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Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

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 [...]

Among the many things that the United Nations Security Council worked on yesterday during their dealings in New York was the decision to move forward on measures to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We applaud the move (and urge the French president to stop being a wuss and show his support), and hope that [...]

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, [...]

Over the weekend a video of a botched building demolition in Turkey made the rounds on the Internets, and it got us wanting to see more buildings being blown up. Of course, demolition technicians are brilliant physicists, explosives experts and engineers, and get things right more often than not. We set out to prove as [...]