Note: Some appropriate excitement and colorful language following the landing. This is a video of flight instructor Kilo Tango Aviation flying with student LeoStixx86 for the first time outside a simulator and surprising him by letting him land the plane. Some more details while I tighten the shoulder straps on
Using AI learning, scientists at the University of Tokyo’s ISI Laboratory have successfully taught a pair of robotic arms to peel a banana without tearing your penis off with one hand and vaporizing it with the laser blaster in its other. Congratulations? Handling soft fruit is tricky for robots, but
These are two TikTok videos of Texas A&M University physics and astronomy professor Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova demonstrating inertia (the property of an object to resist change in its motion) with two experiments: one involving pounding a knife through a skewered potato with a rubber mallet, and another dropping an egg
This is a video from musician and Youtuber Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of metal music, from the 1950’s to present. His lesson plan includes “a medley of metal examples accompanied by descriptions, artists, and albums that typified each era.” Neato. Of course if you don’t have time to
This is a video of a precious baby seal learning to swim as part of its rehabilitation at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Man, that seal is ALL EYES. What a cutie. You know I have fairly large eyes too. EIGHT OF THEM. “You’re not a spider.” Yes I am too
This is a vintage video of elderly ass-kicker John McSweeney teaching the ‘power strikes of combat karate’ so you can better defend yourself in the event a mustachioed man named Paul wants to do you harm. Or if Paul doesn’t actually want to do you any harm but you’re just
Because they sure don’t make them like they used to, this is a video of habitual learner of things Mike Boyd documenting the process in which he learned how to ride a penny-farthing bicycle. Surprisingly, the process didn’t just involve patiently waiting for his handlebar mustache to grow in and
Because packages don’t deliver themselves — yet — this is a video from Insider providing a look inside one of UPS’s twelve Integrad driver training facilities, where its 129,000 drivers learn “how to drive safely, load vans efficiently and even how to walk on ice” in order to deliver 21