New Seniors

This guy has some amazing skills! Now can we watch him dig a hole?

Author and professor Bjorn Lomborg believes that panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with global warming. Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world’s temperature for hundreds of years.

This spectacular film was shot in Norway near the Russian border. Temperatures were around -25 Celsius. Brrrr!

This animated info-graphic explains in simple terms how the recent credit crisis happened.

What looks like a pile of snow one minute can turn into a raging torrent the next. Frazil ice is one of the many unusual phenomena in Yosemite National Park. Frazil ice flows are dramatic natural events that occur in the waterfalls of Yosemite Valley during March and April. You have to see this video to believe how bizarre this stuff can be.

A set of stairs and a moving escalator both lead to the same spot on the upper level. At first almost 97% took the escalator. Then a group of engineers decided they wanted to try to reverse the preference. With a little bit of fun added to the equation, 66% now take the stairs!

There’s nothing quite like a nice wood fire to cozy up to on a chilly winter night – but if you’ve ever had to cut the firewood yourself, you may appreciate this video even more than that cozy fire in your fireplace!

Sisters, Arevik and Tatevik Seyranyan squeeze into a very small box right before your eyes. This is simply unbelievable!

You don’t need to speak Chinese to appreciate the amazing feats performed by this young Chinese magician. How’d he do that?!

The headline says it all!