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Wolf of Wall Street? Meh. American Hustle? Please. Anchorman 2? Tired. The Hobbit? I dare you. None of those movies in theaters right now compare to the epic awesomeness that is Kung Fury. Never heard of it? It’s okay. Just watch the trailer. It combines all the cheesy glory of 80’s cop movies with Kung…
If you ever thought that Scarlett Johansson looked like Marilyn Monroe or that George Clooney reminded you of Cary Grant or that certain celebrities today make you think of famous people from years past, you’re not crazy. It’s true. Beautiful famous people look like beautiful famous people, no matter the era. And these photographs in…
If you think the funniest person in the world in 2013 was Louis C.K. or Aziz Ansari or some other genius laugh out loud comedian, you’re probably right. But eventually their shtick will get tiring. It’s going to happen. But do you know what never gets old and always stays funny though? Watching the local…
Thought your Christmas was awesome? Had fun with a little bit of snow? Maybe you made a snowman earlier in the week? Whatever. That’s nothing compared to this magical winter wonderland in China where they have ginormous ice sculptures of horses and women and mammoths and castles and T-Rexes. They’re incredible. The magnificent sculptures are…
Turbines are huge, intricate, beautiful machines. And if you drop something inside of them, they double as musical instruments. But as YouTuber AgentJayZ demonstrates, the delightful xylophone sound that makes is actually horrible. Why? If you’ve got a screw in there and you turn it on, you’re going to be the owner of a brand…
Behold the first panorama taken by the Chang’e 3 moon lander. It’s quite crappy—especially compared to the images taken by the Mars Curiosity rover. And it can’t compare to the film photos taken by the Apollo missions. Still, good to be back on the Moon’s surface. Snapped by three cameras on the lander aimed level,…
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been asking yourself, what could make the Pacific Rim main theme more badass? Well, it’s finally happened. I present to you, dueling Tesla coils performing the Jaeger battle hymn…conducted by a robot with a frickin’ plasma ball brain. [Geekologie] SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
Sorry, you can’t control the weather and make it snow tomorrow. And sorry, you can’t move your whole family to a place where it’ll snow for a day. But if you really want to see a white Christmas (and that should be every non-Grinch) you can use a magical combination of diaper lining, light beer…
Here’s a question I’m not sure I want to know the answer for: if Skittles and M&M’s came in individual packets for each flavor, would I combine them and eat them like how I do now (in a pile shoved into my mouth) or would I keep the flavors separate and enjoy them on their…
Christmas Man. Daddy Christmas. Grandfather Frost. Yule Man. Yule Elder. Yule Gnome. Yule Goat. Father Christmas. Old Man Christmas. Biblical Magi. Christ Child. Christmas Log. All those names are names for Santa Claus in other countries around the world. Calling him just Santa Claus just seems so boring in comparison, doesn’t it? This map, popularized…
A surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, has been suspended after it was discovered that he signed his initials on a patient’s liver. He used an argon plasma coagulation tool to sear his brand in a patient’s liver. The tool, used to stop bleeding by burning tiny blood vessels shut with a…
For only the second time in NASA history, two astronauts made a spacewalk on Christmas Eve. Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins installed a new ammonia pump to fix the cooling loop on the ISS. You can’t beat that Christmas Eve, even if you’re Santa Claus. NASA has their livestream going of the spacewalk and…
NASA is sending astronaut Scott Kelly to the ISS for a year. Then they will compare him to his twin Mark Kelly, who will remain on Earth for the entire time. It’s a fascinating experiment that may reveal some effects on how space affects the human organism. Former Navy test pilots, the Kelly brothers joined…
Aww. This is adorable. Lilly and Leon Mackie play dress up with their little kid Orson and turn him into baby versions of Luke Skywalker, baby Batman, baby Macaulay Culkin, baby Castaway and so forth so that they could recreate scenes from famous movies. You’ll see mom, dad and child pose for photos of baby…
As far as tyrannosaurus rex replicas go, this one seems pretty cheery. Sure, it has sharp teeth and claws but they look playfully toothy. One thing scary about it though: the head and eyes seems to follow you wherever you go. Like the paper T-Rex is watching your every move. What’s scarier? It’s not actually…
It’s usually one or the other. If you live in a big city, you forgo nature and stars in the sky. And if you live under the starry night sky, you’re out in the boonies far away from civilization. But what if you can have both? In Los Angeles (I know), master time lapse maker…
We’ve all heard about the placebo effect but what about the nocebo effect? That’s when you take something completely harmless but begin to think something harmful is happening to your body. This informative video by CGP Grey takes a deeper dive on it and reveals how some studies showed people gaining rashes from harmless injections…
Visions of the future from the past always serve as an endless source of comedy. Look how dumb we were! Look how silly those people look! Look! Look! It’s completely true. Our imaginations of the future are rooted in the limits of today which typically makes it an awful thought exercise. So in a few…
X-rays are usually the colorless bringer of bad news. Hey look there’s your broken hip. See that crack? That’s where it hurt. But if you look closer, the detail and image quality of x-rays can be pretty damn incredible. A radiation physicist Arie van’t Riet noticed that and has now used the machine to create…
Tommy Edison, our favorite blind-since-birth YouTube-er, is back to give us yet another glimpse into a world where the mere concept of light is unfathomable. And this time, he’s doing it while sniffing markers. But he’s not inhaling a bunch of noxious fumes to get loaded, mind you; he’s sniffing each scented marker in an…
