This is a March 2nd, 1979 clip from The Late Night Starring Johnny Carson with guest Carl Sagan discussing the original Star Wars movie, it’s scientific inaccuracies, human chauvinism, and incredible whiteness of all the human characters, particularly the ones in charge. Some of the exchange: Sagan: Star Wars starts

This is a video of 13-time World Champion arm wrestler Irina Gladkaya of Russia destroying anyone foolish enough to challenge her (in an attempt to win $100) at Miami’s Muscle Beach. She, uh, she’s serious business. Could I beat her? Absolutely not. Could I have my arm broken so badly

This is a video of Australian TikTok user CalvinKrause rating the emergency alert sounds from various countries, and adding a little personal flair to the video in the process. So — which was your favorite? I really liked New Zealand’s and Greece’s. Still, I can’t help but feel like the

Proving Thor is probably more of a bowler, this is a video of a kid hitting an 88MPH ball (maybe it was trying to time travel!) at Topgolf during a thunderstorm and the ball getting struck by lightning. Per Bill Murray’s character Carl Spackler in Caddyshack: “I’d keep playing. I

This is a video of John Reynolds recording the reactions of unknowing riders when he hits the gas in his 517-horsepower 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle (about 11-times the horsepower of a stock 1973 Beetle). John calls the car the VW Supersleeper, because it looks as much like a typical underpowered

Because safety first, this is a video from a German construction site where a 68-ton toppled crane is being righted by another crane when the cables give way and almost drops it on two workers standing directly beneath it. Thankfully for them, the original crane’s support footing manages to keep

Brickit is a smartphone app (currently available for iOS, Android coming soon) that can analyze any photo of spread out LEGO pieces (aka a LEGO minefield), identify the different pieces present via machine learning, suggest things you can build with them, and provide the step-by-step instructions to build those things.

Because sometimes you don’t have a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, this is a video of a mom demonstrating her trick for getting her daughter to drink her liquid medicine — by passing a straw through the top of Juicy Juice box, out of a hole

This is a short video of a fisherman reeling in a fish when the hook comes loose, launching it right at his face and getting stuck in his eyebrow. Talk about close calls. So, is this what eyebrows were designed for? Because I’ve just been accidentally burning mine off in

This is a video of Lindy the husky losing track of a treat under her own paw. She can smell it and knows its nearby, but can’t find it. I’m sure there’s a metaphor for life here somewhere. Probably something about searching for true happiness. Or maybe your car keys.