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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.

Honest Cell Phone Commercial

Honest Cell Phone Commercial

Cracked’s devilish salesman Roger returns to talk about cellular phone carriers – a handful of giant corporations that have more or less the same services and efficiency. But look! It’s a map with splotches on it, and there’s a splotch where you live!

Jay Leno’s Retro Race Car Transporter

Jay Leno’s Retro Race Car Transporter

Jay Leno shows off his custom made replica of Mercedes-Benz’ one-off workhorse from 1950, a single vehicle Grand Prix race car transporter. Based on the 300 SL gullwing’s 6-cylinder engine, the unique vehicle could originally go up to 108mph.

What Are You?

What Are You?

Kurzgesagt mulls the Ship of Theseus, a paradox that asks whether an object – in this case, the human body – is still the same if you gradually replace all of its parts. And how many of your parts can be removed before you’re no longer you?

Making a Sweet Potato Patch

Making a Sweet Potato Patch

Primitive Technology made a yam and sweet potato garden. He said he got the sweet potatoes from “civilization”, but we’re okay with that. If you left us with nothing but sweet potatoes and cargo shorts we’d be dead by sunset.

What is a Production Assistant?

What is a Production Assistant?

Colin West McDonald was a Production Assistant (PA) at RocketJump. Here he talks to us about what PAs do with the help of behind-the-scenes footage. PAs are the maids and butlers of the film world, but it’s a great way to learn more about the industry.

Modern Movie Trailer Tropes

Modern Movie Trailer Tropes

Cracked points out the go-to tricks of today’s movie trailers. There’s the overly long title presentation with imposing fonts for action movies, the folk guitar intro for indie movies, and our favorite, the “Transformer losing his boner” sound for epic scenes.

How Far Can We Go?

How Far Can We Go?

Our smarty pants friends at Kurzgesagt examines the idea of human exploration, and some of the currently known limitations of space travel, physics, and our own bodies which prevent us from traveling to an unfathomable portion of the great unknown.

Making Woven Bark Fiber

Making Woven Bark Fiber

It’s the rainy season in Savage Land Queensland, so Primitive Technology thought that it’s time for his alter ego to make some clothes. He spent a few days making yarn out of fiber and about a day to weave it into a rough fabric using his handmade loom.

Leno’s 1989 Ford Shogun

Leno’s 1989 Ford Shogun

Jay Leno shows off his 1989 Special Editions Ford Shogun. It’s a Ford Festiva modified to fit the Yamaha-made Taurus SHO V6 in the back. It weighs around 2200lb but has 220hp, which Jay boosts to over 300hp with nitro. Test drive at 15:25.

The Jon Snow Game

The Jon Snow Game

(PG-13: Language) Cracked pokes fun at the much hyped non-secret in Game of Thrones’ latest season: the fate of Jon Snow. With both the fate of the known world and HBO’s pockets at stake, Jon will morghul, but not before dohaerising.

Terrorism & Mass Surveillance

Terrorism & Mass Surveillance

“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.

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