This is a video (complete with trick list) of Japanese yo-yo master Hajime Miura securing his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo World Championship with an incredible dual yo-yo performance that’s hard to wrap my head around. Wrapping a yo-yo string around my legs and tripping myself? Easy. Wrapping my head around
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
This is a video of bee lover Alisha Bixler removing a bee hive home to an estimated 40,000 bees from behind a bedroom wall. I wonder how long it took the homeowner to realize the previous owner hadn’t just left a vibrator in the wall. I love watching people who
I love listening to experts discuss their subjects. They know so much! Me? I know very little about anything. And you know what they say about ignorance. “It’s bliss.” That can’t be right though because I’m miserable. This is a video from Epicurious of professional cheese expert Liz Thorpe reviewing
This is a video from WIRED of entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware answering questions about insects that were submitted by internet users, including could cockroaches survive a nuclear war? Do dragonflies and flies coordinate their flight while mating? Why do crickets chirp? Are tarantulas dangerous? PLUS MORE. Sooooo much more. I
This is a video of firearms expert and the UK’s Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson (complete with an “I’m Your Huckleberry” t-shirt under his blazer) reacting to and seriously discussing a variety of the outlandish weapons seen in the video game DOOM: The Dark Ages. That look on his
This is a video of a roller skater releasing a skate from his foot, letting it arc around the concessions area, then regrouping with his skate further down the rink. That’s incredible. And I should know, I’m quite the accomplished roller skater myself. When I was a kid I won
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