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If you’re still a little confused about why everyone is talking about The Big Bang and gravitational waves and cosmic inflation and space and twists of light and so forth, it’s okay. Much smarter people are taking care of answering those questions for humanity. But it’s a big effing deal so us less wrinkled brain…
Sliders. They’re made so you can eat different burgers with different recipes instead of a big monolith. But I want to eat these three Lolita burgers: “potato chip encrusted, foie gras pâte à choux, a sultry sweet onion jam, bacon peanut butter, pan seared foie gras, and a grass-fed beef patty.” SPLOID is a new…
Speed painting can be purposefully misleading but it’s always fun to have your brain pump in that delayed “Ohhhh” reaction once you realize what’s going on. You feel like a complete idiot with your mouth open until you see it. And even then, you’re not completely sure it’s not sorcery. Here’s one of those sorcery…
Enjoy. Huffington Post created a supercut video of all the dancing that Christopher Walken does in movies and it’s just so fun to watch. You’re going to want to boogie after you see 30 seconds of it. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The World Photography Organization has announced the winners of the 2014 World Photography Awards. I love this one by Michael Nordqvist, a Swedish skydiver and base jumper who won the 1st Place Nordics National Award. Captain Sweden! The picture is a self portrait taken half a second after exiting the aircraft. I held the camera…
The world starts to blur. People and trees and houses and stores are just streaks of colors as you zoom by. The roads become vertical as you make your turns. You’re going so fast that, if you hit anything on the road, even a stick, you’re probably going to fly hundreds of feet in the…
The bros at Rocket Jump already impressed us once with their incredibly impressive and almost believable knife-throwing video and now they’ve done it again with this clip of nine trick shots in a row. They’re also filmed in one continuous take. It would be really impressive—if it were real. But alas, it’s another fake in…
This video is awesome for two reasons. One, because it’s awesome to see three-time International Ski Federation overall World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher going down a hill in such detail. The other one: It shows he’s human. I thought these guys were like Batman, but just look at his face. It’s hilarious to see his…
The Oculus Rift is the only technology that truly excites me today—a device that can actually make me feel in a different world. Not even for gaming. Just be there, jump into my spaceship and explore worlds. According to Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton, the new developer version of Oculus Rift is that. Come on Oculus, get…
Four blacktip reef sharks swim amongst a school of bait fish off the coast of Argentina. The fish, naturally, do not seem happy to see said sharks. That is most certainly because the sharks are hungry, and they are the buffet. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This. This is what Apple needs to beat everyone: A $99 Apple TV with the graphic oomph of an iPhone 5S, plus a new larger remote that doubles as a full gamepad and a motion joystick—like the Nintendo Wiimote. If this concept becomes a reality, Cupertino really can win the living room. Images by Martin…
Its April 6 premiere is around the corner, and the Game of Thrones Season 4 trailers keep piling up like dead Starks at a wedding. The new trailer shows fans—myself included—more stuff to make us go aaashkahgskjghslkjdghsdf. Enjoy! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
The Yellow River has been completely frozen for weeks. China’s flood prevention authority decided that, before the snow melts and a huge clusterfuck ensues, they should destroy de ice and make it flow again. So they said: “Let’s ask the air force to bomb it because—fun!” China’s Air Force sent a few airplanes loaded with…
Wow. Marvel just released the first 11 minutes of Captain America 2: Winter Soldier—which will premiere on April 4. Lots of action happens in those minutes and, funnily enough, most of it is Scarlett Johansson kicking some serious ass in her tight Black Widow suit. At the beginning, Cap meets Sam Wilson for the first…
I wish these 3D animation shorts were a full movie. Called Tiny Worlds, it shows miniature sized characters and machines solving normal sized problems. Cigarette flicked on the ground? A tiny submarine will blast it away. Matches left on the street? A mini semi truck will haul it away. Gum on the sidewalk? Let’s call…
If you’re looking for a good nervous frantic dizzying hurl today, watch this stunt dripping in crazy by Scott Young. He does a handstand on the edge of a 40-story building because well, why not. The camera is attached to his shoe so you can see how close he is to the building’s edge and…
Few things are better than eating a burger and fries, even if it comes from McDonald’s. This might qualify though: a full McDonald’s meal—burger, fries, coke—made completely out of cookies. Everything is somehow a cookie! Made by a Twitter user’s sister who’s presumably a master baker, it’s pretty incredible work. I mean, those fries? That…
Another day, another insane person in a wingsuit who decides to fly into a narrow canyon full of razor-sharp rocks. This time it’s “athlete and flying cowboy Marshall Miller” going through the Beehive line, in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá took these images for the book Spill (which you can buy here.) They’re beautiful, perfectly crafted shots despite their horrible—and gut-wrenching to the point of nausea—subject matter: The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The incompetence of British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean killed 11 people and…
Astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson, in addition to being a general badass, is most famous for his wildly infectious exuberance for all things science. Unless, of course, NDT is stoned out of his mind. In which case, that vigor would probably turn into the masterpiece you see below. Discovered by Reddit user bakkouz,…
