This is a clip of Carl Sagan’s final speech from the 1980 Emmy award winning PBS television series Cosmos, which has been broadcast in more than 60 countries and viewed by over 500-million people. Are you one of those people? If not, better late than never. Sagan’s farewell discusses science,

Because the records you don’t need any special equipment for are the most economical to beat, this is a video of 20-year old Iowa clap master Dalton Meyer setting a new Guinness World Record for most claps in one minute, with a staggering 1,140, beating the previous record of 1,080.

These are two videos of a father and recent divorcee celebrating his freedom by launching his considerable mass off water slide jumps, first with a leaping dive down one slide, then jumping off the roof onto another slide. Damn, that looks like fun. Do I need to get married and

Because how are you supposed to get any work done when you can be loving on your pets (anybody hiring?), this is a video of Shadow the white-bellied parrot going nuts jumping around on his owner’s keyboard, demanding the attention he so rightfully deserves. Or, who knows, maybe he’s just

This is a video highlighting the work of foley artists and the incredible difficulty in making just the right footstep sound effects (considered one of the hardest to duplicate) for television and movies. There is a surprising amount of thought, technique, footwear, and materials to step on that go into

This is a video of Chinese musician Zhang Qihui dressed as a beautiful lotus flower and performing on progressively larger flutes, starting with a diminutive six-incher, and ending with this behemoth, which is so large it requires two more helpers to cover its holes. Now that’s a big flute! It

Because terrible ideas come to marketing professionals in all shapes and sizes, the company has produced a gaming chair to promote the McCrispy Chicken Sandwich (and be given away via a UK-only contest because life isn’t fair). The chair includes a fry holder, drink holder, two sauce holders, napkin holder

Traveling even further back in time than that 2001 BBC news report about cameraphones comes this January 31, 1978 Talking Heads performance of ‘Psycho Killer’ on a British music television program called ‘Old Grey Whistle Test.’ Catchy name. I actually love ‘Psycho Killer’ and used to play it all the

This is a timelapse video of yesterday’s total lunar eclipse (aka blood moon) as captured by astrophotographers Astrofalls and Clanger_Mcbanger (great name) from Ironwood National Forest in Arizona. Total lunar eclipses are called blood moons because of their red hue, due to the only sunlight reaching the moon having passed

Because otters make everything better, this is a video of pet otters Kotaro and Hana (previously seen here experiencing a popcorn maker for the first time) reacting to a soap-bubble gun. They’re uncertain about it at first, but curiosity eventually gets the better of them (thank God they’re not cats)