These are two TikTok videos of artist Tee Ken Ng making cool patterns on a glow-in-the-dark vinyl record with a laser pointer as the record spins on a turntable. That’s neat. Now I want a want a glow-in-the-dark record. And a laser pointer. But nooooooo, my mom took mine away

American track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson recently set a new world record in the women’s 100m (despite running in a disadvantageous outer lane) at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest with a time of 10.26 seconds, beating the previous world record by 0.02 seconds. As you may recall,

NOTE: I’m in Alabama visiting my family (and eating my weight in food) right now so things might be on the lighter side today and tomorrow, but I’ll do what I can and be back to my regularly scheduled nonsense on Thursday. This is a clip from Seinfeld night at

Competing in the 3A division of the World Yo-Yo Contest, this is a video of Hajime Miura’s winning dual yo-yo performance. And what a performance it is! If he’d performed this for a king and queen in medieval times there’s no doubt in my mind they’d kill the court jester

These are a couple videos highlighting the lives of 69-year-old funeral director Hisao Mitani and his 26-year old African spurred tortoise, Bon-Chan. The two have been together since Mitani’s wife found Bon-Chan in a pet shop 26 years ago, and since the tortoise was about 10 (and a decent size),

Serving as definitive proof that aliens, are, in fact, among us, this is some video of a deep sea glass squid (Taonius borealis) captured by researchers aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer using a remotely operated vehicle near the Aleutian Islands. Just look at that thing! The way it opens

Because this is the internet and the internet will never stops internetting until I decide I’ve had enough and push the big red button (I get closer every day — recent afternoons I’ve even been lifting its clear plastic cover and caressing the button with my index finger), this is

Maker of period accurate medieval weaponry (mostly swords, crossbows, and daggers), Tod of Tod’s Workshop went and constructed himself a trebuchet. And in this video he uses it to launch a packet of 100 darts (held together with a burning fuse so they disperse in the air) to see how