PickVidsBest Magic, puzzles & curiosities Videos
The 34 Magic, puzzles & curiosities videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 0 intermediate, 33 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include OK Go, Mark Rober, Numberphile.
Honda - The Cog
Honda's 2003 'Cog' commercial for the Accord, a two-minute Rube Goldberg chain reaction of car parts.
Derren Brown vs 9 Chess Players
Mentalist Derren Brown plays nine skilled English chess players, including four grandmasters, simultaneously on his TV show.
Egg Drop From Space
Mark Rober and Joe Barnard drop an egg from a high-altitude balloon, using a camera-guided glider to steer it to a safe landing.
Shepard Tone
A five-minute demonstration of the Shepard tone, an audio illusion made from octave-separated tones that makes pitch seem to rise endlessly without ever getting higher.
Gary Connery's Wingsuit Landing without using a Parachute
Stuntman Gary Connery jumps from a helicopter at 2,400 feet in a wingsuit and lands without a parachute on a runway of stacked cardboard boxes, the first such landing.
World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion
A one-minute clip of Alexander Overwijk drawing a near-perfect freehand circle, one metre across, in under a second on a chalkboard.
Penn and Teller's Lab Scam
Penn and Teller help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs play a prank on Nobel-winning physicist Arno Penzias.
Flying Lawnmower
A short clip of a jet-powered flying lawnmower, the Sky Cutter, and related RC flying lawnmowers.
Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike
Mike Boyd takes up Smarter Every Day's challenge to learn to ride the Backwards Brain Bike, a bicycle whose steering is inverted, and rides 50 meters.
One of a kind Wax Cylinder breaks on camera
A roughly one-minute TV clip in which a guest accidentally breaks a rare, one-of-a-kind wax cylinder recording on camera.