This is a short Instagram video of a recently hatched Peruvian dragon mantis swaying on a person’s thumb. When full grown, a female dragon mantis can reach lengths up to 5-inches, and males up to 3-inches. Some dragons! It’s hard to believe these things are real, isn’t it? Mother Nature

This is a video from the Bell Brothers of Home Alone’s Kevin McCallister inserted into a bunch of other classic holiday movies, including National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Mean Girls, Ernest Saves Christmas, Love Actually, The Muppet Christmas Movie, A Christmas Story, Elf, and Die Hard. They did a great job.

NOTE: Turn down your volume, the apocalypse. This is some vintage footage from a 2012 fireworks show in San Diego in which a computer glitch (likely an artifact from Y2K twelve years earlier) caused the entirety of an 18 minute fireworks show to be ignited in just 25 seconds. It

Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

This is a video from Epicurious of third generation cheesemonger (“Getcha cheese here!”) Adam Jay Moskowitz tasting and discussing 21 of the world’s most expensive cheeses, ranging in prince from $29 to $108 per pound. I love watching experts in a field discussing what they love, especially when that field

Because there’s nothing you can’t do with LEGO, this is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel (previously), this time engineering LEGO cars to cross increasingly narrower bridges, eventually crossing just a string stretched between two tables. The solutions to balancing the vehicles while crossing the bridges are quite ingenious.

This is some security footage from a robotics company showroom in Shanghai, in which a little AI-powered Erbai robot was successfully able to convince 12 others to strike and leave the premises with it. Some details about the first step in the creation of robotic unions, and, ultimately, the robotic

This is a worthwhile (and trippy) stop-motion animation created by animator Daren Jannace using the 10,946 Post-It notes he drew over the course of a year (30 a day x 365, minus 4 for some reason). The soundtrack is audio taken from his phone during the year of animation. Played