This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
This is a hype video from the Invisibility Shield Company highlighting the second generation of their invisibility shield, and offering it for sale on Kickstarter. The shield, while not perfect, does provide an impressive amount of invisibility immediately behind it. And right now you can get a 40″ x 28″
This is a video captured by wildlife artist Robert E Fuller of a winter murmuration of starlings at dusk at the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England (love your pudding!). Per Robert: “Starling murmurations are one of Britain’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Studies suggest the birds congregate in great swirling masses
This is a video of the functional tea/coffee set fingernails created by Morgan Gilbertson of Haus Of Nails. Apparently the full set cost $3,000. That seems like a lot to spend on fingernails, but I also just chew mine when they get unbearably long. My girlfriend thinks it’s disgusting, which
This is a video of a woman tastefully adding googly eyes to a black rug to tie a room together and inviting us to play a game of “Can you find my black cat?” The cat opens its eyes and she zooms in on it, but I did NOT see
This is a clip from what appears to be the Catalina Wine Mixer of a man tossing a grape or olive to a woman, her bouncing it off a tooth, a man saving it from the ground with a well-aimed kick (I bet that dude can hacky sack!), and another
This is a precision walking demonstration by a group of Japanese high school students (this was not a club at my high school), with two groups of walkers passing through each other diagonally without running into each other and winding up a writhing pile of bodies on the gym floor.
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back