Author: Josh Taylor
Take a tour of Robert Downey Jr.’s windmill home
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 6, 2017MTV “Cribs” may no longer be a thing, but Architectural Digest is doing its best to keep the tradition of invading celebrity homes alive. In this installment, Robert Downey Jr. gives a tour of his windmill home. You’ll also get to meet Robert’s older brother Joe, who looks almost exactly like Robert Downey Jr. And in case you didn’t already love Robert Downey Jr., you’ll be glad to know that he’s a cat person and lets his cats have the run of the mill, as it were.
Read MorePet squirrel goes nuts for mealworms
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 5, 2017In the nineteenth century, people use to keep squirrels for pets all the time. It’s not so popular anymore, but a few people are keeping squirrels as domesticated pets. And videos like this show just how cute pet squirrels can be. Watch this squirrel called Seymour enjoy mealworms for the first time. He loves them so much that he almost gets his little head stuck in the jar of mealworms before finally getting a handful and noshing away.
Read MoreWhy the dates on food labels are meaningless
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 5, 2017Someone once told me that you should never trust when companies tell you how much of their product to use, or the dates that companies say their products will go bad. They’re incentivized to lie––the more you’re supposed to use or the faster you’re supposed to use it, the more of your product you’ll have to buy. This Adam Ruins Everything segment bears that out by explaining why the dates on food labels don’t actually mean much.
Read MoreHow to make an origami grasshopper
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 5, 2017This is a perfect YouTube channel for origami fans and origami newbies alike. If you want to learn how to do some awesome origami crafts, take a look at The Origami Expert. This channel teaches you how to do simple and complex projects alike. Take this video, for example, which teaches you to make an origami grasshopper. Though be warned, this grasshopper is a bit of a project if you don’t have the steady hand of an origami expert.
Read MoreSperm whales are so loud they can kill a human with sound
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 4, 2017James Nestor is a long form journalist who recently worked on projects involving the ocean, diving, and ocean animals. In this video he tells the incredible story of the sperm whales’s clicking. How interesting can clicking be? A sperm whales’s clicks are so loud that they can destroy a human’s ear drums without any trouble, and if they wanted to get really loud they could actually kill a human. Nestor is also a great story teller, so this video is especially good.
Read MoreArcher Lars Andersen demonstrates how to turn arrows mid air
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 4, 2017Olympic sport archery, hunting archery, and film archery all show the same kind of shooting: the archer lines up a direct, linear shot. Lars Andersen broke the internet a few years ago with his trick shots, but those pale in comparison to this technique: turning arrows in mid air. That means he can shoot arrows over or around walls, around other people, and around corners. Now this is the kind of archery that we should see in movies! How come Legolas never pulled these kinds of stunts?
Read MoreShark attacks submarine during whale feeding frenzy
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 4, 2017This Blue Planet II film crew got more than it bargained for on one of their underwater shoots. They captured a shark feeding frenzy on camera. The sharks were going nuts on a whale carcass, and each shark was trying to get more than its competitors. It made for great film––until one of the sharks thought the submarine was a competitor. It turned one big eye on the sub and then started going after it. Soon others got involved, and they started bashing the sub with their bodies.
Read MoreWhere math symbols came from
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 31, 2017Most of us have been exposed to mathematical symbols from a very young age. That means we probably haven’t stopped to think about where they come from. This video explains.
Read MoreJohn Oliver on the recent spate of floods
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 31, 2017This year, 2017, has been the year of flooding. With Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico all sustaining massive damage. John Oliver examines in this video.
Read MoreIsolated people try to guess when an hour passes
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 31, 2017Imagine locking yourself in a windowless room. There are no clocks, no TV shows, no nothing. You are told to guess when an hour has passed. Do you think you’d do better?
Read MoreThe 10 most awkward moments in recent live TV history
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 31, 2017The beauty of live TV is in the excitement that comes from knowing that something could go wrong. The tragedy, of course, is that sometimes things do go wrong.
Read MoreThe Internet Historian on the Fyre Festival
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 31, 2017Remember the Fyre Festival? That unmitigated catastrophe that led to a near-panic in the Caribbean? Here’s the Internet Historian’s hilarious recap of what happened.
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