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Swiss Mountain Coaster POV in 4K

Human record player for Weezer’s latest album

mcbroken

The History of Adults Blaming The Younger Generation

A clock where the time is in a song title

CT scans of coffee-making equipment

A galaxy collision simualtion compared, at different stages, to different galaxy collision images from Hubble

Cloth simulation in the browser

Nostril singing

iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

Rick Astley and the Foo Fighters perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the style of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Poop Fiction

IT – Tools

The very few places on land on earth that have antipodes

The very few places on land on earth that have antipodes

They’re Made out of Meat

A water simulation on your phone

How a road changed over thousands of years

The U.S. split into seven roughly equal regions by GDP (2022)

The U.S. split into seven roughly equal regions by GDP (2022)

A photo of the moon in front of the Earth

A photo of the moon in front of the Earth

Chat systems

Al Franken’s SUPPLY SIDE JESUS… animated

Hood Maps

How Disney changed Lilo & Stitch after 9/11

Pastmaps

Kindness as a signifier of intelligence

ffmpeg.app

Mapping internet fibre optic cables at the bottom of the world’s oceans

Yankee Stadium drone fly-through

Thriller without the music

noclip.website

How to cut a pepper with no seeds and no waste

nevertwenty.live

Ancient method of making ink

Cat accidentally scores a suspenseful movie scene

Things you do growing up

Tatooine Solar Graph Watch Face. ⌚

Tatooine Solar Graph Watch Face. ⌚

Artist makes cutouts and overlays them on the real world

Human evolution from protocells to people

Land use in the United States

Land use in the United States

How a cricket ball is made

A trippy video constructed from still photographs

Cooking for hundreds

The K-Pg boundary

The K-Pg boundary

I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)

YEAH! YOU WANT “THOSE GAMES,” RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM

A demonstration of the density of mercury vs. water

Whiteboard spin art

The world’s highest swing

The four horsemen of passing back items

The four horsemen of passing back items

Time-lapse of a bird building a nest in a birdhouse

Forgotify

Star Wars Death Star trench run with a drone

A map of the United States scaled by population

A map of the United States scaled by population

Glass water slide in China

Another polymer clay figurine sculpting

Degrees What?

How the first stars split the Universe apart

Plasma tornadoes on the sun bigger than the Earth

the Free Movie

Happy trooper

Happy trooper

carsized.com

Coca-Cola beach seller remix

Chicxulub crater in Google search results

The Password Game

Motorcycle hand signals

Motorcycle hand signals

Leaving the solar system at the speed of light

A negative Yelp review reading

Visualized: The World’s Population at 8 Billion

Mofi

How many grooves can you get from a water drop?

Playing Pong on a rock wall with augmented climbing

The fraught journey to reach the Titanic

Guy parkours all around his house

A day in the life of a woke third-grade teacher, as imagined by a far-right politician

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

Inside the AI factory

Strong Bad reads AI-generated emails

Psychadelic color mixing a photo

Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze

Mobile Phone Museum

The art of being shot to death

goblin.tools

Mashup of Lizzo and Linkin Park

AI versus corporate logos

Eagle catches fish and eats it mid-flight

Overhead view of a volcanic eruption

The effects of pressure on a water bottle

Audi’s Digital Matrix LED system

Taconomical

The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino

Philosophy Bro

wiby.org

A website with just a pink cube that watches for a cursor

Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist

Boring report

Slide to Unlock

Chinese solar farm looks like a mountain covered in a blanket

Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms

Backlit artwork

Geological evolution of Colorado in the last 540 million years

I defragged my zebra

I defragged my zebra

Tiny watercolor reveal paintings

Clicking and dragging images using AI

The process of making a train wheel

OCEARCH Shark Tracker

Will robots take my job?

African languages’ click sounds explained

Ski parachuting

Thermal imaging of different colored t-shirts

Thermal imaging of different colored t-shirts

SING A NOTE

Body painting camouflage in different scenes

Scale of the Universe

A smooth freerunning routine

Can we stop dueting videos?

Digital koi pond

Why replanted forrests don’t create the same ecosystem as old-growth, natural forrests

The Roddenberry Archive

Escape Speed

Hold on, ladies!

How photographs were transmitted by wire in the 1930s

Chirper

The Nostalgia Machine

Star Wars by Wes Anderson Fan Trailer: The Galactic Menagerie

Space Elevator

An elevator in the One World Trade Center that shows the evolution of New York City

Another museum of endangered sounds

a view from my seat

Dude makes a bike with square wheels

Website that mixes air traffic control with lofi hip hop

“We Are America” by John Cena

Overhead view of changing the lap lanes in an olympic-sized swimming pool

What dinner will look like in the next 100 years, according to scientists

Pen plotter programmed to sync with Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”

Cool stop-motion city video

ShieldsUP

Montana and Idaho

Montana and Idaho

Killing In The Name performed by the North Korean Military Chorus

Drones make Super Mario Bros. animations

Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart

Massive port traffic in Amsterdam during an event

Have you had the “AI talk” with your kids?

