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High-speed video showing glutamate lighting up as it is released in synapses

Steve Harvey burger

Steve Harvey burger

The paths of an unmanned bicycle being pushed before it fell 800 times

The paths of an unmanned bicycle being pushed before it fell 800 times

The Video Game History Foundation Library

How geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano

Heil Tesla

Uranium ore emitting radiation inside a cloud chamber

Rubik’s Cube pixel art

Incremental games database

Internal Combustion Engine

A whole vehicle laid bare

Time-lapse of a probe landing on Saturn’s moon Titan

Shake your screen

Shake your screen

Award winning tripping

Crossing your eyes is a superpower for spot-the-difference challenges

alphaguess

Mercury crossing the face of the Sun

Moon

OK Go – A Stone Only Rolls Downhill

Guy spoils a bunch of magic tricks

Device Blinking Light Guide

Gasoline Car Review

Indoor skydiving champion 2024 Feith Mate

Super Snowflake Maker

A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony

Another rocket launch as seen from the International Space Station

Stimulation Clicker

DOOM® CAPTCHA

Time-lapse of airplane traffic patterns at Chicago’s ORD

How to get a cork out of a wine bottle

Guy explains the levitating napkin magic trick

PixLens

/r/ReallyShittyCopper

codingfont.com

Eyes on the Earth

/r/tragedeigh

Nirvana shovel

Am I Unique?

saturn.fm

Washing your hair in space

Using Amazon’s AI tool for coding

Free Klondike Solitaire

Tokyo Train front view

Christmas 2024

Christmas 2024

Time-lapse of the first two years of a pine tree’s life

Fix The News

Word Search Puzzle Maker

Map showing the depths of the Great Lakes

Map showing the depths of the Great Lakes

What a rocket launch looks like from space

Playing a game of Stick, Tac, Toe

NASA rocket engine fireplace

Find the Mac Pro in a sea of cheese graters

Googling stuff then vs now

Googling stuff then vs now

Disappearing painting

Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March

IMG_0001

A time-lapse of the Earth setting below the Moon’s horizon

They see your photos

Human players in older consoles

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

Light speed to scale in time and space

A visual representation of the relative speeds and rotations of the planets

Black Hole Vision

Phases of the Moon

A surfing-themed stop-motion movie

Journey to the center of the galaxy

Man competes with Cyr wheel in 2024 German championship

A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game built by Netlify

O2 creates AI Granny to waste scammers’ time

Memento Movi

How big is the atmosphere?

CouchTube

Insane electronics balancing

Antidepressants or Tolkien

Spinning circles optical illusion

Redact-a-chat

JamStart

Chipotle Cost

onecheckbox.com

Math Encrypt

Jon Batiste hears a Green Day song for the first time

Draw.Audio

DeFlocked

Instagram boyfriend

Bezos Income Rate vs Regular Worker Income Rate

Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy

Skier avoids avalanche by paragliding over it

Sand calligraphy

Passport Photos

The sound of a singularity

slow roads

nobody.live

Monty Hall Simulation Online

More surreal facial makeup

Animal Body Fat Match

Mundango

Early Warning Signs of Fascism

Early Warning Signs of Fascism

Halloween 2024

Ever since COVID, Google searches for keywords like ADHD and brain fog have dramatically risen and show no sign of slowing down, while long COVID searches remain low

HTML for people

A map of dark matter in a simulated universe

First images from ESA’s Euclid space mission

Humungous estate sale collection that will make 70s and 80s kids nostalgic

How to make a ring hitch knot

3D scans of the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

Try phone panoramas to make sure everyone is in the group shot

Wikipedia Speedruns

Add cooked.wiki/ before the URL of a recipe page

Mountain bike juggling

Free puns

Songs on a mini Tesla coil

How couples met 1930-2024

Dookie Demastered

Teqball

Beautiful tree quadrant thing artwork

Extreme Rock Paper Scissors

Workarounds for places where drones are banned

Drones returning to their cradles/cases after a show

A photo gallery of brain surgery patients playing instruments during surgery

Hurricanes don’t cross the equator

Hurricanes don’t cross the equator

Jimmy Carter’s Hidden Legacy

Extreme Simon Says

Lito Leaf’s artistic leaf cuttings

Bop Spotter

King Thirteen

Weather paintings

Yoda resembles his designer

Yoda resembles his designer

Speed windsurfing

Time Flies

Last Top Model

A British museum docent showing off the collections using Gen Z lingo

Comic Mono

Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

How to get out of quicksand

Low Cost Mini PCs

the42.life

Doing insane bike tricks on a moving train

tapedeck.org

America must free itself from the tyranny of the penny

How to Monetize a Blog

Infinity.ai

Ten Thousand Pixels

Current progress of the guy who’s been taking pictures of himself every day for 22 years

