Royal baby Prince George, son of Kate and Wills, was born third in line to the British throne. But he's not even a year old, and some Canadian wizard is already about to screw it all up for him.
The best thing about this New York Times article on David Blaine's latest stunt is not the news that he's inviting the public to electrocute him over and over for a period of 72 hours, but how much effort everyone is going to to make it sound like this is something bold and daring.
Young people: will they ever stop evincing their painful ignorance of life's fundamentally tragic nature? Everybody old enough to pay taxes and be killed in a foreign war should understand that what we call "life" is nothing but an endless treadmill of mind-numbing and unfulfilling work followed shortly thereafter by…
Downloading something? Some progress bars appear to move quicker than others. How are our minds fooled into thinking so? It's the movement within the bars.
At first it looks like the checkered cube is floating but once you find out the trick, the checkered cube can never fool you again. You can feel better about your IQ now. Your brain is smarter than you think!
What do you do with all of those old cassette tapes you have laying around? For this guy, you rip out the ribbon, arrange it on a floor, and—with some cool camera trickery—turn it into a boombox. Woah.
As the man behind the camera moves around this room, the symbols made with candles seem to change shape. These kind of illusions are called anamorphic illusions and require the viewer to change vantage point.
A pencil is pushed between two independently moving nuts. Or is it? Is that even a pencil? Are those nuts independently moving? Are they even nuts? Is this even happening? DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND!?!?
Happy news for fellas who just like to lay back with a cold one and soak up the rays: Stoner romantic comedy actor Matthew McConaughey is launching his own clothing line, called j.k. livin [Us]. The "j.k." stands for "just keep," and the "livin" stands for the recognition that stressing out over things like grammar…
