Trike Drifting Is the Best Thing to Ever Happen on Three Wheels
If you asked the 6-year-old me to think of the single awesomest activity possible, I would have have answered, trike drifting (I was huge into Big Wheels). And, after watching this video, my...
View ArticleDrill-Mounted Camera Makes Your World Spin
This video was posted over a year ago, but it's too trippy not to share. The concept is simple. Mount a camera to a electric drill and see what happens. What you get is a completely abstracted image of...
View ArticleWhy Weed Makes You…You…Huh?
Scientists have long suspected that THC somehow affects the hippocampus region of the brain, the bit responsible for controlling short-term memory, but have never been able to prove it. Turns out...
View ArticleNASA Engineer Explains — Yet Again — Why the World Isn’t Ending
2012 is shaping up to be an action-packed year for the Earth — it's scheduled to end on no less than three separate occasions! If the the black hole and supernova don't obliterate us, the mystical...
View ArticleA Pressure Suit for Every Occasion and Atmosphere
When a sealed, pressurised vessel (say, you) is exposed to a vacuum (say, space), things tend to get splattery. These fifteen atmospheric suits from our friends at Oobject are the hallmarks of...
View ArticleLet’s Watch Siri Murder My Most Favourite Song for a Minute
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Don't try to argue it, you can't. It's so good, you can play it at your wedding and your funeral. But it's not quite as...
View ArticleThis Incredible Time-Lapse from the ISS Is Straight Up Space Porn
You're gonna want to turn the lights down low and pour some Champagne before you hit play on this one. Think, Barry White crooning to a unicorn on a rainbow — in space.
View ArticleMicro Organisms Make For One Mind-Bending Music Video
Watch this trippy video of microscopic creatures to make up for all those times you’ve looked through a microscope and been disappointed. Austrian filmmaker Clemens Wirth and Radium Audio make tiny...
View ArticleJust a Cute Dog Sidestepping On a Treadmill Like a Boss
Check out this puggle—a pug and beagle mix—sidestepping on a treadmill. Like a boss. Why? Because he’s a puggle sidestepping on a treadmill, that’s why. If I tried to do this I would smash my jerkface...
View ArticleThe Worst Book Covers of All Time Have Destroyed My Faith In Humanity
The worst album covers of all time made me miss the good old times of record shops. These books, however, just scare me. They scare me because, with the advent of personal digital book publishing,...
View ArticleThe Most Terrifying Drug in the World
You’ve never heard of scopolamine. It’s synthesised from plants, like cocaine. It even looks exactly like cocaine. But unlike coke, it’ll turn you into an insane zombie and probably kill you. There’s a...
View ArticleMexicali Police Deflate Smugglers’ Compressed-Air “Marijuana Cannon”
Border fences are really tall so it’s not like you can just throw your packages of marijuana over them. No, you’d need something like a weed-apult or, better yet, a weed cannon to heave them over the...
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