Awesome Videos

The Earth is constantly spinning to the East at about 1,000 mph, so you’d think that it would take basically no time to fly from East to West. Minute Physics explains why this isn’t the case, which is basically the same reason we’re not all constantly in motion.

McDonald’s Big Mac is one of those foods that’s best enjoyed when you’re drunk and starving. Master sushi chef Hiroyuki Terada from Miami’s NoVe Kitchen & Bar shows how to elevate this fast food staple into a tasty sushi roll, with the addition of a few fresh ingredients.

While most Arduino-powered gadgets are either useful (or useless), this one is just deadly. YouTuber outaspaceman rigged up a servo-driven tentacle that does just one thing – it wildly thrashes around while wielding a knife.

On 11/15/15, Théo Sanson walked 1640ft (500m) across a slackline strung precariously between Castle Valley, Utah’s Rectory and Castleton Tower. Camp 4 Collective recorded the death-defying feat. How do you even set that up?

(PG-13) Fallout 4 lets you build settlements, complete with customizable lighting. YouTuber Saucy Sausage spent a total of 20 hours erecting this proof that even in the wasteland, boys will be boys. The climax is at 3:40, but you should watch the whole thing.

(PG-13) The music video for Passion, the eponymous single from Xan Young’s two-song EP. It sounds like an Autre Ne Veut track, but check out the other song in his EP and you’ll see Xan’s no copycat, just an artist sorting out his sound.

On 7/23/83, Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel in mid-air. The pilots decided to make an emergency landing on an inactive Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, but they didn’t know that the runway had been converted to a go-kart race track. Don’t worry, it ends well.

Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk pulled off a crazy trick that seemed to defy gravity – as he zipped through a custom built obstacle that formed a horizontal loop. Of course, the attempt was not without a few painful failures.

(PG-13) “You get charged as an adult at 16. Why you gonna put me in there with murderers and think that I would come out different?” Carmelo Anthony and Vice Sports visited the infamous jail to talk to young inmates and remind us that everyone deserves a chance to change.

John Cleese recently regaled Conan with tales of how he used to entertain his mother. She lived to be 101 but was miserable during the final years of her life. And by final years John meant the latter half.

Artist Graham Dunning demonstrates how to replicate sounds normally created with synthesizers and digital equipment, instead using a turntable, vinyl records, and mechanical and electrical devices in their place. The whole thing gets pretty bonkers by the end.

(PG-13: Language) “I’m cracking myself up because no one thinks I’m funny.” As part of their trip to Armenia, Conan and his assistant Sona visited a matchmaker. Conan tries so hard to make the segment work, and it does. It does buddy. We promise!

DNA is a long list of instructions for cells. Change the instructions and you may get different traits. But you can also get different results from the exact same list if you change which instructions are carried out. That’s what Epigenetics is about.

Musician Samurai Guitarist created this unusual, but somehow just right cover version of the familiar Russian style theme song from the arcade classic, Tetris. We just wanted to shout Rawhide! at the end.

As part of their war against humans, sentient androids attacked and pinned down the President of the United States. A team of Delta Force operators is sent to rescue their leader. The Bicycle Monarchy’s action short film cuts straight to the point.

Brett Jubinville and Tinman Creative Studio have posted the first episode of their animated series which envisions a world in which our greatest scientific minds possess superpowers, and must help save the world from evil. It’s proof that Kickstarter can lead to great things.

Aside from being black and white, American movies from the ’30s & ’40s stand out because of the Transatlantic or Mid-Atlantic accent. How Stuff Works says it was popularized by the East Coast elite, taught to actors and exaggerated by the lack of bass in speakers at the time.

(PG-13) Terry Ziegelman’s short film takes us inside the world of a man with a mundane desk job who meets with an untimely end, yet nobody seems to notice. We’re a little concerned about the “Inspired by Actual Events” title at the beginning though.

(Flashing lights) Playmodes used Eduardo Cajal’s upcycled fuselage to make Porta Estellar (Star Gate), an audiovisual installation that took audiences on a breathtaking six-minute interstellar trip. It was opened to the public in Barcelona’s Ciutadella park this past Sept.

Asked what he would do if he had only a month before the apocalypse, Colin Furze decided he’d want to live a bit longer, so he built a bunker under his garden. He then filled it with his previous inventions, including a couple of weapons that we haven’t seen before.

…also known as cats. The Acro-Cats dropped by The Late Show to perform, but the stars proved that you don’t train cats. They train you to be happy when they give a crap. Unless of course that was the point of the performance all along, in which case that was pure genius.

The boys of Smosh are avid pranksters and YouTube superstars, but Jennifer Lawrence is on a different level on both counts. They thought they snagged an opportunity to prank her with a silly interview, but she and her co-stars came fully prepared.

Conan has an early Holiday gift for us – another episode made entirely of remote segments. This time he went with his assistant Sona to Armenia. Watch him embarrass her with his poorly translated pick up lines and interest in Armenian Viagra.