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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Amazing Male Group Gymnastics Routine This is not gymnastics as you’re used to seeing it. I wish this was in the Olympics. Link |
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| Tornado inside a soap bubble A soap bubble wizard creates a mini-tornado vortex inside a giant soap bubble. Link |
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| The pop-up book of phobias This is an amazing pop-up book with scary images that may enhance the phobias they describe. Link |
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| What if Earth Had Rings like Saturn? Through computer simulation and CGI we get to see what it would like from Earth, if we had rings around our planet like Saturn. Link |
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| Box Beard With Functioning Beard Door Finally, this has to be seen to be believed (or not). It’s the winner of a free-style beard contest. Real? You make the call. Link |
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| Painfully Honest and Epic Mobile Home Commercial
Come on down and buy yourself a home. Or don’t. I don’t care. |
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| Keanu Reeves is Immortal
Is Keanu Reeves an immortal? In the words of the great one: Whoa. |
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| Neil DeGrasse Tyson On The Day He Met Carl Sagan
The now famous astrophysicist DeGrasse tells a story about meeting Carl Sagan as a high school student. |
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| Old School Oldsmobile Car Jump
Like a scene from a Starsky and Hutch episode- this big 80s sedan goes for a long jump. |
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| Are you Afraid of Bats?
Much beloved by Neatorama, Remi Gaillard is a bat this time- scaring unsuspecting people and making us laugh. Happy Halloween to Neatorama from VideoSift. |
VideoSift Clips of the Week

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World’s Largest Firework
Though perhaps a contentious claim, this is reputedly the world’s largest single firework. |
| Apocalyptic looking cloud formation in Moscow
From the comments, we learn that these are called “failstreak holes” and do not actually portend the end of the world. |
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| Sculpting Demo by Philippe Faraut
Faraut is an amazing sculptor who has been featured on Neatorama before. This time he shows us how he does it. He makes it look so easy- but I know it’s not. |
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| Yellow Cake
The latest animated epic by Ottawa animator Nick Cross. In production since 2006, Yellow Cake is the follow-up to Nick’s The Waif of Persephone. Quick warning that it may be a bit dark but the animation is superb. |
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| Pushbutton Balcony
Have a window? Push a button, now you have a balcony– if you live in Holland, France, Spain, or Portugal. |
VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| The Largest Black Holes in the universe
This looks great full-screened and in HD. The biggest black holes come in at 18 million solar masses. That’s kind of big. |
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| Cats have epic 3-way steak battle
Watch the little cat in the middle, he seems to have the right idea. |
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| $400k CSI Opening Sequence – Season 10
An amazing visual way to tell a story. “Bullet time” features heavily. |
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| Electric Bike is Oddly Classy and Compelling
I love the way he just puts in his backpack and goes inside. |
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| Amazingly Lifelike Full-scale Robotic Dinosaurs
For the first 20 seconds of the video- I was a bit confused, as I couldn’t figure out how this could not be CGI. |
VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Daily Telegraph Writer Seriously Roughed-up by a Lion
The lion was just playing – or maybe just tasting – but I don’t think it was the lion encounter this journalist was expecting. |
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| Child’s First Roller Coaster Ride
The range of emotion displayed on this kid’s face as he experiences his first roller coaster is impressive. As mentioned in the comments, he releases his fear when he sees that his dad is enjoying himself. |
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| Would I lie to you? Cloud Removing
Did Paul McCartney really arrange to have clouds removed from a concert so he could play “Good Day Sunshine”? Find out in this clip from the funny UK panel show, “Would I Lie to You?” |
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| American Ace takes on multiple Luftwaffe ME 262s (jets)
A great reenactment with beautiful CGI depicting a lone US fighter pilot in his P-51 Mustang taking on many, many Luftwaffe planes in WWII. |
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| High voltage capacitor bank versus Watermelon
You know it’s not going to end well for the poor melon. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Golden Retriever Takes on White Tiger Cubs
Isabella, a golden retriever and recently a first time mom, adopted these three white tiger cubs after they were rejected by their mother at the Safari Zoological Park in Caney, Ks. |
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| Interview with Cyberstalking Suspect goes Pretty Well
All hell breaks loose when a local reporter enters a costume shop to interview its eccentric owner who is up on cyberstalking charges. I think she got the better of the exchange … |
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| Mitchell and Webb: Casino Carnivale
Another hilarious short clip this week from the fantastic British skit comedy show, Mitchell and Webb. |
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| 900RR Go Kart
These guys put the powerful engine of a Honda CBR 900RR motorcycle into a go-cart, to make a rip-roaring real-live Mario Kart. The drifting and acceleration are quite impressive. |
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| Autotune the Cats!
