I’m sure by now you’re all familiar with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, right? Giant kinetic moving sculptures that convert wind energy into movement, usually in the form of tens of walking legs? Well now Theo has introduced Strandbeest Evolution 2021, a new line of beests, some of which can take to

Because I’m not really sure why, but there’s definitely no excuse for it, this is a video of ‘The Prayer’, a robotic mouth developed by conceptual scientist Diemut Strebe at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology that endlessly sings AI-generated prayers. It was developed “to explore the possibilities of

These are several shots of a clear plastic inflatable looking chair that wasn’t designed to be filled with your labored breath and spittle — oh no, it’s designed for filling WITH STUFFED ANIMALS. Or maybe it’s just an inflatable chair somebody repurposed, I really don’t know because I just stumbled

Because apparently under the sea anything goes, this is a video of diver Patrick Seligman allowing a Pacific cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis) to clean his teeth off the coast of Maui. Pacific cleaner shrimp have developed a symbiotic relationship with many marine fish, being compensated for their cleaning services with

Because Mother Nature is even trippier than dropping acid at Cracker Barrel, this is a video detailing the process by which honeypot ants turn some females into repletes — living storage tanks full of nectar for when food is scarce. Nectar can both be added to and fed from the

This is a video of TikTok user sabrenahnetterville trying to remove a husky from the bath and the husky screaming bloody murder because apparently she likes it in there. I like how she can scream while it looks like she’s just panting — that’s a solid ventriloquist act and if

This is a video captured by the unmanned rover Doc Ricketts at a depth of 725 meters (2,378 feet) highlighting the strawberry squid (presumably named because it only eats strawberries), and particularly its two significantly different sized eyeballs. Why is there such a huge difference in ball size? My doctor

This is a video of a flamboyant cuttlefish (like that’s what it’s actually called, not because I think it’s doing jazz hands all the time) demonstrating its hypnotic color and pattern-changing abilities (the screencap doesn’t do it justice) while trying to signal the mothership to beam it up and return