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I want my cake to be fluffy and delicious and always enough for seconds. Maybe it can be a little decorative and fun and hide a joke somewhere but what I’m not prepared for is a cake to wreck my brain before it pads my stomach. Take a look at this optical illusion, color changing,…
It’s basically the war of the worlds. Heaven and hell smashing themselves together. A song of ice and fire. It’s molten copper vs antifreeze engine coolant. That hot golden orange glow being poured onto the radioactive slimy green antifreeze. What happens? A lot! The antifreeze starts shooting out bolts as the burn from the molten…
Who knew that building a snowblower looks like building your own damn Terminator crossed with some gnarly Battle Bot? Or at least, that’s what it feels like to me. The red painting process is intimidating, the way the blades get shaped in one stamping motion is impressive, and the finishing assembly process is like putting…
The beauty of Venice Beach lies in its culture and in the people that go there and the uniqueness of what’s happening on the ground and all around the area. It’s a special place, a true treasure of California’s beach culture, and it’s like no where else in the world. This drone flyby of Venice…
Avatar and Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Star Trek and The Jetsons. What do those films have in common with each other? They used the same exact sound effects in their movies. Obviously some of those sound effects are done as an homage for movies that came before…
Coke is delicious. Bleach is strong as hell. What happens when you mix the two? Crazy Russian Hacker did the work in finding out and it’s a fun little experiment because you get to see the color of Coca Cola disappear right in front of your eyes. Bleach is so powerful that it strips darkness…
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, they say. But they don’t know how hard it is to make when you’re a zombie rushing to get to work. If only we had the time to carefully consider breakfast and start the day right. Peaceful Cuisine gives breakfast a healthy spin in this video…
GoPro cameras are used to document everything these days—from crazy action sports to awesome first person views to time lapses to traveling the world and more—that it’s really no surprise that a compilation video of all the best GoPro videos that were shot in 2015 is going to be so awesome to watch. Here’s what…
I can’t whistle for the life of me and that totally sucks. Christopher Ullman, on the other hand, is a four time world champion when it comes to whistling so it’s no surprise that I’m totally impressed with his skills. Though to my untrained ears, a lot of it just sounds like regular whistling, there…
Turns out, the hard shell of a coconut is really, really good at trapping the heat of the molten copper! Because once you fill up the little brown ball with the molten copper, it stays hot forever and brings everything to a boil. What do you get left with once it all cools down? This…
This incredible aircraft is modeled after the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet and pretty much mimics it in every way, except it’s at 1/13 scale. Which makes it a very enormous model airplane! Its wingspan is 16 feet wide, its nearly 18 feet long, and it weighs about 150 pounds. Built by Adi Pitz, it’s pretty…
It’s just a teensy bit goofy to be swinging lightsabers around in the forest dressed as Jedi and Sith but it’s also a helluva lot of fun because these guys are so good at handling the lightsabers that you could totally convince me that they’ve managed to tap into The Force in real life. The…
It’s flame retardant tinsel (which has absolutely no chance of standing up to the mighty red hot nickel ball), which probably explains why the smoke it releases looks so damn toxic. I mean, the smoke is so thick that it looks like it’s a yellow green gray sludge and not actually smoke. Inhaling one puff…
Wow. A million wows, really. Here’s a truly spectacular image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that shows Earth in all its glory from the perspective of being on the surface of the Moon. It’s an Earthrise and it’s just gorgeous and amazing to be able to “see” it. The image was “composed from a series…
How are those decorative little devils that are nutcrackers made? It involves a lot of wood, a bit a time on various lathes, a lot of glue, and a bit of artistry. Here’s the behind the scenes look of how those wooden dolls are put together. It’s actually pretty neat to see octagonal blocks of…
Our eyes got fat in 2015. With all kinds of yummy GIFs and daring food porn and meals that looked so good we considered eating our laptops and monitors in hopes of tasting the visual deliciousness, it was a hunger inducing year for eyeballs. Here are some of the best food GIFs we made in…
Purgatory Iron Works answers the inane internet argument about whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams in this mic dropping video. The argument has always been that jet fuel burns at 1500 degrees and that steel only melts at 2700 degrees so therefore jet fuel cannot melt steel beams and 9/11 was a…
These days, blockbuster movies print money with the same formula and it usually begins with a movie trailer that looks, sounds, and feels identical to the blockbuster movies that come before it. It’s no accident, studios are so careful in their marketing of big budget movies that they end up looking the exact same as…
I have a problem. I spent the past few weeks scouring gift guides in hopes of stumbling into something that I could buy. The problematic part is that I don’t need anything. And yet, I kept looking and looking and looking. It’s because I’m dumb and stupid and want to buy stuff because that’s what…
Seeing the actual process of farming vegetables or fruit or any food item is always fascinating because we get to see how it’s actually done in real life as opposed to just seeing the end result of the produce section at the grocery store. Machines have also made the concept of farming so much different…
