This is a video of “Slinky Josh” Jacobs at a pool hall in Guangdong, China demonstrating his Slinky skills with a friend. Not to brag or anything, but I almost had a Slinky go all the way down the stairs once. “Only almost?” Just five stairs shy. This though, this

This is a video of a custom car that looks like a truck towing a trailer that’s driving in reverse. It’s not really though, the trailer is actually the car and the truck is being towed behind it. It took me three views to comprehend what I was watching, but

This is a video of Norwegian mountain biker Brage Vestavik riding down an absolutely bonkers trail made with what appear to be lengths of cut shipping pallets. “It’s called wood.” And wood is good. Red Bull titled the video ‘The Gnarliest Line Ever Ridden?’, and while it certainly might be

In other cat news, this is a compilation video of cats responding to hearing their owners speak through pet surveillance cameras. Some freak out and run, some swat the camera, and one appears to trip and turn into a ninja (was that even real at 0:40?). My favorite though is

This is a closeup timelapse video of a praying mantis eating a fly. Please note I used a relatively tame screencap for the photo above but that mantis doesn’t always have the decency to cover it’s face while eating, and it digs into that fly like I would an ice

Folding laundry: hands down my least favorite chore. I don’t even know why, I regularly dodge angry wasps doing yard work and do the dishes and vacuum and a million other things, but for whatever reason when it’s time to fold laundry it just sits in the dryer until I

This is a short video from Shandong, China during the recent Qingdao International Beer Festival of twin Raidens dancing atop giant Tesla coils and sharing some lightning between them. Whatever happened to not crossing the streams? I have to admit though, this is the exact sort of entertainment I would

After performing a modified version the classic rubber hand experiment on octopuses, Japanese researchers Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda at The University of the Ryukyus have suggested octopuses may experience a sense of body ownership similar to humans. In the experiment, a partition and fake tentacle were used to cover