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I used to flip the end of the wings of paper airplanes upward and breathe on the head of the airplane to make it fly farther. According to John Collins—the maker of the paper airplane with the world record for the longest distance—I was doing it wrong. This video shows how to do it properly.…
We have seen lots of impressive images and time-lapse video of the snow wall that buried entire cities in upstate New York but this is the first drone video filmed behind it, taken in West Seneca by Jim Grimaldi. A new lake effect, powered by arctic winds from the north pole and Siberia, is now…
This Earth video created by James Tyrwhitt-Drake using footage from the Elektro-L weather satellite—a Russian satellite that takes one 121 megapixel image of Earth every 30 minutes—is the highest resolution video of our home planet ever created. Watch it in all its 4K glory here. James Tyrwhitt-Drake writes: A timelapse of Earth in 4K resolution,…
When you combine three nice things like grandmas and weed and doing something for the first time, well, you get something wonderful. Watch as three grandmas smoke weed for the first time and hang out with them as they get high. They laugh, they get the munchies, they don’t always make sense and they want…
Something that seems ripped from the future is being developed right now inside a lab in Brooklyn. It’s the VetiGel which is also known as the borderline magical band-aid of the future. It’s a gel that when applied on a wound, almost immediately stops the bleeding. Here’s the lab where they make the future. If…
Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the best movies of the year and probably one of the funnest movies I’ve seen in a long while but it also had its fair share of logic gaps that were glossed over. HISHE hilarious fixed the movie by changing some scenes in the movie so it all…
Vaping and e-cigarettes are everywhere these days. More and more people are carrying around those cylindrical metal flutes and blowing out giant cloud puffs that it all seems so common. But because the industry is so new, no one really knows what’s going to happen. The New Yorker made this short doc to find out.…
Behold the F-22 Raptor (top two) and F-35 Lightning II (bottom two) flying together for the first time in history. Arguably the two most technologically advanced military jets in the world, the Lt. Col. Matt Renbarger—commander of the 58th Fighter Squadron—says they mix together like peanut butter and jelly: When the F-22 and F-35 come…
Impressive video of professional ice climbers Klemen Premrl and Aljaz Anderle climbing icebergs in Greenland’s Disko Bay. Or, better said, trying to climb: They were very fragile and one started to collapse as they were going up. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Stanley Kubrick was a genius of suspense and drama, but maybe one of the lesser explored facets of his filmmaking is his use of color. Thankfully, Rishi Kaneria crammed some of the auteur’s most beautiful crimson scenes into a single 1:25 cut. The supercut includes scenes from Spartacus, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The…
Meteorologist said that they have never seen radar images like the ones from yesterday’s snow wall that swallowed Buffalo, NY. The snow lake effect was caused by low temperatures now affecting the big lakes, part of a record-breaking blanket of freezing temperatures that covered 85% of the continental US. Here is the radar time-lapse that…
Designer David McCandless made this neat matrix mapping dog breeds according to factors like popularity, intelligence, longevity, or cost. Poor bulldog. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Neil deGrasse Tyson didn’t like many things in Interstellar, but he completely figured out the movie plot, its ending, and the physics that make it all possible. He explains the entire thing clearly in this video. [Spoilers ahead, obviously] SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
This is really, really weird: Multiple sightings and dashcam videos of a gigantic yellow flash that covered the skies of the Sverdlovsk region, in Russia, have been reported on the night of November 14. Scientists and local authorities still don’t know what it is or where did it come from. Here’s another video of the…
It’s not only Buffalo engulfed in a terrifying snow wall. Yesterday was the coldest November morning since 1976: More than 85% of the surface of the contiguous United States reached or fell below freezing. This is much more anomalous than last year’s polar vertex: Ten degrees celsius below normal temperatures! According to Dr. Ryan Maue,…
The world’s tallest roller coaster won’t even be made until 2017 and this is just a demo video of what the roller coaster is going to feel like but I’m already scared. Skyscraper at Skyplex in Orlando will be the tallest roller coaster in the world at over 500 feet tall and you ride the…
I love Thanksgiving. Family and food and football and more food and Fall and friends and even more food. And though all of that makes me smile, nothing captures the essence of holiday better than this tiny hamster: it ate so much tiny Thanksgiving food that you can see the guilt and worry on its…
Everybody watches porn but everybody has different tastes. And there is just so much porn to watch. But how can we figure which type of porn is most popular? This chart from Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein reveals the top 500 video tags in porn. You’ll see everything from hardcore to Argentina. The data comes…
A wall of snow has swallowed Buffalo, New York, this morning. NOAA meteorologists say it’s a heavy snow lake effect. Check out the videos, plus the aerial photos (like the above posted by WBEN NewsRadio’s Facebook) and satellite images. Good luck everyone. Developing… [Update 14] Note: Check out this amazing map of the blanket of…
U2 was going to perform in Jimmy Fallon for the entire week. But, as Fallon explains in this video, Bono broke an arm this weekend and they had to cancel. Amazingly enough, he and the Roots filled in and performed Desire—one of U2 best songs, from the 1988 Rattle and Hum. It was as good…
