This is a video of natefromtheinternet popping a balloon full of Heinz ketchup to demonstrate its unique properties. Namely, that it’s a non-Newtonian fluid (a fluid whose viscosity changes depending on the amount of force or pressure applied to it), and, unlike cornstarch and water which becomes almost solid under

This is a video of “PhD in mathematical physics, leftie, and Trekkie” Dr. Blitz doing his best to explain quantum computing simply in under 3 minutes. Do I understand quantum computing now? Absolutely not. I do think I understand it better than I did, but before I just thought it

This is a chart of the ten Wikipedia articles that received the most page views in 2024. The results may or may not surprise you depending on how much you suspected people rely on Wikipedia for their political information. Honestly, I was more surprised that the search results page for

This is a video of TikTok user sanxyra providing the correct pronunciations for a handful of road names in Iceland, which all look suspiciously like they were chosen by pouring out Scrabble tiles. Because I have a curious mind, I went to Youtube to find a video of a GPS

This is a video from Youtuber Animagraffs detailing what every button, switch, knob, screen, lever, and control device in a modern airliner cockpit does. SPOILER: nothing, they’re all just for show and were specifically designed to convince passengers that airplanes are flown via complex technology and not the fact there’s

In valuable information news, this is a video from the Science Channel taking a deep, stinking dive into the physics and engineering behind how toilets work. It was fascinating. And by fascinating I mean I already knew how toilets work. So, if you don’t feel like watching the video but

Because the Drug Enforcement Agency is clearly two steps ahead of the game, the DEA recently released a chart of emojis for parents to be aware of that may indicate their children may be purchasing and using drugs. Above is that chart. So basically all emojis mean drugs, especially the

Note: Chart has been cropped, keep going to see the whole thing. This is a handy cheatsheet of the collective nouns for different animal groups as compiled by the WriteAtHome blog in alphabetical order. I learned so much by reading it. Mostly, that I would totally smoke the other contestants