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Marriage described through horse racing

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 1:22 pm

Clever, clever. Also, everytime I see a comedy bit about marriage, I become very happy that I am not married and will not be getting married anytime soon (or ever?).


Category: Animals, Awesome, Comedy, Mashups, Sports	No Comments »

Neuroscience and Free Will

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 6:00 am

How much of your conscious decisions do you actually control? Or is your brain just chemically reacting to environmental stimuli, and all of your “thoughts” and “decisions” are just part of nature’s grand domino effect?

In this clip, Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford) participates in an experiment conducted by John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) that attempts to find the neurological basis for decision making. The results are really quite shocking.


Category: Awesome, Science	3 Comments »

Dramatic Reading of a Break-Up Letter

Posted by Jeff Picarello on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 2:17 am

I’m sorry that I touched your hand for stupid reasons.


Category: Awesome, Unintentional Comedy	No Comments »

Time-lapse of Flight 1549 being exhumed from the Hudson

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 pm

After US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York’s Hudson River last January, and all 155 passengers were rescued. But even more amazingly, they rescued the plane itself….it just took a really, really long time to get such a gigantic hunk of metal out of the river.

Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City from David Martin on Vimeo.


Category: Awesome, News / Politics, SloMo/Timelapse	No Comments »

Play them off, Keyboard DOG! (And Keyboard Gato…)

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 am

It still never gets old.

And as a special bonus, here is KEYBOARD GATO!!!

Play “Keyboard Gato” Off, Keyboard Cat – watch more funny videos


Category: Animals, Awesome, Memes, Parody, Unintentional Comedy	No Comments »

How to build Stonehenge (and move gigantic rocks) with only sticks and stones

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 11:09 pm

“Wally Wallington is not a scientist. But he knows a thing or two about moving rocks.” Watch him stand a 19,000+ lb. stone column up using only stone age technology. Super interesting!


Category: Awesome, How-To/Educational, Stunts	No Comments »

Little Jersey Shore

Posted by Mike Citera on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 1:41 am

5 year olds re-enact Jersey Shore. Guid-arity ensues.


Category: Awesome, Comedy, Covers, Creepy, Culture / World, Cute, Mashups, Parody, Skills, WTF	No Comments »

People In Order

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 3:52 pm

In 2006, the UK’s Channel 4 commissioned a series of four films named People In Order. These films are a remarkable look at the subdivisions in British society, and are a must-see!

1. Age

People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo.

2. Birth

People In Order: 2. Birth from James Price on Vimeo.

3. Love

People In Order: 3. Love from James Price on Vimeo.

4. Home

People In Order: 4. Home from James Price on Vimeo.


Category: Art, Awesome, Culture / World	No Comments »

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 2:54 am

“In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.”

This is truly amazing. I never realized before how human David Blaine is — he has real dreams, feelings and anxieties. I always thought he was just some sort of weird savant with incredible focus.