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Google Self-Driving Car on City Streets

Adults Cities Self-Driving Cars Technology Automotive
Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and your view. At a busy time of day, a typical city street can leave even experienced drivers sweaty-palmed and irritable. We all dream of a world in which city centers are freed of congestion from cars circling for parking and have fewer intersections made dangerous by distracted drivers. That's why over the last year we've shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.

Boyhood - International Trailer

Adults Film Marketing
In 2002, Richard Linklater cast a group of actors for a film that would be 12 years in the making - and that film is almost here, it's called "Boyhood".

Watch This Smart Bird Catch Fish With Bread

Adults Animals Nature
Intelligent Green Heron knows how to use bait.

Nissan develops first "Self-Cleaning" car prototype

Adults Technology Transportation Automotive
Washing a car can be a chore - and a costly one at that. In response, Nissan has begun tests on innovative paint technology that repels mud, rain and everyday dirt, meaning drivers may never have to clean their car again.

Burj Khalifa Pinnacle BASE Jump

Adults Cities Life Sports
Skydive Dubai sponsored Soul Flyers World Champions Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen break a new World Record by BASE jumping from above the pinnacle of the World's Tallest Building.

How do we smell?

Adults Human Neuroscience Science
An adult human can distinguish up to 10,000 odors. You use your nose to figure out what to eat, what to buy and even when it's time to take a shower. But how do the molecules in the air get translated into smells in your brain? Rose Eveleth charts the smelly journey through your olfactory epithelium and explains why scent can be so subjective.

Darcy Oake's jaw-dropping dove illusions

Adults Creativity TV
Not only can illusionist Darcy make doves appear out of nowhere, he also has an even bigger trick up his sleeve.

Bonobo builds a fire and toasts marshmallows

Adults Animals Nature
Kanzi the bonobo lives in America and has learnt how to build a fire, light it using matches and toast marshmallows on it. It shows just how like us some primates really are.

Honey Badger Houdini

Adults Animals Nature
Honey badgers escape from their enclosure using anything from mud balls to rakes.

Action Movie Kid Goes To School

Adults Creativity Film Visual Design
He gets there way faster than the school bus, but with admittedly worse hair.

Larry Page: Where's Google going next?

Adults Business Future Technology
Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons ... and then it gets even more interesting, as Page talks through the company's recent acquisition of Deep Mind, an AI that is learning some surprising things.

Lindzee - Amelymeloptical illusion

Adults Art Creativity
French juggler and illusionist Lindzee Poi is about to haunt your brain with his extremely fine finger work.

Built For It Trials - Stack: Largest Board Game Played with Cat Excavators

Adults Construction Gaming
Watch Excavators Play The Largest Game Of Jenga You've Ever Seen

This Bird Can Speak Japanese Better Than You

Adults Animals Language
I can't help but feel there's actually a tiny Japanese woman trapped inside that myna bird.

Angelina Jordan - Bang Bang - Norske Talenter

Adults Music TV
Angelina Jordan has such a beautiful voice.

Action Movie Kid - Volume 01

Adults Creativity Film Visual Design
As requested, here are all of Action Movie Kid's adventures thus far in one simple video. More volumes to come. Remember to subscribe to always see his latest adventures.

Crab amputates own limb

Adults Animals Nature
It took mountain climber Aron Ralston 127 hours to amputate his own limb. But it only takes a few seconds for this crab to pull off its own claw after an unsuccessful attack from a group of birds.

Another Reason Why Dogs Are Amazing: They Can Detect Cancer.

Adults Health Pets
Having a dog for a pet is a great way to find love, loyalty, friendship and fun; but canines are now using their keen senses for something remarkable. New studies have shown that through intense observation and an astute sense of smell (which is is about 100,000 times more powerful than that of a human), our canine friends are able to alert us when cancerous cells are present. In many instances dogs have pointed their noses on the precise locations of unidentified tumors. Read the Article

Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world

Adults Data Science World
We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest project, a 3D film titled "Mysteries of the Unseen World," which slows down, speeds up, and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.

Why is ketchup so hard to pour?

Adults Food Physics
Ever go to pour ketchup on your fries...and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? George Zaidan describes the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon, explaining how ketchup and other non-Newtonian fluids can suddenly transition from solid to liquid and back again.

1st solar plane to fly around the world

Adults Global Warming Technology Transportation
The Solar Impulse 2 is to be officially presented today, but its construction didn't happen in a day. Watch this video and understand the steps that had to be taken when you're looking towards attempting the First #RTW Solar Flight!