Chaotic Dust Storm Turns Out to Be a Massive Flock of 70,000 Birds
That anxious feeling of parking a freshly washed car under a tree full of birds would become genuine terror if you were to drive anywhere near this massive flock of over 70,000 Starlings. This startling footage was captured by the BBC, which points out that the correct term for a massive gathering like this is a…
Servicing a Classic Omega Watch Is Like Watching Mechanical Brain Surgery
Smartwatches might finally be outselling traditional mechanical watches, but that doesn’t mean Swiss watchmakers are going away anytime soon.
Watch What Happens When You Add Lithium to 7-Up
What happens if you add metallic lithium to a glass of 7-Up? First, it bubbles like Alka-Seltzer. Then, it starts to heat up and boil. As it does so, the color changes: to green, yellowish-brown, and reddish brown, until it is pretty much black sludge.
Watching Ice Shatter Like Glass on Lake Superior's Shore Is Just Wonderful
Care for a walk around Lake Superior? We suggest you do it very, very carefully.
This Year's Best Press Photos Are Absolutely Electrifying
The winners of the 59th annual World Press Photo contest were announced announced. Ranging from the Syrian refugee crisis and China’s Tianjin explosion to the wild orangutans of Borneo, these are the best that the year of photojournalism had to offer. They are all amazing.
I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Watching 500 Simpsons Episodes at Once in VR
Will the return of virtual reality be as big a flop as the return of 3D movies and TV was? Not when you can strap an Oculus Rift or a Google Cardboard to your face and watch 500 episodes of The Simpsons in a 360-degree VR experience. It’s not every last episode of the show to ever air, but odds are your favorite is in…
Here's Every Single Oscar Winner for Visual Effects
The 2016 Oscars have some of the staunchest VFX competition in the award show’s history. (Either Star Wars or Mad Max better win, I swear to God.) But the entire 87-year history of silver screen special effects is equally stunning.
Chocolate Looks Like a Delicious Alien World Under a Powerful Microscope
The only thing cooler than a being an astronaut who gets to explore nearby worlds would be to one day land on a planet completely made of delicious chocolate. It hasn’t happened yet, but students at Johns Hopkins Universityput melted and solid chocolate under a powerful electron microscope, and it’s remarkable how…
These Images of Sound Waves in Water Are Hypnotic
It’s natural to think of sound as an exclusively auditory experience. But if you were to see a sound wave, what would it look like? Science photographer Linden Gledhill decided to find out using water and neon lights. And the result is some psychedelic synesthesia.
A T. Rex Riding a Horse Kicking a Soccer Ball Is Everything Wonderful About the Internet
The internet has some dark corners, there’s no denying that. But how could humanity ever carry on without a tool that lets us share a brilliant video of a man in an inflatable T-rex costume riding a horse kicking a giant soccer ball? Lets make sure we never do anything to endanger the world wide web, because how else…
A Spinning Top Floating Inside a Smoke-Filled Bubble Looks Like Magic
Bubbles, magnetic levitation, and gyroscopes — there’s tons of super-cool DIY physics at work in the Levitron. Created by Dustin Skye, it’s a spinning top floating in mid-air inside a smoke-filled bubble, all for your viewing pleasure.
Super Mario Kart With 101 Players Is Beautiful Chaos
You’ll never convince us there’s a better racing game out there than Super Mario Kart for the Super Nintendo. Hours and hours of our childhoods were spent racing those pixelated courses in our parents’ basements, but with the SNES only supporting four players, our races were never as intense as this epic 101-player…
What Happens When You Zoom in Too Much on Google Maps
Sleeping too well lately? Looking for that “something something” to turn those boring restful nights into a horrorscape? Turns out, zooming in too far on Google Maps’ user-uploaded 3D Spheres produces some impressively fucked up images.
Watching a Machinist Make an Entire Clock From Scratch Is So Soothing
A velvet-voiced Australian craftsman named Chris is the Bob Ross of clock-making. He shows you how to make a skeleton clock from scratch at home on his YouTube channel, Clickspring. In this installment of a multi-part series, bask in the close-ups of brass melting away like golden velvet to make shiny washers and…
Biking Ridiculously Fast Down a Bobsled Track Is a Crazy Thing to Do
It’s like this whole bike race is in fast forward or something. But it’s actually just on an abandoned bobsled track on the mountain Trebevic in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The speed that the bikers reach and the angles at which they are riding are totally insane so it’s best for us mere mortals to stay away from the real…
Transforming a Pair of Scissors into a Folding Pocket Knife
A knife and a pair of scissors are like cousins. They do similar things but also require completely different builds. It wouldn’t seem too difficult to transform one into the other but the work required is more than you’d think. Here’s a look at how you can turn a scissor blade into a folding pocket knife. Building…
Here Are All the Awesome Vertical Landing Jets in History
We all know how badass the Harriers and F-35s of the world are but some of these other vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircrafts from history are totally wild. The Williams X-Jet was essentially a flying one-man podium barrel thing. The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was legitimately a man-made flying saucer. And so…
A Visual Dissection of What's Inside a Fishing Reel
How can a fishing rod, which is just a stick and some string and this spinning thing, pull down heavy fish that’s swimming and fighting in the completely opposite direction? The magic is in the reel! Here is the visual breakdown of the 141 different parts that make up a fishing reel.
The First Person View of Climbing a Snowy 22,000-Foot Tall Mountain Is a Little Bit Terrifying
If there is a mountain, people will climb it. Or at least, people that are much, much bolder than I am. Here is some incredible point of view footage from David Lama and Conrad Anker as they become the first expedition to reach the headwall of Lunag Ri, a mountain that’s over 22,000 feet tall on the border of Nepal…
This Video of People Climbing a Skyscraper Is So Damn Stressful
Shun Hung Square is a 1,260-foot tall skyscraper that’s the third tallest building in Shenzhen, China. It’s really, really tall. And watching the guys from On the Roofs climb it gets more and more stressful because they just keep going up. You think they’ve reached the top but there’s still another level that’s…
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