This is a clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in which guest Nicolas Cage ranks his top 5 Nicolas Cage movies. For those of you in a workplace toilet stall right now and don’t want to let on you’re watching videos when you should be working, the list
This is a video of the fun-loving Aussies of Youtube channel How Ridiculous attempting to crack progressively tougher safes by dropping a 2-ton axe blade on them. They also destroy a bunch of other things in between. The finale, an absolutely massive safe, takes a very respectable 20 hits before
Because a moving picture is worth at least 100,000 words, this is a video comparing the sizes of various felines, from the 14″ rusty spotted cat, to the 13.4′ extinct Ngandong tiger. The felines really start looking unfriendly around the 1:10 mark. Of course size doesn’t always matter, and my
These are several videos from the Slow Mo Guys shot at a blistering 90,000 frames per second, then played back at 25 FPS, stretching every one second of action into an hour. Highlights include Dan getting smacked in the face with a soccer ball, a bullet tearing a playing card
This is a visualization created by Global Data comparing the sizes of various flying creatures both extinct and extant, but mostly extinct because Mother Nature made all the wildest models back in the day. Don’t get wrong, she’s still got some pretty crazy designs in existence, but she’s definitely grown
This is a video of photographer and diver Ian Haggerty going about making an omelet just about the wrongest way possible and cracking an egg 12 meters (~39 feet) underwater to see the effect the water pressure will have on it. The results may surprise you! Especially if you expected
This is a visualization created by Youtube channel WTD comparing the sizes of a number of different dog breeds. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that I have what would be considered two small dogs, and one large dog. The small ones weigh around 13-pounds and 18 pounds.
This is a visualization comparing the heights of different characters in the Marvel universe, from the diminutive Ant Man to the sun-sized Living Tribunal. A good portion are in the range of normal human heights though, from 1.7 – 1.9m (5’6″ – 6’2″). Me? I’m 6’1″, so I’d fit in