This is a video of Youtuber Flavor Lab discussing the ingredients in Red Bull, then attempting to create his own bathtub energy elixir. The drink is predominately flavored with the citrus oil he produces by soaking the peels of 4 oranges and 2 limes in sugar, but also includes some

Because there’s no quicker way to my girlfriend’s heart than fried potatoes, this is a video of Turkish chef Sihirli Lezzetler showing us all how to make fried potato roses. Basically, you cut a bunch of thin circular potato slices before wrapping them together in layers, peeling back the petals,

This is a video of Youtuber and “science dude” Joe Myheck making a mermaid crown by pouring molten Nordic gold (a gold-colored alloy of copper, aluminum, zinc, and tin) into a trash can filled with Orbeez beads. The result is beautiful, and there’s no doubt in my mind that crown

This is a video of Youtuber Inheritance Machining creating a Mobius cube — a cube that, like it’s Mobius strip cousin, only has a single side. My brain hurts just thinking about it. I remember the first time I saw M.C. Esher’s Mobius Strip II (with the red ants) I

This is a video of Youtuber Island Vibe Cooking providing a copycat recipe for McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Weird, I didn’t see any pink slime in the recipe. I always assumed the recipe would just be 1) acquire bag of pink slime and 2) fry pink slime in the shape of

Want to impress Elsa from Frozen? This is a video demonstrating how to make a rose entirely out of snow (plus a stick or stem). It looks simple enough. Unfortunately, I tried it and mine looks less like a rose and more like a lumpy snowball on a stick. My

This is a short clip of a Guatemalan chef demonstrating how to open an avocado with some well placed hand pressure, without the need for a knife. That’s handy(!), because knives and I do NOT get along. Honestly, I’m lucky to still have seven fingers. Still, I’ll probably still open

This is a video of Derek Muller of Veritasium discussing the mechanics of extreme breath holding while athlete Brandon Birchak is submerged in a tank of water the entire time, holding his breath for an astonishing 17 minutes (the world record is 24 minutes, 37 seconds). Damn! Five seconds and