Infinite loop

New AI paint colors

Tip to find the center of a board easily

HDMI kids won’t understand

HDMI kids won’t understand

The code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on GitHub

Black Hole Finder

Is My Blue Your Blue?

ileftmystuff.com

onlyvisitonce.com

Kayaking in a glacier and a waterfall drop in Svalbard, Norway

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

Transforming desert into grassland by digging holes

Anthropic’s AI Prompt Library

An Experiment in Lust, Regret and Kissing

Red Bull Stalen Ros

Air Quality Stripes

Zooming into an iPhone chip

Terry Notary demonstrates how he channels different apes

Using a carpet instead of a wingsuit to BASE jump

A fire bubble

All Perseid meteors at once, seen from Fuji City, Japan

More cool needle felting stop-motion

vote.org

Massive mountainside artwork

Another zoetrope-style whiteboard spin art animation

If YouTube had actual channels

Visualization of the area of a dodecagon being 3(r²)

Levitating silver man trick revealed

The longest foosball table

Learn how to float on your back

Interactive Perseid meteor shower visualization

View from Earth if planets from our Solar System were as close as the Moon

How to properly drink a whisky

More Penn & Teller behind-the-scenes magic tricks

Find out if anyone’s been searching for you on Google Trends

A hammer looks like a person about to swing a baseball bat

A hammer looks like a person about to swing a baseball bat

Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

Kitchen Confidentials

A website that shows you the true size of countries

Timetree of Life

Public Work

The olympic torches over the years

Follow the crypto

Exaggerated moon

Exaggerated moon

Reconstructing 3D space from a single video

What Marty McFly’s guitar playing actually sounded like

A big chart of who lived when

Shooting precision

Pi Clock

Time-lapse of airplane traffic after the 2024 Crowdstrike disaster

Reverse Dictionary

2024 hi-res image of Earth

Code Galaxies

meow.camera

Antipodes map

2024 Solar Eclipse Simulator for Texas

The rise and fall of the most popular video games from 2004 to 2024

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure over time

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure over time

NASA’s Time Spiral

Penn & Teller explain ball and cups tricks

Footage from the 2024 US national jump rope competition

The number of endangered species is rising

The number of endangered species is rising

Calm down — your phone isn’t listening to your conversations. It’s just tracking everything you type, every app you use, every website you visit, and everywhere you go in the physical world.

Acronymy

Logarithmic scale of human experience of space and time in the physical world

Logarithmic scale of human experience of space and time in the physical world

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha

Inside the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro

An exploration of the NFC chips in the disposable paper tickets of the Montreal subway system

Pixel editor for creating your own pixel font

Dude dresses up as different fonts

Outing alt-right bots masquerading as humans by telling them to ignore all previous instructions

NASA depiction of entering a black hole

Himmel über Karlsruhe

One Million Checkboxes

Blue Monday on vintage Casio instruments

FIFA video game moves in real life

ShadeMap

Stereo 3D footage of Jupiter and some of its moons

Greenhouse gas emissions across the food supply chain

Greenhouse gas emissions across the food supply chain

Climate Zones

These guys are not moving at all

“ALL STAR” Smash Mouth (in 10 styles)

Runnin’ with the Devil (Van Halen) – Just the non-words

Guy with no experience flying planes simulates having to do an emergency landing

Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder

Favoree

FreshRemote.Work

Monthly global average temperature by year, 1940-2024

Monthly global average temperature by year, 1940-2024

Graphing a song melody

XScreenSaver’s privacy policy

How to identify that light in the sky

How to identify that light in the sky

What Ukraine has lost during Russia’s invasion

Are you flying Boeing?

