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Here's Why You Should Never Thaw Your Frozen Steaks Before Cooking

Adults Food Science
You may find out that you've been cooking steaks wrong your entire life.

Watch The World's Most Polite Birds Wait In Line To Greet A Potential Mate

Adults Animals Nature
Instead of fighting it out with one another for a mate's affection, Blue manakins give each other a fair shot and let the lady decided. When a female manakin is feeling amorous, males will form an orderly little line in front of her, taking turns to introduce themselves and to put their colorful foliage on display.

5 Fun Physics Phenomena

Adults Humor Internet Culture Physics
YouTuber Veritasium explains 5 weird but cool tricks about Physics in the latest video.

Watch This "Octopus Houdini" Perform An Unbelievable Escape From Boat

Adults Animals Nature
This octopus squeezes through a tiny gap on a boat and escape successfully!

Inside the ant colony

Adults Animals Nature Society
Ants have one of the most complex social organizations in the animal kingdom; they live in structured colonies that contain different types of members who perform specific roles. Sound familiar? Deborah M. Gordon explains the way these incredible creatures mate, communicate and source food, shedding light on how their actions can mimic and inform our own behavior.

Train rescue: Commuters use people power to free man trapped

Adults Society Transportation Automotive
Scores of passengers, together with staff at Stirling station, managed to tilt the carriage so the man could free his leg which was wedged in the gap. The man was boarding a Perth-bound train at about 8:50am when he slipped and became stuck.

This Smart Car Has A Race With Top Racing Cars

Adults Global Warming Transportation Technology Automotive
To showcase its abilities, Smart Fortwo drive shows you how it can beat top racing cars, given the race is only 5-metres long.

For the Heroes

Adults Equality Society
This little boy who calls himself "Kid President" has some amazing wisdom to share: you don't need cape and you don't need money to be a hero.

How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?

Adults Health Human
If you get too little, or too much, your brain could suffer.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Adults Film Marketing
Here's the first taste of what's to come in Peter Jackson's final instalment in The Hobbit series.

Watch This Smart Crow Ask Human For A Drink

Adults Animals Human
Thirsty crow comes to humans for help

This Homeless Man Was Ignored Every Day Until Three Strangers Did Something Magical

Adults Equality Music Society
Three students in Germany stopped by a homeless man on the street to surprise him by sitting down with him and playing music. More and more people gathered and appreciated the act with generous tips.

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

Adults Mental Health Music
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

Kayakers Lifted Out of Water: 'We're on Top of the Whale!'

Adults Animals Nature Sports
The kayakers were paddling through a marine sanctuary near Puerto Madryn as they reached a pod of whales. They were surrounded ever so calmly, then hoisted onto the back of a whale. The duo captured the event on a GoPro camera and uploaded the incredible footage to YouTube.

Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables

Adults Business Food
Fruits and veggies are good for you, but many can't afford to buy them regularly. On the other hand, tons of "ugly" produce is thrown away everyday. French supermarket Intermarche found a way to reconcile these ugly truths.

Word Crimes

Adults Internet Culture Language
Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic performing Word Crimes.

Deep Sea Explorers

Adults Animals Nature World
While there's no shortage of weird and wacky ideas in science fiction about what creatures from other planets might look like, few are quite as remarkable as those that can actually be found right here on Earth.