This is a visualization crated by MetaBallStudios (previously) imagining various numbers of things as representing by a collection of 1cm square cubes. Things start off small enough with the number of letters in the English alphabet (26) and first generation Pokemon (151), but quickly get out of hand from there.
Because music is all around us (except at work, we’re not allowed to listen to music at work), this is a video of Luke Pickman of InstrumentManiac playing the C major scale on 123 instruments in 123 seconds. The video is exactly 2:03 long too so I think he nailed
This is a video of Youtuber Brick Technology (previously) pitting five different LEGO car builds (simple car, square car, jumping car, propeller car, and pole jumper) against increasingly bigger potholes to see which fares the best. It’s a fun watch (especially the jumping car, propeller car, and pole jumper), and
Because yesterday it was September and I blinked and Halloween is four days away, these are a couple videos of musician Jer of Youtube channel Ska Tune Network performing all the instruments (including plenty of brass) for ska covers of the Ghostbusters and Addams Family themes. *licking fingers* Those were
Hey you guuuuys, in their unending quest to snatch up all my Christmas money before my grandma even sends it, LEGO has announced an official The Goonies build set in the form of One-Eyed Willy’s pirate ship as seen at the end of the movie (plus some of the booby
This is a 1000x magnification of tardigrades (aka waterbears) hatching. The mother tardigrade produces the eggs then sheds her skin with the eggs inside, which are protected until hatching. They’re also trapped and have to find their way out of the skin or die. The whole hatching process takes about
These are a couple videos highlighting the journey of father/son team Mike and Luke Bell as they attempt to reclaim the world record for fastest quadrocopter drone after their record was snatched from them last year. There’s a lot of interesting discussion about the engineering and testing of the drone,
This is a video of a robotic spy octopus built by John Downer Productions for the BBC/PBS series Spy In The Wild capturing the daily activities of a coconut octopus. And what exciting daily activities they are! The coconut octopus is unique in that it’s one of only two species
