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There are few things more spectacular (a really good block, perhaps) in a basketball game than a dunk that actually breaks the hoop. They occur fairly regularly, especially if you include all the various pro, college, high school and amateur leagues, but only a select few are truly exceptional. Brobible has assembled what they deem [...]

Between our current event filmmakers‘ obsession with disaster movies, and all-pervading fears of impending environmental doom, it’s not surprising that movies about environmental apocalypse are becoming more common. That’s part of why we’re surprised that TreeHugger left recent entries like The Simpsons Movie (and another included after the jump) our of their listicle of The [...]

You presumably heard about the little girl who was saved from certain car-crushing death by a metal pole in a shopping mall parking lot, right? Well, she’s just the latest in a series of death-defying folks saved by some miraculous stroke of luck on camera. Epic Carnival has assembled the luckiest listicle ever, featuring The [...]

We’ve recently featured some videos of tall buildings going up real fast, and other buildings coming down or ripping apart very fast, but one style of structure seems especially pre-disposed to controlled detonation: the sports stadium. Just look at Super Tremendous’ listicle of The 7 Greatest Sports Stadium Demolitions, which features some great arena take-downs, [...]

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

A few weeks ago we got caught in an amazing storm at the beach, and we watched from the relative safety of a gazebo as clouds rolled in off the water towards us packing torrential rains and some of the most spectacular lightning we’ve ever seen. We were much too mesmerized by the spectacle of [...]

If you watch many disaster movies, you’ll have noticed that big buildings and famous landmarks are often the first thing to go when the meteorite/earthquake/tidal wave/dinosaur/mutant/giant monkey/aliens hit. Aside from always targeting certain cities rather than others, some monuments just cannot catch a break. There’s the Eiffel Tower, for instance, which gets it in Armageddon [...]