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I Grew Up Star Wars, Photos & Memories That Take a Nostalgic Look at How Star Wars Used to Be
I Grew up Star Wars is a website, created and run by Tom Berges, featuring photos and memories that take a nostalgic look at how…
A Dying Car Alarm Lays Down a Sick Beat
Musician Guamu walked past a car with what appeared to be a dying battery, causing the vehicle’s alarm to lay down an interesting beat. Guama…
Live Stream of The 8th Annual Shorty Awards
The 8th Annual Shorty Awards take place tonight at the TimesCenter in New York City. You can watch all the festivities live via YouTube starting…
An Airedale Terrier Left Alone in a Car Impatiently Lays on the Horn to Alert Their Driver
After a pair of Airedale Terriers are left alone in a car, the one in the driver's seat impatiently starts to lay on the horn to alert their driver.
Can the Powder Inside an Etch a Sketch Be Used to Make Thermite?
Grant Thompson “The King of Random” partnered with What’s Inside? to find out if the powder inside an Etch a Sketch can be used to…
A Supercut of the Powerful Uses of Sound Throughout Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Sound Editing Oscar Nominees 2016 is a new supercut video series, created by University of California, Santa Cruz film student Zackery Ramos-Taylor, that focuses…
Urban Explorers Scale South Korea’s 555 Meter Lotte World Tower and Nearly Get Busted
Urban explorers Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov from On the Roofs scaled South Korea’s 555-meter Lotte World Tower and nearly got busted by building employees…
Why Pinball Was Considered To Be Illegal in the United States During the Mid-Twentieth Century
In an October 2015 episode of Retro Report, journalist and pinball aficionado Seth Porges spoke about his love for the game, explained why pinball was…
The Battle Between Living & Dead Fast Approaches in New Game of Thrones Season Six Trailer
HBO released the second trailer for season six of Game of Thrones that reveals a lot of new footage of the battle between living and…
Scientists Construct a Multi-Armed Soft Robot That Mimics the Movements of an Octopus
Researchers in Italy are currently constructing a multi-armed soft robot that functions in and out of water. Employing the concepts of embodied intelligence and biomimicry,…