Because the typical American diet sure ain’t what it used to be, this is an animated bar chart detailing the nation’s shifting food consumption over the last century. Each bar represents the average daily caloric intake of a particular food group or type of food. Fast food and junk snacks
Because everybody is good at something, and sometimes that thing is just being loud (my nieces and nephews are great at this), Guinness World Records recently recognized 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary Canberra, Australia town cryer Joseph McGrail-Bateup as the loudest shouter in the world. Joseph was recorded at
This is OK Nintendo, the entirety of Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer recreated with soundfonts from different N64 games by on4word. Each track uses a different game’s sounds (including Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, both Zelda games, Star Fox 64, Goldeneye 007, and more), although a couple are repeated.
This is a video of Sony AI’s Project Ace ping-pong playing robot. Sure ping-pong is officially known as table tennis, but I feel like nobody who doesn’t own their own paddle calls it that. Admittedly, this robot looks like a pretty fierce competitor. The way it moves — way faster
This is a video from the PressTube channel of YETI and Stanley mugs being filled with 1600°C molten hell to see which one lasts longer. I’m not sure if these test results would be permissible in court though, because the mugs appear to be different sizes, with the Stanley filled
This is a video of Youtubers Evan Edinger, Tom Scott, and Matt Gray racing from Chiswick in West London to The Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields, East London by e-bike, the Tube, and car to see which is fastest. Google Maps estimates they should all take right around one hour.
Because it takes all kinds, this is a video of artist Shoji Yamasaki dressed like, and dancing like, random pieces of trash blowing in the wind. Oh man, I’ve known my fair share of pieces of trash in life, and none of them danced like this. Most of them moved
This is another size comparison video from Meta Ball Studio (previously), this time visualizing the sizes of various fictional buildings (all of which Alex Honnold plans to climb) from pop culture show, movie, and video game franchises. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that my apartment isn’t larger