Holy Crap These Leech Cocoons Are Incredible
Nature’s beauty can originate from the most unlikely places. Take leech cocoons, the sacks in which leeches lay their…
Facebook Invented a New Unit of Time
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Facebook, as a company, is meant to be an innovator in fields beyond surveillance.…
Check Out the Michael Mann Movies That The Dark Knight Totally Borrowed Scenes From
The Dark Knight is very probably the best superhero movie of all time and that has a lot to do with Joker being the…
Making Things From Old Skateboard Decks Turns Recycling into Art
Jerry McNamara’s Day By Day is a short documentary that focuses its lens on artist George Rocha of Iris Skateboards in…
I Love These Clouds That Airplane Wings Make on Takeoff and Landing
To my eye, the clouds that airplane wings make on takeoff and landing look like some cool ass force field—like, a…
Check Out All the Movies That La La Land References
Sara Preciado made a lovely video that places scenes from La La Land right next to other scenes from musicals and…
Compare All the Different Hill Valleys in Back to the Future
There are actually 5 different Hill Valleys in the Back to the Future series. 1985 gets two versions, the one where…
Rush Hour at One of the World's Busiest Airports Means a Never-Ending Line of Airplanes
London’s Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, so it’s no surprise that if you look up in the…
Scenes from Shrek Side-By-Side With Scenes of the Movies Shrek Makes Fun Of
Shrek is a good and fun movie for kids because it follows a fun ogre with goofy sidekicks all through Shrek’s journey…
Watch How Fossils Get Cleaned and Prepared
Fossils don’t exactly come clean and ready to be displayed in museums. Which, duh, of course. They’re a mess because…
Check Out the Evolution of the US Dollar Bill
The US one dollar bill is still old school. In fact, it has the oldest design of all US currency being produced today.…
Watch an Artist Turn Scrap Metal Into Animal Sculptures
Here’s a nice little portrait of artist Alan Williams and how he turns random metal parts like the keys of a typewriter…
The Crazy Craftsmanship That Goes Into Making an NBA Championship Ring
When you win a championship as a professional athlete, you get a ring. But it’s not a normal ring meant for normal…
How the Special Effects of Silent Films Were Done
When you can’t rely on a computer to improve (or fake) a movie scene, you gotta improvise. And back in the days of…
Watch an Artist Sculpt Wonderfully Wacky Sculptures
Meet Wilfrid Wood. He’s an artist who specializes in sculpting heads and figures that are never boring because they go…
Watch the Mostly Terrible Things That Happened in 2016 Morph Into Each Other in This 60-Second Animation
I always enjoy watching Pranay Patwardhan’s short animation summaries of the previous year because I can’t wait to see…
Watch a Knife Attached to a Rocket Going 150 MPH Slice The Hell Out of Meat and Fruit
Now this is some fun times. The Backyard Scientist strapped a kitchen knife to some homemade sugar rockets, put it on a…
Mixing Liquids Under a Microscope Creates Wildly Colorful Worlds
Wenting Zhu mixed together paint, alcohol, water, soda, and ink remover in weird combinations, stuck them under a…
Watch This Stump Grinder Basically Vaporize a Tree Stump
It shouldn’t exactly be a surprise that a stump grinder would be so good at, well, grinding away tree stumps, but this…
What's Up with Characters Drinking Milk in Movies?
It’s not a glass of whiskey, and it’s certainly not a martini that’s shaken, not stirred. But there is something…