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These Wackily Colorful Rainbow Bagels Are Breaking My Eyeballs
The rainbow bagel looks like a Willy Wonka creation crossed with used play doh set in a reality that I’m not quite prepared to live in. It exists at The Bagel Store in Brooklyn, New York and is topped with a schmear of Funfetti cream cheese made with cake mix and is something you can eat. Sure, it’s visually…
Watch Smaller RC Planes Zip Right Through This Massive Flying Hoop
The YouTubers at Flite Test, the same folks responsible for that 15-foot long flying Star Destroyer, are back with a new unorthodox airborne creation that provides a unique challenge for other RC pilots as well.
This Is How NASA Transports Spacecraft in an Aircraft
One of our favorite weird cargo airplanes, NASA’s Super Guppy, was caught in action again this week. The Megamind impersonator carried the Orion crew module pressure vessel from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in New Orleans, to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This Snowball Machine Gun Shoots Snowballs So Freaking Fast
Snowball fights are basically the only reason for winter so any advancement in snowball fighting technology is always going to be well received around these parts. Our pal Mark Rober, the ever inventive genius, has taken snowball fights to the next level with this awesome snowball machine gun invention. He basically…
Here's How Those Big Store Signs Are Made
Here’s how channel signs—basically those big signs that hang above stores and restaurants across the world—are made. The Science Channel gives us a sneak of the way things are done and it’s surprising that so much of it still requires the help of a human. It’s not all robots! And it’s actually a lot more work to shape…
The 10 Best Closing Scenes in Film History
CineFix did a pretty solid job in creating a list for the best opening shots in movie history so its fitting that they would try and do something even harder, making the 10 best closing shots in movie history. If you’ve watched movies in your life, you should already know what will pop up on this sort of list and…
Watch a Navy Battleship Sink to the Bottom of the Ocean
The Mexican Navy sank a battleship off the coast of Rosarito, Mexico in order to create an artificial reef. Apparently, it’s the first artificial reef made in Baja California. GoPro shows the footage of the entire process and you can see the timed explosions and the rushing of water that cause the ship to be be…
Map Shows the Spread of ISIS in the Past Few Years
The Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL have quickly risen to power in the regions of Iraq and Syria. This map by Peter Ridilla tracks the group’s spread across the region. The Islamic State is shown in red against the rest of the region. What started off in just a few areas a few years ago has now crossed multiple borders,…
Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy
Our favorite physicist Andrea Wahl is back with his wild experiments where he blends real life physics with Jackass-style self torture. This time he uses a swinging wrecking ball to prove how conservation of energy can neither be created or destroyed, it transforms into other forms. Basically, as dangerous as being in…
Can You Solve This Complex Riddle About Escaping a Cursed Temple?
This one’s a doozy in that there is a lot going on. The goal is simple, you need to escape a collapsing tunnel with a group of nine people (including yourself). It’s all the other variables that confuse things.
Watch a Surfer Survive a Crazy Wipeout Off a 40-Foot Wave
This wipeout is totally crazy and not unlike jumping out of the 4th floor of a building. The waves were that high (thank you El Nino) and the sea monster that is the ocean looked like it was blowing itself up and whipping surfer Tom Dosland around as he barreled around. The drop must have been so beautiful, like a…
Thermal Imaging Reveals How Fast a Shirtless Person Loses Body Heat in the Cold
Here is footage taken using the military spec Selex Merlin thermal imaging camera of a shirtless man in the Scottish highlands during winter. The point is to show how fast humans lose the heat on their body when their bare skin is exposed to the bitter blistering cold. When he first takes off his clothes, you can see…
No Amount of Training Can Prepare Plastic Army Men For a Molten Copper Attack
There’s a reason they call it basic training. Because while the Army can teach new recruits how to march, hold a gun, and do push-ups, it unfortunately couldn’t give this battalion of green plastic army men the know-how to survive a surprise attack from molten copper.
All the Bomber Aircraft That Could Carry Nuclear Weapons
Only 5 countries have been able to create strategic bomber aircraft with the capability of carrying nuclear weapons. That would be the US, Russia, the UK, France, and China. We’ve put together this video that details every single one of those bombers. It’s fascinating to see how each country develops its only style of…
Seeing the Special Effects Behind Jurassic World Is More Fun Than Seeing the Actual Movie
If you guys didn’t know, the dinosaurs aren’t real in Jurassic World. Sorry. As for the rest of the movie née money printing nostalgia machine that didn’t have half the soul of the original, not much of it was real either. Here’s how ILM pulled off the visual effects in Jurassic World, you can see the tricks they…
Big Shark Eats Little Shark in Aquarium
It doesn’t get any badder than the savagery that is a big sand tiger shark eating a little banded hound shark even though they’re both being properly fed because they were both inside an aquarium in South Korea. There’s food and yet, cannibalism.
Your Inner Child Will Be Jealous Of This Giant Automated Bubble-Making Machine
Growing up, blowing bubbles was an endlessly frustrating exercise in futility. I’d almost pop a lung trying to get the bubble solution to form my lighter-than-air creation. But artist Nicholas Hanna makes the whole thing look easy with Bubble Device #2 currently on display at the Taipei Fine Art Museum.
A Unique View of a Potter's Wheel Shaping Clay
The footage is dizzying as hell but it’s also really enjoyable because you get to see pottery from a perspective that’s typically unseen, from the point of view of the potter’s wheel. The world is spinning into chaos but the clay is dead center and in focus and you can see it being shaped and transformed into a…
How to Make Ratatouille Just Like the Pixar Movie
Ratatouille has never looked better than it did in the Pixar movie. A perfect accordion of vegetables of different colors winding themselves in a pot glazed with visual deliciousness. Which makes sense because one of the best chefs in the world, Thomas Keller, imagined the recipe up for the animators at Pixar to make.…
Exploring One of the Largest River Caves in the World Is Like Exploring an Alien World
The eerie green glow of the kayak against the Xe Bang Fai river obviously enhances the spooky alien feel but the truth is, the river cave Tham Khoun Xe in Laos really looks like a completely different world. Ryan Deboodt shot his two day kayaking trip through the 4-mile long cave and showed the heights of the cave…
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