Some of the greatest cat meowing clips, melded together into an auto-tuned masterpiece of music – enjoy! |
VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Amazing one-man Looping Song by an Indie Musician
The description of this video says he made it all in one take- and it really makes a great song in the end. Give it a minute for the looping to kick in. |
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| The Big Bang explained in Two Minutes
Here’s a really nice concise explanation on how the big bang worked – has nice accompanying CGI that helps in the explanation. |
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| The Sophisticated Hunting Methods of Wild Owls
Amazing, specialized hunting machines – that poor lemming never had a chance. |
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| Pit Bull Viciously Attacks News Anchor With Love and Slobber
News anchor Randene Neill is repeatedly and savagely licked, almost to death, by a pit bull named Ginger. So much for the pit bull’s nasty reputation. |
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| Monkeys in a swimming pool
They’re actually great little swimmers, and they stay underwater too. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Great Video Explaining How A Vehicle’s Differential Works
It’s an old documentary- and it explains how it works so well with models and simple examples. I’m left feeling that how-to videos were somehow better before the advent of CGI. |
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| Ultra High Speed Robot Reflexes
There’s really something kind of spooky about watching a robot doing something that a human would do, like bounce a ball, only 100 times faster. Brace yourself for the singularity. |
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| Colliding smoke rings produce multiple mini-vortices
Only 11 seconds long- still shows some very neat vortices. |
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| Extreme Vortex Cannon
And while we are on the topic of vortices, check out the Extreme Vortex Canon. Do you think it’s possible to knock over a brick “house” with a vapor ring? Find out. |
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| Shooting Clay Pigeons… with a Bow
Here’s a neat video of a guy who shoots traps with a bow and arrow- deadly accurate and a lot less noise than a gun. If you like accurate shooting, then you should also check out the incredible “Sling Shot Man” |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Mitchell and Webb Take on Gordon Ramsay
This is a hilarious skit that sends up the foul-mouthed kitchen coach. (language NSFW) |
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| How DNA Copies Itself
From the PBS program “DNA The Secret of Life”. |
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| Richard Dawkins: Why are there still chimpanzees?
Richard Dawkins clears up the misunderstanding of Evolution that is all too common: If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees? |
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| Uncanny Drew Carey Look-Alike on The Price is Right
He is the spittin’ image of Drew- but then so is every high school woodshop teacher in the US. |
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| Cutting Edge Prosthetic Arms
Motorized prosthetic arms are now being matched to nerve endings beneath the skin – it seems we’re just a few steps away from Luke Skywalker’s robo-hand. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Hand vs. Liquid Nitrogen and the Leidenfrost Effect
“I stick my hand (momentarily) directly into liquid nitrogen but don’t suffer any injuries due to the Leidenfrost effect. The Leidenfrost effect is the formation of a gas barrier between a hot surface and a boiling liquid if the temperature difference is great enough.” |
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| Starwars, solo.
A woman plays all parts of the original Star Wars score at once with a sine Electone organ. |
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| QI – What’s The Commonest Metal In The Human Body?
Do you know? The contest on the always hilarious QI does – and lots more about the elements too. |
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| What exactly IS Schrödinger’s Cat?
You’ve probably heard of the famous thought experiment – but this is a very nice explanation on how it actually works. |
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| Guy Installs Horn from a Navy Destroyer on his car!
