To celebrate the conclusion of the 2024 Summer Olympics (I took home the gold in staying up late to watch sports I didn’t know existed), this is a video of tabby cat Calvin demonstrating his athletic prowess by jumping through increasingly higher Olympic rings. One jump he even goes OVER

This is some first-of-its-kind drone footage captured by nature photographer Bertie Gregory of a waddle of 6-month old emperor penguin chicks diving off a 50-foot sheer ice cliff in Antarctica into the water for the first time. It is the only time in their lives they will fly. Apparently most

This is a video of parkour athlete Nico Fischer demonstrating his skills by repeatedly (and smoothly) jump-climbing up and down two parallel walls without touching the ground. His friend Aziz gave him the nickname ‘Elevator-Man’, which I’m adding to my list of blackballed houseguests. I made the mistake of letting

This is a video of adventurer Jay Alvarrez and friends jumping around on a trampoline that’s suspended below a hot air balloon floating above the clouds. There’s also a video of him skateboarding a mini half pipe suspended beneath the balloon (Red Bull did this previously). Per one particularly insightful

This is a video of a father activating Matrix mode and grabbing his two kids to leap over a snow sled, which they were directly in the path of (without intervention, this also would have served as a great lesson to teach his children about being aware of their surroundings).

This is a video of Swedish track and fielder Jesper Hellström competing in the 2022 European Championship finals and things going sideways (namely, him) during his jump. Hey, it happens. If I had a dollar for every time things didn’t go the way I’d planned, I’d have a dollar for

This is a video of a herd of baby Nigerian Dwarf goats at Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine wearing sunflower rompers and romping around a barn. This is just what I needed to get my week started. Granted it will probably all be downhill from here, and by the

Because everybody needs a hobby and the best hobbies require only a decent pair of shoes and a devil-may-care attitude, this is a video of UK freerunner Max Webb performing a corkscrew jump from a rooftop to a tiny ledge across the alley. That’s wild. Even wilder? That his friends