Could Pretty Much Anyone Just Make a Jackson Pollock Painting?
You know that feeling, we’ve all had it. You’re walking in a museum and stumble upon something you think is so simple,…
5 Fascinating Film Scenes That Show So Much with So Little
When you’re looking at movies directed by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love)…
The process of launching a nuclear missile is completely riveting
This video is more intense and more suspenseful and got me more scared than any movie I’ve watched this year. Veritasium
Video: A fascinating portrait of a steam plant's chief engineer
Conrad Milster is the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York’s chief engineer and has been working at the power plant…
The mind-boggling manufacturing process of electronic phone switchers
The Hello Machine is a fascinating short film directed in 1974 by Carroll Ballard. It shows the mind-boggling process…
Archeologists discover mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt
Archeologists have discovered an ancient tomb modeled after the mythical Tomb of Osiris as described by Egyptian lore in…
The hard but charming daily lives of people who work in Antarctica
It's hard to imagine the size and hostility of Antarctica from the comfort of our warm homes. Its overwhelming vastness…
This is probably the most disgusting yet most satisfying surgery ever
Acute subdural hematoma is the technical name of one of the deadliest of all head injuries. This video shows how you…
What the top 100 female porn stars look like in one fascinating chart
Data Looks Dope's Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you…
You must watch this fantastic explanation of how computers draw curves
All my life using Adobe Illustrator and it's only now when I learn how it draws vector curves—technically called Bézier…
This is exactly how big the supermoon is going to be tomorrow
Everyone's talking about tomorrow's supermoon—how big, bright, and beautiful it will be. It's always the same. But how…
Eight of the world's prettiest women merged into one (perfect?) being
Sploid reader Marius Vibe merged eight of the most beautiful women in the world into a single person. The final result…
Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson morphed into one person
Maybe one day—when we get an X-Men vs Avengers movie crossover—we will see Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) morphing into…
Space station cosmonauts find life in the vacuum of space
The Russian press agency ITAR-TASS is reporting something so surprising that I'm having a hard time believing it:…
Why is the speed of darkness faster than the speed of light?
Michael Stevens explains why darkness moves faster than light in this new episode of Vsauce. I usually find these…
Rare photos reveal fascinating views of the Apollo 11 moon landing
You're looking at Buzz Aldrin lifting his boot before taking the photo of the most iconic footprint in history. It's…
Scientist find that 80 percent of all light in the Universe is missing
According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80…
NASA reveals the most colorful and detailed image of the Universe
NASA has unveiled "the most colorful view of the Universe" ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Part of a study…
NASA is getting ready to communicate with aliens (Update 4)
"We can say little, if anything, about what these patterns [above] signify, why they were cut into rocks, or who…
How to create life on screen using the 12 basic principles of animation
Back in the 1930s, the young artists at Walt Disney came up with 12 basic principles to create the illusion of life on…