Is winter going to end anytime soon? Doesn’t look like it. Here’s GoPro footage capturing more than 12 inches of snow piling up over one night. It starts falling quickly and then slows down a little bit in the middle until it starts raging in the end. It’s like you expect the snow to come to a stop but it keeps going past that point. Like seeing the Earth is expanding its belly.
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Say hi to Matt Nelson, an awesomely crazy dude who likes to surf during the winter on Niagara’s North Shore and the Great Lakes. As you can see, he gets icicles everywhere, including his eyelashes. You have to check out these videos of him and other silver surfers.
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It’s 70 degrees where I am right now but I’m shivering. I have goosebumps all over my body and my teeth are chattering and I swore I just saw my own breath. I want to put on my winter coat and scarf and earmuffs and gloves. Why? Because I just watched this frigidly beautiful video directed by Oliver Würffell. It’s about a trip he took to Wisconsin in December. It looks so cold that it makes me feel like I’m freezing when I watch it.
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You’re looking at Ozobranchus jantseanus, a little leech found in East Asia. It doesn’t look much, but it has a very special skill indeed: it can survive for up to 24 hours immersed in liquid nitrogen.
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It’s cold out there, guys. So cold that lakes are so frozen that they look like they’re from the Moon
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Your underwear can save your sperm. Or at least that’s what Snowballs believes. What’s Snowballs? A type of cooling underwear that basically uses ice packs for "scrotal cooling". Ball air conditioning, basically. It’s for the kids.
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Even before the polar vortex
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Right now three people are competing in a bike race from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. The winner will be the first person to bike there ever. And 35-year-old Maria Leijerstam is attempting to trike there on a really weird/badass-looking tricycle.
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On these frigid days, it helps to think about a place like Antarctica, which was recently determined to be without a doubt the coldest place on Earth
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You’re looking at Valkyrie Dome aka Dome Fuji, on the East Antarctic Plateau. Near these dark structures there is a ridge with hollows that can get down to minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit—minus 92 degrees Celsius. A team of NASA and US Geological Survey scientists have now officially declared this ridge The Coldest Place On Earth.
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