Because dream it and you achieve it (or, in my case, die giving it the ol’ college-try nowhere near your goal), this is a video of Ernest Brenchley of freestyle trampoline crew(?) Radial Flipz performing what is allegedly the world’s first trampoline octuple backflip with the help of a couple

This is a short video of a puzzle cuber solving a Skewb Cube (a Rubik’s Cube-like puzzle consisting of five-piece faces “with cuts through the centre, orthogonal to the main diagonals”) so fast (I think he says 1.51-seconds) the guy working the backup stopwatch is confused as to what just

Because humans will always need cups and people to stack them efficiently, this is a video of a speed stacker stacking and unstacking a 36-cup pyramid in a blistering 8.462-seconds. Is that some sort of new record? No clue, he seems pretty excited about it though, so I’m excited for

Daring to dream: some people aren’t afraid to do it. Case in point: this video of the Brick Experiment Channel trying to construct the world’s longest 1:1 LEGO gear train (with first and last gears turning at the same speed), all driven by a single LEGO Power Functions motor. And

This is a short video of dare-to-dreamer Casey Loftus demonstrating a variety of his very impressive trick shots. He’s got everything: chipping a golf ball into the mouth of a five-gallon water jug, throwing a book in between two other books on a bookshelf, banking a Wii disk off the

Because you don’t know until you try, this is a video of a giant dragonfly inspired R/C ornithopter (an aircraft that achieves flight by flapping its wings) taking to the skies. I’ll be honest: when I first saw that thing I thought there’s no way it’s getting off the ground,

This is a video of cat Alexis and human Anika of Austria setting the Guinness World Record for most cat tricks in one minute, with a very respectable 26 (although whether some of these should qualify as tricks remains highly debatable — e.g. ‘look left’). Anika adopted Alexis when he

This is a video from Chiba, Japan’s Ichihara Elephant Kingdom of a comical looking overambitious seagull repeatedly trying to eat an entire capybara. Talk about having eyes bigger than your stomach! I actually knew a kid in high school that really did have eyes bigger than his stomach. Took up