In sweet jeans news, this is a video of Yotuber Mad Russian Scientist demonstrating the fastest way to empty a narrow-necked liquid filled container without cutting in half with a ninja sword or smashing it with a hammer — by swirling the bottle first to create a vortex inside. This

This is a video of Youtuber The Q building a chair based on tensegrity (aka floating structural compression, links to Wikipedia) that’s large and strong enough to support the weight of a relatively lightweight adult human and a Coca-Cola can. Now I read the Wikipedia article I linked to above

Warning: Flashing images. This is a mesmerizing slow motion video (shot at 240fps, slowed to 30fps) from a GoPro attached to the main rotor of aerobatic pilot Chuck Aaron’s MBB Bo 105 helicopter as the blade spins and the helicopter takes off, the tiny wind wizards inside working their magic

This is a short video demonstrating Newton’s first law with dirt on a tennis racket. What is Newton’s first law? “Newton’s first law is you don’t talk about Newton’s first law.” Very good, I’m glad to see at least somebody payed attention in science class. Visualization of Newton's first law

This is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel of the creation of increasingly larger LEGO powered water vortices, ending with one that’s so powerful there’s hardly any water in the bottom of the bucket as the vortex spins. Now that is powerful. Now I hate to point any fingers,

This is a video of archer and Youtuber James Jean (cool name) demonstrating how to curve arrows around an object to hit something behind it. Pretty cool. Of course if you really need to learn now to curve an arrow around an object to hit something behind it what you

This is a video from the Noboribetsu Marine Park in Japan of a seal that has a circular ring to swim through that’s above the waterline, which works on the same principle (atmospheric pressure) as those floating pond bubbles that fish can swim up into. Per Youtube commenter agerven on

This is a video from Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, of a dirt devil absolutely wrecking an elderly gentleman’s fruit stand and giving his produce the ride of its life, tossing some as far as 200-yards away. Those melons probably never thought they’d get the chance to fly. Some more info