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It’s unfortunate that we all have to pretend that we don’t think evil (or even just slightly weird) thoughts in the most innocent situations. After all, the world would be so much more interesting if we just did what we secretly wanted to do (as long as it doesn’t hurt other people… too much). Along…
When a droplet of water impacts a larger body of water it has a tendency to bead up and bounce. It happens constantly, but you might not have focused closely enough to consider its strangeness—and it is very strange, especially when viewed on a high-speed camera. As Destin from Smarter Every Day discovered with some…
Getting in the habit of using your car’s parking brake whenever you stop isn’t the worst idea in the world. Yes, there’s the risk of you forgetting it’s on the next time you drive away, but it can also prevent accidents like this from occurring. This guy’s Benny Hill impression is hilarious, but he’s probably…
Because the globs of paint are mirrored to create a symmetrical effect and because it looks like the paint is mixing itself on its own without a palette knife, it’s sort of a trip to watch it all get thrown together, like if it was just magically plopping itself on top of each other in some…
YouTube’s ScienceBob somehow managed to get his hands on 315 small plastic containers that once held something called “photography film.” So he did what any mad scientist would do with such a windfall: use them to build an ethanol-powered, Tesla coil-triggered gatling gun. The weapon won’t strike fear into anyone’s heart, but any opportunity you…
It’s a little bit surprising that humans took so dang long to invent the sandwich. We’d had bread, meat, and cheese for eons, but it wasn’t until 1762, when the degenerate gambler John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, decided that he wanted to have a handheld dinner (so that he could gamble with the…
Damn, this finger puppet is so awesome. Not only does it glow in the dark but its dance moves are so incredible that you’d think it was alive. It just moves so fluidly. Barnaby Dixon, the genius controlling the finger puppet, came up with a dance routine that involves some crazy finger gymnastics and both…
If the internet is where you go for a quick pick-me-up, this animated short film by Parallel Studio isn’t for you. It features a series of incredibly unsatisfying situations we’ve all experienced at some point. In the grand scheme of things they’re nothing worth getting upset over, but that doesn’t make them any less frustrating…
Most people look at skateboarders as hooligans, turning public parking lots and shopping malls into their own private skateparks. But it turns out a professional boarder can teach you more about physics than your high school science teacher ever could. You just need someone to explain what’s going on during ollies, kick flips, and rail…
If you watch a TV show long enough, the home becomes a character in itself. You start remembering the little details of each room, what scenes happened where, and start feeling like their home is just an extension of your house. Yeah, I remember the pool in Breaking Bad and definitely the dining table. Of…
Animation is not a genre. Director Brad Bird will punch you in the face if you say that. That’s because animation isn’t just light humor, fluffy songs, and dance numbers; animation is an art form that can be used to tell any story in any genre. This video, edited by Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr., illustrates…
Growing up, I did nerdy things. I played the violin, I was in a couple of honor societies, and I almost got a D in gym class one quarter because it was early in the morning and I often showed up 20 minutes late, or not at all. It should thus come as no surprise…
Can’t understand how people in oversized hats riding horses and bulls is supposed to be entertaining? It turns out that rodeos were only boring because cowboys were wearing the wrong outfits. Put one in a T-rex costume on a bucking bronco and suddenly you’ve got the best spectator sport in the world. The T-rex in…
Filip Sterckx’s Gallery Invasion is a clever, kooky, and totally adorable art show that brings art works to life through projection mapping. It’s like those Night at the Museum movies but with drawings deciding to jump out of their canvas and play rough with each other all over the gallery instead of museum exhibits messing…
What the hell. The fog at London’s Gatwick Airport was basically eating up any airplane that was trying to land on the runway. Some of the planes essentially disappeared into the unknown, never to be seen again (they were probably sent around). Others were able to land when the fog cleared up a bit but…
Think you can identify a movie just by seeing the objects that appeared in that movie? If a movie is iconic enough, yeah, you probably can. Artist Jordan Bolton made this poster series that lays out various items that’ve appeared in a film, and it’s sort of fun to try and remember what was used…
Building a floating city also known as an aircraft carrier is hard as hell to do because the numbers are basically unfathomable. A basic aircraft carrier is made of 60,000 tons of steel, 4.5 acres of non-skid surface with four 325-foot catapults. The whole thing weighs 200 million pounds and takes five years to build…
This planet of ours, it ain’t gonna last forever. And though who the heck knows what’s going to happen to the world that far off into the future (or even after November 8th), Life Noggin decided to conduct a little brain exercise about how we could convert a planet like Mars or Venus, or a…
Because the human body is (scientifically) a big, wet meat sack, murder is typically an ugly, messy thing, ill-suited for coverage on a gif-heavy video blog. Luckily, the good folks at Super Deluxe managed to correct this design flaw by making their own dirt man out of colored sand—and then hacking him into a million…
From Sam O’Nella, here’s an amusing look at some of the weird, creative, and deeply sinister weapons used during the Medieval period, when castles and knights and dragons existed (oh wait): the six-story tall super giant Warwolf trebuchet, used to bludgeon castles to bits; Greek Fire flamethrowers that basically burned everyone and everything; and a…
