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This year’s British supermarket Sainsbury’s commercial is based on the true events of the Christmas truce: Unofficial ceasefires that took place in Christmas during World War I. Germans and British soldiers stopped fighting and exchanged presents and played games. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
I’m a horrible person who always laughs when people fail in YouTube videos. This collection of fails made me laugh even harder because it’s been perfectly edited to splice in Mario and Luigi from Nintendo as the evil invisible force who cause all these screw ups in real life. The sound effects are just perfect.…
The Philae spacecraft is now on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, a historic event. However, we are not sure about its state. It may even be upside down after bouncing not once but twice. Telemetry seems to indicate that it has landed three times. Updating live: New pictures released. Thursday, November 13 9:05AM ET.…
Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher, made this outstanding size comparison showing what the Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko would look like next to famous spacecrafts from science fiction. His images show the comet next to ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. And the comet is so small! Or I guess, maybe our…
Unmanned Spaceflight user Machi created this wonderful composite image that combines photos from Rosetta and images from Philae not released to the media yet. It shows exactly where Philae is right now, after bouncing twice for three landings on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Thanks to Sploid reader IdentityMonk for pointing out this and other images to…
Sound makes funny shapes. We don’t usually see it in real life but when you put together water and sand with speakers bumping at different frequencies, you’ll start seeing spirals and kaleidoscopes and other wild objects. This new video by Nigel Stanford and directed by Shahir Daud features all those awesome cymatics in action. SPLOID…
The always amazing XKCD had, by far, the best liveblog of the historic landing on the comet67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko today: Each step was documented as a brilliant cartoon, which has been compiled into the flipbook above. You can watch it step by step heretoo. Whales. Probably not in space. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
I never get tired of these videos in which someone is standing on wrong spot at the wrong time, yet survives a major crash against all odds. Like this Russian dude, who was standing on a road when some idiotic car driver decided to turn left while a truck was coming down the opposite lane…
How can a music video without its original music be better than the original? When the original music is crap, of course. Given the state of today’s music, this basically applies to the majority of music videos out there, including those from Australian singer Sia. Example: Here’s the original: This is SPLOID, a blog of…
This. Is. Oh god. Let’s all pop an Ambien and watch Mr. Rogers explain how the Crayola factory line works, friends: Or,if you are like Mr. Rogers, some acid will work too. This is SPLOID, a blog of delicious brain candy. Join us on Facebook
For the first seconds I thought it was just a coincidence, but this budgerigar—an Australian parakeet—really sounds exactly like R2-D2 down to every squeak, beep, and bop. Even the colors are the same. His name is Bluey and, according to his owner Carli Jeffrey, he drives them crazy with it. Bluey was our first budgie…
Not having enough with hanging from buildings and just driving through their Mad Max roads, the crazy Russians now spend their days playing with high voltage electricity. I think here they are trying to emulate Benjamin Franklin catching a lightning with a kite, but I’m not sure what the hell is going on. Anyone speaks…
Neil deGrasse Tyson twitted yesterday a series of nine “mysteries” about Nolan’s Interstellar. He is happy about the overall scientific accuracy in the movie, but there are still some things the famous astrophysicist doesn’t fully understand. Check them here (spoilers ahead): If you can poke through a tesseract and touch books, why not just write…
It’s fun to think of your own life in statistical terms. How many tacos al pastor did I eat in my entire life, how many kisses did I give, or how many trousers did I brake. This cool music video for the song Afterglow does that. It shows five years of a couple’s relationship summed…
Acute subdural hematoma is the technical name of one of the deadliest of all head injuries. This video shows how you get rid of it, which involves opening the brain and removing the clogged blood. It’s really gross, but incredibly fascinating too. Warning: STRONG IMAGES. The video contains the whole procedure, including opening the brain.…
Pizza Hut is launching a brand new menu on November 19th and it sounds nuts. The options are so crazy—like Ginger Boom Boom and Get Curried Away crust and Honey Sriracha sauce—that I’m not even sure the word pizza can adequately describe it. I mean, there are more than 2 billion different pizza combinations now.…
As a human-made spacecraft gets ready to detach and touch down on a comet for the first time in history, the scientists at the European Space Agency have released the fascinating sound of the comet itself. Ladies and gentlemen, say hi to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Bonus: Look at the photo above! Those images are crazy. Imagine the…
These cute animations that teach you about our history are just the best. Partly because I love history, partly because the cartoon drawings make me laugh and partly because I really think I’m learning more than I ever did in school. I mean, spending 10 minutes on YouTube is better than a semester at school.…
If you don’t know the restaurant Alinea, know this: it’s one of the best restaurants in the world and it’s as much a mad science lab and art museum as it is a place to eat dinner. It’s crazy, I mean they serve things like edible helium balloons. Somehow, this normal guy recreated all of…
This chart by the New England Journal of Medicine compares the top causes of death in the United States in 1900 and 2010. The shift is fascinating—in little more than a century, humanity has eradicated so many diseases. Others, however, have increased, like cancer and heart disease. I wonder if these increases are due to…
