If there’s one thing funnier than somebody falling over unexpectedly it’s something suddenly breaking unexpectedly. And so it goes in this compilation that features everything from misused golf clubs to cars to TVs breaking. Sometimes it’s just funny other times it looks highly dangerous, all the times the people doing the breaking no doubt experience [...]

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are subjects that will be of huge importance over the next 20 or 30 years, as intelligent computer systems and automation takes over more and more aspects of our lives. In this video from Computerphile AI geek Rob Miles looks at why AI won’t want you meddling with it and [...]

YouTube channel Veritasium looks at the illusory nature of truth, specifically about something called cognitive ease, which is the idea that we tend to prefer concepts that are both familiar to us and simple to understand. He also looks at how repetition plays a part in our understanding of what we believe to be [...]

Back in July 1999 Billy Mitchell did the seemingly impossible, he beat Pac-Man by getting the perfect score of 3,333,360 points. It meant he had to complete 256 levels of the game and play for over 5 hours straight without dying once. It also meant he “broke” the game, because when you hit level 255 [...]

Ouch. Owwww-ch! That’s going to be your main thought as you watch this video, wincing your way through other people’s pain. Pain that comes in a variety of forms and at numerous levels on the ouch scale. There’s a base level of general agony being experienced, sure, but of it some looks way more horrible [...]

The internet is known for a few things, cats, porn, and people getting easily offended—by, say, cat porn. In this spot-on sketch by comedian John Crist a fantastic new app called Get Offended will revolutionize the way you get offended online by making it easier than ever to be outraged by some random person on [...]

The final shot in a movie can leave a lasting impression on the viewer, staying with them long after the movie ends, and sometimes if it’s really clever it can flip the movie on its head and completely undermine everything you’ve seen before (see Michael Haneke’s Caché for one of the greatest examples of that [...]

People often tell pessimists to lighten up or look on the bright side, but here British philosopher Alain de Botton details why being a pessimist isn’t always bad. Teaming up with director Claudio Salas and around 30 different animators they’ve made a 2-minute visual essay for de Botton’s School of Life project.

If there’s one thing people can expect from adult movies, aside from the obvious of course, is that bad acting is standard. It’s almost like it’s a must, if there was some proper or decent acting in an adult movie, it would probably mean it couldn’t be classified as an adult movie—some unwritten law of [...]

The Yaskawa Bushido Project sees iaijutsu master swordsman and Guinness World Record holder Isao Machii face off against a robotic arm in an epic contest of technique and endurance. Motion capture is used to teach the machine Machii’s cutting techniques and then a series of swordsmanship tests are undertaken. You can see the results in [...]

You’re never too old to enjoy playing video games, that’s definitely the case here with 80-year-old Shirley Curry who flies in the face of convention and stereotypes. She has become one of the oldest avid Skyrim players in the world and says the reason she plays video games is because it keeps her mind active, [...]