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Train vs. Tornado
Hundreds of tons of steel vs. one of nature’s fiercest phenomenons. Once the rain starts coming down, there’s no turning back. Action begins just short of thef 1 minute mark |
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| 1 Million Pounds of Force Exerted on Concrete Pylon
This is a pretty amazing load causing machine – and the pylon holds up pretty well … to a point. |
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| 2012: It’s a Disaster!!!
The trailer for the most disasterific film of all time. I would like this movie so much better than the one it’s parodying I think. |
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| Homeopathic A&E – Mitchell & Webb
This funny clip is going to hit some people where it hurts – but whether you believe in homeopathy or not – you can’t deny the humor. |
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One Man Band Cover of Boston’s ‘Long Time’
You probably have to be a Boston fan for this one- but it really is an amazing cover performance of a great song – and the singing is fantastic. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| How a Train Stays on a Track (not as simple as you thought)
Physicist Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the tracks… From BBC TV ‘Fun to Imagine’ (1983) |
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| The Amazing Camouflage of the Pootoo Bird
David Attenborough looks at how a potoo hides itself effectively when it senses danger. |
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| Sand Drawing Taken to a Level Way Beyond Next
While Western audiences might not fully grasp the ‘1945′ context that she manages to encapsulate in this mind-blowing performance, rest assured the tears in the Ukrainian audience members’ eyes and the standing ovation were there for a reason. |
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| Kite Fail
A man goes outside to fly a kite. Failure is imminent. |
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| Top Gear: Bugatti Veyron vs. McLaren F1
The two fastest supercars ever created square off in a rip-roaring drag race to over 300 kmh. Which will reign supreme? |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Gender-Targeted Advertising
It’s a point well made about gender inequality in advertising. This is a short clip from the very funny UK show That Mitchell and Webb Look. |
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| The amazing truck winch trick
This is a driver who knows something about winches and trucks. |
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| Horrible and Yet Wonderful Local Commercial
Seems like a parody, but we don’t think it is. I think I understand the complex “low price” metaphor though. |
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| Kitteh vs Helicopter
Don’t worry, this kitty has exceptionally dense fur which protects it from the menacing blades of the evil toy helicopter. |
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| PC Game Gun
This man cobbled together parts from Walmart to make a pretty impressive motion tracking VR type game gun. A bit of superglue and electrical tape to hold the cables together – and presto. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Most Awkward Chair Promo Ever
You know, this looks like a great chair – but do they have to focus so much on the benefits to the groin area? I don’t think I’ll be taking my underwear advice from them either. |
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| Ice Circle – Extremely rare cold-weather phenomenon
A rare phenomenon usually only seen in extremely cold countries, scientists generally accept that Ice Circles are formed when surface ice gathers in the center of a body of water rather than the edges. |
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| Quick-Peel An Egg
You might think you know how to peel an egg quickly, there are certainly a few techniques- but I’ve never seen one this fast. Save 4 years of your life. |
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| Float plane takes off, almost hits guy filming, then crashes
De Havilland Beaver plane crash at Lake Hood in Anchorage AK, on June 7, 2009, apparently caused by a strong wind gust. None of the family of four and two dogs aboard were hurt. |
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| EXTREME RICE!
Urrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!! |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week - Neatorama

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| Planet and Star Size Comparison in HD
You may have seen a planet and star size comparison before but this one is beautifully crafted and looks stunning in full-screen HD. |
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| Choir uses hands to create a thunderstorm
I was blown away by how realistic their thunderclaps sound – and the song is good too. |
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| The Cigarette Trick
Short and sweet. A cigarette is tossed and caught in the mouth, then a lit match is tossed and caught in the mouth to light the cigarette. |
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| What IS this creature?!?
