Adam Savage of Tested traveled to Washington, DC, to visit the magnificent Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress, one of the largest libraries in the world.

Adam Savage goes inside the stunning Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress!

Accompanied by chief of staff Ryan Ramsey, Savage saw inimitable sights, including the Minerva Mosaic, which overlooks the Great Hall, the Main Reading Room, and the immense 22-million-card catalog. Savage was also given access to view treasures such as Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and the Gutenberg Bible.

Guided by LOC chief of staff Ryan Ramsey, Adam tours the world’s largest library — home to more [than] 184 million items, including … Thomas Jefferson’s personal book collection, soaring Beaux-Arts architecture and a physical card catalog holding 22 million cards.

Fittingly, the library owes much to Jefferson himself: after the British burned the Capitol and the small congressional library inside it in 1814, Congress restocked its shelves by buying Thomas Jefferson’s personal library of 6,487 books for $23,950.

Savage previously visited the famous dinosaur skeletons at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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Princess Pierogi held a large orange microphone up to her dog, a vocal blue heeler named Koda, who imitated the distinctive whine of the PTU (Power Transfer Unit), a hydraulic unit on Airbus jets like the A320 that’s often heard as the engines start and the plane taxis.

Can you show me your impression of an Airbus plane, like landing? Like the landing gear coming out?

Interestingly, this sound is known to pilots as a “barking dog”. In this clip, easyJet engineer Barry explains where it comes from.

Koda is no stranger to the mic, either. Princess Pierogi even announced her vocal pup’s “debut album” on TikTok.

Delta Air Lines was so impressed with Koda’s spot-on mimicry that they sent a PR package for them both to enjoy.

Koda and I just got sent our first PR box ever and it’s… from Delta.

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A sweet little class bunny apparently dumped by a kindergarten was later found in the woods and taken in by kindhearted rescuer Stanislav Fosnea. The bunny, who was filthy and had lost the use of his legs, turned out to be quite the tiny tyrant as he recovered from his injuries at the vet’s office.

Johnny was found abandoned and unable to properly use his legs, but months of care brought his mobility and his very feisty personality back.

Stan believes the private kindergarten got rid of the bunny after a woman confronted the administration about his condition, because a girl found him in the woods about 400 meters away just four days later.

When Stan bought food, he found a random card inside that gave the bunny his name – Johnny Cucumber. Stan later added his own royal title, “His Royal Furesty”.

After everything we did for him, going deep into debt for his treatment, he looked at us as if we were just some… servants! Suddenly, everyone became very obedient and didn’t even complain about it. So, we had no choice but to build a kingdom for His Furesty and keep serving him! 

When Stan brought Johnny Cucumber home, he was allowed to rule the roost over the other rescued animals.

I can’t believe that someone who was once an unnamed and neglected bunny became His Royal Furesty, Johny Cucumber! 

Stan and his team, who rescue dogs, cats and the occasional bunny in Moldova, need help continuing their heroic work. They can receive donations through PayPal, Happy Pot, and GoFundMe. Direct transfers are also available.

Direct transfer to our charity organization’s account:

IBAN: MD88VI022511100001175MDL
SWIFT: VICBMD2X
Organizations’s name: WARM HEARTS FOR COLD NOSES ASOCIATIA OBSTEASCA
Address: 31 August str. 141, MD 2004 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Please, always indicate that this is a donation 🙏

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The talented Justin J. Moore recorded himself singing the 1985 supergroup USA for Africa charity song “We Are the World”, impressively mimicking 19 of the original soloists in their distinctive style. The impressions included Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Cyndi Lauper.

Singing WE ARE THE WORLD but its just me doing all the voices

Moore, whose parents are Juilliard opera singers, grew up studying voice with them and has sung in rock and pop bands his whole life.

Other Vocal Song Impressions by Justin J. Moore

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Astrophysicist Dr. Josie Peters explored the science behind repeated shoelace failures for BBC Ideas, analyzing the physical forces that cause them to come undone.

She explained that tying both stages of the knot in the same direction creates a weaker granny knot instead of a sturdier reef knot, a mix-up that a simple change in loop direction can fix. Peters discussed different ways to tie laces, including the famous Ian knot and Berluti knot, and highlighted thousands of years of human innovation in securing one’s footwear.

Astrophysicist Josie Peters explores the surprising science of knots and explains what makes some shoelace knots fail and others stay secure for longer.

The video draws on a 2017 study by mechanical engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, who found that a shoe strikes the ground with about seven times the force of gravity, loosening the knot with every step.

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John Downer Productions captured harrowing footage of a baboon troop in the African savannah trapped in their roosting tree by rising floodwaters, further documenting how Bakari, the troop leader, carefully navigated the precarious environment by high-diving from the treetop. This daring move showed the rest of the group the way to safety, yet in every emergency, complex social dynamics and family discontent will always arise.

The baboon troop are trapped up in their roosting tree. To escape, Bakari takes a death-defying leap to the edge of the flood waters followed by Cheka and their offspring. The rest of the troop soon follow, but Bibi, Cheka’s rival, is left behind creating more tensions within the troop.

