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Starboy Daft Punkified

Starboy Daft Punkified

(PG-13: Language) Daft Punk produced the music for The Weeknd’s latest hit Starboy. But what if it was the other way around and Daft Punk invited The Weeknd to sing on their terms? YouTuber samuraiguitarist might have the answer.

Honest Antidepressant Commercial

Honest Antidepressant Commercial

“Maybe if you take Hortiolis, the weather will change. But you know, it won’t.” There is no one-size-fits-all treatment for clinical depression. But as Cracked shows, antidepressant medicines are marketed in the US as if they were simple painkillers.

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Jay Leno’s 1960 Panhard PL 17

Jay Leno’s 1960 Panhard PL 17

Jay Leno shows off his Panhard et Levassor 17, a compact six-seater that’s “unusual even for a French car.” It’s unruly at low speeds, but otherwise it’s a beautiful oddball that’s full of personality while remaining practical. Driving footage at 18:37.

Running the Seasons

Running the Seasons

While preparing for a marathon in Montana, runner Jeff Dougherty captured nearly 100,000 photos of his 5-mile daily loop, then combined them into this cool hyperlapse, which morphs between sunny spring and summer days, wintry afternoons, and the browns and oranges of fall.

Genetic Engineering & Malaria

Genetic Engineering & Malaria

Kurzgesagt presents a vexing conundrum. Scientists have created genetically-engineered mosquitoes that are immune to the microorganisms that create malaria. But we don’t know if letting these “newsquitoes” loose has dire consequences.

Making a Tiled Roof Shed

Making a Tiled Roof Shed

Primitive Technology built a roofed shed so he can store firewood and do other fire-related projects out of the rain. It took him a week to gather the timber and turn them into a frame, three days to make and dry a kiln, and almost a day to make the tiles.

If Drug Companies Were Honest

If Drug Companies Were Honest

(PG-13: Language) Cracked’s corporate scumbag Roger is back to give us a good, hard Rogering, with a look at pharmaceutical companies who invest in patents, political lobbying, marketing, and incenting doctors, so they can reap big profits off of patients with severe illnesses.

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Riding The Monster

Riding The Monster

CoasterForce shares an impressively crisp and immersive 4K video of The Monster, a new roller coaster located at Adventureland Iowa, complete with a crazy 101° vertical drop, crazy banks, and five inversions. The nighttime off-ride footage is worth watching too.

1939 Plymouth Radial Air

1939 Plymouth Radial Air

Jay Leno’s Garage shares one of the most unique vehicles you’ll ever see. This gaspunk beauty is a 1939 Plymouth fitted with a 300hp Cessna engine. It took Gary Corns, his friends and his two sons about 1.5 years to build the racer. It even has a similarly-themed tow truck.

1929 Packard Boattail Speedster

1929 Packard Boattail Speedster

“I uh, I followed a picture.” Jay Leno’s Garage showcases Jerry Miscevich’s beautiful recreation of the Packard Boattail Speedster. Nearly 20 years in the making, the car is made of either hand-fabricated or actual Packard components.

Genetic Engineering Changes Everything

Genetic Engineering Changes Everything

Kurzgesagt takes a look at what seems like science fiction, but could quite possibly revolutionize the world. With the ability to manipulate genes, we could create just about anything we want, from made to order babies, to better foods, to the fountain of youth.

Death from Space

Death from Space

Kurzgesagt’s happy little video looks at the science of Gamma Ray bursts, and how these extraordinarily powerful beams of energy that are capable of ripping apart the very atomic bonds that keep together everything in our universe, including all life on Earth.

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Making a Forge Blower

Making a Forge Blower

Primitive Technology inches towards the metal age by making an alternative to bellows: a rotary fan driven by a bow. It allows his furnace to get hot enough to extract iron from iron ore, though he’ll need a bigger setup if he wants to get usable amounts of the metal.

The Power of Screenings

The Power of Screenings

RocketJump Film School talks about the importance of movie screenings, where a small group of people watch and critique a “finished” movie before its wide release. If Stanley Kubrick was humble enough to accept others’ opinions of his work, then we should do the same.

1927 Ford Model T Hot Rod

1927 Ford Model T Hot Rod

Jay Leno’s Garage showcases a beautiful, durable and (more or less) practical hot rod that started out as half of a rotting Model T. But the real gem here is its builder, Clayton Paddison, who has a couple of touching stories about his car. Test drive at 19:33.

Making a Grass Hut

Making a Grass Hut

Primitive Technology makes building your own home look easy in his latest episode. In fact, it took him 7 days to put it together – five of which were spent gathering grass. Psh. One time we missed winning the lottery by just four numbers.

Jay Leno Tries Sidecar Racing

Jay Leno Tries Sidecar Racing

Jay Leno tries his hand at sidecar racing with the help of his shop foreman Bernard Juchu and Bernard’s trusty swinger Kevin Kautzky. If you ever wanted to poop in your pants in the most uncomfortable manner, try this sport.

The Importance of Off-screen Sound

The Importance of Off-screen Sound

(PG-13: Language) “Sounds shape what you see and what you think you see.” In film, sound has a unique variant: the ones made by unseen objects or beings. RocketJump Film School points out the various ways that off-screen sound can be used to paint a picture.

Before History: Human Origins

Before History: Human Origins

Kurzgesagt lists the major breakthroughs that have taken humans to this point. Ultimately, it’s a reminder that we all benefit when we communicate, cooperate, and preserve and share knowledge, not when we deceive, enslave or censor each other.

Film Budgeting 101

Film Budgeting 101

RocketJump producer Ashim Ahuja talks about the basic process and mindset of budgeting for a film. It’s easy to look at it as a buzzkill, but with enough research and resourcefulness you can make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Besides, constraints fuel creativity.

2015 Ducati UMC-038 Hyper Scrambler

2015 Ducati UMC-038 Hyper Scrambler

Jay Leno checks out Untitled Motorcycles’ barebones variant of Ducati’s entry-level bike. The UMC-038 has been stripped down to its bare essentials, along with a custom tank, seat, rear subframe, a Ducati Monster swingarm and a modded QD box exhaust. Test drive at 11:10.

2016 Bonnaroo Livestream

2016 Bonnaroo Livestream

Red Bull TV is once again streaming live performances from the Bonnaroo music and arts festival. Catch LCD Soundsystem, M83, Tyler the Creator and more for free on your browser or from the Red Bull TV app. The show runs now through 6/13/16.

Jay Leno’s 1931 Shotwell

Jay Leno’s 1931 Shotwell

Jay Leno shows off one of the more interesting cars in his cavernous garage – the Shotwell. Single-handedly built in 1931 by then 17-year-old Bob Shotwell, this three-wheeled vehicle had well over 150,000 mi on it before Jay had it restored. Test drive at 13:52.

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