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What Happens When a Popular Instagram Account with 8 Million Followers Posts a Picture
As if you needed more proof that celebrities live in a different world than us: here’s what happens when an Instagram account with 8 million followers (this particular one shows the 433 soccer account) posts a picture and then gets deluged with likes, comments, emojis, and whatever other notification. There’s no sad…
The Evolution Of Robots In Movies and TV
Science fiction movies and TV shows don’t really count unless they have iconic robot characters. That’s a completely true statement, by the way. Nobody cares how good a story is unless they can pretend living in a reality where sentient robots, awesome droids, and fun little machine pals exists. We want to live in the…
Here's the Best Way to Cook a Steak
I know how to cook a steak perfectly, already. I know how one of the best steak houses in America cooks their steak. I know how different countries prefer to eat their steak. And yet, I don’t mind watching another video about the best way to cook a steak because the end result makes my eyes water with saliva. A…
This Tunnel Put Together Like Lego Bricks Impossibly Sticks Together with No Support
Yeah, I’m not ashamed to admit this: I feel slightly less comfortable when I’m under a tunnel than when I’m not. It’s not that I think that the tunnel will collapse on me but it’s because I know the sky absolutely won’t. This tunnel would put my fear into overdrive because this one looks like it would totally collapse…
Crazy stunt man soaked in water slides through a huge fire and escapes unharmed
The folks at NRK Viten are up to their usual nutty antics in their latest experiment. The concept behind this video is that it takes a lot of heat to evaporate water so if a crazy person soaked himself in water and then slid down through an extremely huge fire, the water would provide a sort of protective layer that…
Fun Morphing Animation Summarizes What Happened in 2015
2015 was a year. And like most years, things happened. Pranay Patwardhansummarizes the big events in this wonderful animation. The world’s biggest stories morph into each other seamlessly. Can you recognize them all?
Snowboarding an Empty Water Park Must Be So Fun
Who the hell wants to go to a water park during the winter? Snowboarders. That’s right. Watch as these three snowboarders shred an empty water park and snowboard through water slides, skid down stairs, skip lines, and basically break every rule a water park could possibly have, all while looking like they’re having…
This Stunning Single Image Blurs the Line Between Earth and Space
Set 7,900 ft above sea level, on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert, the La Silla Observatory has an amazing view of the night sky. So good, in fact, that it’s possible to capture other-worldly photos like this, where space and Earth seem to exist as one.
How Whoopie Pies Are Made
Whoopie pies are lovely and delightful because they’re big ass freaking Oreos that are fluffy and moist and all sorts of yummy. They’re sort of like a cake but also kind of like a cookie but yet for some reason, they’re called a pie. However you want to describe it, you can’t really go wrong with two chocolate cakes…
These Totally Mesmerizing Robots That Sort Batteries Are Just Awesome
I legitimately have fun watching these robot arms sort out batteries because they are just so damn good at their jobs. A conveyor belt pushes out an endless stream of batteries that desperately need sorting and the robot arms somehow never fall behind. One robot arm grabs the batteries that are scattered all over the…
Watch a 80-Foot Tall Boat Somehow Clear a Bridge That's Way Too Low
It’s the classic dilemma of being on a sailboat that has a 80-foot tall mast but needing to get under a bridge that only has a 65-foot clearance. The answer is obvious, right? Just strap some heavy bags to the mast so you bend the boat diagonal so it shortens the height of the ship. Instead of sailing straight, you’re…
Why Do Animals Make Different Sounds in Different Languages?
All animals all over the world sound the same. It’s not like they speak different languages, they make the same noises even if they’re different countries! But why is it that different languages think animals make different sounds? It’s because we’re giving names to the sounds that animals make in the construct of…
Watch the Horrifying Spectacle of Three Million Bats Going Night Hunting
Bats are fascinating creatures—both from the point of scientific research and their place in the canon of the horror genre as spooky creatures of the night. So whether you’re a science person or a horror person, this shot of millions of bats streaming into the sky is either great, or great and fearsome.
Video: Exploring the Arctic Is Beautifully Difficult
It’s cold. It’s lonely. It’s really cold. It’s really lonely. It’s unfathomably cold. And it’s lonely. That’s what this mere glimpse of life on an Arctic expedition looks like. The visuals are jarring: the ship looks like it’s parked on land, the mustaches are frozen, the research looks difficult. But it also must be…
Making a Hollow Wooden Surfboard Looks Like It's Totally Worth It
The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam and fiberglass) is so fun to see. There is so much carving and shaping and clamping and an obscene amount of glue that…
What It Looks Like When a Dam Releases 13,000 Cubic Feet of Water Per Second
Water is a powerful mother and our dams do all their might in trying to control it but sometimes they need to pump some of that out. This is them doing that in the video. Or well, that’s what the dam is trying to do. The floodwater looks more like it’s exploding away.
What Makes Star Wars So Damn Special?
The new Star Wars movie made enough money to fund a Death Star because basically any human with access to a movie theater went to go watch it. Or so it seemed like it. In truth, there are still a lot of people who don’t understand why Star Wars is so special. Why does Star Wars stand out, apart, and above every movie…
How Pixar Copies Scenes from Other Movies
Pixar movies are great because of their characters and their storylines but also because they pay homage to the great movies that came before it. And they’re not even’t imitating animation movies, it’s a tribute to cinema, it’s live action films that get paid the form of flattery. Many of the scenes you can recognize…
Here's the Totally Awesome Way an Airplane Gets Painted
It takes a whole team of painters, an orchestra of machines and paint spray, what seems like miles of tape and paper, and oh so much work (not to mention the planning process) in order to paint an entire plane. Southwest Airlines shows some of its detailed plane paintings in the videos below (the Missouri One and…
Super Fun Illustrations of 42 Different Types of Ramen
Ramen is everywhere because ramen can be eaten with pretty much anything and in any style but more importantly because ramen is almost always delicious. Designer Fanny Cheuk Chu previously made a poster that detailed 25 different varieties of ramen but is back with a bigger and better version that includes 42 styles…
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