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Look How Fire Gracefully Slides and Dances Down This Bottle

Here’s the classic science experiment of mixing fire and alcohol in a large empty jug. It’s always fun to see the perfect layer of flames slowly dance its way down the cylinder, like a slow drip of fire as the alcoholic vapors combust. Of course, the best part is that ‘whoosh’ sound it makes. SPLOID…

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A Jagerbomb That Explodes When You Drop in the Shot Is a Much More Awesome Drink

Jagerbombs are awful and gross and taste like medicine and don’t really deserve to exist after you grow up. Explosions are awesome and cool and need to happen more in your life as you get old (the highly controlled, non-violent, and fun sort of explosions, of course). So the logical thing to do is to…

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Super Smart Ping Pong Table Teaches You How to Play Like a Pro

Table tennis is a hard game that requires quick instincts and even quicker reflexes. But what if you had some help? Like, what if the table could tell you what to do? This ‘smart’ ping pong table shows you where to serve, tracks each shot you take, and gives you oodles of data on your…

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An Electric Look at a Solar Flare on the Sun

It always makes for a beautiful video whenever the suns lashes out with a solar flare. Here’s one from earlier this month, you can see how electric its movement are, it just whips up and explodes. The footage was captured in different wavelengths and then color coded so we can see what’s happening in better…

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Why Do Cats Act So Damn Weird?

Dogs just want to love you but cats, well, what the hell do cats want? They have a mind of their own, they seemingly do whatever the hell they want, and their habits are just so weird. Why is that? According to Ted-Ed, it’s because how they developed as both a solitary predator that had…

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Just Two Guys Dangling Off a Crane Like It’s No Big Deal

Most people see a tower crane and wonder what it’s building. These guys see a construction crane and think the logical thing to do is to to climb it all the way up, walk all the way across, and then just hang out there while literally hanging off the crane. The crane basically becomes a…

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Seeing How a Sumo Ring Gets Built Is Truly Fascinating

Sumo is a sport that is steeped in tradition so it shouldn’t be a surprise that making the Dohyo, or sumo wrestling ring, is a painstaking process that requires so many different tools and so many different people and so many different methods. I can’t count how many steps there are in the process of…

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The Expert Use of Color in Films by Guillermo del Toro

Films by Guillermo del Toro are always worth watching because they’re set in imaginative worlds filled with monsters and creatures and apparently, drenched in color. Quentin Dumas stitched this video together to show how del Toro uses red, blue and yellow tones (and sometimes all of them) to paint his films in order to evoke…

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Frenetic Video Shows the Addictive Energy of Tokyo

It’s hard to really capture the unique energy of a place like Tokyo because so much of what makes it special requires you to actually be there and feel it. It’s in the people, it’s in the overloading of the senses, it’s in the chaos that surrounds you. This video by Christoph Gelep, however, does…

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The Hilarious But Scientific Explanation for Why We Fail

People are capable of doing amazing things. When we work together we can go to the moon! We can have all of the world’s information searchable from this thing in our pocket! We can change the world! But inevitably, we’re bound to screw it up somehow. Why? It’s called the Peter Principle. The Peter Principle…

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Watch a River Catch on Fire Because of Fracking

Mother Nature probably never wanted to wax a song about fire and water but when fracking gets involved, all sorts of wild stuff starts happening. This footage apparently shows a gas leak in a river near a fracking site in Australia. There’s so much gas bubbling up that it easily catches on fire and sustains…

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How Many People Can the Earth Actually Hold?

There’s over 7 billion people on this planet of ours and some estimates peg the population to reach 10 billion by the end of the century. Given that there’s only a certain amount of land on Earth, is there a maximum amount of humans that our blue marble can support? Sort of! And that limit…

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How Many People Has Captain America Killed in the Marvel Movies?

Even the nicest, most decent superheroes are cold blooded murderers. The nice ones just do it less than the psychopaths and make their kills with a much more cheery soundtrack. Take Captain America. Dude is all-American good guy as it gets and he’s racked up quite a kill count in his Marvel movies. How many?…

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Melting a Giant Jawbreaker Is Like Breaking Open Earth’s Core

Wow. Peeling back the layers of a jawbreaker is so glorious, especially when it’s done with a blow torch. Each color bubbles up and melts away revealing a different color underneath until it’s all gone. This is probably how the Earth gets destroyed in nightmares. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter,…

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Crazy Daredevil Rides a Hoverboard onto the Very Edge of a Skyscraper

Is riding a hoverboard onto the edge of a roof of a skyscraper in Dubai idiotic? Absolutely. It is very easy to fall off and lose control on one of those things and if you creep too far off the edge, either you or the hoverboard or both would be sent flying down towards the…

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My God-Awful Year With the Apple Watch

I bought the Apple Watch a year ago. I stopped wearing it two months ago, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever wear it again. That’s because it doesn’t really do anything that anyone needs, and even when it does, it doesn’t always work like it’s supposed to. I wanted to buy the Apple Watch…

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Glorious Footage of Animals in the Bitter Cold

Muskoxen look like mythical creatures, stuff you’d see in a museum or on a TV show. That’s because they’re animals from a prehistoric age. Rolf Steinmann made this short film In Between to show the animals life in the bitter cold of the Arctic and document their current plight. The footage of these animals huddled…

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Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades?

There’s diminishing returns when it comes to adding more blades to a wind turbine and if there were less blades, the turbine would have to spin faster which is apparently not a very good thing when it comes to controlling a turbine. That’s basically why we settled on the three bladed wind turbine system. I…

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Melting a Lock with a Torch Is a Great Way to Break It Open

Locks are meant to be broken. Torches are meant to wield fire. So it makes total sense to use a torch to melt the hell out of a lock to bust it open, right? Exactly! Watch as the fire from this torch completely obliterates the lock, so much so that it just oozes open and…

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Watch a Chef Make a Dish with a Poisonous Pufferfish

In order to serve fugu (pufferfish) in Japan, a chef needs to have a special license. That’s because fugu is poisonous and toxic and lethal. So why would someone eat something that could kill you? Because when prepared properly, it’s safe to eat and delicious. Watch chef Sasaki, a fugu specialist for over 45 years,…

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Look How Fire Gracefully Slides and Dances Down This Bottle

A Jagerbomb That Explodes When You Drop in the Shot Is a Much More Awesome Drink

Super Smart Ping Pong Table Teaches You How to Play Like a Pro

An Electric Look at a Solar Flare on the Sun

Why Do Cats Act So Damn Weird?

Just Two Guys Dangling Off a Crane Like It’s No Big Deal

Seeing How a Sumo Ring Gets Built Is Truly Fascinating

The Expert Use of Color in Films by Guillermo del Toro

Frenetic Video Shows the Addictive Energy of Tokyo

The Hilarious But Scientific Explanation for Why We Fail

Watch a River Catch on Fire Because of Fracking

How Many People Can the Earth Actually Hold?

How Many People Has Captain America Killed in the Marvel Movies?

Melting a Giant Jawbreaker Is Like Breaking Open Earth’s Core

Crazy Daredevil Rides a Hoverboard onto the Very Edge of a Skyscraper

My God-Awful Year With the Apple Watch

Glorious Footage of Animals in the Bitter Cold

Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades?

Melting a Lock with a Torch Is a Great Way to Break It Open

Watch a Chef Make a Dish with a Poisonous Pufferfish

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