This is some security cam footage from a community park in the St. Louis suburb of Alton featuring a sinkhole opening up beneath an astroturf soccer field and swallowing a light pole, along with about a 100-feet circle of field. Thankfully, the field was not in use at the time

This is a video highlighting the evolution of Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS humanoid robot over the past 40 years, including from before Boston Dynamics even existed and early legged robotic locomotion was being studied at MIT’s Leg Lab. It was actually pretty interesting to see the walking technology develop. Sometimes by

A step in the effort to allow machines to “emote and communicate in a more lifelike way,” a collaborative team of scientists from the University of Tokyo and Harvard University have covered a robotic face with living skin. “But I want to wear your face,” I imagine the robot telling

These are two size visualization videos from MetaBallStudio (previously) comparing the sizes of various monsters from popular movie, video game, and book franchises. The first is a side-scrolling comparison with all the monsters lined up, the second is a dynamic video of the monsters moving. Both begin with the diminutive

This is a video of super sassy Grandma Smith riding her giant motorized bed around town. The bed was actually built on top of a specially modified go-kart (the second half of the video details its construction), and is driven from below by her grandson, Ross Smith. In the video,

This is a short, almost perfect internet video. It has everything: things you saw coming from a mile away, plus SURPRISES. So — is everything a coincidence, or is there an undercurrent of order in the universe? “Coincidence.” Good answer — everything is chaos. Especially cats and my life. View

This is a short video captured by Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain resident and pet sitter Alina Adriana Ivas of a group of cats holding council in the top of a tree. Apparently they have this meeting every day. I hope those aren’t the pets Alina is supposed to be sitting.

This is a video of spiritual advisor, teacher of the elements, and Instagrammer Jesusthelivingsun demonstrating his ability to summon leaf tornadoes with some magical hand gestures and, in the second clip, a ninja sword. I believe in his powers too, because I’m rarely not waving my ninja sword around and