Note: Audio on for max chirpy chirping. This is a short in-nest video of a tawny owl that has had her two infertile eggs replaced with two orphaned hatchlings to raise. She seems STOKED. Me? That sounds like a lot of responsibility. I have a hard enough time keeping my

Because what are Fridays for if not feeling good and trying to forget how terrible the rest of the week was, this is a heartwarming video of strangers coming together to search for a woman’s lost earring after a Lake Street Dive concert in Portland, Maine. They don’t find the

This is a short and sweet video of balance beam silver medalist Zhou Yaqin from China on the podium with Italian gymnasts Alice D’Amato and Manila Esposito following the gold and bronze medalists’ medal-biting pose for the cameras. How sweet is that? SPOILER: even sweeter than the chocolate inside those

This is a video of anthropologist David Ian Howe translating five of the most touching epitaphs he’s found that ancient Greco-Romans had inscribed on the tombs of their canine companions. The first half of the video is English translations, and the second half Spanish. There were a couple real doozies

Because amusement park roller coasters have height requirements (and 30″ isn’t going to cut it), this is a video of a mother giving her young daughter a ride on a virtual coaster using an overturned chair, providing all the thrilling drops and turns herself. Damn, that looks like a GOOD

This is a video from photographer Phoenix’s ‘Beautiful Strangers’ series, featuring his interaction with a woman named Anne sitting alone along the boardwalk at the beach. It seems like Anne may be going through something right now so the interaction feels particularly poignant. But boy does she still photograph well.

This is a video of two young boys giving their dad a gift he’ll never forget — a surprise bird. Obviously, this was planned by the parents because children aren’t this clever, so really, the father give himself the gift. Not unlike how if I want anything for my birthday,

Artist Hanif Panni’s neighbor got a letter from the city of Seaside, California, stating he had to build a fence to hide his boat from view from the street. So what did he do? What anybody who hates local government would: asked Hanif to paint a reproduction of the now