All competitive human endeavor at the highest level is won by bending the rules or flat out cheating. Games, sports, business, war - all of it.

A Flyboard is a type of water jetpack attached to a personal water craft (PWC) which supplies propulsion to drive the Flyboard through air and water to perform a sport known as flyboarding. A Flyboard rider stands on a board connected by a long hose to a watercraft. Water is forced under pressure to a pair of boots with jet nozzles underneath ( Read more... )

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge ( Read more... )

Corporate manslaughter in English law
Corporate manslaughter is a criminal offence in English law, being an act of homicide committed by a company or organisation. In general, in English criminal law, a juristic person is in the same position as a natural person, and may be convicted for committing many offences. The Court of Appeal confirmed in ( Read more... )

Only recently discovered their excellent youtube channel. Went through the whole list, watched interesting sounding ones, and here are my top 5:

#1 Can Plants Think?
#2 Could We Record Our Dreams?
#3 The Scientific Power of Music
#4 Why Do People Obsess Over Sports?
#5 Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence?

The top 2 in particular blew my mind.

Buildering [...] describes the act of climbing on the outside of buildings and other artificial structures.

This shit just blows my mind. I actually get sweaty hands just *watching*. I've never had that effect from watching any videos before. Here's one of climbing the 2nd tallest building in the world - holy fuuukkk:

Hanging off the sides ( Read more... )

How long until the extreme sport of standing in fields during thunderstorms?

Have you heard about this next big thing in extreme sports?

Meanest Prank of All Time - A helicopter pilot scares the crap out of one of his passengers after pretending to fall asleep in the air.

Kid Scores Amazing Hockey Goal - A 9-year-old hockey player shows off some incredible skill while scoring this goal.

Was anyone else hoping for the bear ending? :P Like when she crawls up to the street, looks up, and there's a bear. That would have made my day. Not a fan of happy endings.