Just when you thought you were safe from spiders underwater, you were wrong. This is a video from The Smithsonian highlighting the appropriately named scuba spider, which has evolved to live its life entirely underwater. The spiders only venture to the surface to collect air bubbles, which they collect around
Note: I originally posted this back in 2020 but I saw it going around the internet again so I’m dredging it back up like terrifying deepwater fish because the article I wrote was so good I’m lazy. This is a video of a skateboarder wiping out after a jump and
This is a video of a Delton8 drum and sampler synthesizer that’s been built into a custom case with the addition of a ferrofluid suspended in a clear window that moves to the beat you’re creating. That’s wild, it looks like it’s about to come to life. And maybe with
Seen here looking like there’s no way you can tell me that’s not an alien (it looks just like Boba Fett’s ship!), a rarely seen orange Dumbo octopus is filmed by the unmanned undersea rover E/V Nautilus. The octopus was captured casually cruising along all by its lonesome at a
This is a video of a robotic spy octopus designed to infiltrate the octopus community and learn its secrets providing a real coconut octopus with a coconut half to cap off the end of the bamboo shoot its hiding in. The footage is pretty remarkable, but this is obviously staged
This is a clip of scientist Matty Jordan after having attempted to pour himself a colder than ice-cold Coke in the -57°C (-71°F) weather at Scott Base in Antarctica. Matty was inspired by a similar video (also posted below) of photographer Jeff Capps, who previously did the same thing with
This is a video of incredibly skilled six time World Irish Dance champion Lochlan Howard demonstrating his Irish dancing moves, stepping so fast it’s hard to believe this is even real. I like those little hops he does — looks like he’s legitimately floating. And maybe he is. He should
This is a video of GoPro Award recipient Emma Bryan being rewarded with a jet flight and a face melting 10G’s of acceleration. That means her body felt 10 times heavier than normal. If my body felt 10 times heavier than normal? I’d almost certainly form a black hole. Emma