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

Remember Monkey, the Ninja Warrior course tackling dog? Well this is a compilation video of all sixty tricks he learned before turning one. Perching on a single rope (above) — now that’s impressive. For reference, my dogs are two and eight and I’m not sure if they even know their