This is a short video captured by zoologist and wildlife photographer Dani Conner Wild (appropriate last name) of the sounds a seven-week old red squirrel makes while snacking on a nut. The squirrel is actually one of four babies that Dani cares for in the wild after their mother was hit by a car. Man…I still remember the first time I got hit by a car. The second time too. Just not the third — that one knocked like eight months of memory out of me, which was kind of awesome because then I got to watch all of Game Of Thrones like it was new again.

I put my microphone in front of a 7 week old baby red squirrel. pic.twitter.com/JrRRvE9ngN

— Dani Connor Wild 🐺 (@DaniConnorWild) June 23, 2020

Thanks to my friend becca b, who agrees you should think about these orphans the next time you’re speeding through the forest all willy-nilly.

This is a video from Youtuber Art Of Engineering discussing at length how both electromagnetic and pneumatic drop towers work, and how they operate safely. I didn’t actually bother watching the whole video but I assume the answer is they don’t, and every time you ride one you’re risking it all.

This is Starsounds, an ambient music track created by composer Brian Eno (who, FUN FACT: actually coined and popularized the term ambient music) using the infrasound acoustic waves stars produce, which have been sped up to be heard by human ears. That’s cool. You know what would be even cooler? If the sounds of babies crying were slowed down so they couldn’t be heard by human ears. Specifically mine.

This is a video from Sandy, Utah of a boat trailer that becomes detached from the truck towing it (presumably as a result of user error) and proceeds to cruise down the highway by itself. As far as things a boat owner wants to see, I imagine this is at the very bottom of the list, along with ‘a gas gauge on E and no land in sight,”a hole in the bottom,’ and ‘the repo man.’

Thanks to my buddy Chris C, who agrees you can lead a boat to water, but you can’t make it not break free on the highway and crash into the median.

This is a surprisingly worthwhile video of some of the world’s best extreme pogo riders doing their thing, filmed in slow motion. Some of those tricks, my goodness! Kinda makes me wish I had my old Pogo Ball. I don’t though, because I twisted my ankle (warning: links to the aftermath of of one of my actually twisted ankles) with it one too many times and sold it at a yard sale, and I can only assume the poor bastard whose mother paid a buck for it is stuck in a wheelchair now.

This is the winner of GoPro Of The World’s best line, an incredibley bike run by Dave Herr. How he was able to navigate some of those tiny pathways at that speed is beyond me. Such coordination. I mean I can barely keep my car off the sidewalk and this dude is riding his bike down a razor’s edge. There’s no way I wouldn’t have fallen off. “There’s no way you would have gotten on that bike in the first place.” Haha *readjusting feet on coffee table* bring me some chips and another beer.