http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jvwrvbYAiY I mean, does no one see the bigger trend here? Of us engineering our own demise? NO ONE??? From The Verge: A robotic snake developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has suddenly gained a frightening new power— the ability to hug things. Last week, the university's Biorobotics Laboratory published a new ... Read more »

I was thinking about the issue of desertification recently, wondering if a solution could ever be found. Welp, looks like this guy found one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI Here's his bio from TED: Desertification of the world's grasslands, Allan Savory suggests, is the immediate cause of poverty, social breakdown, violence, cultural genocide -- and a significent contribution ... Read more »

But it looks SO good. How to make your own marshmallow cream/creme, courtesy of Chow.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmtj-BuvnJU In a medium saucepan combine: three quarter cups of granulated sugar one half cup of light corn syrup one quarter cup of water a little pinch of salt Get that going on the stove over medium-high heat, clip on a candy thermometer ... Read more »

Jonas Eliasson, Director of the Centre for Transport Studies at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, presents (adorably) an incentive-based solution for addressing the world's traffic congestion, comparing traffic control to bread control in the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_Krxq5eUI Kinda makes you want to move to Sweden, no? Read more »

Candace Cameron from Full House. Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbjnfT0jIhY Read more »

iCream is a custom ice cream shoppe in Chicago, where they make your ice cream on the spot using liquid nitrogen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6hPQ-1kyX4 Read more »

Well I've got just the thing :) This is a video of "contact juggling" by Akihiro Yanai at the 2012 Japan Juggling Festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9PlWQNO0i0 Know what'd be even more impressive? If instead of using plastic balls he used something fragile. Like crystal. Or the eggs of an endangered bird. ...and fire. Lots and lots of fire... "And that's ... Read more »

You know, the kind of music that foreshadows the mass eradication of our species by a robot of our own design...whatever the soundtrack was for Terminator 2 should be fine. This is the third demonstration video for an amateur robot design called MorpHex by Norway's Kåre Halvorsen, an engineer who's been ... Read more »

A baby elephant in Kenya is saved by the Amboseli Trust for Elephants and reunited with its mother: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPuNzmqBQc Read more »

This is so cool. I've often had trouble understanding how the internet physically worked. I knew there were undersea cables, and satellites, and buildings in Manhattan that were bought by Google because they were internet hubs, but I've never really been able to piece all that together into an overarching ... Read more »