This is a short clip of a Guatemalan chef demonstrating how to open an avocado with some well placed hand pressure, without the need for a knife. That’s handy(!), because knives and I do NOT get along. Honestly, I’m lucky to still have seven fingers. Still, I’ll probably still open

This is a short clip of New York Knicks player Josh Hart using the back of Celtics opponent Jrue Holiday for a 3-point assist after committing to a jump shot and realizing he’d get an up-and-down traveling call if he didn’t do something with the ball. So he bounces his

Because all work and no play makes Jack basically me, this is a video of a man dismounting a roof by using two long straight poles and a shovel under his ass to slide back down to the ground after finishing his work up there. Very clever. Although what I

This is a video of Tom Scott riding the elevator at the New Town Hall in Hannover, Germany, an elevator that follows the 17-degree curvature of the cupola dome to the observation tower at the top. The elevator was originally constructed in 1913, and gutted and fitted with a new

This is a compilation of clips from a trail-cam in Yellowstone National Park of wolf parents bringing “toys” back to the den after a hunt to calm their anxious pups. Usually in the form of bones and antlers, but also the occasional tree branch. Some more details about the behavior

This is a video from the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa of a troop of baboons avoiding a pride of lions by hiding underneath the bridge the lions are traveling across. Smart. Me? I hide from lions by living 10,200 miles away from most of them. It’s been

This is a video of a man scaring a black bear out of his backyard by donning the top half of a grizzly bear costume. And if you’re only going to wear half a bear suit to scare a bear away, it’s definitely smart going for the top instead of

Because robots and AI are all the rage as we ramp up preparations for a self-imposed robot apocalypse, this is a video of a robot developed by researchers at Chicago’s DePaul University that mimics a seal’s flopping locomotion to move forward. The researchers, led by mechatronic engineer Dimuthu Kodippili Arachchige,