There are many stories and a great many links to videos and photos here, and this archive grows every month as I add more stories and more links. Here is a partial list:
falling cranes --- from silly to tragic, strapped to helium balloons, bar (pub) trick --- standing eggs on end, road corrugation, sailboats, bullets shot upward; coins dropped from tall buildings, iPods and lightning, bar (pub) trick---moving match sticks on a glass rim, Earthshine, bathtub optics, accident---sugar plant explosion, transparent frogs, Scott Macarney crash in downhill ski racing, bar (pub) trick---balancing a coin on a folded paper edge, Geoffrey Pyke and the bergship of World War II, throwing hot water into very cold air, bar trick---rotating enclosed matchstick, basketball free throws, snowrollers, Wheel of Death, Christmas lights, mirrors in sunlight, baked Alaska and frozen Florida, Christmas ball visual effect, bar (pub) trick---removing a lighter from under a bottle, shattering wineglass with sound, mirror prank, Newgrange and MIT's infinite corridor, revenge of the turkeys, implosion demolition, Nike commercial, Cleveland Browns bounce, Penn & Teller magic, Blue Man Group acoustics, crumpling paper, glug-glug, death by thermo-balling, lightning strike to car, falling though Earth's center, draining honey and yogurt, butterfly and moth vision, being sucked through an airplane window, dinosaur sounds, wet tee-shirt and sunburn, cooking on a dashboard or sidewalk, pulling airplane with teeth, stacking stones and bowling balls, flying a lawn chair with helium balloons, cars on ice, flea circus, ball floating in an air stream, jumping beans, rain on windshield, sidewalk anamorphic art, urban mirage, aircraft shock waves, fireworks illusion, moonbows, sounds of splashing, acoustic sculpture
Click on the above to reach the new stories and updates posted in the first year of this web site; the subjects are listed below. The stories and updates can also be found in the downloadable (and printable) PDF files in the various chapters. Click on "Topics" from the menu on the left, choose a chapter, and then click on the PDF icon near Armando Armadillo. Copy anything you want.
Walking on water and cornstarch, Leidenfrost effect, Giant's causeway and starch columnar joints, cats falling from great heights, car and train surfing, swordplay, liquid nitrogen danger, razorbacks on Mars and in the kitchen, Martian dust devils, eye oscillations acting as stroboscope, trawling bats and the acoustic mirror effect, decapitation with the blind spot, sound mirrors detecting enemy aircraft, schemes for stacking blocks, white beetles, lifting a whiskey glass, stress below a sandpile, becoming charged by walking, projectile penguins, backpacks on bungee cords, toilet stall electric field, bridge chaos, beer gushing, frost circles and sinkholes, sound of a fizzing beverage, tunnel fires, icicles, golf ball dimples, sounds of golf putting, Katrina damage, coal fires and Earth's magnetic field, fingers in molten lead, rattlebacks, meandering rivers, strange ice sounds, desert ant navigation, musical echoes at a Mayan pyramid, echoes at rock art sites, rubber bands and entropy, Halloween physics, cocktail-party effect, killer shrimp, booming sand dunes, oil and waves, dust devil core, microwaving frozen foods, collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, cell phones and lightning, cosmic rays and airplane flights, Gurney flap in race car downforce, Cheerios effect and insects, vertical roller coaster loops, punches in boxing, shooting yourself down, falls over Niagara Falls, shot putting and football throw-in, golf ball cup hopping, building sway, opal colors in a beetle, stone skipping on water, missing moon in Munch painting