Note: Just watch the video, if you aren’t impressed by thirty seconds you’re unimpressible. This is a video of the first place sparring routine at the 13th World Wushu Championships in 2015 as choreographed and performed by Xiao Wu and Long Long Shi with an insane empty hand versus spear
This is a video of the biochemist behind Youtube channel NileRed Shorts (previously: dissolving a penny in nitric acid) discussing why white phosphorus is so dangerous, in a very watchable 50 seconds. So, why is white phosphorus so dangerous? Because it reacts with oxygen and likes to GET LIT and
This is a video from what I can only assume is an underage college party of a group taking flaming shots and a dude briefly turning into one of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons (I think Drogon?) before slapping the fire on his face out while his friends attempt to extinguish the
This guy. Man, I feel like he really deserves an award. Or at least a reckless driving ticket. One thing’s for certain though: if you’re playing real-life Tetris, you want this guy on your team. I bet that old codger from Up wishes he’d thought of this. 4/5 stars was
This is a video of cyclist Michael Guerra Supermanning on his brakeless bike for a while to demonstrate how the lower wind resistance helps him cruise past other cyclists with ease. That’s cool, but at least those cyclists are upright with their feet on the pedals and not already in
This is a video of incredibly skilled cyclist Danny MacAskill downhilling the massive granite slabs on Scotland’s Isle Of Skye, where he’s from. His goal was to try to ride The Slabs in the most continuous line that he could. Now I don’t know about you, but my hands started
This is a video of a team of sherpas calmly rescuing a Mount Everest climber who falls while crossing a ladder bridge above a crevasse at the Khumbu Icefall. How cool and collected they are — those are definitely the people you want rescuing you from otherwise certain death. Per
This is a video from Yellowstone National Park of a woman tripping and falling while being charged by a bison, and playing dead to avoid attack. Thankfully, it works. But what’s up with all these people wandering out into fields dangerously close to bison? It’s not like bison are ninjas