In Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the lovable rogue Han Solo is a dad. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I imagine that Han probably rags on his son Kylo Ren in an affectionate way. That's how dads build good relationships with their kids.

Ben, guess why your mother always picks where the rebels hide out Because she knows how to Leia low! Your mother is a treasure

— Dad Joke Han Solo (@dadjokehansolo) January 12, 2016

The movie has inspired Peter Chiykowski, the artist for the webcomic Rock, Paper, Cynic, to create a Twitter feed filled with Han Solo's lame dad jokes.

Lock Block Ltd. uses a mortarless stone concrete block system to assemble enormous and strong forms. The truck in particular in this demonstration video is a fascinating design. The back appears to be covered with rollers that serve as braces as the blocks are set into an interlocked arch. The roller back looks like it’s tapered, so the truck smoothly exits a section of tunnel by driving forward.

Also, the construction blocks look almost exactly like Lego pieces:

True crime murder mysteries, like Serial and Making a Murderer, are very popular these days. Would you like to compose a murder mystery that appeals to modern audiences? Then you need a hip way to have your protagonist knock off the victim—especially if you’re chasing the advertising dollars thrown at millennials.

Tom Gauld shows you how in this cartoon for The Guardian. I’m glad that my idea—bludgeoned to death by a gluten-free selfie stick—isn’t already taken.

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Similarly, if you need to kill a werewolf, shoot him with a silver bullet. If that kills him, then you know that you knocked off a werewolf.

All you need is a command of basic science and logic to dispatch most hidden enemies in your midst. Charlie Higson illustrates this in an everyday life hack.

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Rocket News 24 accurately describes the story as “like something straight out of a Studio Ghibli film.” Kana Harada, a high school student, is the only passenger who uses the Kyu-Shirataki Station in a rural area of northern Japan.

Every school day, Harada’s parents drive her to the station, which is a few minutes from their home. She’s usually 1 of 10 students on the train at the time. From her station, it takes Harada an hour to arrive at her school. She uses that time to study, read, or listen to music.

Japan Rail Hokkaido recently announced plans to close that station. But after learning of Harada’s solitary use of the station, the company has decided to keep it open until she graduates this March.

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Caromont Farm in Alebemarle County, Virginia is a dairy. It raises goats and uses their milk to make cheese.

The staff expects that about 90 kids will be born in February. They’ll need round-the-clock care for a while, with snuggles and bottle feedings every 4 hours. The baby goats will have lots of hay, little sweaters, and heaters. But they’ll still need some tender loving care that only humans can provide.

So the farm is asking for volunteers to take 4-hour snuggle shifts. You can find the sign-up list here.

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Does the world glitch like a bad video in front of you? Can you be sure that you’re experiencing reality? Maybe not after looking at the sculptures of Paul Kaptein. He carves real life visual glitches out of wood. His forms are ordinary, but warped in unsettling ways. They’re fascinating juxtapositions of old technology with new and fantasy with reality.

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Ross Marquand is an actor and impersonator. When you need someone to pretend to be Matthew McConaughey eating food off the floor, then you call this guy.

In this video for Vanity Fair magazine, Marquand offers 17 quick impersonations of celebrities doing very specific things. Each one is precisely right. If you imagine what Harrison Ford would look like while struggling to finish a sneeze that just won’t go all the way through, it’s exactly what Marquand presents.

He also shows Liam Neeson navigating an automated phone system, Antonio Banderas forgetting a password, and Michael Caine trying to open a jar.

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Philip Traber isn't just a bartender. He's an artist with glass and liquor. His YouTube channel is filled with amazing trick shots of him making shots, such as these 14 Jägerbombs.

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Traber begins by stacking the glasses vertically, then pouring Jägermeister into the rims. He doesn't make a mess in the process, though I'm at a loss to understand how.

Then Traber pours the Jägermeister into what look like sherry glasses simultaneously from a horizontal position. Again, he doesn't spill a drop. With a tap, he sends these glasses into the beer glasses. You are now ready to drink.

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Queen's majestic song "Bohemian Rhapsody" turned 40 last year. To mark the occasion, the British newspaper The Guardian arranged this video showing interpretations of the classic song by the Trinity Boys Choir, the English National Ballet, and the Royal Academy of Music's string quartet. Their contributions are as beautiful as the original song.

I'm especially taken with this thrilling moment by the string quartet.

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Instructables member caitlinsdad has a wide range of interests and crafts, including jalapeño poppers with tails, a shelf that looks like the Enterprise, and a theremin bra that plays Star Wars music.

His latest project is equally fashionable and practical. This scarf measures and displays the temperature. It has a temperature sensor and a strip of LEDs that glow incrementally with an Arduino controller as the sensor indicates greater heat.

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Gimli, son of Glóin and member of the Fellowship of the Ring, was a simple dwarf of simple tastes and so preferred a simple long-stemmed pipe. But Instagram member SV Pipes Design in Tirana, Albania has more refined desires and the skills to match. He carved this ornate design that looks like the great hero of The Lord of the Rings.

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Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth!

Wait--it's nothing to be concerned about. This isn't the monster of the cave of Caerbannog. A friend of redditor brokebackhill just gave her rabbit a cherry. That's all.

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Lazaro Nolasco of New York City boarded a train late on Friday night. There were only a few people in the car. Among them was an old and clearly sick homeless man who, despite the freezing weather, didn't have a shirt on.

Nolasco watched as an unknown man stood up, took off one of the shirts he was wearing, and give it to the homeless man. The old fellow was too physically incapacitated to put on the shirt, so the donor helped him put it on, then gave him his knitted cap, too.

You can watch the encounter in this video.

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It's hard enough to learn the violin as a child. When YouTube user Therese was ready to learn, she was already 24. This time lapse video shows her progress over 2 years, starting with scratching the strings in a barely identifiable tune and ending with a beautiful, concert-worthy performance.

Therese's YouTube channel contains many of her performances, including music from the anime series Fairy Tale, the Disney movie Pocahontas, and the video game Super Mario Bros.

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