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John Krasinski’s latest movie is nothing like A Quiet Place. The family-friendly fantasy IF tells the story of a girl who starts to see everyone’s imaginary friends as their real-life creators have all grown up. Stars Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt, Louis Gossett, Jr., Steve Carrell, Matt Damon, Maya Rudolph, and more.

When Lauri Vuohensilta isn’t crushing things with his 150-ton hydraulic press, he enjoys making things explode. In this clip from his Beyond the Press channel, he and the guys from Pyrokratia rigged up nearly 7000 blocks of recalled fireworks to explode at the same time. This is totally going to be our new bedtime white noise.

Mark Rober has been frustrating porch pirates and other thieves with his trick glitter bombs for a while now. To wrap up the series, he teamed up with a local news outlet in San Francisco to set up a bait car and backpack, covering thieves with glitter and fart spray and tracking the stolen goods to help identify the criminals behind the break-ins.

Tame your mane on the go with this folding metal comb from Stinger Tools. It has a balisong-style mechanism, so it flips open with the flick of your wrist. The comb is made from stainless steel, while its body is aircraft-grade aluminum. It’s also got a built-in emergency glass breaker.

After nearly destroying a bowling ball cannon, How Ridiculous asked BealsScience to make a pair of air-powered cannons. To maximize their destructive power, they pointed them at each other and then fired them to collide basketballs, LEGO cannonballs, and watermelons in mid-air. It took a lot of trial and error to get them to sync up.

We’ve seen how explosive something as tame as paper can be when crushed in a hydraulic press. So, how energetic are actual explosives when subjected to similar forces? Press play and find out as the Hydraulic Press Channel takes canisters of compressed propane gas and smooshes them next to a bunch of candles.

Gearheads who are also beerheads need this spark plug bottle opener. 4PhaseFabrication makes each piece by hand, welding a heavy-duty steel opener of their own design to a recycled spark plug. They’re only accepting Xmas 2023 orders through 12.9, so don’t hesitate!

Not to be confused with the similarly-named song by The Smiths, modern-day philosopher exurb1a is back to fill our brains with another fascinating perspective on our existence. Along the way, he challenges our perceptions of time, place, and self and explains the basic concepts of metaphysics.

Electronic geeks will get a kick out of these coasters from MODelivery. They’re made from real colored circuit boards with a thin layer of gold on the conductive circuit traces. The circuit design is based on a microcontroller board layout with “Place Cup Here” text printed on its edge. They’re sold in sets of two or six.

For today’s physics lesson, kids, we will learn about weight, density, and air resistance. In this very short video, we’ll see one worker’s simple yet effective method of separating red beans from dirt. Sure, a machine might be more efficient, but we appreciate this guy’s low-tech solution.

Any earthquake above a magnitude 5 can do damage, and levels higher than that can turn serious or deadly. xkcd’s What If? ponders the question of what sort of horrible things would happen if something much more intense hit our planet, say a magnitude 15 or higher. Who knew that there were negative magnitude quakes?

The Hydraulic Press Channel goes back to basics by showing off their latest tool of destruction, The Impaler 10,000,000. This custom-made press tool has a pointy tip and a matching base, allowing it to poke holes, crush, and extrude objects until they surrender to its force. It’s really good at juicing fruit, too.

Peter Sripol is no stranger to making unusual aircraft. In this video, he builds and tests out three weird designs for airworthiness, including a plane with a fuselage made from springs, a propeller that works like a tank tread, and a ridiculous set of wings that resemble Venetian blinds.

The 2024 Slingshot offers paint and graphics in slick new colors like Radar Blue Fade, Gold Rush, and Purple Lightning, new SL wheels, and audio upgrades. The ROUSH Edition is back with Brembo brakes, an excursion cover, Sparco pedal covers, and a race-style steering wheel. S and SL models still make 178 hp, while the SLR, R, and ROUSH produce 203 hp.

We’ve seen a complicated machine that creates springs by bending stiff wire, but this machine appears to be a bit simpler. It’s fascinating to see how it twirls the metal into a perfect spring by feeding it through a small opening and pressing it against an angled tool to bend it.

Editor and Star Trek fan John DiMarco is back with another fun compilation video for Trekkies. This time, we get to enjoy Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, uttering his famous catchphrase “Fascinating” as he reacts to new and unknown things, from music to medical mysteries to mysterious materials. ’80s kids might also be familiar with his mention of Pure Energy.