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Watch famed British chef Marco Pierre White—perhaps the first celebrity chef ever, the youngest to win three Michelin stars, and teacher of Gordon Ramsey, among many other accomplishments—teach you how to chop an onion in the finest way possible. It is simple method—good to learn if you haven’t yet. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
I can’t have enough of videos that show things cut in half working. This one shows a fully automatic shotgun in action. It’s sad to see how humans spend so much time and intelligence developing perfect death machines like these—but the engineering work is fascinating nonetheless. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook…
The Economist made this sobering graphic of the hidden cost of the most popular YouTube video of all time—with more than two billion views since June 2012: “At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more than 16,000 years.” Then they compared it to some of humanity’s most monumental tasks. 20 Empire…
The French Air Force has published this fascinating video showing a nuclear strike mission from beginning to end. Of course, the ASMP-A nuclear missile fired by that Rafale fighter didn’t have an atomic warhead inside, but everything else is as real as it gets without starting World War III. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
“A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles early today engulfed an apartment tower that was under construction, damaged two other buildings and left freeways and roads closed,” reports the LA Times. Thisimage by Gautam Trivedi is impressive, almost like the aftermath of a nuclear mushroom. This impressive image above by Eric Politzer looks terrifying too:…
I read this series of animated GIFs by François Sola in two ways. The poetic way, where time stops so we can appreciate the details of a normal day in the subway stations of Lyon, France. And the it-creeps-me-out way, where some people have the power to stop time and move freely while others are…
The Cheese and Burger Society is a a webpage created by the Wisconsin milk marketing board to promote the cheese from Wisconsin. But who cares, the important thing here is that it shows the pictures and recipes of 40 different gorgeous burgers. Prepare for drooling like Pavlov’s dogs. The cheeseburgers below are inspired by ten…
I have always been sad that I never got to see the beginning of humanity’s ultimate journey—and even sadder to realize that in 1972 we abandoned a path that could have possibly gotten us to other planets by now. On December 5, 2014, we opened the gate to that path again. We should rejoice—we are…
I thought this wingsuit guy flying so close to the ground was going to crash multiple times. I held my breath and closed my eyes and stressed myself out anticipating the worse and still can’t believe he pulled it off. He flies so close to the ground, zips right passed all the rocks and perfectly…
Editor Max Shishkincombined the soundtrack of Intersellar, the voice of Anthony Hopkins reading Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas, and footage from 35 of the best space movies to make this amazing mashup. These are the films he used: «2001: A Space Odyssey» (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick) «Alien» (1979, dir.…
I love seeing the folks of Inspire to Make do their thing because they take small little objects and creatively turn them into something else entirely. First they transformed a nail into a tiny sword and now they’ve done the always popular DIY project of turning a bullet into a pair of headphones. SPLOID is…
When I saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it felt instantly familiar. That’s very probably because anything Star Wars feels nostalgic but also because, well, we’ve seen all those scenes from the trailer before! Here is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens remade shot-by-shot with original footage. It’s perfect! The…
Somewhere, in a long-forgotten vault at Paramount Pictures, there must be an old Betacam tape containing the trailer for the real Top Gun, the version that the executives didn’t have the guts to distribute. The one that shows that this is the most homoerotic movie since Ben-Hur. It probably looks like this. And yes, of…
If you’re not already acquainted with the amazing sci-fi series Black Mirror—first, what the hell is wrong with you. And second, go watch it right now. And then watch the below trailer for the upcoming, feature-length Christmas special starring none other than Jon Hamm. It looks bizarre, creepy, and absolutely perfect. Each of the six…
Once again, it’s time buy dead trees. Once again, we should marvel at the way they harvest them: Using insane helicopters pilots flying at full speed, ferrying trees from one side of a hill to where the trucks are. It’s crazy. The pilot “ruthlessly owning inertia” in this video is Dan Clark. Incidentally, did you…
The newest Benny’s Bakery & Ice Cream Shoppe’s creation looks so insanely delicious that I don’t understand why no one came up with it earlier. They call it the cannoli-cream-filled cinnamon-sugar-coated chocolate-drizzled bennassants. But for me, and everyone else in the world, it will be the cannoli cronut. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…
Our beloved burgers needed eight centuries to evolve from the raw meat Mongolian soldiers kept under their saddles, to the grilled juicy beauties we enjoy inside a bun nowadays. This excerpt of The History of the Hamburger, a documentary by National Geographic, explains that evolution. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…
I know most of the food we eat contains iron to some extent. And I also know that iron is vital to keep us going. But watching this awesome science experiment where corn flakes get attracted to a magnet creeps me out a little. This is why it happens: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
I don’t know if 2014 was a good year for movies but I do know that 2014 was a damn good year for movie trailers (this could be said for most years, actually). And here are clips of all those movie trailers mashed up into one awesome sequence. I mean, when you put a good…
Though parodying Frozen doesn’t exactly pack the same punch as it would have, I don’t know, months and months ago, it’s still makes me giggle to see Homer as a snowman. The other bits of ‘The Couch Gag Before Christmas’ is basically the same run as last year’s. But who wouldn’t want a candy cane…
