This is a Guinness World Record video highlighting the tongue of a St. Bernard named Mochi, who was just awarded the record for longest dog tongue. You may recall the recently posted record holder for largest circumference human female tongue. It’s a world record tongue kind of week. Next week:
This is a video compilation highlighting the work of artist LeopARTnik, who takes videos of birds doing things and adds stick arms and accessories, making the videos infinitely better. When I logged onto AOL this morning this is exactly what I was hoping to see. It’s pure perfection. There’s a
This is a video of musician Christian Nolen strumming his guitar while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor growing near the hand/motor area of his brain. Doctors needed Christian to be awake and using his hands in order to monitor Christian’s motor control during the operation, and playing the
This is a video of Jenny DuVander of Portland, Oregon having her tongue measured and being awarded the Guinness World Record for largest tongue circumference (female) in the world, with a massive 5.21″ clapper. Damn! The current male record is 6.3″, and must look like dude is choking on a
This is a video of the banjo strumming trio of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing their take on the original Super Mario Bros. overworld and underworld themes. They do a fantastic job. Me? I would have butchered those songs, then smashed my banjo on stage and asked the nonexistent audience who
This is a video captured aboard a Varda space capsule launched by SpaceX that’s reentering the earth’s atmosphere at around Mach 25, or around 17,500MPH. That’s fast. Varda developed the W1 capsule for companies that want to test or manufacture in space (in this case, drug manufacturing in zero-gravity). The
This is a 6-minute compilation of cats doing what they do best besides sleeping: being little jerks. There are a LOT of good clips in there. Some are of cats deliberately being jerks, while others are of cats unintentionally being jerks. I particularly enjoyed it when they broke things. As
These are a couple videos from psychologist Edgar Ciancio, who attached the business end of a garden hose to the cone of a subwoofer to vibrate the water coming out in sync with the sound waves produced. Pretty cool, and I can’t wait to demonstrate this at my next BBQ