This is a video from photographer Vadim Makhorov, who used a drone to capture footage of a group of polar bears who have claimed the abandoned weather station on Koluchin Island (located in Russia’s remote Chukotka region) as their own. I say let them have it! Apparently the weather is

Because back before computer graphics there was a thing called practical effects, these are two animations detailing how six people (including one slime-spreader) operated the one-ton Jabba The Hutt costume in Return Of The Jedi. Honestly, I’m not sure how I thought it was operated, but it wasn’t this. “You

The Oxford University Press has chosen ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 word of the year (technically words of the year) after deliberating between it, ‘aura farming’ and ‘biohack’. The definition of each while I ponder when Gen Alpha made a hostile takeover of the Oxford University Press. aura farming (n.)

This is a GoPro video captured by the “Hurricane Hunters” of the US Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron as they fly through the eye of Hurricane Melissa. I don’t know about you, but I’ve known several Hurricane Melissas myself. Actually, every Melissa I’ve ever known. If you’re a Melissa

Allegedly inspired by little handheld foam disc launching pistols and not the saw-blade guns from video games (do you even game, bro?), this is a video of Youtuber Current Concept building a saw blade launcher. Unfortunately for a nit-picking complainer like me, it launches the blades straight using flywheels without

This is a video of acrobatic conceptor Dave Locke kicking swords at a dummy strapped to a wheel of death (at least I hope it’s a dummy). I couldn’t tell if Dave was trying to hit the dummy, or just hit around it. Because he only succeeds in hitting around

This is another mashup from Youtuber There I Ruined It (previously), featuring Christmas classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer performed in the style of a Creed song. It’s really…something. Will I be playing this at my Christmas party this year? Yes, on repeat and at full volume. And, if anybody manages

This is a video of maker of things Peter Sripol constructing and attempting to fly a single-person plane made almost entirely out of cardboard, hot glue, and tape. The plane is powered by brushless motors but has to be towed behind a car to take off. But does it fly?