Awesome Videos

Saturday Night Live guest host Julia Louis-Dreyfus pokes fun at electric cars with a hilarious mock commercial for Mercedes-Benz’ new green luxury vehicle – an amazing new car which runs on battery power, yet needs no charging stations or power outlets.

A seagull spots another seagull moving in on its territory, and gives it a stern warning to keep away. The only problem is the other bird is just its reflection it a car’s shiny bumper cover. Guess you can’t expect too much from a brain the size of a pea.

(PG-13: Language) h3h3 Productions noticed that ’90s pop culture is making a comeback, so he decided to get in on the fun and start his own boy band. The hilarious thing is that his basis for doing all of this… is a song from 2000.

A look back at the Golden State Warriors’ (ir)regular season, which set new records – never lost to the same team twice, no back-to-back losses, etc. – en route to breaking the biggest of ’em: 73 wins and 9 losses, topping the 1996 Bulls’ 72-10 record.

Retro Report chronicles the continuing development of the artificial heart. Today, the life-saving device serves as a stopgap while patients wait for a donor heart, but experts continue to work on a surrogate heart that can be used permanently.

An outline of the myriad steps that a production team goes through to create a single episode of a TV show, from pre-production planning to editing and color correction. Check out Caroline Framke’s article on Vox for a more in-depth breakdown based on FX’s The Americans.

YouTuber ZaziNombies made a life-size LEGO replica of one of the first ridiculously overpowered video game weapons, the BFG 9000 from the Doom and Quake series. The replica is made of over 5,000 LEGO pieces, is around 3ft. long and weighs over 20lb.

CGP Grey made two videos firmly arguing against any means, legal or otherwise, to defeat or circumvent digital encryption. As we rely more and more on digital storage and services, the outcome of this fight will affect not just us but also future generations as well.

Learn how to make a fancy invitation card while legally beating a man unconscious. The Kicker turns a pun into a full skit with the help of former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman. Go on, call him Glitter Glue.

Brothers Howard and David Swig showcase two of their favorite cars: a 1959 Alfa Romeo Veloce Zagato, and a 1960 Giulietta Sprint Veloce. The siblings inherited their love for classic cars from their dad, and continue to bond over it as adults. Another awesome Petrolicious short.

Check out this footage of the DMG MORI Lasertec 65 3D, an amazing marvel of modern engineering which is capable of first building up rough metal forms using laser deposition welding, then switching heads to precisely mill and drill them into finished parts.

You can install a beer tap in your house if you have a kegerator. Chelyabinsk resident Andrey Yeremeev had something better: a brewery right below his flat. A half-joking request turned his house into a beer lover’s paradise. In Soviet Russia, brewery goes to you.

A couple of tigers in captivity at Ireland’s Dublin Zoo had a little bit of a spat when one of them decided to wake the other from its deep slumber. This is exactly how we react when awakened from our afternoon power naps.

(PG-13) “I’m learning to live with a lot of things.” While some movie characters like to announce their plans to kick ass before they do it, others prefer to act first, then speak. Burger Fiction compiles 100 of the greatest post-mortem puns and proclamations ever filmed.

LEGO artist Sean Kenney spent over 440 hours designing and building this detailed architectural model of New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, using 114,470 individual bricks. Watch the impressive build come together in this time-lapse video.

(PG-13 Language) “I am Manbeast, hunter of elk, lover of women, sovereign of the moon.” Broden’s alter ego was an office worker in 1999, and apparently he was a tosser. Literally. There are so many quotable quotes in Aunty Donna’s latest skit.

“But if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, adding more hay isn’t going to make it easier to find the needle.” Kurzgesagt reminds us that terrorism has never been and will never be solved by assuming that everyone is guilty.

Dive into A Song of Ice and Fire‘s known world with the 360º video version of Game of Thrones’ iconic opening sequence. It moves around a tad too fast for us, but it’s cool to see that it’s a seamless scene. Firefox or Chrome required.

(PG-13: Language) While you may not agree or feel as strongly as YouTuber I Hate Everything does about the flood of superhero flicks, he makes several great points. A movie should stand on its own, not be a mishmash of references, CGI and teasers for sequels.

Futurama is one of our all-time favorite TV shows. It deftly combined humor, science fiction, animation, pop culture, and an awesome ensemble cast. While we’ll have to live with reruns, we can at least enjoy this awesome one-man cover of its theme song by SquidPhysics.

AsapSCIENCE looks at one of life’s many imponderables… when you let one rip, is it possible to get out of the way fast enough that you neither hear nor smell it? We all know we can’t run at the speed of sound, but what’s the speed of stench?

Veritasium takes us on a tour of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. It’s the northernmost town on Earth, a mere 800mi from the North Pole. Originally a whaling port, Longyearbyen flourished as a coal mining town, but is now a tourist and research destination and potential trading hub.

(PG-13) The video for Breakbot’s disco-infused track mixes ’70s sci-fi elements to create a world in which men are replaced with creepy robots who do the bidding of their female masters. It’s like Westworld meets Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.