Further proof there’s nothing you can’t build with LEGO, this is a video of Youtuber Banana Gear Studios constructing and demonstrating a small omnidirectional treadmill. It’s crazy the way the pieces just seem to float around the rotating spindle floor. How people come up with stuff like this is beyond

This is a video of doctor of evolutionary biology ChuckDarwin (I guess he was cryogenically frozen?) discussing the extra ocelli (Latin: little eyes) some insects have, and their purpose. According to research, the simple eyes only gather information about light and dark, and help flying insects maintain their orientation to

Athena, a shephard husky mix in Florida escaped her crate, ditched her collar, and was on the lam for over a week before returning home on her own, ringing the video doorbell to be let in on Christmas Eve. Classic dog, coming back for the milk and cookies. She roamed

In news that shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s ever been tasked with working with other people, large groups of ants were able to solve the piano mover’s puzzle better than large human groups in recent experiments conducted by the Weizmann Institute. The study found that individually or in small groups humans

Because bad ideas come in all shapes and sizes, this is a video of Youtuber Gregulations constructing a motorcycle version of a penny farthing using a Yamaha YZF-R6 and a bunch of custom built parts. Despite having training wheels, the resulting cycle has deathtrap written all over it, and at

In dreams really do come true news, this is a video of Max Miller of Tasting History making a late 80’s/early 90’s rectangular school pizza using the official recipe from the 1988 US Department of Agriculture’s ‘Quantity Recipes for School Food Service’. In his own words: “Tastes just like it.”

Because sometimes you just need to see eight wiener dogs sleeping in eight banana beds, these are two videos from dachshund lover Gracie Yuna of her wiener dogs Boots, Bandit, Peanut, Plopper, Tubby, Punkin, Einstein, and Meatball (aka The Weens on Instagram) each getting their own banana bed (with peel

Because you’ve got to have a shtick to bring in the crowds, hot pot restaurant owner Ms. Qin acts like a humanoid robot while serving patrons at her Chongqing, China dining establishment. She’s good too. If I didn’t know better (and I don’t based on how often I’m just scared

Constructed by engineer James Hobson of The Hacksmith, this is a functional replica of the Level 2 Sentry Turret seen in multiplayer first person shooter Team Fortress 2. The turret is built around two Nerf knock-off X-Shot Insanity Motorized Rage Fire guns capable of firing 200 darts/minute and has AI-powered

This is a video of dogs at the Humane Education Society of Hamilton County, Tennessee each picking out their own Christmas present from two lines of plush toys. Every single one seems to carefully sniff out a special toy, except BamBam, who just charges in and changes his mind several