In I’m pretty sure I remember a Mythbusters episode about this news, this is a video of The Action Lab half-heartedly experimenting to see if a swimmer (read: wind-up turtle toy) can swim just as fast in syrup as in water. The idea is that although syrup is more viscous,

These are a couple video demonstrations of musician Anthony Dickens’ Circle Guitar, a guitar with a rapidly spinning disk that strums the strings, so a performer only has to fret. There are also buttons that activate various effects, and the guitar is MIDI and DAW compatible. Some more info about

This is a video of two ring-necked parakeets having a sweet, humanlike conversation with each other and making kissy sounds. They sound like lovebirds! Like, two people in love, not actual lovebirds because lovebirds generally aren’t talkers. Man, birds are nuts. It’s almost hard to believe the government went through

In news that shouldn’t surprise anyone who wants no part of whatever the hell is going on in the photo above, researchers have discovered that painting large eyespots on cow asses helps deters predation from large carnivores. Some more info from the recently published Communications Biology article while I paint

This is a short gif (below) of the 88-milligram RoBeetle developed by a research team experimenting with the use of methanol to help power artificial muscles in robotics. Some more info about the tiny crawler while I sweep my office for bugs because *lowering voice* igBay otherBray isyay everywhereyay. In

Because Germans sure love their sausages, this is a short video of German Youtuber patricks world demonstrating his electric circuit based ‘Bockworst Piano’. Simple enough. So, you think he ate all those sausages afterward? I’d hate to know they all went to waste. Regardless, I think we can all agree–

Because a lot of people take the wheels on the bus going round and round for granted, this is a video from Warped Perception (like most people have), who mounted a GoPro to the rim inside a car tire to see what it looks like inside as it’s driven around

Note: Keep your volume in check, my dogs still went crazy. This is a video from a group of scuba divers in the Bahamas as they repeatedly get pinged by a nearby Arleigh Burke-class destroyer’s sonar. That doesn’t sound like a very pleasant experience. And imagine how the mermaids must