PickVidsBest Magic, puzzles & curiosities Videos
「Magic, puzzles & curiosities」下面有34部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门1部，适合还没学过的人；进阶0部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向33部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的0部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演示，所以它们的共同点是先看到做成了什么，再决定要不要追细节。常出现的频道包括OK Go、Mark Rober、Numberphile。目录给这个主题划的范围是：Curiosities: magic tricks, illusions, street performance, optical illusions, strange talents, Rube Goldberg machines, record attempts, oddities, mind-bending demos.如果只看三部，就从《The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house - Numberphile》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine - Official Video》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
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.