The ever-curious Tom Scott recruited Steve Randall from Random Engineering and Barry Lewis from My Virgin Kitchen to participate in an unusual but very cool experiment. Lewis provided a loaf of homemade garlic bread, half of which placed onto an open styrofoam box attached to a weather balloon provided by Randall. Randall launched the weather…
NVIDIA Demonstrates New AI Technology for Reconstructing Photos With Realistic Results
A team of NVIDIA researchers, led by research scientist Guilin Liu, created an impressive AI deep learning method that can reconstruct photos with realistic results. The process is called “image inpainting.” The method, which performs a process called “image inpainting”, could be implemented in photo editing software to remove unwanted content, while filling it with…
A Breakdown of the First 10 Years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
On a special “History Of” episode of Variant, host Arris Quinones gets comic book fans ready for Avengers: Infinity War with a super powered breakdown of the first 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Eddie Brock Goes Through a Crazy Symbiotic Transformation in the New ‘Venom’ Trailer
Sony Pictures Entertainment released a new trailer for Venom, the upcoming superhero film directed by Ruben Fleischer and based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The revealing trailer features Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) having zero choice as he becomes the Venom Symbiote, after going through a crazy symbiotic transformation. Venom is set…
Creative Marathon Runners Breaking Records While Dressed in a Variety of Costumes
In celebration of the 90 world records attempted on April 22nd, 2018 at the Virgin Money London Marathon, Guinness World Records made a compilation video of amazing marathon runners crushing records while dressed in costume.
Woman With H.S.A.M. Shares What It’s Like to Be Able To Recall Every Day of Her Life in Perfect Detail
Rebecca Sharrock is an Australian writer, public speaker and one of 60 people in the world known to have been born with a phenomenon known as H.S.A.M. (highly superior autobiographical memory). As its name describes, H.S.A.M. or hyperthymesia gives Sharrock the incredible ability to recall any moment of her life in great detail at any…
The Scientific Principle That Explains Why Humans Can’t Walk Through Walls
In a random episode of Life Noggin, narrator Pat Graziosi who voices the animated Blocko explained why humans can’t walk through walls despite being made of much of the same material as the wall itself. This, Blocko explains, has to do with the concept of the Pauli exclusion principle, a quantum mechanical theory that essentially…
A Smiling Deli Clerk Humorously Presents Different Cuts of Meat for a Standing Stray Cat to Inspect
In a truly heartwarming display of affection, a smiling deli clerk was amused by a stray cat who wandered into his store, stood up on hind legs (while leaning against the glass of the counter) and meowed for a bit of attention. The clerk quite humorously presented different cuts of meat for the feline’s approval….