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This Time Lapse of Ice Cream Melting is Totally Mesmerizing

Man Wearing Mentos Suit Dropped in Tank of Diet Coke

And what makes Mentos and Diet Coke react this way?

How to Build Your Own PC (in 1991)

"This is now the Volkswagen of PCs."

Watch Beautiful Thunderstorms Swirl

A Rube Goldberg Zipper-Zipping Machine

Since the late 1980s, Purdue University has invited students to make Rube Goldberg machines accomplishing simple tasks in absurdly complex ways.

How Andy Warhol's Amiga Art Was Recovered

What Is a Photocopier?

That Horrible Star Wars Holiday Special

Most Star Wars fans are at least peripherally aware of the Star Wars Holiday special, but almost no one has seen it because it was never released on home video. The special aired on November 17, 1978. Ever since then, everyone involved has been trying t

The Greatest Infographic of All Time

Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes

Watch People Paint Ads on NYC Buildings

These days, most advertising is delivered to us via some kind of screen, from tablet to phone to computer to TV. But in New York City, some workers are getting out brand messages in a much more analog way: By dangling high above the city and painting them

The "Best Picture" Losers

Watch Babe Ruth Teach A Kid To Hit

If you're a down-trodden sandy-haired boy in the 1930s looking to impress the bullies back at the orphanage, who better to give you some hitting pointers than the Babe?

11 Classic Underoos Commercials

Watch Everything That Happens Behind the Scenes of An Episode of SNL

One of the American institutions cherished almost as much as watching Saturday Night Live each weekend is the habit of spending the following days complaining about how awful Saturday Night Live was the previous weekend. The American public has a way of l

Rare Nirvana Video from 1988

Listen to a Quartet Sing While You Watch a Close-up of Their Vocal Cords

The human voice box is a strange and amazing thing. In this video of a quartet singing, you can see the voice box in action via laryngoscope—a tiny camera on a flexible tube inserted through the nose and down the throat.

The 1957 Spaghetti Harvest

Watch Corals Move in Timelapse Video

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The Office Time Machine

Early Instructional Videos for Using a Rotary Phone

A couple of weeks ago, we posted a hilarious and adorable video of children reacting to rotary phones. Most of them, raised on iDevices, had no idea how to use it. The kids aren't alone in their confusion. Based on these early instructional videos, it see

Tonight on Vice: Greenland is Melting

The Closing Moment of Every Best Picture Winner

They're presented in reverse order, so you can quiz yourself as you go along.

11 Directors Who Collaborated with Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's world-wide hits and record-breaking albums gave him the power to push the medium of the music video farther than any musical artist before or after him.

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