Trumpeter makes waveforms on a standing wave flame tube

Animated drawings

Time it takes using AI to crack your password

Time it takes using AI to crack your password

The real-world costs of the digital race for Bitcoin

The difference between preserves, jam, butter, and jelly

The difference between preserves, jam, butter, and jelly

A spirograph time-lapse

Bicycle

The world’s first 9 flips on a trampoline

swanh.net

Star Wars Asciimation

Stabilised footage of the Patterson Bigfoot film from 1967

Experiment with sulfur hexaflouride

Futurama characters as 80s dark fantasy film characters

Harry Potter by Balenciaga

A physical Winamp

A physical Winamp

The age of average

eyecandyy.com

The days are long, but the years are short

The days are long, but the years are short

Japanese “Toy Story” shadow boxes exhibit brings the characters to life when no one is looking

2001: A Space Odyssey directed by George Lucas

Guy gets upset when discovering lifehacks

Wives staged a prank on their husbands and bought all the same sweaters

Eerie sounds from the Paiste 80″ symphonic gong

Have I Been Trained?

Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler

Sea Level Rise Viewer

Whichipedia

British coins make a shield when put together

British coins make a shield when put together

Uncyclopedia

The James Webb Space Telescope explained in 9 minutes

Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom

The Preciousness of Time: A Stephen Hawking Tribute

Some needle-felted wool animations by Andrea Love

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Making designs on dirty pennies with a laser

Song made entirely of yeahs and nos from various artists

Guy uses GPT4 to create a fully-working iOS app

Short autobiography of Max Weinberg’s son Jay

Stereoscopic 3D video

Some abstract line drawings

rotatingsandwiches.com

The James Webb space telescope captured the same galaxy three times because of the warping of spacetime

Sunflower closeup

Sunflower closeup

Women’s fashion 1910s-2010

Browser-based AI music editor

The Cube Rule of food identification

slideventura.com

robotsdraw

HDMI kids won’t understand

HDMI kids won’t understand

I tried using AI. It scared me.

Demo video for the sliderland website, made with 64 HTML sliders

Guy makes and iterates on houses for a frog

Population projections

Population projections

thisimagedoesnotexist.com

🍔 How much does your nearest Big Mac cost?

AI-generated Seinfeld that runs 24/7

Periodic Table of Elements website

Blurry vision tattoo

Blurry vision tattoo

Different bullets firing

Some foley sounds

A library of obsolete sounds

Logo manufacturing

An insane free-solo of a bridge

Real-time planetarium in your browser

esplora.io

atlaspolitica.com

Pendulum wave demonstration

Shanghai in super high resolution

Modeling a figure in plasticine clay

The scale of Africa

The scale of Africa

Infinite LEGO domino ring

White vs. Black

White vs. Black

Customer States Vehicle Sounds Like An Elephant

Ska version of the Tetris theme

Time-lapse images of Mount St. Helens dome growth 2004-2008

Guy slightly changes his friend’s Facebook pictures

Unexpected interactions in this weird video

Duplicate Word Finder

Hamster escapes the Super Mario maze

Making an emergency landing after a catastrophic airplane engine failure

The Calculator Drawer

Making movie characters look directly at camera

Using 3 colors to make a rainbow

A custom-made mechanical Bugatti watch

2022 was ruthless

Safety device for when your tower is on fire

AI-generated video showing the evolution of visual expression

Dude’s impressive makeup skills

chronophoto

Where your elements came from

iPod.js

Babe in the woods

Babe in the woods

Wobble clock

Four Thousand Weeks

Number of deaths in the WW2 per country

Drawing the Sierpinski Triangle

Perspective trick with paper and pen

hyper-resolution.org

Riffusion

Launch an asteroid at a location and see how much damage you can do

Hollywod age gap

celeryman.alexmeub.com

A sweet jam

All the balls are the same color

All the balls are the same color

Website that grades how well you can draw a circle

Baby bird being confused when food doesn’t go into its mouths

Pearl Jam’s Even Flow (Smooth Jazz Version)

What Pearl Jam sounds like to people who don’t like Pearl Jam

A round of rock, paper, scissors

Some laundry art

Some laundry art

Guy trains an AI to write a script based on 1,000 hours of Hallmark movie watching

