Author: Josh Taylor
How to make the Turkish Delight from Chronicles of Narnia
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 25, 2017The Turkish Delights from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is simultaneously terrifying (because of the curse and all) and enticing (again, curse). If you, like Edmund, can’t get enough then take a look.
Read MoreWhy did the plane that could land itself fail?
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 25, 2017The L-1011 was so advanced that it could land itself. But it never took off, as it were. What made this plane fail? Take a look below.
Read MoreHerd of hippos attack crocodile
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 25, 2017You don’t want to make a single hippo mad. You definitely don’t want to make a whole group of hippos mad. Even if you’re an apex predator.
Read MoreRick’s most brutal insults from “Rick and Morty”
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 25, 2017Rick Sanchez is a mean, nihilistic alcoholic. But boy howdy can this character sling an insult. Take a look at his best digs.
Read MoreDog tests out VR headset
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 24, 2017Humans are predisposed to play into VR. In other words, when we put on a VR headset, we want it to work. Dogs, however, have no such bias. How well does it work on a pooch? Take a look.
Read MoreTry this 1773 recipe for bacon pancakes
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 24, 2017Remember a few years ago when it was a fad to put bacon on everything? Apparently that didn’t start in the early 2000s, it started in the late eighteenth century! Try these bacon pancakes.
Read MoreTesting an 8000-year-old mouse trap
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 24, 2017Pests have been, well, pests, since civilization began. And since that beginning, people have been trying to control pests. Example: this 8,000-year-old mouse trap.
Read MoreWhat does sea level really mean?
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 24, 2017You’ve heard the phrase “x feet above sea level.” But what does that mean? Is it just a phrase, or does it really refer to the level of the sea? Tom Scott visits a down below sea level to explain.
Read MoreOne-on-one game of tug of war between USA and Canada
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 23, 2017What do military guys do when they have time to kill and they’re on the same side? Easy––things like this. Enjoy this one-on-one game of tug of war between USA and Canada.
Read MoreHow one Liberian scammer turned into a saint
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 23, 2017Almost all the spam emails you get are just that, spam. Please don’t attempt to do what this man did: contact a scammer and give him what he wants. In this case, though, things worked out shockingly.
Read MoreWatch a ship’s private security fight off Somali pirates
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 23, 2017Unfortunately, pirates are still a problem for some shipping routes. As a result, some ships have their own private security forces. This video shows on such ship’s encounter with Somali pirates.
Read MoreAn AI wrote a Trump speech
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 23, 2017Donald Trump has a unique speaking style, for better or for worse. That made it easy for this artificial intelligence to mimic Trump’s speeches.
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