These are several shots of LEGO Certified Professional builder Jumpei Mitsui’s 50,000-piece interpretation of Katsushika Hokusai’s classic Japanese woodblock print ‘The Great Wave Of Kanagawa’, originally published between 1829 and 1833. *reminiscing fondly* I can remember it like it was yesterday. “1829?” It was the end of the late Edo

This is a video of the winner of the ‘Best Illusion Of The Year’, as created by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Tokyo. The 3D Schröder Staircase “looks exactly the same right-side-up and upside-down, its left end looking taller than its right.” It was pretty fun to watch,

In cool cats and kittens news, this is a video of caracal kitten Kora at the Wild Cat Conservation Center in New South Wales, Australia demonstrating her absolutely perfect ear flick. Apparently caracals actually use their tufted ears to communicate with each other. And, as someone who just watched the

Just like the wooden sign in the kitchen at my girlfriend’s parents’ house says that I laugh to myself every time I see: back door friends are best. And this is a video from apartment hunter Jamie Wilkes who was shown a property with a very unique back door into

This is a short video from Vung Tau, Vietnam of a tiny sand bubbler crab quickly constructing a sand igloo before the tide comes in. The tiny crab will remain in its little temporary home with a bubble of air and continue to dig sand from beneath it and plaster

This is a video of a Norwegian fisherman jumping while in rough seas and appearing to defy gravity. I also included a video of him walking at an almost 45-degree angle while the boat is rocking. To me that does not look like a good time. At least not for

Because magic is all around us, you just have to know where to look (PROTIP: look behind doors marked ‘FOR WITCHES AND WIZARDS ONLY’), this is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill demonstrating two chemical reaction tricks: one which creates very realistic looking fake blood, and another that

This is a photo of a single atom as captured by scientist David Nadlinger. The photo, which David very cleverly titled ‘Atom In An Ion Trap’, features a strontium atom (with 38 protons and a diameter of a few millionths of a millimeter) visible in the very center of the