Joe Rogan AI interviews Steve Jobs AI

2022 – Visualization of search interest over time

2022 – Visualization of search interest over time

cloudhiker.net

A gallery of 90s hip-hop photos where they were taken

Urinal protocol vulnerability

playphrase.me

Circuit simulator

Songtell

Christmas train

everyonedraw.com

Recursive Game of Life

No hello

Nuclear scientist Marv Adams explains what happened in the successful fusion experiment

macos9.app

Time-lapse of every nuclear bomb test performed between 1945 and 1998

AI creates a bad photo

Zoom into the Southern Ring Nebula captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope

Another song made from a cat’s meow

If cats sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger

The most visited website in every country (that isn’t a search engine)

Natural sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy

90s TV simulator

Reloading random objects like in first-person shooters

Mesmerizing balls create abstract sounds

The making of the Around The World video by Daft Punk

Guy plays hip hop and rap songs with interesting instruments

Tallest buildings by country

Building a LEGO-powered submarine

An entire universe built in Minecraft

Playing jazz chords on the guitar

Playing jazz chords on the guitar

Doodling an entire house

Visualizing all of the world’s water on a globe

Streams

thismoviedoesnotexist.org

DogBunny puzzle

Tilts and spins of the planets of the solar system

Some sounds you probably haven’t heard in a while

Microsoft Windows 1995 launch party

palette.fm

Christmas decorations with invisible orbeez

First Follower

NASA’s robot Juno passing by Jupiter

How far Lake Mead’s water have levels gone down in 20 years

Switching pendulums

plink.in

Fill your screen with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

Guy demonstrates some pretty sweet jump rope tricks

Risk Factor

Acquaintances

Acquaintances

Harrison Ford really wants to know about his family

Interactive Tree of Life

5G vs 4G vs 3G vs E

Tesla coils play the Super Mario Bros. theme

Four guys play Billie Jean on a single acoustic guitar

Hole in the earth leads to massive 220 foot drop

Nuclear War Simulation – NATO vs Russia

Coverage take for the Eat It video by Weird Al

Bookstore promotes banned books

Bookstore promotes banned books

The scale of the James Webb deep field image

Thunderstruck by AC/DC on a guzheng

Running down the Red Rocks steps backwards

Go inside the Great Pyramid of Giza

Halloween 2022

Halloween 2022

A bunch of real-life 3D optical illusions

The Tooth Fairy Index

ROOMBO

Balls passing each other in perfect harmony

A gallery of workers in truck beds on their way to job sites

Sound

Gangam Style ft. Newton’s Pendulum

Wine expert opens and drinks a 159-year-old bottle of port

Drone flythrough of a Tesla factory

Getting shot out of a centrifuge at 1,000 MPH

Dirty dancing to the Muppets theme song

Painting a landscape with maths

Purrli

Find the curved line

Find the curved line

VHS footage of a night club in the 80s

Marbles are born on a marble run

The Javelin shot selfie

Guy creates 3D renders of old game show sets

Recreating the Netflix intro using $30 worth of yarn

Spotern

COVER YOUR TRACKS

Comic Helvetic

thiscitydoesnotexist.com

Fat Bear Week

More AI painting prompts

OnceUponAITime.com

DART: Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

San Francisco 1906 AI-enhanced in color with sound design added

Sonic the Hedgehog – first-person view

Guy builds a laser-guided knife-throwing machine

Is it huggable?

Hurricane Ian – what a 15-foot storm surge looks like

Clapping synchronization

Nightdrive

The imperial system used by the U.S. is clearly superior

The imperial system used by the U.S. is clearly superior

Pretty Woman starring Willem Dafoe

4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything

A 145 megapixel image of the sun

Some perpetual gifs

Every non-word in Smooth Criminal

Snowflake cogs

A drone tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Airforce

Playing a trombone in an empty swimming pool

Different ways people walk

Can someone Photoshop the Eiffel tower under my finger?

Real Time: Sweeper’s Clock

This insane show of skill operating an RC drone

365 days mushroom growth time-lapse

r/Place 2022 time-lapse

Jerobeam Fenderson – Planets

Taking a bunch of balloons filled with paint to the face

Comparing the force of gravity on different planets using a car and a pallet of wood

Guy repeatedly zooms out of frame

Ryan Williams’s insane BMX trick

Design the next iPhone

Moon Phases 2022 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K

Guy live-draws midi art

Avengers Endgame visual effects

Fictional land vehicles | 3d real scale

The biggest climate bill of your life – but what does it DO!?

