This is a video created by visual effects artist Wren of Corridor Digital imagining all the world’s estimated 20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000 or 20,000 trillion) ants in the same place at the same time. All standing flat they would cover approximately 225,000 square kilometers, or the size of Wisconsin. In a

This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —

This is some crash test footage of a JAC E-JS1 from Chinese car manufacturer JAC Motors, which spectacularly fails all the tests with flying colors bodies. It scores zero stars, and a 0% adult occupant protection rating. So if you own a JAC E-JS1 and were wondering what your coffin

This is a video from WIRED of New York City high school english teacher Andrew Marzoni grading a series of assignments written by the artificial intelligence writing tool ChatGPT. Unsurprisingly if you’ve ever used ChatGPT, it does a decent job (especially considering it would take a student all of five

This is a video imagining what the retired Concorde jet’s Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) cruising speed, or around 1,350MPH, looks like at ground level. It’s definitely fast, but things really don’t go by as quickly as I thought they would. Now what I really need to see

This is a video from Insider of pro ice climber and Red Bull athlete (why climb when you can have all the wings you want for free?) Will Gadd rating ice climbing scenes from 9 different TV shows and movies for realism. Selections include climbs from Game Of Thrones, The

This is a visualization of the size of various known celestial bodies in the observable universe (all 93 billion light years of it). Surprisingly not included? My girlfriend’s body — which is hands down the most magnificent celestial body in this AND the Star Wars and Marvel universes. Fingers crossed

Presumably made to help aid in my decision of choosing a new battle mount, this is a visualization created by Global Data comparing the sizes of various animals both extant and extinct. I gathered a lot of useful information watching it, and not just that I’ve been spelling polar bear