Erwin Trummer created a captivating compilation of candy melting and unmelting to classical music.

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The German robotic company Festo has created the “Octopus Gripper“, a flexible bionic pneumatic arm that can grab ahold of objects in all sorts of shapes and sizes, using the same design used by the eight-armed cephalopod.

The very knowledgable CGP Grey explains the origins, history and uses of the U.S. Social Security Card. Grey made note of the fact that, while the card is often used as a form of official identification, it was never meant to be used as such and so was never made secure.

The desire of Americans to not have a national identity card led somewhat inevitably to the nearest thing available being used as a substitute. And it ended up being worse because the social security number was never designed to be used this way in the long, long ago and you can tell because it has no security built into it.

In the trailer for the fourth season of the HBO series Silicon Valley, a conflicted Richard (Thomas Middleditch) gathers up his courage to let the Pied Piper team know that he’s moving on elsewhere. Little did he know that the team had other plans for him, as revealed to him by Jared (Zach Woods), but as history has shown, things don’t always work out as planned. Season 4 premieres on HBO April 23, 2017.

Richard! I was waiting out front. They wanted to ambush you and replace you, but I had nothing to do with it.

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In a hilarious commercial by ad agency 72andSunny for Carl’s Jr restaurants, a formidable Carl Hardee Sr. (Charles Esten of Nashville and Whose Line Is It Anyway) returned to his beloved restaurant to see what his son Carl Junior had done to the place. Without breaking his stride, Senior dismantled the very questionable marketing of the brand and replaced it with the original concept of tasty food and good service. An apologetic Junior feigned ignorance and followed his father’s every command.

Meet “our founder”, Carl Hardee Sr. After trusting the company to his son for a few years, Carl Sr. is back to focus on what we do best: making damn tasty food. Say goodbye to women in tiny bathing suits; now it’s all about grass-fed beef, hand-breaded chicken tenders, made-from-scratch biscuits and bacon on pretty much everything. We’re Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. See why we’re Pioneers of the Great American Burger.

At least no one’s head exploded during this rebranding.

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While visiting the wonderful city of Asheville, North Carolina, both Scott and I came across The Buskits, a pair of young musical brothers named Andrew and Kyle Hernandez, who perform popular songs on guitar and keep the beat with percussion at their feet for the crowds that gather on Congress Street.

Andrew (9) and Kyle (7) are brothers. They started studying music notation at the early age of four. You can find them performing their favorite duets in downtown Asheville, NC.

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Warner Bros. has released a the first trailer for It, a new adaptation of Stephen King‘s classic horror novel of the same name that is being directed by Andy Muschietti. The horrifying trailer features Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) the child eating clown coming out to terrorize, snatch up, and murder children in the town of Derry, Maine. It is scheduled to be released in theaters on September 8th, 2017.

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.

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On an animated episode of Tooned Up! by Channel Frederator, host Cade Hiser explains why a majority of cartoon characters only have four fingers.

Cartoon characters have had four fingers for as long as we can remember. Sure, some cartoons have five fingers, but the majority of animation shows characters with only four fingers. How did this become the standard in the animation industry? Will cartoons always only have four fingers? We dig deep into one of the oldest animation questions in cartoon history… Why do cartoons only have four fingers?