So far, no one on VideoSift has come to any verifiable conclusion on what this creature is. The closet guess is a head crab. |
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| Tilt-Shift video of trains in Switzerland
Wonderful tilt-shift video of trains in the villages of Sisikon and Göschenen in Switzerland. Created by Andi Leemann and Jeri Peier. They used two EOS 5D Mark II cameras, a Canon 90mm TS-E f/2.8 and a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 combined with a 1.4x converter. (and polarisation filters) |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Blues Brother crashing through City Hall
Mashed together by Sifter YouDieJoe, a perfect mix of Blues Brothers and the reality of an angry dude crashing through city hall |
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| Malfunctioning Dog is actually a Jazz singer
Who knew that something normally so grating on the ears, could be transformed into sweet, sweet music. |
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| Molten Aluminum + Lab Techs = Fail
It really is amazing that no one was seriously injured. Don’t try this one at home. (NSFW – some swearing) |
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| The IT Crowd – Drunk In Amsterdam
One of the best moments in the quirky British series. The great news is that they’re coming back for another season! I only hope that Richmond the goth clears up his case of scurvy and also returns. |
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| Using an antique modem to dial into the internet
Watch how a 45 year old modem is used with a modern laptop to dial into the internet. Proves that standard protocols go a long way. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| Kitty’s hand-eye coordination catches food
This cat uses its binocular vision and amazing manual dexterity to catch stuff better than most little leaguers . |
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| The Hubble floats away from the Space Shuttle Atlantis
This is some great candid footage of the astronauts in Atlantis extricating themselves from their Hubble rendezvous. The technical patter between the team is fascinating. Such a shame that with the imminent retirement of the Shuttle program – these human satellite servicing skills will no longer be practiced. |
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| The REAL Andy Kaufman
I’m not sure anyone really knew when Andy was being himself, even him. |
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| X-Men Origins: Wolverine – in 30 Seconds
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who saw the Wolverine movie and those who didn’t. Within this 30 second recap you will find the epic scale of the story of a torn and confused man who must struggle with his rage. Pay close attention to the dialogue though because it does go by pretty quick.” |
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Fresh-baked pizza vending machine
Watch this vending machine make a fairly delicious looking pie from scratch in just a few minutes. |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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| There’s something very wrong with this kitchen I can’t believe we nearly bought this! A chilling tale of horror for house hunters. |
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| Russian female enjoying an AK-47 I hope everyone was wearing their Kevlar vests – these guns have a bit of a kick to them. |
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| Andy Warhol uses an Amiga 1000 to ‘paint’ Debbie Harry, 1985 Weird to think that the era of Andy Warhol intersected with the computer mouse – and he even seems fairly adept with it. |
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| Monster Truck Does Quite Impressive Backflip And unlike most monster truck flips – I think this one was even on purpose. |
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| Frog escapes from snake after being almost completely ingested A snake has just about swallowed an entire frog when suddenly the frog decides to fight back and eventually escapes up and out of the snake’s stomach. Score one for amphibians! |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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When Squirrel Attacks |
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Auto-Tune the News Here's a clip from Sarah Fullen Gregory (excellent singer, actually) and The Gregory Brothers making the nightly news much, much more interesting. Link | If you like that, here's the second one in the Auto-Tune series | The Gay Marriage Debate, Auto-Tuned | more from YouTube schmoyoho |
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Smoochie Girl Behold the smoochie girl - and yes, she made the exact same smoochie face in every photo: Link |
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The Weirdest Japanese Commercial Ever Not going to describe it: you have to see it for yourself. |
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Magnet Falling Down a Copper Tube |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week
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Why Canada Is So Dangerous Link (strong language) (From a comment on VideoSift, this appears to be from a 80s law enforcement training video "Surviving Edged Weapons") |
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Qui-Gon, Worst Jedi Ever? After watching the clip, I must agree: Link |
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World's BEST Fan-Made Music Video Watch it and weep: Link |
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When Lightnings Strike! Do yourself a favor, skip the stupid intro and fast foward to 1:00: Link (strong language) |
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Blanket-napper Dog Why, my wife does the same thing to me every night :) Link (quick, where's my slanket?) |
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How Bacteria Communicate
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Bonnie Bassler, professor of molecular biology at Princeton, explains how bacteria communicate with one another in this TED talk.