Fancy text font generator

A 37-year time-lapse of Earth

Visualization of Rafael Nadal’s matches at the Roland Garros

STAR WARS Original Trailer

JustServe

Finger fingernails

Finger fingernails

If Grey’s Anatomy was written by Gen Z comment section

How Roman emperor Nero powered his rotating dining room

An illustration of how much space we’ve surrendered to cars in cities

An illustration of how much space we’ve surrendered to cars in cities

GetAnyPlants

David Letterman | Are Those Your Drums?

Cones are messed up

netbeep

Conspiracy Theory Rock

Mallakhamb championships

The cost of the US Navy firing different weapons

Matching two Rubik’s cubes from memory

Dude nails it at competitive robot dancing

Knockoff brands in China

If The Smashing Pumpkins wrote ‘When I Come Around’ by Green Day

Adding windshield water droplets on a painting

Zoom into the Horsehead Nebula

Harry Potter translated to Scots

All Sky Moon Shadow

All Sky Moon Shadow

whereto.stream

Wes Anderson’s commercial for Montblanc

Simulation of the ISS flying by at low altitude

Escher defense

Escher defense

Interactive The floor is Lava game

Desktop Cat Cursor

Zooniverse

Interesting video of a crab molting

Falling Into Jupiter

The most common 4-digit PIN numbers

The most common 4-digit PIN numbers

Entire known universe squeezed into a single image (logarithmic scale)

Entire known universe squeezed into a single image (logarithmic scale)

Above the Dust – Burning Man 2022

What does the speed of light look like on earth?

The unfortunate decline of The Simpsons ratings

The unfortunate decline of The Simpsons ratings

Drum line dude with skills and panache

Vexillowlogy

Vexillowlogy

Acrobatic performance of falling off a staircase

1922 Nosferatu upscaled and colorized

Drone footage of a Phish show at the Vegas Sphere

This Coca-Cola can is not red

This Coca-Cola can is not red

Equinox

The Mirage casino’s betting odds on who shot Mr. Burns

The Mirage casino’s betting odds on who shot Mr. Burns

Term Typer

A visualization of the Korean War

Alpha Male Hunter

Weight loss time-lapse

Papyrus 2

The Etak Navigator

Waffle House Training – Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tilt-shift demolition derby

2024 solar eclipse totality by drone

ManualsLib

Skyrim interactions in real life

Our Incredible Journey

Mario meets Pareto

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

How to spot an AI-generated image

South Korean beatboxing champ

XKCD’s Machine

Goths up trees

JustTheRecipe

Quiver Quantitative’s politician search

SIde by side view of the Mona Lisa with the copy made by one of da Vinci’s students

Small scale pen plots

Animated Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Puzzmo crosswords

Echo chess

Infinite Mac – NeXTSTEP

ASCII Theater

Flightradar24’s GPS jamming map

Click the color and not the word

Text-to-speech just getting owned by a huge number

Another stereogram movie

Moving Table Tennis

POV runs at Ice Cross Austria 2024

Lord of The Rings but it’s lofi beats

An assortment of old lighters

How Hollywood uses filters and colors to portray different countries in movies

Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started

YieldFinder

Math Crossword

The Astro App

nobody.live

More dry-erase wheel marker art

Another time-lapse video showing the rotation of the Earth against the Milky Way

If AC/DC wrote ‘Stayin’ Alive’

Where do 8 billion people live?

Where do 8 billion people live?

feedle

Nahbucks

Voleflix

Submarine Cable Map

The motherlode

ambient.garden

2017 solar eclipse super zoomed in and in real time

About Ideas Now

Airfoil

Office Space Gifs

Checkerboard angles

ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer

Electoral College Pong Wars

Funny silent story competition winner

SDXL Lightning

Domino Fit

OK Go – Obsession

Fishmen optical illusion

Fishmen optical illusion

Every Time Zone

Galactic Compass

Endless steps in Chongqing

Gravity is just a habit

What makes the Spinning Rainbow Circles illusion work

Real 3D or Fake 3D

Overwhelming roof animations in a Korean mall

The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds

Eternal Sunset

Infinite monkeys

Spend Billionaire Money 💸 to Save the Planet 🌎 Or Not 💅

OpenStax

Stained glass smash

Name that Nation

Eagle POV flying over the Alps

Relativistic Spaceship

Offshore oil rig evacuation system

Mindsweeper Twist

Infinite Craft

Using iPhone’s panorama mode for creative photography

Plato Education

Old’aVista

What is the bulbous bow for?

