Contortionists are fun yet painful to watch, and the better the contortionist the more we're left wondering how the hell they can twist their own body that way without breaking it.
But few contortionists can incorporate dance into their body bending routines like Shakirudeen Adewale Alade, aka Bonetics, and his hybrid body rock is electrifying to watch.
Unsurprisingly Bonetics was a big hit at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain- Paris, where many young circus performers make a name for themselves, because who wouldn't want to watch him do his stuff?!
Wildlife conservationists have to be compassionate, patient and creative, because many of the problems they run into aren't easy to solve.
But ingenuity is one of our greatest assets, so we're often able to find solutions and save animals that would otherwise die a needless death.
The veterinary staff at the California Wildlife Center recently rescued a mockingbird with feet that were knuckling bad, leaving the poor bird unable to perch or walk without damaging its feet.
So they came up with a creative solution to this mockingbird's bad foot problem- little snowshoes to help retrain the bird's feet to open and allow the broken bones to heal.
And now the shoes are off and that lucky little mockingbird is on the mend!
Pokémon GO has been slowly but surely turning smartphone gamers into zombified "trainers", who wander around the world with their eyes glued to the GO screen searching for Pokémon hot spots.
Thankfully, Pokémon GO is a pretty harmless game, but imagine if games like The Legend Of Zelda, Mario Party, Super Smash Bros and Fallout had similar apps. The world would be doomed!
If Pokémon GO players aren't careful they're liable to find themselves joining roving gamer gangs, teaming up to hunt down and catch all the Pokémon no matter where they hide.
Of course, trainers turning against each other in the quest to catch 'em all seems like a more realistic scenario...
Comic artist extraordinaire JHALL has illustrated six alternate GO app scenarios to satisfy our curiosity, demonstrating how good Pokémon GO actually is and how bad other GO style apps could be!
Bakers and pastry chefs have elevated the art of making cakes from the simple sheet to edible three-dimensional sculptures that are almost too cool looking to eat.
And then Ukranian architectural designer and cake baker Dinara Kasko decided cakes could still look really cool in basic shapes, so she started making these geometric cake masterpieces.
Her modern art-inspired cakes are simplistic and simply elegant, but the simplicity belies the fine detail work and geometric perfection Dinara puts into each cake she creates.
Dinara achieves this amazing(ly perfect) level of geometric detail with a little help from 3D printed silicone molds that keep the edges sharp, but the rest of the cake magic is all applied by hand.
The Netflix series Narcos has brought Pablo Escobar back into the spotlight some twenty years after his death at the hands of the Colombian National Police, but as usual some liberties were taken with the truth.
And since Pablo's son Sebastian Marroquin (formerly Juan Pablo Escobar) just so happens to have recently released the book Pablo Escobar: Mi Padre he decided to set the record straight about Narcos on Facebook.
Sebastian starts his 28 point criticism by claiming Pablo's brother-in-law Carlos Henao was never involved in any of the drug activity, stating he "was an architect who helped build some houses, roads and bridges of the hacienda Naples to my father".
He then goes on to drop this truth bomb on us:
2. My Father was not a supporter of Atlético Nacional, but of the independiente medellín. If the writers don’t even know the favorite team of Pablo, how dare to tell you the rest of a story like that and sell it as true? Do everything okay?
The truth gets much darker from there, and the Facebook translation gets even worse:
4. on the escape of the Cathedral: there was no confrontation so big there, only a keeper of the prison died. Those who were not clashed. My Father had no contacts, no help from the law to escape.
8. My mother never bought or used a weapon. Everything about it is a lie. Never even shot.
9. My Father did not kill any personally to Colonel “Carrillo” as they call it in the series to the chief of the block of search. Many attacks made him to the police of Colombia and they died more than 500 in a month in the city of medellin at the end of the 80’s.
10. Those who are knowledgeable in the background of the story, you know that my father was wrong seriously ordering the death of those who were their partners and lenders, moncada and galeano. These last few were kidnapped by the cartel of Cali and to have them released alive, they promised to give to Paul and his men at the same time they demanded to cut the whole economic aid. Had phone records showing that change of loyalties. My Father still decided to forgive the life of moncada at the last minute, but by the time he got the order to stop his murder, death had already found. And this was one of the crimes determinants in the fall and the end of my father.
Getting kids to stop playing Star Wars after watching the movies is like getting them to stop making messes or breaking stuff, in other words impossible.
And when they see those cute little critters pretending to fly the Millennium Falcon around the house or having a lightsaber battle in the living room their parents can't help but play along.
This Lunar Baboon comic is dedicated to those grown-ups who refuse to stop acting like kids- even after they've had children!
Kids have been bringing brown bag lunches to school for at least the last hundred years, and even though the overall contents have stayed the same the individual parts have changed dramatically.
A brown bag lunch typically includes a drink, a piece of fruit, a sandwich and a sweet snack, contents which have been a constant since the early 1900s.
However, the kids of today would throw a fit if they found a jar of warm milk and a radish sandwich in their bag, which was a fairly standard lunch for kids in the early 1900s.
