This is a video highlighting the 130-long garden tunnel grown by horticulturist Steve Mills, which features plums, peaches, apples, pumpkins, and pears growing on all sides and overhead. How about that — just reach in any direction and there’s something to eat! It’s not unlike my desk in that regard.
This is a video of Youtuber Brick Technology (previously) pitting five different LEGO car builds (simple car, square car, jumping car, propeller car, and pole jumper) against increasingly bigger potholes to see which fares the best. It’s a fun watch (especially the jumping car, propeller car, and pole jumper), and
This is a 1000x magnification of tardigrades (aka waterbears) hatching. The mother tardigrade produces the eggs then sheds her skin with the eggs inside, which are protected until hatching. They’re also trapped and have to find their way out of the skin or die. The whole hatching process takes about
These are a couple videos highlighting the journey of father/son team Mike and Luke Bell as they attempt to reclaim the world record for fastest quadrocopter drone after their record was snatched from them last year. There’s a lot of interesting discussion about the engineering and testing of the drone,
This is a video of a robotic spy octopus built by John Downer Productions for the BBC/PBS series Spy In The Wild capturing the daily activities of a coconut octopus. And what exciting daily activities they are! The coconut octopus is unique in that it’s one of only two species
This is a video of a man spinning himself into the Matrix on a piece of playground equipment. We didn’t have that particular apparatus on my school playground growing up. We had seesaws, swings, a jungle gym, a metal slide that squeaked the skin right off your legs as you
This is a video of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing a challenging 5/4 time cover of John Carpenter’s Halloween theme on a trio of banjos. It’s a tasty jam. Really made me want to rewatch Halloween. I’m not sure I’ll be able to find the time though, my girlfriend already has
This is a video of cats experiencing thick water for the first time. What’s thick water? Water that’s had a thickening agent like xanthan gum or modified cornstarch added to make it more viscous for people with dysphagia (a medical condition that makes it difficult to swallow non-viscous liquids without