Can Video Games Make You Smarter? by AsapScience
In this video, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE explore whether or not video games can make you smarter when played in moderation.
A Map of What Each US State Wants According to Google Autocomplete
(larger) Mashable has created a map showing what each US state wants according to Google Autocomplete. New York apparently wants “your guns,” California wants “to…
#NoShittyPhotos, A Movement That Aims to Help Tourists Take Better Pictures
Miami Ad School graduates Mimi Chan and Utsavi Jhaveri have started #NoShittyPhotos, a movement that aims to stamp out bad tourist photos of well-known landmarks.…
How All the Natural Numbers from One to Infinity Added Together Equal -1/12
University of Nottingham physicists Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland explain how all the natural numbers from one to infinity add up to -1/12 in this…
Amazon Wants to Ship Packages Before You Order Them
Amazon has received a patent for “anticipatory shipping,” a system for delivering packages before customers even buy them. According to the patent, the online retailer…
Unnecessarily Censored Version of Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Makes Ordinary Moments Seem Dirty
The Jake Vale Show has created a censored version of Disney’s Frozen in which ordinarily innocuous things have been bleeped or blurred to make them…
Weird Things We All Do, A Hilarious Parody of BuzzFeed by Pleated-Jeans
Pleated-Jeans has created “Weird Things We All Do,” a hilarious parody of BuzzFeed-style articles and videos that showcase relateable behaviors.
Aslan, A Massive Lion Sculpture Handmade from 4,000 Metal Scraps
Istanbul-based artist Selçuk Yilmaz has created a majestic sculpture called “Aslan” — the Turkish word for lion — made from nearly 4,000 pieces of metal.…
Two Fans Broke onto the Set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ to Film a Homemade Documentary in 1988
On March 10th, 1988, two Star Trek: The Next Generation fans broke onto the Paramount lot at night, wandering through the Enterprise sets and attempting…
Chogokin Hello Kitty, A ‘Super Alloy’ Hello Kitty Mech Figure
Bandai is celebrating the simultaneous 40th anniversaries of Hello Kitty and its Chogokin — a “super alloy” equivalent to Marvel’s adamantium — line of die-cast…