Bon Appétit subjected a bunch of youngsters to the brown bag lunches of yesteryear, starting with that nasty radish sandwich and ending with the pre-packaged Lunchables craze of the 90s.
Alice Cooper and Gene Wilder don't seem like they have much in common aside from the fact that they both became superstars in the 70s.
But back in the mid-90s this unlikely duo appeared together in Wilder's sitcom Something Wilder, with Cooper playing himself and moving in next door to Wilder's character Gene Bergman.
Episode 14 entitled “Hangin' With Mr. Cooper”, was the second to last episode of Something Wilder to air on NBC, at a point when the producers were trying to save the show by introducing zanier storylines.
I can't help but wonder if the show would have been cancelled so quickly if they'd cast Alice as the neighbor from the beginning, because Wilder and Cooper have surprisingly good comedic chemistry.
Knocking on wood is one of those superstitious practices that can quickly become a compulsion, as we constantly find situations arise where we could use a bit of luck.
The origin of this superstition isn't clear- some believe pagans knocked on tree trunks to call upon the spirits that inhabited the trees for protection, others link the wood element to Christ's cross.
But British folklorist Steve Roud believes knocking on wood, or “touch wood” as it's known in the UK, can be traced back to a 19th century kid's game called “Tiggy Touchwood”.
Tiggy Touchwood was similar to tag, but players who touched wood were protected from being tagged, and Steve discusses the connection in his book "The Lore of the Playground":
“Given that the game was concerned with ‘protection,’ and was well known to adults as well as children, it is almost certainly the origin of our modern superstitious practice of saying, ‘Touch wood,’” he argues. “The claim that the latter goes back to when we believed in tree spirits is complete nonsense.”
No matter the origin one thing's for sure- if you start knocking on wood every time you need a bit of luck it can be mighty hard to stop!
The Burning Man scene may have gone from edgy and artsy outsiders to rich kids and celebs, but one thing is just as good as it ever was- the art installations.
All the art installations peppered throughout the Burning Man grounds are seriously stunning, and whether attendees are there to see the art or not these incredible installations tend to steal the show.
San Francisco-based filmmaker Mark Day attended Burning Man 2016 camera in hand, ready to capture all the amazing art pieces that make Burning Man such an unique outdoor event.
Mark put together a hyperlapse video of the footage so we don't miss out on any of the pieces, and he created this really cool 360 view video of the Playa. It's almost like being there, except without all the dirt in your crack!
Jackson Hole, Wyoming isn't exactly a bustling metropolis full of excitement and activity, and yet the live video streams of their town have been getting hundreds, if not thousands, of hits a day for the last few months.
And one particular camera view has topped them all- the view of the Jackson Hole town square.
Thousands of people have been tuning in to and commenting like crazy about red trucks rolling through the intersection, and they've been going nuts every time someone is seen walking through the archway in the back.
The viewing craze apparently started when the Jackson Hole live feed kept coming up as a suggested video on YouTube, and from there the craze has taken on an eerie life of its own.
Of course, by the time you read this article the craze will probably be coming to a close and a new random bit of internet will "go viral", leaving us with one conclusion- the internet community has way too much time on their hands.
Crickets are a great source of protein, they can be prepared in many different ways and, unlike our other sources of protein, they're a renewable resource.
But people still haven't come around to replacing their normal sources of protein with bugs so, as Terry Crews discovered, the only way to get people to gobble up a bunch of crickets is to trick them.
However, Terry is so fit he had no problem convincing some of the BuzzFeed staff to try out his new "protein shake", which tasted like a malted chocolate milkshake instead of a glass full of ground up crickets. (Barely NSFW due to language)
Courage the cowardly dog faced many strange creatures and beings during his four seasons on the air, but if he had encountered any Pokémon he probably would have quit the show.
That's because the series never seems to run out of strange animal and insect type Pokémon, and on top of the hundreds of different species there are hundreds more evolved species which are even scarier.
And unlike an episode of his pal Scooby Doo's show you can't pull a rubber mask off a Pokémon and discover it's actually Old Man Jenkins in disguise.
According to this adorable mashup series by @diasapacibles Courage could become friends with less evolved Pokémon species because they're less aggressive, but he should still be wary of sneaky pranksters like Jigglypuff.
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man were made for each other, with the same pie chart-shaped heads, matching appetites and a nasty power pellet habit they can't seem to shake.
But, as this comic from Blow The Cartridge Comics shows, when it comes to intimacy Pac and the Ms. can't seem to figure out how to get to the next level.
You have to be careful when you're out hunting pocket monsters or you may end up with a poke ball full of poison! Maybe that's what you want, which is fine if you want to play dirty, or maybe you just don't know better than to mess with toxic gasses and venomous creeps. But if you're still wondering whether the toxic route is the best way to battle consider this- last time Team Rocket messed with a poison gas type pocket monster they ended up in the hospital having koffing fits for a week!
Show the world you're totally toxic with this Poisonous Tandem t-shirt by shoden, it's the wickedest way to declare your love of dark and sinister pocket monsters.
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