

In “What It’s Like To Have Insomnia” by CollegeHumor, comedian Mike Trapp portrays an incredibly annoying and very persistent personified version of insomnia who won’t stop talking to a stressed out man who looks like him and who wants, more than anything, just to fall asleep. In the morning you have a meeting then you’ve […]

Nikon has released their new COOLPIX P900 digital camera which features an incredible 83x optical zoom. The zoom is so good that you can actually see the Moon ‘move’ across the sky as the earth rotates as well as picking amazing detail on the surface of the Moon itself as seen in this footage shot […]

R/C builder Otto Dieffenbach of Flyguy Promotions recently built a custom remote-controlled quadcopter that looks like Snoopy, Charlie Brown‘s pet dog for the Peanuts comic strips, flying around on his doghouse for the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International. Dieffenbach was inspired to make his “World War I Flying Ace” version of Snoopy by the trailer […]

Wired has created a short and sweet look at NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. The spacecraft–launched on January 19, 2006–is scheduled to fly by the former planet and current dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.

When left to care for the child, an uncle turned his young nephew into Superman by making the boy fly around the room on a towel. The action was set to the iconic “Superman Theme” by John Williams, which really added to the illusion of flight. via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Freelance editor and reviewer Mr. Sunday Movies recently teamed up with Bandit Incorporated to create a new video where they point out nearly every Easter egg and reference hidden in the newly released film Terminator Genisys. Mr. Sunday Movies also released a review of the new film and a video featuring some of his least […]

Japanese robot manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industries has responded to a recent challenge for a giant robot battle presented by American robotics company MegaBots Inc. founders Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein. Suidobashi CEO Kogoro Kurata responded in a video on the company’s YouTube page where he made comments about the MegaBots Mark II robot saying, “Just building something huge […]

Las Vegas-based video editor Robert Jones has created a powerful supercut video of 82 fight scenes from popular films synced to the song “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. In June 2013, Jones released part one of his movie fight scene supercut set to Mötley Crüe‘s 1989 hit song “Kickstart My Heart“. submitted via […]

Toronto, Canada-based film enthusiast Louis “The Sleepy Skunk” Plamondon recently worked with Vulture to reimagine the upcoming Marvel superhero film Ant-Man as a 1950s horror movie. The remix features spine-tingling narration by the late and great Vincent Price. Ant-Man is scheduled to release in theaters on July 17, 2015. Footage sources: ‘The Fly‘ (1958) ‘House […]

Household Hacker demonstrates a few quick and simple life hacks you can do using ordinary sugar. 1. Make flowers last longer 2. Garden Booster 3. Preserve Baked Goods 4. Get rid of Grass Stains 5. Remove Grease and Oil from Skin 6. Get rid of Wasps

Eastern Philosophers (Sun Tzu, Confucius and Laozi) and Western Philosophers (Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates and Voltaire) have a battle of the minds in the latest episode of the 4th season of Epic Rap Battles of History. Here’s their behind-the-scenes video showing how it all came together.

Artist Julie Seabrook Ream, who describes herself as “a mommy who could never pick a favorite color”, has created “100 Days of Rainbows“, a vivid photo series in which she arranges familiar objects such as scissors, thread, stamps, jewels and other items using the bright colors of the rainbow in ROY G. BIV order. images […]

Nelson Carvajal of Bridgework Pictures created a wonderful mashup trailer of ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Inception’. via The A.V. Club

Codename Colossus is an impressive 3D-printed toy walking tank by Machination Studio designer Michael Sng. The toy is entirely painted and assembled by hand and features a hexapodal walking motion as well as moving toy guns and other electronics. The tank, officially designated as “The HMS Boudicca,” is the first in Sng’s Codename Colossus toy line. […]

“ROCKET WARS” is a short film by the production company Variable that captures the annual firing of over 100,000 homemade rockets in the “village of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios[.]” The event, which is held during Easter, has no definitive origin, though it’s posited that it has something to do with the Turkish […]

Adidas has teamed with the group Parley for the Oceans to create a pair of sneakers made from recycled ocean garbage. The upper part of the surprisingly fashionable garbage shoes were made from illegal gillnets and other pieces of recycled waste recovered by Parley partner Sea Shepherd. They were recently presented at the United Nations as […]

“Bagels. Doughnuts that gave up on their dreams.” John Oliver offers up a series of 15 swift opinions on a variety of topics in a web-exclusive clip of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

The 24,000mAh portable power outlet by ChargeTech is a battery for charging more than just USB devices. It has two USB ports as well as a full three-pronged AC outlet capable of powering any AC compatible devices like laptops, small appliances, or even power tools. The battery can also charge devices using all its ports simultaneously. For a […]

PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta examines the increasingly fine line between play and work in a recent video. Rugnetta specifically uses recent video games television shows like Orange Is the New Black and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt to explore drudgery and fun. Why does entertainment increasingly feel like work? The Witcher 3 […]

The GoPro HERO4 Session is a new smaller and lighter GoPro camera with a range of mounting possibilities and new features. The camera is waterproof down to 10 meters without an external housing, shoots in 1080p60, and features a ball joint buckle that allows the user to easily adjust the angle of the mount on […]

Bob the Golden Retriever lives a very happy life with his blended family that includes two cockatiels, four parakeets, two mandarins, and one fuzzy hamster. They all appear to love one another, although the cockatiels tend to pick at each other from time to time. A video posted by Bob (@bob_goldenretriever) on Jun 23, 2015 […]

Curator James Harvey and producer Kaitlin Sullivan created an animated trailer for a version of the classic anime AKIRA featuring The Simpsons characters under the “Bartkira” collaborative art project based on an original idea by Ryan Humphrey. The project consists mostly of several volumes of comics. In the days of old, deep in the dredges […]

CrazyRussianHacker has a nice round-up of 10 handy life hacks you can do using clothes hangers.