NASA’s Webb depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies

How to win the peg game

Chess pieces redesigned to be purely geometric attack directions

The Living New Deal

Reading QR codes without a computer

GLASYS – New World Unlocked

90’s Cursor Effects

Timelooper

Notable people map

Comic Book Plus

whoa.onrender.com

FlagLookup.com

Happy Daze

Colorword

Sit in Shade

Ideal egg boiling calculator

ambiphone

Breaking a ruler with the force of atmospheric pressure

Legal Lullabies

Phone falling drone shot trick huge crowd DJ

Underwater view of an earthquake

Man mimics how English sounds to non-English speakers

Alphabet on the back of a car

Alphabet on the back of a car

1D PAC-MAN

More colorized footage of what the world looked like around 100 years ago in various cities

Crossing the street to avoid someone

Whataaabout

Real-time MRI scan of a person talking

Do you know about Super Mario Bros.’ secret game over continue trick?

Talk Paper Scissors

Criterion Collection’s Room Tone 2023

US Flags [dot] Design

Guy draws complex portraits on his sweatpants

Time-lapse a spaceship’s view when leaving Earth

Tilt-shift farming

Radiation Dose Chart

Honest LinkedIn Notifications

Emoji Kitchen Browser

Dress David Rose

Carol of the Belmonts

Wikipedia’s Ship of Theseus page

UBI experiment results

Lyrical Garfield

Klifur

Voyager Golden Record

Custom-built LEGO ski slope

Footage of what an Octopus looks like when it dreams

The voice actors behind The Simpsons in 1992

how-did-i-get-here.net

LLM Visualization

Visual Anagrams

Tim Henson of Polyphia performing “Playing God” unplugged

Map of Tokyo in 3D

The 88×31 GIF Collection

Moon setting behind a volcano

Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second

A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

Technology Connections Alec tries to get LED Christmas lights to look more like incandescent ones

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers by the satellite Himawari-8

drawfast.tldraw.com

What to do after falling into water with clothes on

DeArrow

Opening a can of mixed nuts in space

A dolphin reacts to Mariah Carey’s whistle note

Perfect pitch puzzle

A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle

Stereo Jupiter near opposition

Stereo Jupiter near opposition

A human white blood cell chasing a bacterium

Hard to know which floor you’re on in Chongqing, China

Washington Post story about the actual impact of the AR-15

Matching up mixed Rubik’s cubes

Rijkscollection

Most climate-resilient cities (2023)

A pendulum robot that can go 37mph and carry up to 220lb

Time-lapse of developing neurons inside a chick embryo

onlinesafari.tv

GUESS THE REAL FLORIDA MAN HEADLINES

RetroFlix

Changes in November Arctic sea ice thickness by decade

Changes in November Arctic sea ice thickness by decade

Light Goes On

The Unix epoch turns 1700000000 on Tuesday, November 11th

Car-opractor

Tips for if you’ve fallen through thin ice

Internet Artifacts

Man uses rocks to move megalithic blocks

NO CGI is really just INVISIBLE CGI

Music sales breakdown over the past 50 years

Music sales breakdown over the past 50 years

Keyboard banana

Tenochtitlan

diskprices.com

Macro views of various writing instruments

Visualisation of pi being irrational

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita

Halloween 2023

Owls making vortices

Metal ball bearing bouncing on metal

Homer Simpson sings Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, with a little help from AI

Another look at the Solar System bodies to scale

A brief history of “We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps”

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

Dieter Rams’s palette

Ventriloquist sings a solo

Doodling over action aerial drone footage

A satellite view of the 2023 North American annular eclipse

320 lasers at an EDM show

Closeup footage of the Las Vegas Sphere pixels

Flappy Dird

A compiled list of the proper use of some idioms

Closeup of a water droplet bouncing on water

Rendered vs actual footage of the Ocean Cleanup project completing its first successful trip

A meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station

store.app

A 360-degree view of the Moon’s surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft

Michael Jackson covers Eat It by Weird Al (with a little help from AI)

High end designers’ logos are getting really boring

High end designers’ logos are getting really boring

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith playing along to a 30 Seconds to Mars song for the first time, and without hearing the drums

Connections by NYT

PDF debugger

Eat or Toss?

blocklayer.com

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