Meredith Bull finds weird and wonderful animal sounds, then performs catchy little tunes accompanied by delightful creatures. "I Don't Wanna Be Touched" features a furious feline who seems to be… Read the rest of the article: Angry cat sampled into very catchy tune

High winds at Snetterton Race Circuit in Norfolk, England allowed this lovely kestrel to hover in place. What's remarkable is how still the bird's head stays while it is hovering.… Read the rest of the article: Watch this kestrel hover in place while keeping its head completely still

Despite years of huge successes on film and TV, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray did not meet Johnny Carson until the 1984 press tour for Ghostbusters. The clip starts with… Read the rest of the article: Watch Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray meet Johnny Carson to promote 'Ghostbusters'

Watch a Barnsley fern and other cool patterns emerge from plotting random dice rolls on paper or onscreen. Mathematician Ben Sparks explains the chaos game with a few variants. If… Read the rest of the article: The chaos game creates patterns from random dice rolls

It's hard to pinpoint what makes this so satisfying: the balancing trick, the high production values of the camera, the music, the art-directed set with the rose and the pistachios.… Read the rest of the article: This fellow has perfected beer mug balancing

Israel-based Eviation demonstrated its all-electric plane Alice in Paris before the pandemic. This great overview explains the challenges of all-electric planes that are not retrofits of existing models. It's unlikely… Read the rest of the article: All-electric planes like this could change regional air travel

Rus Khasanov (previously) continues to experiment with blending pigments, this time in ways that mimic the complexity of the colorful iris of many eyes. The effect seems to be related… Read the rest of the article: Artist got pigments to blend in ways that look like eyes

Iuli Gerbase's film "The Pink Cloud" tells of a community forced into quarantine by a deadly pink cloud. Some interesting parallels with humanity's current predicament. Written in 2017 and shot… Read the rest of the article: Film about quarantine was created years before the global quarantine

For something touting concrete-infused canvas that unrolls like carpet, this ad really pulls at the heartstrings. You'll be moved to use it for channel , culvert, and bund lining, slope… Read the rest of the article: You may shed a tear during this rollable concrete ad

Smarter Every Day announced a series on going to the moon, and the first intallment looks at the logistics and engineering problems that had to be solved to make it… Read the rest of the article: Great explainer on how to land on the moon

As part of his Half-Life series, Kyle Hill looks at one of the most controversial moments in the history of nuclear weapons: the Castle Bravo atmospheric thermonuclear test detonated over… Read the rest of the article: Castle Bravo: the chilling history of the 1954 US nuclear bomb test

Pindrop is a new Veritasium series that explores Earth's features that are visible via Google Earth, starting with these mysterious pools in the Utah desert. It's really well done! What… Read the rest of the article: New series explores Earth's interesting places visible from space

In this interesting documentary, noted street artist Julian Beever talks with other artists and shows how they ply their trade. It's framed by his creation of a Big Ben illusion… Read the rest of the article: Street artist Julian Beever shares tricks of his craft

Skating legend Rodney Mullen showed a Japanese crowd what the most cutting-edge freestyle looked like in 1984. One of the best docs on his heyday is Bones Brigade: An Autobiography:… Read the rest of the article: Watch skateboarder Rodney Mullen's mind-blowing 1984 freestyle

The video for "Institutionalized" and the film Repo Man which featured it on the soundtrack has that funny, angry, ironic Gen X vibe nailed, so I thought someone else might… Read the rest of the article: "Institutionalized" is the most Gen X song of all

Kathleen Ryan created these large sculptures of fruit and covered them with beading of various sizes and colors to emulate rottenness. Here are some more examples, which also include an… Read the rest of the article: Jewel-encrusted sculptures of rotting fruit

Quebec filmmakers Thoroughbread Pictures created this unexpectedly deep short that seems like an ad at times, but is way too philosophical. They note: FYI: we are not in anyway affiliated… Read the rest of the article: Fake ad "A Special Offer" gets cosmic

James Cutler showed via his own home on a wooded hillside that houses don't need to be contiguous. He also shows off a gorgeous seaside home that hews to the… Read the rest of the article: Bill Gates' architect shows off his other wondrous home designs

YouTuber BrickVault reviews the 756-piece Flower Bouquet set and the 878-piece Bonsai set. Given that everyone is stuck at home more, why not spruce up the place with a lovely… Read the rest of the article: LEGO bonsai

Simon Rohrick and friends take Society for Creative Anachronism to the next level with real fights in real armor with real weapons, like this one-on-one axe fight. They also do… Read the rest of the article: Full contact fighting in medieval armor