Experience of nukes in real life by atomic veterans

Hypothetical Survival Situation: The Jurassic

600 songs from 1990-1999 remixed into 34 minutes

When your audience are competent musicians

Space debris: 1957 – 2015

Useless machine

Star Trek: I’m a doctor, not a…

Performance of the shadows

A 9-flavor sandwich

Tested: where does the tone come from in an electric guitar?

A 6-minute marble run

Holiday party sign

Fiat Lux – Light Painting Stop Motion Animation

Pantomiming to a dude’s snoring

White Boy drops unbelievable freestyle rap

Craiyon

How to fold a fitted sheet

Earthrise in 4K

Down With The Sickness – Doo-Wop Edition

Seabreacher – The Jet Powered Dolphin

City generator

Biblically-accurate angels

Jurassic Park but with a cat

Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop

STRAIGHT 2 SPAM

Listening to the raw tracks from Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean

Birth of a neuron

Street Fighter 2 (acapella)

Midwest Voice Translator

Zelda map made of 25,000 LEGO bricks

Dialing Up

How to draw a happy tree

How to draw snow hearts with a truck

DON’T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE

I have nothing to hide

Fake hazard signs

Blocked Chain

How are LEGO minifigures made?

Peace for Triple Piano

MIDI states

Spice Girls in Dune

A musical history of metal

The Seinfeld theme mixed with a hit song from every year Seinfeld was on tv

Listening to the raw tracks of Staying Alive by The Bee Gees

Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond, but it’s in a minor key

NASA’s Perseverance rover sees solar eclipse on Mars

Floppy Diskette

Tour of the Moon in 4K

Supercut of Jeff Goldblum making weird noises

Windows 95 startup sound on accordion

Demonstration of longsword attacks

Virtual Ancient Rome in 3D

Removing everything from a leaf except the cellulose

Absurd Trolley Problems

My Heart Will Go On (but it’s Smash Mouth’s All Star)

Tiny Skyrim | Tilt Shift

Person uses an AI to generate a painting, then zooms out to see what the AI fills in

How Tucker Carlson Tonight fuels extremism and fear

Detailed tour through the Space Shuttle Orbiter

A perfect standing wave in water

There are 16 circles in this image

There are 16 circles in this image

Excellent sleight of hand with a camera angle allowing us to see what the magician is doing for once

George Harrison – When We Was Fab

A two-wheeled bicycle

Super Planet Crash

Computer vision to solve a Rubik’s cube

How to tie a scarf

Light pollution map

Jeff Goldblum reviews impressions of himself

Let’s Settle This.

Tallest statue size comparison

Waterfall road in Nepal.

Inca whistle jar doing animal sounds

FlagWaver

Bugatti Chiron on the Autobahn going 259 MPH

TANK

A Day in Pompeii

That’s right, it goes to the square hole

Recreating animal sounds on a violin

Brainstorm or Green Needle

Video game monsters size comparison

Singing “Tequila” for karaoke

Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly

Relative rotation rates of the planets cast to a single sphere

Pitch-corrected Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” in the Super Mario Bros. theme

How far can we throw a ball on other worlds?

5 minutes of McDonald’s lunch rush

The enchanting kiss of physics

First-person view of jumping off a ski jump with no snow

How the Matrix’s famous Agent Smith clone fight scene was done

Shipwrecks depth comparison

Watching the Golden Gate Road zipper

A flip book carved into the 3rd dimension

Stop-motion milk crate

Pop-up memes

Two stationary rings

Kitten to cat time-lapse

The Rubber Hand Illusion to deceive the brain

Daily life of introverts in business

Daily life of introverts in business

The Bernie Sanders Experience featuring Elon Musk

Wedding guests perform a moving haka dance

Underwater encounter scene done in epoxy

This guy’s rendition of the Mario theme using two kashakas

70 people reveal how to count money in their country

What a conductor actually does on stage

Fastest drone goes from 0 to 200 kmh in 1 second

How to create a custom ambigram

Fighter jet 360º cockpit view

World’s longest drone fpv one shot

Bass player does a solo with a single string

Coffee expert guesses cheap vs. expensive coffee

Iconic rock & metal songs with interesting instruments

Evolution of Game Music (1980 – 2018)

Hillbilly Knight Rider theme

Two perfect circles

Two perfect circles

Mechanical Watch

Jamiroquai’s Virtual Insanity in virtual reality

Neil deGrasse Tyson going Super Saiyan on Cosmos

Solar-powered website

How to professionally say

A Full Day In The Life by Peter Serafinowicz

Apollo 11’s journey to the moon, annotated

Yankee Candle’s Stages of Abstraction

Downhill in Darkness

The most intense recorder playing you’ll ever hope to see

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