Presumably tipped off that my grandma always sends my Christmas money early, LEGO has just announced its largest and most expensive set to date: the Star Wars Death Star. The set contains 9,023 pieces (including 33 minifigs), and measures 32″ wide, 28″ tall, and 11″ deep. It will release October

This is a video of LEGO lover and Youtuber Dr. Engine using a single Technic motor to drive increasingly longer LEGO chains, ending with a 3,000 link chain that I was surprised to even see move. Although, FULL DISCLOSURE: I am easy to surprise and often get jump scared if

This is a video featuring the late great astronomer Carl Sagan reading the popular excerpt from his 1994 book ‘Pale Blue Dot’, set to the classical music piece ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt for extra poignancy. The original photo, which features earth as seen from a distance of some

Presumably having burnt all his bridges with boat-owning friends, this is a video of Youtuber BCmtb water skiing down a drainage ditch into the ocean (previously: kayakers going down one). In his own words, which thankfully were not last ones, “Let’s hope I can make these corners.” Our collective hope

This is a GoPro video from kayaker Mateo Niclas, who spotted a beluga whale beached in the mudflats of a river in Alaska, and quickly jumped into action to return the animal to the water. With the help of his fellow kayakers and a group of nearby boaters, they were

In surprisingly captivating news, this is a drone video from Argentina of a tire being rolled down one of the steepest dunes in the world. It rolls for three minutes! The soundtrack is also Enya’s ‘Only Time’, which adds to the beauty of the video. Honestly, it might just be

Cheese expert: that’s a dream title. I’m still very much a cheese amateur, but one day I do hope of being awarded expert status. “You only eat mozzarella sticks.” MIND YOUR BUSINESS. This is a video of professional cheese expert (so jealous) Liz Thorpe tasting and discussing increasingly stinkier cheeses

Because what good is a power bank if you can’t inconveniently play old video games on it, this is a video of Aaron Christophel playing Doom on an Anker 250W Prime Charging Bank’s 2.26-inch 480×200-pixel display using the bank’s twisty clicky knob to control Doomguy. Now I wasn’t able to