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Cooking Dinner with Science

Cooking Dinner with Science

The Backyard Scientist can’t be bothered to cook the meals he got from Blue Apron using normal kitchen appliances. Instead, he turns to more dangerous methods, like a powerful arc flashlight, a high-voltage transformer, a blowtorch, and delicious manganese heptoxide.

Exploding Vacuum Cleaner

Exploding Vacuum Cleaner

If you see a lit cigarette on the floor, it’s probably a good idea to stomp it out before sucking it up with a vacuum cleaner – especially one that’s filled with gunpowder like the one Norwegian TV series Ikke Gjør Dette Hjemme (“Do Not Do This at Home”) used.

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The Smell of Durian

The Smell of Durian

While many people in Southeast Asia regard the durian as a delicacy, we just can’t get over the idea of trying to eat something that smells like hot garbage. The Reactions channel taste tests the spiky fruit, and explains the science behind it’s foul stench.

Wooden Domino Machine

Wooden Domino Machine

Back in 2009, genius woodworker Matthias Wandel shared one of his childhood projects: a LEGO machine that laid out an evenly spaced row of dominoes. He recently upped the ante and remade the machine out of wood. Skip to 5:23 in the video for the finished machine.

The Most Powerful Weapons in Comics

The Most Powerful Weapons in Comics

…the real answer is The Writer’s Imagination, but that’s no fun. So VariantComics ranked what they believe are the 10 most powerful weapons in comic books. Most of them will be familiar even if you’re not a comic book fan, such as the Infinity Gauntlet.

Music of the Spheres

Music of the Spheres

Emic Films introduces us to Wanda Diaz-Merced, an astrophysicist and computer scientist from Puerto Rico who studies the stars not through sight, but through sound. Despite losing her eyesight due to diabetes, she’s as passionate as anyone else in her field.

Babish: Courtesan au Chocolat

Babish: Courtesan au Chocolat

Binging with Babish takes on one of the most mouth-watering items ever to be put on film, the beautiful looking sweet treat featured in Wes Anderson’s impeccable The Grand Budapest Hotel. The recipe was actually featured in the film’s DVD extras.

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Casually Explained: The Solar System

Casually Explained: The Solar System

Casually Explained stops talking about love and life for a moment to dish out some hard science. Fiction. Watch his breakdown of our celestial neighborhood, which includes Earth’s hot sister, Elon Musk’s homeworld, and yo momma.

Muscle-Up

Muscle-Up

Photographer Robert McIntosh created this impressive one-take shot using a deftly piloted palm-sized drone, a stripped-down GoPro, reverse playback, and the After Effects plugin ReelSteady to smooth out the motion. Here’s some of the raw footage prior to stabilization.

Real Skifi Summer

Real Skifi Summer

Finland-based ski crew Real Skifi is used to having snow all the way into May, but even that far North there are summer days without powder. That didn’t stop the gang from taking to the streets and countryside with their skis and cranking out some sick tricks.

#NotAlone

#NotAlone

(Gore) In Sotiris Petridis and Dimitris Tsakaleas’ horror short, a woman sits home posting selfies on her Instagram feed, and applies what she thinks is an appropriate hashtag. Unfortunately, a creepy maniac sees the tag as a mark of vulnerability, and uses it to choose his victims.

Boy Pablo: Everytime

Boy Pablo: Everytime

Eighteen year old frontman Pablo Muñoz and the rest of Boy Pablo stupidly look into the sun in their silly music video for Everytime. The Norway-based band’s dream pop is as näive, chill, and effortless as their demeanor here.

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White Moose

White Moose

After searching for almost three years, Hans Nilsson managed to capture video of an incredibly rare and awesome sight – an eight-year old moose that is pure white from his head to his toes, including his fuzzy antlers. If you ever visit Eda, Sweden, you might see him too.

The Journey of a Beef Cow

The Journey of a Beef Cow

(Gore) Having a great day so far? Good. Meet Craig. He’s about to have the opposite fate. Sam O’Nella Academy tries its best to put the fun in “slaughterhouse” as he explains how American cattle are raised and then “processed.” Sorry, Craig.

How to Make a Blockbuster Trailer

How to Make a Blockbuster Trailer

Movie trailer these days are so ridiculously formulaic. We’d love to see them handed over to the guys who make title sequences instead. In the meantime, we’re all equally qualified to make trailers, thanks to this easy to follow instructional parody from Auralnauts.

Could Batteries Power The World?

Could Batteries Power The World?

There’s more demand to move away from fossil fuels and towards electric power than ever. MinutePhysics and Real Engineering teamed up to explore some of the challenges of using batteries to power everything, and the theoretical limitations of battery tech.

Making a Dead Blow Mallet

Making a Dead Blow Mallet

Ollari’s walks us through the process of transforming rough reclaimed wood into a gorgeous hand tool we’d be thrilled to have on our workbench. There are few things more satisfying on Earth than turning things on a lathe. Full build details on Instructables.

Good Vibrations: A Pop Masterpiece

Good Vibrations: A Pop Masterpiece

The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations was an outright hit and is an auto-include in best of lists. But Polyphonic believes that the song’s impact has flown over the public’s collective head. He sets out to correct that with this excellent deconstruction.

Jamie Lannister: Oathbreaker

Jamie Lannister: Oathbreaker

(PG-13, Spoilers) The Garo Studios looks back on the last 6+ seasons in the life of Game of Thrones’ Kingslayer, and how somehow, despite all of the horrible things that Jaime Lannister has done, he’s still a sympathetic character.

Puddles: Perfect Day

Puddles: Perfect Day

Lou Reed’s 1972 track Perfect Day is one of our all-time favorite songs, so the idea of covering it makes us a little twitchy. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s Puddles Pity Party – and he did it with his usual vocal and emotional aplomb.

Five Years on Mars

Five Years on Mars

See what NASA’s Curiosity Rover has seen over the last five years trucking along the surface of Mars, as it meandered its way across the Gale Crater. The map on the right of the video provides an overhead view of its trek, collecting data along a 6.1 mile-long path.

HISHE: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

HISHE: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

How It Should Have Ended blows up the ending of Guardians 2, as Baby Groot kills everyone, Darth Vader drops by to give some daddy advice, Ego gets his way, and Mary Poppins is real. Also, literal Taserface is so much cooler.

Vince Staples vs. Hot Wings

Vince Staples vs. Hot Wings

(PG-13: Language) Ramona Park’s straightedge rapper Vince Staples talks about the best places to hang out in Long Beach, why he loves Boston, lame interviews, and demonstrates his near immunity to peppers in this refreshing chat over hot wings.

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