She begins with bioluminescence, and why it only occurs after bacteria have multiplied to a critical mass/concentration. She then extends the concept to virulence in human infections (the bacteria actually control their pathogenicity).
A related concept is that multicellular creatures (humans, etc) evolved [or were created, depending on your cosmic view] using an extension of the same principle of quorum sensing that bacteria use to distinguish "self" from "other."
She closes by explaining how the principles elucidated in this talk might be used to overcome antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Laws of Physics Broken for Watersliding Fun
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So here’s the scoop: I’m about to turn 30 – this friday in fact. Also: I love waterslides. Then I found a competition which, if I get enough votes, will send me around the world to the biggest watersldies there are. Best Present. Ever. This is my entry. Did it in an hour.
If you like it and fancy voting me into a state of splashy swooshy ecstasy, Vote for Slideyman in the Barclay Waterslide video competition. Just click the green thumbs up! Link
Love and Waterslides,
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Ride Through the Streets of Barcelona in 1908
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Filmed from the front of a trolley, this 7-minute film evokes what life was like before automobiles and trucks dominated the streets.
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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The View From the Intl Space Station Window |
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Ying-Yang Twins on Cribs - Translated While you laugh at their expense, keep this in mind: they probably make more in a week than we all do in a year. Sad, ain't it? While watching this, I had an epiphany about MTV Cribs - the jerky camera work is to distract you from how bad the show actually is! Either that or this is how the younger generation actually see the world, and if so God saves us all. If you liked that, then you'll love this: Freestyle Rap Battle Translated into Plain English |
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Men in Black Bloopers What a neat blast from the past: Link |
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A Ventriloquist and Her Monkey (Interestingly, YouTube removed a video "due to terms of use violation" from her own website - what's up with that?) |
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Iron Man vs Bruce Lee Regardless of who wins, one thing is for sure: French Canadian filmmaker Patrick Boivin, the man behind this short clip, sure knows how to make an excellent stop motion animation! |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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Ricky Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity! Set your piggies free: Link |
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Rube Golberg Corkscrew Machine |
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Bunny vs. Snake |
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My Legs Give Me Superpowers Who said what about disability now? Link |
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How Much is a Billion Dollars? Here's a video clip that puts it in perspective: Link |
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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Excessive Ping Pong Score Celebration |
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Metal Grandma |
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What Happens to Stuff Left in a Foreclosed House? |
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Is this the Face of the Young Leonardo da Vinci? |
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How many camels fit in a Subaru? Count for yourself: Link |
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Black Hole Destroying a Star Watch this amazing simulation: Link |
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Serenity Bar Fight Rehearsal |
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Peeing While Walking A comment on VideoSift by Pprt: "When urine a rush ..." Link (SFW, don't worry - you can't see nothin') |
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Star, the Smart Dog Here's a 5 min-long clip of the smartest puppy on the planet: Link |
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Ice Skating Polar Bear |
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Juggling with Bowling Ball I kid: that's not a bowling ball, but it sure does look like one! Link |
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Dog Hates the Happy Birthday Song! |
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Physics Fun: Jell-O + Electricity = FIRE! Link (Includes the phrase "electrically active Jell-O mound" that is PURE WIN) |
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Cell Phone Reunion From the geniuses over at CollegeHumor: Link (NSFW language - the ending makes it all worth the wait) |
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The Crazy PS3 Kid Banned From Playing PS3 His range of emotion is amazing! Christian Bale, watch out! Link |
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ZSL Babies 2008
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They are so cute! Take a look at animal babies born in the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) zoos in London and Whipsnade. Guaranteed to make you smile!
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

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Behold, the Atheist's Nightmare: The Babel
Fish! |
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Insane Mexican Wrestling |
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Volcano Erupts Underneath Ice Link (lightning makes an appearance at 0:19) |
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Gordon Ramsay's Perfect Scrambled Eggs |
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Idiot's Guide to Releasing a Bobcat |
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