This clip is from the company’s Serengeti II series, narrated by Lupita Nyong’o.

The pioneering series Serengeti returns to capture the dramatic and emotional interconnected stories of iconic savannah animals. There’s humour, heartbreak and nail-biting tension as new characters move in and familiar faces continue their stories. Bakari the baboon struggles with family life.

Bakari’s troop returned in the following season, which also caught Nalla, the elephant matriarch, expertly digging a well to find drinkable water.

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Professional obstacle course athlete Thomas van Tonder teamed up with rigging expert Richard Lievaart to build and conquer a massive 280-meter (919-foot) monkey bar challenge spanning the incredibly deep 216-meter (709-foot) gorge under the Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa’s Western Cape for Red Bull Bridge Bars.

The feat, which involved 600 monkey bars, demanded intense physical preparation, including specialized simulation rigs and targeted strength training, to tackle the grueling ascent and descent beneath Africa’s highest bridge.

World Champion obstacle course racer Thomas Van Tonder attempts the longest set of monkey bars ever built, suspended underneath the iconic Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa. 600 bars, suspended over 200 meters above the gorge with a steep incline create a whole new challenge for Thomas…

According to Red Bull, Van Tonder reached the other side in 47 minutes and 37 seconds, becoming the first person to cross the bridge’s arch on monkey bars.

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The Strokes released a fantastical music video for “Lonely in the Future”, a song from their seventh album Reality Awaits. The video was directed by Warren Fu and produced by Partizan in association with Avalon Entertainment.

Official Video for “Lonely In The Future” by The Strokes
DIRECTED BY Warren Fu

The music video features incredibly exaggerated puppets from Spitting Image, the British satirical puppet show whose puppets also starred in the music video for the 1986 Genesis song “Land of Confusion”, which addressed similar societal issues.

Along the way, the puppets skewer billionaires, newsroom censorship and dismissive music critics before the video closes with a nod to the famous bone-and-satellite cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Genesis’ ‘Land of Confusion’ Music Video

‘Lonely in the Future’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Other Warren Fu Directed Videos

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Adam held a tiny microphone up to a tiny chipmunk, who crawled up his hand and dove headfirst into a jar of peanuts to enjoy the yummy contents, mukbang style.

This is my daily dose of happiness lately.

Adam brought out the tiny microphone in reply to a commenter who suggested that his chipmunk friend needed to be mic’d up.

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Map expert Matt Forrest broke down a composite map of players’ guesses from Borderline, a free game by Habibi Code where people redraw US state borders from memory. He found that deceptively simple square states, such as Colorado and North Dakota, were the least accurate, while Illinois and Indiana scored highest.

The best state is Illinois at 96.5 with Indiana right behind it at 94.1. And I think the reason for this is that Illinois is mostly made up of rivers, the Mississippi on one side and the Ohio on the other.

Players hoping to do better might take a cue from former Senator Al Franken, who once drew a map of the US from memory during a radio appearance at the Minnesota State Fair.

Explanation of Aschmann’s Dialect Map

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In an odontic TED-Ed lesson written by dental biologist Justin Merritt and directed by Oz Animation, narrator Addison Anderson examines what happens when you skip brushing and flossing. Bad breath comes first, and plaque coats most of your teeth by day four, but after about a year, long-term gum inflammation triggers an immune response that starts breaking down the jawbone holding your teeth in place. Thankfully, brushing again within two or three weeks fully reverses the early stages of gingivitis and tooth decay.

At any given time, your mouth is maintaining a delicate balance between hundreds of microbial species, which is why dentists agree that you should brush twice and floss once every day. But what if you just… didn’t?

The lesson’s clay characters come from Lee and Eliška Oz, the Czechia-based duo behind Oz Animation, who also animated TED-Ed’s lesson on how broken bones heal.

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Aerospace engineer Peter Ryseck explored the engineering challenges behind keeping a flexible pole upright with a quadcopter-style control system. When his first version proved wildly unstable, Ryseck swapped its large 10-inch drone propellers, which couldn’t change speed quickly enough, for smaller 5-inch propellers and added a dynamic notch filter to cancel out the flexible pole’s natural vibrations. He also revised the flight software to gradually correct its sense of vertical so the pole learns to lean into a steady wind, which helped the self-balancing pole stand for more than three hours in Munich’s Olympiapark.

Balancing a pole turned out to be a lot harder than I was expecting… But lots of fascinating controls questions were revealed with it!

Ryseck, a flight dynamics engineer at Joby Aviation, got his start in engineering building RC planes in his parents’ basement.

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Southern California band Daring Greatly performed a gorgeous harmonic cover of the 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song “Ohio” while driving their van. The band said the song’s message endures. It was written after the Ohio National Guard killed four people and injured nine during a protest rally at Kent State University.

More than 56 years later, the song’s message remains as relevant and haunting as ever. Art has the power to confront, question, and make people listen. This song was necessary then, and it still is today. Here’s our tribute to a song that deserves to keep being heard.

