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Well, well, well. Isn’t this good to know? Turns out, you can strain all the ice cream out of cookie dough ice cream and use its dough to bake cookies. Surprise! It’s actually cookie dough! It’s not just factory made cookie flavoring made to make you crave ice cream more (even if it still is…
I can’t imagine climbing 10 feet and this guy did 1500 with no equipment. He’s basically Spider-Man. Rock climber Alex Honnold used no equipment to scale the 1500-foot limestone wall of El Sendero Luminoso in El Potrero Chico, Mexico. It’s the first ever free solo ascent of the wall. Honnold, who climbs Yosemite’s Half Dome…
A massive avalanche violently invaded the Passeier Valley—in South Tyrol—yesterday. In this video it looks harmless until you get to the 1:30 mark. Then things start to get scary and weird. Instead of spreading through the entire slope and die, the snow actually takes the road onto the bridge that leads into the town, like…
If you have been frustrated with the hugely successfuland extremely difficult game Flappy Bird, here’s a tutorial that will teach you how to beat the hell out of it. It’s actually really easy once you learn this technique. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
I really wantedthese cereal tea bags to be real because I would love to buy them (and I’m to lazy to make them myself.) Of course, I can always buy Momofuku’s delicious cereal milk and add it to my real tea. It tastes like the leftover milk in a sugary cereal bowl—delicious. SPLOID is a…
A perfectly timed and strangely beautiful photo by US Army Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk during a mortar firing exercise at Camp Roberts, California. It’s something that could have been painted by Caravaggio. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble have discovered a new galaxy, one right on the edge of the observable Universe. It’s so young that is only 650 million years old, which is nothing in cosmological terms (our universe is 13.8 billion years old.) If confirmed, it will be the farthest galaxy we’ve ever seen. Its name is…
PillCam, the tiny pill-size camera you swallow instead of a normal colonoscopy, is now approved by the U.S. FDA. Here’s the view your doctor will see. It’s gross—but totally fascinating. While it might make you squirm to watch the folds and sphincters of the digestive system whiz by, there’s a very real need for this…
You’ve probably seen many edited wingsuit jumps with a music soundtrack. They’re fun, but I think those are nothing compared to these unedited flights. There’s something about them—perhaps the anticipation and the actual sound—that really puts me on edge. These are the adventures of Julie Minot and his friends. In their “home” videos you can…
I wish photographer Cara Phillips took a picture of my face like these. There’s something intriguing and beautiful about our “awful” skin imperfections. But then again, I always loved freckles. They are my favorite thing ever. Cara takes her black and white photos with UV lighting, a technique used by dermatologists to examine your skin’s…
Matt Hutton fell in love with photography at age seven in his native Australia. He’s also in love with his country, which he travels working for Rio Tinto Rail, a railroad company that transports ore across the big Oz. I don’t blame him. Just look at the beautiful photos he sent us. You can follow…
Tight rope walking is terrifying on its own. If the tightrope is between hot air balloons, itgets mind-bendingly nuts. Just watch The Skyliners do it and you’ll see what I mean. This is totally safe because everyone involved is wearing a parachute, but whenever you see one of these well-balanced badasses fall despite their best…
What’s cooler than being cool? Ice cold. Exactly. The Swedish town of Luleå took that saying literally because they formed an incredible ice orchestra called Ice Music that uses musical instruments sculpted from ice—yes, ice—to performs songs inside a concert hall that’s basically an igloo. Different bands show up to use the icy musical instruments…
If you’re curious about what would happen if a perfectly hit cue ball hit a perfectly aligned pool rack perfectly in the middle, well here’s what it will look like. It’s mathematically perfect. Not even the best pool players in the world, magnet breakers or robots can even get it to look like this. Why?…
Artist Etienne Lavie had a lightbulb bursting idea: what if all the advertisements we see on a daily basis in the street, on subways and billboards and so forth were replaced with beautiful works of art? Instead of seeing a C-list celeb shilling a sugar drink or a traditionally beautiful faceless model selling strips of…
Yeah, I can totally see it! How can you miss that? It’s right there. Clear eyes, full Earth, can’t miss. Wait, really? No of course not. Anyone who tells you that is either a liar or a hawk. Earth looks incredibly tiny up in that Martian sky. Sure, if you squint hard enough and fake…
When life gives you snow, don’t just make a snowman. Make a giant luge track in your backyard for the whole family! A Dad in Minnesota does that every year to have some fun with winter and the track is pretty impressive with great slopes, windy turns and expertly designed snowbanks. Just look at his…
I’ve seen some spectacular photographs of spaceships launching to orbit, but this has to be one of the best: The contrail of an Ariane 5 rocket launch taken “just a few minutes ago” by astronaut Rick Mastracchio from the International Space Station. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Scientists have finally unraveled the mystery of the strange crop circles that appeared off the coast of the Island of Møn, Denmark, in 2010. Unlike the crop circles on land, however, these are not made by humans. They are not made by alien spaceships either. Or rest of craters from bombs dropped during World War…
Yikes. Never kiss anyone again, people. Because while you’re politely closing your eyes and giving someone a smooch, your slimy mouth is inhaling another set of lips in what looks like squirmy worm sex on a stained enamel bed. It’s gross. So gross. Okay, maaaybe a little bit sexy in a vomit-inducing, I feel weird…
