Because who needs wind, this is a video of kite-flier Spence “Watty” Watson flying a custom kite he built for the indoor audience at the recent 2023 South Padre Island Kite Fest in Texas. How do you fly a kite indoors with no wind? You run around, because you are

This is a video of chocolatier Amaury Guichon (previously) attempting his most ambitious chocolate sculpture to date: a massive 8-foot, 550 pound velociraptor made entirely from chocolate (no armature or anything). Damn! Amaury says the whole process took about 10 days, and he’s very pleased with the result. I am

This is a 60-second documentary highlighting the life and oral skills of Dutch master whistler Geert Chatrou, who, in addition to reminding me of Walter from The Big Lebowski), has won the World Whistling Championship three times. The professional whistler (he’s makes a living whistling) now displays his skills during

This is a video from WIRED highlighting the life and skills of Josh Jacobs, a man who’s taken Slinky manipulation to the next level. Some of the tricks he’s able to perform with a Slinky are most impressive. Me? I have no interest in manipulating Slinkys, only friends and coworkers.

This is a video of an orthopedic surgeon removing an intramedullary rod (a rod inserted into the medullary cavity of a bone to treat fractures in long bones) from a patient’s femur, swinging a hammer at the thing like he’s trying to take down the wall separating the kitchen from

This is a video of the young knight quested with running the dragon swing attraction at a renaissance faire demonstrating his fearlessness by performing death-defying tricks with the dragon. Namely, not getting beat in the head by a claw and dragged through the mud. Such bravery. Who knows, with skills

This is a video of a carpenter demonstrating his nailing skills while constructing a large triangular wooden frame. He sets and then pounds each nail in with a single strike, never missing a beat. If that had been me, most of the nails would be bent, all my fingernails would

This is a video from Insider (previously) of marine biologist and shark scientist Amani Webber-Schultz rating ten different shark attacks (and shark scenes in general) from movies and TV shows based on their realism, dropping tons of shark knowledge in the water along the way like chum. Contestants include Jaws,