Thanksgiving means turkey. Thanksgiving means football. Thanksgiving also means a helluva lot of people taking a helluva lot of flights to get home the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to Flightradar24.com, this image shows how many planes that are in the air right now. It’s insane. Safe travels, everybody. [Flight Radar 24 via @BuzzFeedAndrew] More »
What are the brave astronauts aboard the International Space Station thankful for this year? Round the clock support from their international flight control team on Earth. Adorbs! More »
Tomorrow, you could spend six hours cooking a stuffed 18-pound turkey for a bunch of ungrateful family members. Ugh but so much waiting—not to mention the tedious preparation. Instead, spend considerably less time on following the step-by-step instructions for this 102-piece Lego build just posted by international man of bricks Chris McVeigh. Just, you know, keep the Lego feast away from young children who might confuse it for real food. [Powerpig] More »
Are you tired of getting drunk on wine during dinner and then spending the rest of the evening trying to keep your balance and not spilling your libations everywhere? Well there’s now a simple solution to that problem that doesn’t require 12 time-consuming steps. More »
Wicked Lasers’ $200 torch beams out 4100 lumens of blinding light. That’s very intense light! From the video above, it would appear six of the flashlights can cook a whole turkey in about 2.5 hours. Considering a turkey takes 20-minutes a pound in the oven, that’s incredible! In fact, it’s actually kind of unbelievable, so we reached out to the laser people to double check that this is correct. More »
There’s no better topping for a green bean casserole than crispy fried onions. But when you’re serving up a matherole, you need something more cerebral as a garnish. And Vihart has just the thing with a recipe for borromean onion rings. More »
Sadly, Thanksgiving comes but once a year. Which means all that amazing food you’re about to encounter is but a fleeting experience. You want to get the most out of it, but you can only eat so much, right? More »
The most important part of your Thanksgiving meal is the bird. It’s the centerpiece of every Turkey-day related piece of pop culture from Norman Rockwell illustrations to Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. But just because it’s traditional, doesn’t mean the way you prepare it has to be. More »
Most of you will use ovens to cook your turkeys tomorrow. But most of you are not NASA. We asked their engineers and science writers how they would cook a turkey to perfection using their high tech gear instead of traditional methods. Then we asked Josh McKible to illustrate their recipes. More »
Have you ever really stopped and wondered—like on a scientific level—why excessive alcohol consumption can turn someone into the life of a party? Or a blubbering mess? More »
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