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Some people seriously think that the Earth is flat. No one can save them. But the always thinking Vsauce explores the possibility and tries to figure out if the Earth actually could be flat in his latest video and details some rather interesting things about a flat Earth: that life would suck on it and…
It was thrilling to watch the new Star Wars: The Force Awakensteaser trailer but I have to confess that I enjoyed much more the parody trailers that came after it. From Wes Anderson to Disney to Nic Cage, here are my favorites. Wes Anderson Guardians of the Galaxy Nic Cage Disney JJ Abrams Lego George…
Behold the Nutellasagna! “It’s layers of buttery lasagna noodles, cannoli custard, copious amounts of Nutella, crushed roasted hazelnuts and chopped chocolate, with some marshmallows on top for additional sweetness.” If you have diabetes, don’t walk within three blocks of Robicelli’s in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
Combining celebrity’s names like Yoko Bono or GandAlf is a lot of fun, but Swedish designer Kalle Mattsson took the joke toa whole new level of hilaritywhen she decided to mashup also their portraits. Check them out: Kalle Mattsson is a graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld…
I wish we could turn of all the lights in the world just for one night and I wish that all the light pollution would disappear and I wish the darkness would reveal the night sky as it should look. As a stunning and glittering and spinning wonder that’ll make me forget about life down…
I drink bourbon because it’s good for you. And because it’s delicious. And because it has alcohol. And because it’s lovingly made by people who love bourbon just as much as me. Gear Patrol took a tour of 12 bourbon distilleries in 5 days to show how the best bourbon makers make their bourbon. Drink…
Foodbeast found this beautiful mad scientist creation from Pizza Hut that combines everything that every person that was once a kid loves: pizza and Doritos chips. That is, they’ve cooked up a pizza that has a crust made with Doritos. The crust is stuffed with “molten” Mozzarella cheese and then topped with chips. I mean,…
Someone mentioned in Twitter that Japan’s Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center looks like the lair of a Bond villain. And indeed it does: Check out the photo I found while searching for information about Hayabusa 2, JAXA’s second mission to retrieve asteroid material. The photos shows Hayabusa 2 launching on top of…
Little known fact about Alan Rickman in Die Hard: For his character’s death scene he agreed to fall onto an airbag 25 feet (7.62 meters) below on the count of three. Except the director and the stunt people thought they would get a better reaction if they dropped him on the count of “one.” They…
Sploid readers Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson—part of the California-based production group Lucky Treehouse—sent this excellent short about lost love and new beginnings, which they defined as “one part Moonrise Kingdom and two parts Raising Arizona.” The Moped Diaries is the title—and it’s excellent. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…
After explaining why pure scientific research is crucial for the advancement of humanity at all levels, David Kaplan tell us why the Higgs boson is so important to our very own existence and the survival of the entire Universe in very simple way. We now think that the Higgs boson may be there—but the discovery…
Biologist Forrest Galante was diving for lobsters off the coast of Anacapa Island, California, when he found this 70-year-old 12-pound monster. Instead of grilling it right away with tons of butter and lemon, he decided to keep it to show it to his family. Days later, he released it back into the ocean. This is…
Rapper and food enthusiast Action Bronson and his crew take us on a tour to their favorite midnight munchies snacks in New York. From the Spicy chicken Drums From Heaven in Queens, to the ultimate stoner creation: The beets and ricotta pizza sprinkled with freshly ground weed, in Williamsburg. Watch him make the pizza at…
Putin against the New York Knicks. Coca cola against the Kremlin. German graphic designer Florian Schommer mashups eastern and western pop culture icons making them collide in this fantastic collection of illustrated GIFs. Florian Schommer is a graphic designer based in Hamburg, Germany. You can follow Florian onFacebookand LinkediIn. This is part of a series…
After seeing footage of GTA V on the next gen consoles, I’m beginning to think that GTA V isn’t just a video game. A full blown parallel reality? That’s more likely. A real life breathing city that exists somewhere? That’d be more accurate. This footage of Los Santos at night in GTA V is unreal.…
In this clip from the movie The Boxtrolls (it’s the end credits scene), you see how the stop motion animation of that beautiful film was made. There aren’t any shortcuts, somebody has to move the characters, move out of the way, film it and then move the characters over and over again to get it…
The always excellent Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting takes a closer look at what makes Jackie Chan action movies so fun to watch. It’s Jackie Chan’s brand of action comedy that makes him so special, he plays the underdog, he uses the environment around him, he’s a perfectionist and so much more. Every…
Different eras have different definitions of beauty. A look in the early 1900s can fall out of favor a few years down the road or maybe inspire a style decades later. Cut Video made this video that shows a model getting her and make up done to show what beautiful meant from 1910 to 2010.…
Cruisr’s music video for their song All Over contains so many pop culture references in its animation that I can’t even keep up. There are famous couples side by side and there are movie scenes recreated and it’s just so much fun trying to spot them all. It’s like seeing all the movies I’ve ever…
Our friend Jason Silva gives an interesting argument in this video: Rather than thinking that tracking ourselves—geographically and biologically—will inevitably result in our individual alienation and the ultimate slaving of humanity, he believes that it would help each and everyone of us to realize our full potential. It makes sense. Used for good, the anonymous—and…
