Because chemistry and physics are magic, this is a video of a guy wowing his friend with a length of stretched out nickel-titanium wire (aka Nitinol, a shape-memory alloy) that, when heated in a glass of hot water above its transition temperature (the temperature at which it was deformed), returns
This is a man showing off for the camera with a very impressive predominately one-handed diabolo routine. For those of you unfamiliar with the diabolo, it consists of an unattached circular axle that a user spins and manipulates via a string stretched between two poles (it maintains its balance via
In honk if you’re bony news, this is a short video of a Georgia truck owner who added a skeleton to the tailgate of their truck along with a ‘HONK FOR A TREAT’ sign. What happens when you honk? The skeleton pees on your hood. Granted I would argue that’s
This is a video of a skateboarder ollieing his board through a tire while he goes over the whole thing, reconnecting with his board like two old friends on the other side. Pretty impressive. For reference, at the pinnacle of my greatest skateboarding skills I tried to ollie over a
This is a video from the 2019 (feels like forever ago, doesn’t it?) Monster Jam World Finals in Orlando, Florida of the Scooby Doo monster truck’s winning crowd-judged freestyle run by driver Linsey Reed. And while Scooby might not have helped the gang solve any mysteries, he did do some
This is a short 360-degree helmet cam video from a snowmobiler attempting a backflip when the trick goes all “Aspen, we have a problem,” while upside-down and he decides to bail. And it was probably a smart decision, because the last thing you want landing on top of you is
Because sometimes you don’t have a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, this is a video of a mom demonstrating her trick for getting her daughter to drink her liquid medicine — by passing a straw through the top of Juicy Juice box, out of a hole
This is a video of skateboarding pioneer Tony Hawk (I wonder what he’s up to these days) performing a casual half pipe 540 while holding a glass of milk and not spilling any of it. I’m not sure how many attempts it took, but based on the amount of milk