This nighttime demonstration with tracer bullets in an AR-15 shows why it's a bad idea to shoot a gun at water. This is why it's one of the first things… Read the rest of the article: Here's how unpredictably bullets ricochet off water

Matthias Wandel explains how this self-inverting spinning top will flip over when spun quickly enough. If you have a lathe, Matthias shows you how to make your own: If you… Read the rest of the article: Here's why a tippe top will spin on its narrow end

These nifty gizmos use a set of gears to uncoil and recoil. Alex Fox shows how to make one with wood. They can also be 3D printed. Below is the… Read the rest of the article: How to create this cool geared whiplash

That's according to Dinosaur Database, a terrific site with an interactive ancient earth feature that lets viewers input a location and a time period to see what things looked like… Read the rest of the article: 750 million years ago, Los Angeles would have been an east coast city

Laina Morris shot to fame in 2012 as the "overly attached girlfriend" meme. She shares what happens before, during, and after becoming a mega-meme. Because she was always in on… Read the rest of the article: "Overly attached girlfriend" shares the whole meme backstory

Enjoy the delicious sounds of Mezerg's wired-up midi-melon in a funky song about swimming pools. Very nice work on the electro-kiwi carrying the melody, too. Bonus footage of him cavorting… Read the rest of the article: Watch Mezerg play the electro-melon like nobody's business

This video did not get the views it deserved when it went up a few years ago, so Jack Conte recently reuploaded it to his personal channel. He says: No… Read the rest of the article: Patreon CEO Jack Conte reflects on his many, many failures

Hong Kong-based sculptor Johnson Tsang (previously) is known for his fanciful ceramic artworks, and he was inspired during the pandemic to make a lovely piece that reflects the times, titled… Read the rest of the article: Johnson Tsang created a very 2020 porcelain work

The San Diego Zoo set up an underwater camera to show online visitors how a flamingo feeds. The only thing weirder is how a flamingo chick feeds on crop milk.… Read the rest of the article: Ever seen the weird way a flamingo eats?

The teacup-sized new arrival is hiding out with its mom, so here's a primer on how secretive sand cats are. Sand kittens in the wild had never been filmed until… Read the rest of the article: North Carolina Zoo has a new sand cat kitten

Australian artist Troy Emery has been making cool canine-adjacent sculptures for over a decade. Here's an early interview about his work. Check out the latest on his Instagram. Image: YouTube… Read the rest of the article: Troy Emery discusses his colorful yarn sculptures of strange doglike creatures

Martin de Thurah blended sculpture, animation, and live action to amp up the dread in the video for Active Child's "Color Me." On the project's site, de Thurrah says, "I… Read the rest of the article: In "Color Me," anxiety feels like a Cronenberg film

Domo is a pink cat who has a lot of misadventures, each in a different animation style, like this 3D adventure where Domo sings. The series is part of Adult… Read the rest of the article: Watch the trippy Domo animations by Jack Wedge

The enveloping close harmonies of Jacob Collier's "He Won't Hold You" meld perfectly with animator Daniel Bruson's depictions of loss, moments both small and large. Jacob's band did a super-chill… Read the rest of the article: Behold the sumptuous animation for Jacob Collier's "He Won't Hold You"

Malinda Herman posts wonderful performances of popular songs with her trusty companion Jewjam by her side. Here's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." Sometime Jewjam perches a foot or two on the neck of… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy Malinda serenading her chihuahua with a Beatles song

Artists at Visual Suspect draw on the groundbreaking aesthetic of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi and Philip Glass's soundtrack for same in Circulatory Systems, described as "the major highways, the arteries and… Read the rest of the article: 'Koyaanisqatsi' meets fractals in mind-bending short film "Circulatory Systems"

This fun and clever short film about plastic waste in our oceans ends with some sobering statistics about this pollution entering every part of the food chain, including the poor… Read the rest of the article: Cute 3D animated film "Selfish" has a serious message about plastic waste

Paris-based Mathematic Studio produced a lovely animation for Bob Marley's timeless "Redemption Song." Directed by Octave Marsal and Théo de Gueltzl, the work draws heavily on imagery and iconography surrounding… Read the rest of the article: Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" gets a beautiful hand-animated music video

YouTuber ReThinkingTourism follows up the honest pre-flight safety demonstration video with the brutally honest airport security announcement. Really more painfully obvious than brutally honest. Sadly, the people who need to… Read the rest of the article: "Brutally honest" airport security announcement

If 2020 has you pinching pennies, this site listing foods by calories per dollar may be helpful. Engineer Michael Kirk says he was inspired to create the list after calculating… Read the rest of the article: Flour wins in this table listing foods by calories per dollar