A confused little black lab puppy tries to eat the cold air flowing from the car air conditioning vents that his human, YouTube user jones948, introduced to him for the first time ever. via Tastefully Offensive

GoPro video of Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel at X Games Austin 2015.

Olav the Wolf Danish artist Thomas Dambo, creates gorgeous, hulking and humorous sculptures that are all made from reclaimed scrap wood and other discarded construction materials. The sculptures can be found in such cities as Copenhagen, Mors, Aarhus, and Horsens in Denmark and Culebra Es Ley in Puerto Rico. Thomas and his team have made […]

A crowd of Albert Einstein lookalikes gathered to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein” at a charity event in Los Angeles to benefit School on Wheels, an organization that helps provide education to homeless children. Although the group did not release an official count, they […]

Science writer Emma Bryce explains how to use a semicolon in a new TED-Ed lesson animated in the style of a video game by Karrot Entertainment. It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that’s why we toss these punctuation marks […]

Artist Memo Akten has created a mind-bending inceptionist video rendered by an artificial neural network. Akten begins with a clip of himself, which the artificial brain then tries to interpret using its database of millions of images. Google recently released a gallery of still inceptionist images created with the same process, but the added video element […]

Tennis player Adam Kennedy performs a 143-MPH serve in a short clip from a video recorded by Australian tennis company Flex Infinity. The video, filmed using an Olympus camera, captures the serve at 6,000 frames per second in an attempt to better understand how the Flex Infinity strings impact play. via reddit

In November 2014, an adorable little hedgehog slid easily into a plastic measuring cup in order to be weighed by a kitchen countertop scale image via reddit via reddit, Daily Picks and Flicks

Trinity River Vision Authority on Panther Island, Fort Worth, TX has set the Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled on a slip and slide in on hour, traveling 774,515.09 meters (2,541,060 feet). The TRVA organisation – which is dedicated to revitalising the Trinity River that runs through Fort Worth – completely shattered the […]

Young beatboxer Nicole Paris faces off in an incredible beatboxing battle rematch against her father. In the first round, posted last year, Nicole was declared the clear winner by viewer votes. The pair have asked viewers to decide the outcome of this battle as well, but she appears confident that she’ll hold on to her […]

The first Minecraft: Story Mode trailer features an unlikely band of heroes and also a pig. The five-part episodic video game series, by Telltale Games, is based on the extremely popular Minecraft video game by Mojang. Players will control protagonist Jesse throughout the season, as portrayed by actor Patton Oswalt. Jesse and his group of […]

Donald Gould, a homeless man living in Sarasota, Florida, was recorded playing a beautiful piano rendition of the song “Come Sail Away” by Styx in a video by Dylan Henry. Gould is a college-educated musician who plays a variety of instruments, and says he also played the clarinet in the Marine Corps. Henry and his colleagues […]

This July 3rd and 4th DRT Nation shot some beautiful aerial footage of fireworks using a drone. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

While visiting South Africa Hillary Rae shot an terrifying GoPro Hero 4 video of a 11.5 foot long great white shark that was trying to bite through the diving cage she was inside of with her screaming friend. While shark cage diving, our cage was attacked by an 11.5 foot Great White shark. The round […]

Fat kungfu has created a compilation of combat robot fights from the first episode of BattleBots on ABC. via Kevin Kelly

Mental Floss host Elliott Morgan discusses common misconceptions about the United States.

Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser is back with his annual round-up of bizarre and ridiculous fireworks packaging which he has been faithfully documenting since 2007. photos by Cabel Sasser

In honor of the 4th of July, Sam the Eagle does his best to seriously recite the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence before he’s interrupted and forced to perform his recitation with a humming chorus of muppet disrupters. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve […]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has created a rather graphic video by using crash test dummies to show what can happen when fireworks are handled inappropriately and explosions go awry. Americans have a longstanding tradition of enjoying hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie at family gatherings to celebrate Independence Day. Some festivities also […]

Mashable’s Watercooler looks at some of the signature hot dog toppings used by cities around the United States.

In honor of The 4th of July, MrSolidSnake745 presents “The Star Spangled Banner” played on eight gloppy drives.

“This Machine Keeps Portland Weird!” In honor of The 4th of July, here’s The Unipiper playing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” and Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with flaming bagpipes while riding a tall unicycle in Portland, Oregon.

It’s Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson explains whether flowers or bees came first in a recent episode. According to Hanson, bees essentially exist because of flowers. Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and […]