Author: Josh Taylor
This new windmill design could solve wind power’s fatal flaws [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 14, 2016If wind speeds are too low, windmills won’t work. If wind speeds are too fast, windmills will catch fire and fall apart. But this new design can work in low wind speeds and slow itself down in high wind speeds.
Read MoreAmazing “Stranger Things” drawing timelapse [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 12, 2016You don’t have to be a “Stranger Things” fan to enjoy this timelapse of a “Stranger Thing” drawing. Beautiful art is beautiful art.
Read MoreMan tries to tame a feral cat, fails adorably [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 9, 2016Taming a feral cat takes a gentle hand. This guy was doing really well––he got the cat to eat food right next to him and everything. But then he tried to pet the cat and it all went down hill.
Read MoreHow to vacuum-seal your food without a vacuum sealer [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 8, 2016You don’t need an expensive infomercial gadget to vacuum-seal your food. With this simple hack, you can squeeze most or all of the air out of your food with ease.
Read MoreAnimated explanation of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 8, 2016The Battle of Teutoburg Forest was one of the Roman army’s most humiliating and severe defeats. This video gives you an animated tour of what happened that fateful day.
Read MoreReporter loses it when she realizes what a “Furry Convention” is [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 7, 2016Reporters are supposed to report any piece of news without emotion or reaction of any kind. But heck, reporters are people, too, and when Mika Brzezinski learns what a furry is she can’t contain herself.
Read MoreDog park installs big swimming pond, dogs go nuts [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 6, 2016Anyone who owns a dog that likes to swim knows that dogs can go absolutely bananas when they get in some water. This dog park installed a pond for the pups, and resulting footage is awesome.
Read MoreHuge compilation of (almost) every Simpsons movie reference [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 4, 2016You know the Simpsons writers are well cultured when it takes about half an hour to get through all their movie references. The person who made this video made some clear errors (e.g., claiming the Simpsons referenced a movie that came out after the episode), but there are plenty of correct references.
Read MoreCute short animation about a love story within a chess game [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 2, 2016Computer animation allows storytellers to tell stories in ways no one had thought of before. This cute short story is set as a chess game.
Read MoreWoman can’t figure out how to use elliptical [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 2, 2016This is a pretty good primer in how not to use a piece of exercise equipment. But it’s pretty funny to watch this woman use an elliptical machine in every wrong way.
Read MoreCraftsman refurbishes a rusty axe into a epic viking axe [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 1, 2016You know that old axe sitting in your tool shed, collecting rust? This craftsman shows that, underneath all the rust, there’s a beautiful viking style battle axe waiting to get out.
Read MoreIf cats said “hey” instead of meow [video]
Posted by Josh Taylor / July 31, 2016Cat videos like this are why the internet exist. Someone replaced actual cat sounds with a human saying “hey!” The results are hysterical.
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