This is a video of very talented bagpiper Piper.Ally performing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s epic ‘Free Bird’ guitar solo on her instrument. She does a fantastic job, and I’d like to request that instead of a bagpipe rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’ being played at my funeral, I want this instead. And I

This is a video from Chiang Mai, Thailand, of a bar band trio absolutely crushing a cover of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What A Wonderful World’. It’s really the singer’s vocals that send the song over the top — if you closed your eyes and couldn’t see who was singing it would

This is a Great Big Story interview with Australian voice actor Karen Jacobsen, jokingly known as “the only woman men will take directions from.” Since 2002, Karen has been the voice of over 1-billion GPS devices and smartphone apps. Ha, I knew I recognized her from somewhere! She lives in

Because some people like to brag about how they have infinitely more balance than I do, this is a video of freestyle cyclist Fabio Wibmer riding down two sets of stairs backwards, balancing only on the front wheel. That’s impressive. Entirely impractical, but impressive. Still, if Fabio was your weed

This is a video of athlete Eugen Enin performing an incredibly long railgrind (the sharp curve at the end is most impressive) while wearing a pair of Red Lava Grindshoes from Epic Grindshoes. He makes it look easy. Me? A friend of a friend in high school allegedly saw a

This is a video of cockatoos that have learned to use multiple tools in order to receive rewards, in this case using a sharp stick to poke a hole through a membrane, then a long straw to retrieve cashew nuts. Apparently the ability to use toolsets has only previously been

This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —

WARNING: Screaming, turn your volume down. In what I assume is a deleted scene from Ocean’s Eleven, this is a video of a squirrel hiding in the upper corner of a porch and immediately diving into the home as soon as the door is opened for a pizza delivery. That’s