52-year old Englishman David Morris was taking a leisurely stroll along the shore of Gillan in Cornwall (presumably on the lookout for mermaids) when he spotted a floating ship. “A ghost-pirate ship?!” I think an oil tanker. Some more info about the phenomenon while I blow a coworker’s mind with

Because experimenting is the key to a happy marriage, this is a video of James Orgill of The Action Lab trying to run off the back of a moving trailer at the same speed his wife is towing it forward to see if the two opposite motions will negate each

Because ignorance comes in all shapes and sizes (e.g. the shape and size of everyone in this video), this is an hour long compilation of the nation’s top at-home scientists trying to melt snowballs with lighters or candles and claiming the snow isn’t melting, it’s actually burning and the black

Apparently Bill Nye attempted some standup in the early 80’s because he wasn’t sure if he wanted to go the science or comedy route, and this is the result, courtesy of Seattle Public Access TV channel 29. The first clip is just a single joke from the set, the second

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

Because magic is all around us, you just have to know where to look (PROTIP: look behind doors marked ‘FOR WITCHES AND WIZARDS ONLY’), this is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill demonstrating two chemical reaction tricks: one which creates very realistic looking fake blood, and another that

Because trying hard and believing yourself is the name of the game, this is a video of New Zealand based Youtuber Liam Thompson attempting to create the world’s largest dry ice bubble. What’s a dry ice bubble? Basically a bubble that fills itself up with the carbon dioxide gas that’s

In I’m pretty sure I remember a Mythbusters episode about this news, this is a video of The Action Lab half-heartedly experimenting to see if a swimmer (read: wind-up turtle toy) can swim just as fast in syrup as in water. The idea is that although syrup is more viscous,