The very talented designer Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks built an incredible continuous LEGO marble run system that features an elevator to automatically return the marbles to the start. Allemann also built and alternator that sends incoming marbles in opposite directions Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working…
A Star Trek Redshirt in the Age of COVID-19
McCoy couldn’t convince him to wear a mask after Spock’s Tricorder detected a COVID-19 outbreak. We all know this will not end well for the redshirt…
A Magnificent 425 Million Image Timelapse That Documents the Activities of the Sun Over 10 Years
On the tenth anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory being in space, the Goddard Flight Space Center of NASA shared an absolutely magnificent timelapse that documents the activities of the sun over the course of a decade. Every second of the timelapse represents a single day of solar viewing. Over…
Slow Motion Footage of Popping a Balloon Inside a Balloon Inside a Balloon Inside a Balloon
Nate Bonham of The King of Random (previously) incrementally nested balloons of various different sizes inside of each other in order to see what popping each of them would look like in slow motion. So today we’re gonna try not just popping balloons in slow motion but nesting balloons, so…
How the Use of a Green Screen Can Go Wrong
In a cloaking episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott and series animator William Marler amusingly demonstrate the many ways in which the use of a green screen can go wrong due to issues with lighting, color, key, shutter speed, and framing. Green screen looks terrible sometimes….
Chicken Bursts Out Into Humanlike Laughter Whenever Her Human Tickles Her Feathery Sides
A rescued chicken named Francis sat in the arms of her devoted human Lisa Biondo Backs and burst out into bubbly, anthropomorphic laughter whenever Backs tickled her feathery sides. Whenever Francis laughed, a rooster crowed and a couple of cats hilariously meowed in the background This is Francis, and if…
Whimsical Cartoon Style ‘Broken’ Furniture
New Zealand carpenter Henk Herhoeff builds fabulous pieces of whimsical furniture featuring crooked angles and broken lines that make them look as if they should be in a cartoon room somewhere. Each piece is fully functional, although items may not be exactly what they first appear to be. Verhoeff told…
A Robotic Spy Squid Is Destroyed During an Unexpected Encounter With a Couple of Potato Cod
In a deep sea clip narrated by David Tennant from the PBS/BBC series Dolphins – Spy in the Pod, a robotic spy squid looking to peer into the life of dolphins, finds itself being pursued by a couple of rather large potato cod who were in no mood to play….