This is a video from Chris Meyer, project manager at Turner Construction Company, which was hired to help with the renovation of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on the school’s campus in Newhaven, Connecticut, of an excavator with its jaw attachment very appropriately painted like a dinosaur head

This is a graphic created by Carrie Patrick comparing the weights of various swords to common household objects like cans of chili, loaves of bread, boots, and children. Children thankfully not being that common a household object in my home aside, I learned a lot by looking at the chart.

These are two cat themed ear savers/strap holders for face masks. I tried to find where the first one came from without much luck (despite reaching out to some of the shiftiest internet spelunkers I know), but the second one is 3D printable for free with the file download available

This is a set of hand-painted gaming dice created by die maker Live And Let Dice, inspired by the cherry blossom covered minty cans of AriZona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey. A single D20 die will set you back $42, and a full set of D4,D6,D8,D10,D10%,D12, and D20 will

This is a video of Luna Lee covering Pink Floyd’s iconic ‘Wish You Were Here’ on a traditional Korean gayageum. As always with Luna’s covers, it was a joy to listen to. You know, I actually got to see Luna in concert…gosh, what feels like forever ago. It wasn’t forever

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill painting the entire interior of a room he made out of insulation board with the world’s blackest commercially available paint, Musou black, which absorbs 99.4% of light. He then turns on an overhead light bulb to see what it looks

Presumably inspired by the ease in which one can slip their foot into a Croc sandal (or possibly the Crocodile Mile I owned growing up), this is a short video captured by a Khurda district Indian Forest Service officer in one of the country’s national parks of a crocodile effortlessly

You know what the world has been missing? “Gold glitter taco sneakers.” Exaaactly. And now Dolls Kill has filled that folded tortilla shaped void with these Current Mood Salsa Time Taco Sneakers. The shoes cost $88 and ‘have a gold glitter construction, adjustable lace-up closures, and platform soles.’ Those are