Because I demand my curly fries be at least six feet long, this is a video highlighting ‘Doug’, a record-breaking 7.9kg (17.4-pound) potato discovered by Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of Wellington, New Zealand, while weeding their garden. Some more info about the accidental discovery of their record-breaking tuber while I
Well folks, summer is long gone and it’s time to buckle down for an ungodly brutal winter (the woolly bear caterpillars have spoken to me). But in remembrance of warmer days, this is a timelapse video of a couple sunflowers blooming over the course of ten days. Watching it I
This is a drone video of people trying to make their way through the 7-acre maize maze at Hank’s Pumpkintown in Water Mill, New York. Corn mazes: just like hayrides, they’re good fall fun. Plus they’re easy to find your way out of if you don’t mind running straight through
This is a small five gallon fish tank set up for ember tetras by aquarist Carly Thompson that features an abandoned AT-AT toy at the bottom that given to her by her brother for Christmas. Some more details while I remember seeing a poison dart frog vivarium recently that had
This is a video of Damian from California Carnivores pouring out a hybrid Nepenthes pitcher plant (Nepenthes truncata x Nepenthes lowii) that caught and digested a small rodent, likely a mouse. In the wilds of Borneo, Nepenthes lowii produces a substance that attracts tree shrews, which come and eat the
Because occasionally drunken cheeseburger-eating prayers do get answered, this is the $20 David Hasselhoff Chia Pet available for pre-order from Entertainment Earth (presumably among other places). Obviously, as far as Chia Pets to practice your kissing on go, this is a pretty good one. Also Bob Ross and any of
This is a compilation video created by a hedge-trimming business based out of Melbourne, Australia of a number of hedge-trimming jobs reaching their very satisfying conclusions. God, if they had actually left any of those uncut bits it really would have bothered me. I’m what you might call a perfectonest.
Cutting Venus fly trap jaws from the plant then controlling them with a smartphone via electrical impulse: no good is going to come out of whatever the hell direction this research is headed. But is that stopping the scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from pressing forward? No it