This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill getting all sciencey on us and explaining why a dropped Slinky’s bottom portion appears to float in midair until the top catches up with it, at which point it starts falling. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: Magic. It’s as simple as that.

Because being able to smoothly recover from a misstep is the sign of a true master, this is a minute compilation of gymnasts making mistakes in their routines and playing them off the best they can. And they do well. As a matter of fact, are we even sure these

These are several videos of shoebill storks (obviously named because their bills look like shoes — ones you don’t want to put a foot in) bill-clattering and sounding like machine guns in the process. Man, those birds are nuts. Maybe not as crazy as my bird, but yes, I did

This is a video of 25-year old International Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE) master Alexandra Botez challenging three of the best hustlers in New York City’s Union Square Park. She takes the first two easily before losing to ‘Russian Paul’, who’s widely considered the best in the park

This is a video of the blindfolded dodge a swinging water balloon on a string TikTok challenge but with a twist. In this case, never actually releasing the balloon to swing and watching the guy in the hot seat think he’s doing a fantastic job dodging it (“I told you

This is a video from Loudonville, Ohio of a man in a ghillie suit scaring a woman in a canoe as she drifts by looking at her phone because nature is boring. Some more info from somebody who’s in on the prank: “The swamp monster/sasquatch (known as Krazy Kurt) hides

This is a selfie video captured by steeplejack (a tradesman who scales buildings to inspect/repair them, originally named for climbing church steeples) James Marksbury while hanging onto the top spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City at approximately 1,000-feet. For reference, I’m just over 6’1″, so he’s at

This is a video of a woman who left a zero-turn lawnmower doing donuts in the yard and is trying smack its handle with a rake to stop it. Shouldn’t there be some sort of failsafe that prevents this from happening? I feel like somebody tampered with this machine to

This is a video of Damian from California Carnivores pouring out a hybrid Nepenthes pitcher plant (Nepenthes truncata x Nepenthes lowii) that caught and digested a small rodent, likely a mouse. In the wilds of Borneo, Nepenthes lowii produces a substance that attracts tree shrews, which come and eat the

This is a video of French BASE jumper Jumaidee Elias 50/50 grinding his way off the side of the Millau Viaduct bridge on a skateboard near Millau in Southern France. Thankfully for him, he wasn’t hit in the head with his board on the way down and knocked unconscious the