​Tornadoes are a force that we have not yet been able to reckon with. They are fast, hard to predict, destructive, unstoppable by human intervention, and massive.

Our watching a tornado is like an ant watching a human: unknowing of and unconcerned with the ant, the human lays devastation to all in its meandering path. Justifiably, the sight of a tornado stirs up feelings of both awe and fear, with more fear than awe depending on how close the tornado is.

Below is footage of the 5/19/2013 Shawnee and Central Oklahoma Tornadoes, which may be some of the largest tornadoes ever recorded.

Meet Coco Austin. She's the wife of rapper/actor Ice T and the model in these pictures who's attached to that trunk with all the "junk" in it. And I made sure to put quotes around the word "junk" because actually that thing is money.

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Zach Sobiech passed away May 20, 2013, but not before touching the lives and hearts of millions across the globe.

At 14 years old Zach Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. In June of 2012 He was told that he had less than a year to live. Zach decided to write a song to say goodbye to his friends and family and named it "Clouds". The song/video has been viewed over 3.3 Million times on Youtube since its release. Continue Reading...

You guys ever seen this Metalocalypse time lapse painting? It's totally rad, and the background music gave me a dizzy spell because of all the head-banging it made me do.

The guy who made it is a trippy artist/wild man/rocking dude named Skinner, and he's been making thousands of pieces like that for years.

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In the Tunisian desert lies a hidden gem: The ruins of what once was the set for Star Wars. ​When visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino discovered that the set was never broken down and instead left to deteriorate over time like ancient ruins, he jumped at the opportunity to rediscover it. With a bit of luck and the help of a local police station, Martino was able to find what remains of Luke Skywalker’s childhood home and capture the amazing images below. 

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The winner is so obvious!

You may not know your planet as well as you think. GeoGuessr puts your geographical knowledge to the test by using Google's "street views" from all over the world. GeoGuessr shows a random place in the world, and it's your task to guess where on this giant blue marble you are. After you place your guess-marker somewhere on the map, GeoGuessr calculates how many kilometers away from the correct location you guessed: The closer to correct your answer is, the more points you'll get.

It's not that easy. I only scored 1,000 points, but then again, I kept just guessing Mexico.

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An thoroughly satisfying story if you don't mind a little TL;DR

​Scientists at the Boston Children's Hospital have invented microparticles that allow patients to live for 15 to 30 minutes without breathing, without risk of heart attack or brain damage. This technology will save millions and may be the greatest invention of our generation. Eventually people with complete respiratory failure will only have to worry about looking like a weirdo for not breathing, able to completely forget that they're defying death like a god.

The elixir carries 3 to 4 times as much oxygen as our own red blood cells.

Someday they'll sell this particle for recreational use: Divers will be able to go swimming without coming up for air in 30 minutes. Miners will be able to delve into mines without risk of black lung. Injections will regularly be included in first aid kits.

John Kheir, MD at the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital said:

Some of the most convincing experiments were the early ones. We drew each other's blood, mixed it in a test tube with the microparticles, and watched blue blood turn immediately red, right before our eyes.