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VFX Reel Showcases the Best Exploding Heads and Gory Splatters From 7 Years of True Blood

The southern-fried supernatural soap operatics of True Blood may have ended last year, but the show’s groundbreaking special effects live on in this VFX reel that compiles the very best of Zoic Studios’ goriest contributions. Here’s the official description: HBO’s cult horror favorite “True Blood” took the vampire craze by storm, with 12 million viewers…

Clever Magnetic Stickers Turn Any Flat Surface Into a Knife Holder

It’s a good idea to keep your best kitchen knives outside of the drawer, where they can get knocked about and damaged, but a dedicated knife block also takes up valuable counter space. An even better solution than both is to turn any flat surface in your kitchen into a magnetic knife holder using these…

Popular movie posters get animated with the actual scene from the movie

There’s a whole lot of fun in this project by Pablo Fernandez Eyre: famous movie posters turn into moving pictures with the help of the actual scene from the movie itself. It’s like if the movie posters were GIFs, you get to see what led up to and what happened after the scene they took…

This Electric Eel Kills Its Prey With a Sophisticated Coiling Maneuver

Last week we saw that electric eels use their electric pulses the way dolphins use sound—as a way of “seeing” their environment. Now we’ve learned that they have a special maneuver which helps them kill tougher prey. The video above shows an electric eel doing its best to kill an already-dead fish, stuffed with monitoring…

How Being Taken Hostage In Kyrgyzstan Made Tommy Caldwell A Better Climber

“Starvation is a crazy thing.” Earlier this year, Tommy Caldwell completed the first-ever free climb of the Dawn Wall at El Capitan. But he’d never have gotten there if he hadn’t been taken hostage by rebels in Kyrgyzstan. Here’s his story. Did we mention that this is the guy who accidentally cut his left index…

This Artificial Neural Network Will Tell You If Your Selfies Suck

Ever wondered how your own selfies compare against the internet’s vast amount of artistically crafted narcissism-laden self portraits? Turns out, there’s an AI for that. Feeding two million internet selfies into a “140-million-parameter state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network,” a Standford PhD candidate has trained an AI to classify “good” selfies from “bad” ones. Convolutional Neural Networks,…

Toy Story Takes On 80s Cartoon Theme Songs In This Exclusive Clip

If you watched cartoons in the 1980s, odds are the show had a bad-ass theme song. Maybe you even sang it when it came on. He-Man, Jem, Transformers, G.I. Joe, they all had that kind of thing. Now, Pixar’s Toy Story universe gets in on the action. The latest Toy Story short is called Toy…

Shooting Challenge: Halloween 

It’s happened. At last. Halloween is on a Saturday. So once you’re done with the 12-hour trick-or-treating marathon, take a photo! The Challenge Take a photograph of a jack-o-lantern, Halloween costume, or a giant pile of candy. Whatever you like! Just take a photograph of Halloween. The Method Given the variety of your potential subjects,…

A Bicycle on Skates Can Easily Handle Frozen Roads, Lakes, and Rivers

Taking your bike out for a spin on days when the roads are a little wet is a risky venture. But when winter’s icy glaze finally covers the land, your riding days are over. Or are they? Not when your bike has its own ice skates. Developed in Buffalo, New York, home of some of…

Six Months After The Earthquake, Nepal Is Open For Adventure

Nepal is home to the best climbing, trekking and mountaineering on earth. But, earlier this year, it also had a massive earthquake, an avalanche on Everest and is right now subject to a “blockade” by its neighbor India. Can you still visit? Surprisingly, now may be the best time ever. An avalanche on Everest killed…

You Think You Like Salmon Because of a Fish Industry Lie

Hey, you, what’s your favorite fish? Oh, salmon, that’s cool. Except that “salmon” may not have been what you think it was at all. So what was it? A new study put out by Oceana deals exactly with that question, and finds that at least 43 percent of the time, the label on your salmon…

9 of the Most Underwhelming Reboots of All Time

The new Jem and the Holograms movie did not entirely win over all the fans of the original 1980s cartoon, right on the heels of that Peter Pan prequel. But there have been plenty of disastrous reboots in the past. Here are nine of the most baffling reboots of all time. 1) The Night Stalker…

Cute animation shows the guide to what makes people happy

Money. Cars. Sex. Accomplishment. Things. They all make us happy. But drugs and alcohol and addiction all feed the dopamine meter too. So what truly makes us happy? Panoply made this animation detailing a guide to happiness and it’s a fun watch, just to see the cool animation. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Gary Oldman Is Co-Writing A Book That’ll Redefine What We Think Of Vampires

Time and time again, Gary Oldman proves there’s nothing he can’t do. However, his latest project takes that statement to a whole new level. He is co-writing a book called Blood Riders which will “reinvent the rules and realities of vampires and sex and the power of love.” “The power of love,” huh? It’s a…

There Actually Is Sound in Outer Space

You’ve heard it before: In space, no one can hear you scream. That’s because sound doesn’t move through a vacuum, and everyone knows that space is a vacuum. The thing is, that’s not completely true. Space isn’t uniform nothingness. It’s full of stuff. In between the stars, there are clouds of gas and dust. These…

There’s a Runaway Defense Department Blimp Floating Somewhere Over Pennsylvania

A military blimp that’s part of the military’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Netted Sensor System (JLENS) broke free of its tethers in Maryland today, and was last spotted crossing into Pennsylvania. So keep your eyes peeled! The rogue blimp, or aerostat, is part of an aerial detection system meant to be on the…

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Ash vs. Evil Dead doesn’t premiere until Halloween, but it’s already coming back for season 2. Starz announced the pick up Wednesday saying “the adventures of Ash Williams can’t end with season one.” Groovy. [Variety] Contact the author at [email protected].

Watch The Inside Out Emotions React To The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

Star Wars fan or not, you probably got emotional watching the most recent trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Even if you were just annoyed at how excited everyone else was, it made you feel something, and now everyone’s favorite feelings have weighted in. Disney has released the above video, which features the emotions…

This Thin USB-C Dock Gives Your New MacBook Every Port It’s Missing

The unending march of technological progress probably left you feeling slightly confused when your fancy new 12-inch MacBook arrived with just a single USB-C port. Satechi has a solution to Apple’s oversight, though, that doesn’t compromise your new laptop’s tiny footprint. The company’s new Type-C Hub Adapter sidles up alongside your laptop and turns its…