If you’re super squeamish about blood this might be a teeny bit uncomfortable, but I found it absolutely fascinating. City of Hope shows each step a unit of donated blood takes on its journey from a donor’s arm to a patient in need. It’s a peek into the circulatory system that helps your hospital save lives every day.
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Blending live footage of a snow-enshrouded NYC with CGI animation over a frenetic soundtrack by Pilotpriest, The Dream by filmmaker Christian Haberkern tears through a frantic, nonsecquitor vision of subconscious distress. But what does it mean?
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It’s Friday, and if there’s even an ounce of joy in your heart, drop everything and watch this delightful clip of Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel nailing a four-part harmony rendition of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," with an assist from an iPad app.
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Bitcoin! It’s wild! It’s crazy! It’s all the rage! But what if instead of bubbling up to the surface and making waves here in the twenty-teens it had gotten popular way back in the 90s? Well, it would have looked a little something like this.
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The wonderful thing about internet communities is that it’s very hard to artificially build them, but they arise organically in the strangest ways. And sometimes The Teens, those rapscallions, find the strangest places to commune online.
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There’s a common misconception that Thor’s hammer was forged from a dying star. It wasn’t! It was forged inside of one, ya dummy. But just for fun, what would happen if Thor’s hammer actually had been forged from a neutron star’s demise?
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Whether it’s Richie Tennenbaum’s face or the Fantastic Mr. Fox’s tree home, Wes Anderson is obsessed with symmetry. Don’t believe it? Just watch this supercut. That’s some very, very impressive attention to detail. [FastCo]
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Although the Veronica Mars movie hit an unanticipated speed bump today, we’re still thrilled that it got made. We’re betting the Kickstarter backers who got speaking roles in the movie are even more excited. See if you can spot them in this clip!
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Put your face close to your screen and hit play. This short video, uploaded by YouTuber Shaun O’Callaghan, was shot from a DJI Phantom quad-copter as Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu erupted.
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If you’ve stuck a toe in the online dating pool, you’ve probably come across some total hottie and thought "oh great, that lucky so-and-so is gonna steal away all the attention from my profile." Not so, says science—in fact, it’s the controversial-looking people, not the smokin’ specimens, who get the most attention. Here’s Head Squeeze‘s Hannah Fry to explain.
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