Maker of period accurate medieval weaponry (mostly swords, crossbows, and daggers), Tod of Tod’s Workshop went and constructed himself a trebuchet. And in this video he uses it to launch a packet of 100 darts (held together with a burning fuse so they disperse in the air) to see how

This is a short clip of a jumping spider approaching a house fly, determining which way it will take off (SPOILER: forwards), then grabbing it out of the air as soon as it does. Impressive. Of course the right way to take off would have been as soon as it

This is a video of a mother moose (not to be confused with Mother Goose, who would be far less effective at scaring away a bear) repeatedly treeing a black bear nearing her calves. Moose: they’re huge and you don’t want to mess with them. They’re not deer, you can’t

In how could I not try this at home news, this is a video of the funger (fun-danger) loving couple of the Hydraulic Press channel pitting circular saw blades attached against one another. First they do a couple battles with the blades aligned, then even more with the blades perpendicular

I’m pretty sure I posted this on Geekologie many moons ago, but it’s resurfaced like a mermaid trying to lure me into the water and my death by its hungry shark friends, so I’m tempting fate and posting it again. It’s a video of a red octopus battling a swimmer

This is HADARI, a short stop-motion pilot about a one-armed wooden samurai kicking ass, and, at least from what I saw, not bothering to take names. That’s how I like to do it too. He uses a number of different arm attachments to dispatch enemies in his way, who spray

Because sometimes you just have to get medieval on a stump, this is a video of modern Hobbit Jacob of Youtube channel Cabinland chopping wood using a chain flail axe he made. Per Jason: “The advantages of the flail axe are numerous. The build up of kinetic energy achieved through

This is a video of two useless machines having an intense switching battle. For those of you unfamiliar, a useless machine is a machine designed to unflip a switch when it’s flipped, and nothing else. In this case, two 8-switch useless machines connected to each other’s switches via rods constantly