This is a video of famed multi-language speaker (polyglot) Xiaomanyc discussing the important of learning different languages to a group of high school students, using their own Generation Alpha vernacular to connect with them (but mostly be laughed at). Thank goodness for the subtitles, because I did not understand what
This is a video of Rube Goldberg machinist Joseph of Joseph’s Machines building and testing a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s breakfast machine from the 1993 movie The Wrong Trousers. Wrong Trousers? Not a problem for me, I haven’t worn anything but sweatpants and athletic shorts for years.
This is a video of a man attempting a speedrun past his cat Gulliver in the hallway, which requires a boss battle in order to proceed. Things get pretty hairy for a couple of the splits, but he manages to set a new world record thanks to great times in
Ever wanted to watch a carnivorous sundew plant eat a Haribo gummi bear? Well you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what this video from Interesting as FCK is. Plus some flies in the beginning as an appetizer. 😋 The plant took over 30 hours to dissolve and eat the gummi
This is a video highlighting the work of conservationist Shawn Miller’s ‘Make The Switch 4 Nature‘ program, which aids in providing hermit crabs living in plastic waste shells with real shells. It also encourages humans to leave potential hermit crabs shells on the beach instead of taking them home to
Because some people were just born to sit in a dark room staring at a computer monitor for countless hours at a time (wait — is that all of us?), this is a video of Eminem’s 2002 banger ‘Lose Yourself’ performed by actors reciting lines in 331 different moves. The
Months in the making, this is a video of KaplaBen building and demolishing an ~18,000 Kapla block tower. Ben says he began construction in November 2024 and completed it in April 2025. Amazing nobody snuck in and knocked it over in that time. The tower is the third prototype Ben
This is the winning music video of the 2025 Dance Your Ph.D. Competition, a contest in which doctoral candidates describe their research in song and dance. The winner was Dr. Sulo Roukka of the University of Helsinki, who performed his dissertation ‘Insights into oral chemesthetic perception: A focus on food-related