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Using Your Brain to Control Someone Else’s Arm
A neuroscientist wires two volunteers together — and one person's clenched fist makes a stranger's arm move.
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Caged His Whole Life, Now He Rides in a Backpack
A rescue dog who spent his whole life caged learns, slowly, that people can be kind — and ends up seeing the world from a backpack.
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Alone on the World’s Most Remote Island
A Polish adventurer chases her childhood castaway dream to Socotra, one of Earth's most isolated islands — and meets the man who actually lives it.
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Nerd in Chinos Cooks Real Hoopers at Venice Beach
A skinny guy in chinos says he learned basketball from books — then dismantles real hoopers at Venice Beach. The "nerd" is streetball legend and YouTuber "The Professor."
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The Most Famous Lunch Break in History
Eleven men eat lunch on a steel beam hanging 850 feet above New York, feet dangling over nothing, no harnesses, no net. It became one of the most famous photographs ever taken — and almost nothing about it is what it seems.
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He Built an Octopus a Maze to Set It Free
Mark Rober got a pet octopus to find out if they're really as smart as people say — then built her a nine-part underwater maze to prove she was sharp enough to survive being released back into the wild.
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The Only Rotating Boat Lift on Earth
Scotland built the only rotating boat lift on Earth to reconnect two canals — and it swings hundreds of tonnes of water and steel through the air on roughly the electricity it takes to boil a few kettles.
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The Bicycle That Steers the Wrong Way
An engineer's welder friends build a bicycle that steers backwards—turn left, go right—and dare him to ride it. He expects minutes. It takes eight months!
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Frank Zappa – “Inca Roads” (Live, 1974)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers perform "Inca Roads" in a 1974 TV studio — a song about ancient aliens, sung in falsetto, with some of the most absurdly difficult ensemble playing ever broadcast.