Because teamwork makes the dream work (at least according to the poster I’m forever staring at in HR), is a video of insect keeper Terra Green challenging his 1,000 worker ant colony with four increasingly difficult obstacles separating them from a food reward. The first obstacle is digging to find

This is a video highlighting the Rubik’s Cube solving robot built by Purdue University undergraduates, which just set the world record for fastest Rubik’s Cube solve with a time of 103 milliseconds (0.103 seconds). That’s faster than a blink. The previous record was 305 milliseconds, which the robot can reliably

In news that shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s ever been tasked with working with other people, large groups of ants were able to solve the piano mover’s puzzle better than large human groups in recent experiments conducted by the Weizmann Institute. The study found that individually or in small groups humans

This is a video of Rubik’s Cuber (Cubist?) Max Park beating the previous Rubik’s Cube speed solving record of 3.47 seconds (which stood for 4.5 years) with a blistering 3.13 second finish. For reference, the Rubik’s Cube I’ve had since I was 7 remains unsolved, so my personal best, which

This is a video of cockatoos that have learned to use multiple tools in order to receive rewards, in this case using a sharp stick to poke a hole through a membrane, then a long straw to retrieve cashew nuts. Apparently the ability to use toolsets has only previously been

This is a video of Colombian puggler (that’s puzzle juggler, not to be confused with a juzzler, which is something else entirely) Angel Alvarado setting the Guinness World Record for fastest time solving three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them, with a fairly respectable 4 minutes 31.01 seconds. Could I do

This is a video of Italian athlete and World Memory champion Andrea Muzii demonstrating his abilities by solving a Rubik’s Cube while performing a one-arm handstand. Of course his legs are supported by the wall, so I vote for a disqualification. I’ve also included a video of Andrea completing a

Completely destroying the previous record of a hardly worthy 65 cubes, 16-year old Nova Scotian teen Saul Halfting spent an hour and twelve minutes solving 211 Rubik’s Cubes back-to-back while bouncing on a pogo stick. Wow, and I have yet to solve even a single Rubik’s cube, bouncing or not.