An extremely slick, high-energy timelapse of China’s most populous city by ‘urban identity expert’ JT Singh and architectural photographer Rob Whitworth, who sez;
In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline.
Previously: Day To Night In Kuala Lumpur
The Derrynane Robot Club take to the streets of Cork to discover things like when the history of the city was created and what people’s favourite Summer about Winter is.
By the end, you won’t know less about Cork than you didn’t unaware of, subsequently.
Previously: Get A Room
John Green catalogues some of the weirder medical syndromes for the Mental Floss ‘Summer Bummer’ series.
Previously: 36 Unusual Units Of Measurement
Downhill/Four Cross MTB pro Gee Atherton gets chased down the slopes of Antur Stinog in North wales by a peregrine falcon – the fastest member of the animal kingdom.
You’ll like John.
For the last fifty four years, the amateur woodcarver has kicked back and whittled some, to say the least. He can carve anything out of a single piece of wood, from a block to a toothpick.
Here, he casually introduces some of his extraordinary carvings – each one more impressive than the last.
Gav and Dan (the Slow Mo Guys) observe the bouncing water droplet effect at 2,500 frames per second.
It’s all about the molecular cohesion, don’t you know.
A modest Mk1 VW Golf converted by German tuners Boba Motoring from an old vintage guffer into an insane, tarmac-chewing, 1.8L, 16V KR GTX4202R turbo-powered one thousand and thirteen horsepower death-pellet.
It does 1-60mph in 2.3 seconds and tops out at 200mph.
They call it the ’16Vampir’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCRJHdBXB84
Chaotic teenage-Gardai stand off at unidentified Dublin location.
Teenager Knocked Out By Garda (Crime.ie)
