Awesome Videos

The Isle of Man TT motorcycle race takes balls of steel as riders go zooming around the course at speeds up to 200 mph while strapped to their crotch rockets. In June 2023, racer Peter Hickman crushed the record for the TT Mountain Course, doing all 37.73 miles in 16:36.115 and averaging over 136 mph throughout. Hickman’s 2024 lap wasn’t too shabby either.

If you’re like us, you’ve probably tried to lose weight at some point. It’s never easy to shed those pounds, and it can be frustrating to work out so much and hit a plateau. Kurzgesagt explores the science of weight loss and the way our bodies burn energy. Bottom line: cutting your food intake is critical for dropping weight, while exercise is for your overall health.

All the time you spent, you gotta be running from your head. The music video for Wand’s track JJ drops us into a world where creatures procreate in the strangest way. Vernon Chatman & lilfuchs‘ animated clip could be interpreted in many ways, but we think it has something to do with a creator building a world and ultimately being rejected by those he gave life to.

If you try squeezing a sealed syringe full of water, it can’t be compressed. But if you leave the Earth’s surface and start heading toward its core, things get strange. Vox offers a brief explanation of the unusual ways that matter behaves in the extreme pressures at the core of a planet or star and the laser tech that’s helping researchers replicate these conditions.

Artist Bobby Duke is one wacky dude, and we’re good with that. For this build, he thought it would be fun to make a concealed weapon that looks like a banana. After popping by Walmart to grab a banana, he went to the knife store to find a curved blade, then went back to his studio to grind, cut, and carve out the primate’s weapon of choice.

Not to be outdone by How Ridiculous and their soccer balls, the dudes from Dude Perfect booked a flight with the U.S. Air Force, filled a C-17 cargo plane with 1000 basketballs, and dropped them all to see if they could score a basket or two. Before shooting hoops, they played the world’s largest game of darts and the opposite of miniature golf.

Since Alaska has so little darkness on July 4th, they’ve got an alternative for fireworks. For over 20 years, Glacier View, Alaska, has hosted an event where they toss junk cars off a 300-foot cliff while onlookers enjoy the chaos and destruction. 1320video attended this year’s festivities to give us an insider’s look at the event, including POV and aerial footage.

Cam Engineering fabricated a 1/4-scale model of a dragster with plans to make a gas-powered R/C car. But after realizing it would be too tricky to control, he turned it into an electric scooter. Its tubular steel frame is strong enough to hold his weight, so he just added some handlebars and a skate deck. It looks crazy quick and can even pop wheelies.

Our diverse music library already includes Rainbow Connection and Gin and Juice. So when we heard that There I Ruined It mashed up the tunes we had to give it a listen. With his mind on Miss Piggy and Miss Piggy on his mind, Kermit sings the Snoop Dogg classic from the swamp with the help of AI voice modeling tech.

We’ve seen how factories make ice cream bars and cones. Now find out how they make those twisted frozen treats in this satisfying video posted by m.rahman5000. The main trick is a spinning extruder that squirts out the frozen dessert before another machine chops them up into logs. The one that slaps in the popsicle sticks seems a little drunk though.

Some may dismiss the use of generative AI for creating art, but in the hands of the right person, it can be used to create things none of us imagined possible. Filmmaker James Gerde used AI tech to help create animations that imagine humans if they were made of noodles. Each clip is based on footage of talented dancers, and Gerde made them into pasta.

Located in Saudi Arabia, Al Masjid an Nabawi, or the Prophet’s Mosque, sees tens of millions of visitors each year. On the hottest and sunniest days it protects pilgrims from the harsh conditions under an array of 250 giant motorized umbrellas that deploy over its massive 1.6 million square foot courtyard. The umbrellas were engineered by SL Rasch.

Did you know that the United Nations has interpreters for only six languages? Or that you have to be able to translate to at least three other languages to qualify as a UN interpreter? What about the fact that there’s actually an interpreter appreciation day? All that and more in Half as Interesting’s video on the intense jobs of UN interpreters.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Blue Album, the prolific masters of garage rock stopped by Spotify Studios in L.A. and performed four tracks from their debut record. Rivers and the guys chatted about each song’s story and were joined by 5th Weezer Karl Koch, producer/songwriter Suzy Shinn, and Barry Johnson from the band Joyce Manor.

Ant-Man showed us what it might be like if humans could shrink to a subatomic size. That doesn’t make Epic Spaceman’s latest video any less fascinating. This amazing educational video shows our astronaut host shrinking to 1/10th of his size every 21 seconds. Along the way, he stands with a grain of sand, a tardigrade, a blood cell, and even tinier things.

Wikipedia is the world’s largest repository of human knowledge. For fun, xckd’s What If? calculated how many printers you’d need to keep up with the edits being made every day – just to the English site. This Wikipedia page shows how many books you’d need to hold only English articles without images. Now, multiply by 10 to get the global numbers.