This is a video of science experimenter and TikTok user Joemyheck using a massive lens to focus the sun’s energy on a tiny pinpoint on a rock, harnessing so much power it’s able to spawl, fracture, and melt the rock, eventually cracking it in half, forming a crack rock. Wow!

This is a video from Youtube channel DragTimes of a man pinning a banana to the passenger seat of his Tesla Model S Plaid as he guns it, the banana staying put through the whole quarter mile at a top force of around 1.4G’s until the car reaches its top

Note: Make sure the video’s volume is on. Working similarly to the one previously developed by DAKD Jung, this is a video of a ferrofluid visualizer built by Redditor Sergey Kuznetsov featuring a magnetic solution suspended in a clear liquid that “dances” to music as a magnet behind it is

This is a video of engineer Xyla Foxlin, model rocketeer Joe Barnard, and a team of aerospace engineers launching a Christmas tree into the wild blue yonder with the help of a very large model rocket engine. Based on the thirty minute video, apparently a lot more went into the

This is a video of ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober (previously: his new and improved anti-porch pirate glitter bomb) constructing the world’s most powerful t-shirt cannon at the request of Jimmy Kimmel for use at the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl game of Oregon State vs Utah State. Mark enlisted the help

Because what fun is working at a fast food restaurant if you can’t make dangerous or exposé-style TikTok videos about how the food is actually made, these are a couple short clips of workers dropping baskets full of ice into deep fryers and watching them boil over, with the smoke

This is a video from WIRED of delightful trauma surgeon Annie Onishi giving a breakdown of all thirty of Harry and Marv’s injuries from Home Alone and Home Alone II: Lost in New York, discussing in detail the actual damage that would have been done to them as a result.

Presumably inspired by socially distanced birthday parties, Blower is a $2 iPhone app that can blow out a candle by holding the speaker up to the candle. What a time to be alive and celebrating another trip around the sun! The app works by generating pressure waves from the phone’s