This invisible balloon pantomime by Rob Spence is a brilliant example of how convincing physical comedy can become when the performer has extraordinary control over every movement. There is no real balloon in his hands,…
When animals see a mirror in the Australian bush, their reactions range from cautious curiosity to complete confusion. Some approach slowly, others appear ready to confront the mysterious animal staring back at them, and a…
Viola Brand’s artistic cycling performance takes bicycle control to a level that barely seems possible. Instead of simply riding around the arena, she balances, spins and performs acrobatic movements while using almost every part of…
The world’s largest horn isn’t just ridiculously huge — it’s powerful enough to make glass shatter. Mark Rober builds an enormous air horn and uses it to demonstrate just how dramatically the shape and size…
A train runs through crowded market in Thailand so closely that vendors have to pull back their awnings and shoppers step away from the tracks just moments before it arrives. Then, incredibly, the train squeezes…
Honey buzzards raid a deadly hornet nest in Taiwan for a meal most predators would never dare approach. Asian giant hornets swarm aggressively around their nest, yet these remarkable birds fly straight into the danger…
This three-legged magic act creates a wonderfully ridiculous problem for your brain: Axel Adler appears on stage with three legs, and all three seem perfectly capable of moving. The longer you watch, the harder it…
IBM’s world’s smallest movie takes stop-motion animation somewhere almost impossible to imagine: down to the scale of individual molecules. Instead of drawings, models or computer-generated characters, researchers created this tiny film by physically moving molecules…
At 53 years old, Mark Felix stepped up to the Hercules Hold world record challenge with an extraordinary reputation for grip strength — and then somehow managed to beat his own record again. Filmed at…
Japan’s 400 km tsunami seawall is a coastal engineering project on a scale that’s difficult to comprehend. Stretching along hundreds of kilometers of Japan’s northeastern coastline, this enormous network of defenses emerged from the rebuilding…