Originally formed in Calgary, Alberta, by brothers Patrick and Liam Croome and longtime friend Brayden Tario, the band said they’ve been playing “Ohio” for almost ten years.

The shootings also helped spark the Akron band DEVO, as a 2025 documentary explores.

More Van Performances

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Two rescued bear cubs at the Oregon Zoo‘s Black Bear Ridge playfully splashed together in a giant bubble bath. A couple of rubber duckies completed the scene, keeping them company.

Rub a dub dub, two cubs in a tub!

Other Black Bear Tub-capades

Timber and Thorn, a pair of orphaned black bears rescued in Alaska in 2023, shook off their winter torpor by splashing and sparring in a 300-gallon tub.

Evidently, Bears Really Enjoy Taking Baths

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Michael Downie of DownieLive attended the Transport Heritage Expo in Sydney, Australia, to see two heritage steam locomotives race side by side on live tracks out of Central Station. The streamlined train, Locomotive 3801, was built in 1943, and its challenger, Locomotive 3526, in 1917. Downie was given special access to document this drag race from inside and outside the trains.

Two steam locomotives drag racing on live tracks starting at Sydney Central Station. Not only do we get to ride on board as it happens, we have been given access to cameras mounted on the outside of the two locomotives.

The expo is presented by Transport Heritage NSW, a nonprofit that manages the state’s government-owned heritage rail fleet, including both of these locomotives.

Downie also enjoyed historic bus rides around the city and a ride on the James Craig, a tall ship from 1874.

So, we’re going to take a free bus ride from Sydney Central Station to the waterfront where I have tickets for my next heritage ride. This is the James Craig, a tall ship built in 1874. And today, we ride aboard it under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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James Dundon, the Mechanical Music Man, programmed his gorgeously restored organ, Blauwtje, to play a very patriotic version of John Philip Sousa‘s “Stars and Stripes Forever”, the 1896 American patriotic march that later gave its title to a 1952 musical biopic about Sousa. Dundon, a British composer, chose this song for a very specific reason.

Well, America has been to the polls, and the votes are in… there’s one thing we can all agree on: this march is EPIC!

Blauwtje began busking on the streets of Holland in the 1920s and was rebuilt in the 1980s by Belgian organ builder Johan Verbeeck before Dundon bought it in 2011 and brought it to the UK.

Dundon, who brings mechanical music to festivals and events across Cornwall and beyond, also founded Mechanical Music Radio, a station devoted to these remarkable machines.

Other Blauwtje Covers

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When the kind people at Flatbush Cats humanely trapped a tiny kitten whom they named Penny, they noticed that she couldn’t use her left front leg due to severe nerve damage. The veterinarian was concerned that Penny would injure the leg because she couldn’t feel it.

Over the following weeks, the leg grew weaker, and it became clear that it wasn’t going to recover.

They decided to remove the useless limb. Penny recovered quickly from the surgery and returned to her old, playful, vocal self, just on three legs.

Once Penny was big enough, our veterinarians performed an amputation. And judging by her running, climbing, and playing these days, she’s getting along just fine on three legs.

Penny’s surgery was covered by the Flatbush Cats rescue program, and the Brooklyn nonprofit is expanding what its Flatbush Vet clinic can offer so more pets in the community can get procedures like hers.

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In honor of the 140th anniversary of the statue’s dedication in New York Harbor, New York Times critic at large Jason Farago examined the Statue of Liberty piece by piece, noting how it became not only a welcoming symbol, but also an exceptional sculpture.

This massive project brought together sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and engineer Gustave Eiffel (of the Eiffel Tower) to realize this powerful vision.

The Statue of Liberty, this gift from France to America, has become such a symbol that she’s almost impossible to see as a sculpture. So to really see her, you have to think in parts.

The statue actually reached New York Harbor in 214 crates in June 1885, but she wasn’t dedicated until October 28, 1886, after Americans finished paying for her pedestal.

The History of the Statue of Liberty

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Cartographer Samuel Hoskins took There I Ruined It’s cover of Toto’s “Africa“, which changed the lyrics to list every country in the continent, and added a map to highlight each country as it was sung.

It’s the version of Toto’s “Africa” by There I Ruined It, which lists off the continent’s 54 countries… but now with a map that highlights each country as its name is sung! I hope this will serve you well for that social studies test that looms in a week.

The Australia-based Hoskins also animates plate tectonics on his YouTube channel, including how the continents could one day merge into the supercontinent Pangea Proxima.

There I Ruined It’s Geographical Cover of ‘Africa’

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The rock star robots of the Cybertronic Spree, a super-talented Transformers-themed band, delivered a badass, psychedelic cover of Black Sabbath‘s “War Pigs” for a very appreciative audience throughout their P.R.O.M. tour.

Rockstars in disguise, Cybertronic Spree unleash the dogs of war in this live psychedelic homage to Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’.

The Toronto band got its start playing the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie and has since expanded into 80s metal, classic rock, cartoon and video game themes.

Previous Cybertronic Spree Covers

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