This VFX reel is really cool. It provides a side-by-side comparison that lets you see how some of the effects in the new Star Wars were created.

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Hey, they can’t all be great. Some really amazing musicians started with a really terrible debut album.

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Medieval England sort of had its own version of a rap battle. It was called flyting.

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These are the most anticipated books of 2016.

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Throw away the ice scraper: This trick will clear the ice off your windshield in seconds.

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The Oscar nominations are out, so it’s time to start talking about who got snubbed.

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RIP: Alan Rickman (a.k.a. Severus Snape, Hans Gruber, and that guy who really messed up when he bought his wife a Joni Mitchell CD for Christmas).