This is a video of a man demonstrating how to split a boulder in half with nothing but a hammer and some stone splitting shims. Remember: half of any battle is having the right tools for the job. The other half, at least in this case, is not getting crushed
This is a super short video of Washington State University track and fielder Ray Wells Jr. casually clearing a 61-inch (5-foot, 1-inch) hurdle with the apparent ease of stepping over a passed out roommate. For reference, I fell trying to put my pants on this morning and hurt my elbow.
This is a video from The Action Lab experimenting to determine whether a venus fly trap can eat a jelly bean. SPOILER: Yes, and attract a bunch of ants in the days-long process. Jelly beans, huh? I suppose that’s cool if you’re the sort of lowly peasant that hands out
This is a short video of a pitcher throwing a clever sleight-of-hand pitch for a strike. That’s cool, but you still need two more for an out, and I think the jig is up with this pitch. I’d mix it up with maybe something behind the back or between the
This is a video from the Nagasaki Bio Park in Japan of a group of capybaras eating a giant pumpkin that was delivered to them as a treat, just digging right in and eating the whole damn thing, rind and all. Impressive. When reached for comment about the feat, Carole
Last week it was just a decorated length of PVC pipe, this week: a ghostly zipline created by Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks to provide candy to children and beer to parents while trick-or-treating. After zipping, the basket is returned to the porch via an electric drill attached to a
This is a video of a Boeing 747 departing from Anchorage, Alaska and producing some insane condensation in the process. It almost looks like a smoke screen. Of course anybody worth their weight in idiotic conspiracy theories and believing everything they read online knows good and well this isn’t actually
This is a video from the guys of DemolitionRanch firing a few handgun rounds directly down the barrel of a Glock 45 ACP to see what will happen after each one, and whether or not the gun will still be able to fire after each shot. The results may surprise