Future Scientist Investigates Ice, Falls Adorably, Wins Everything


This video is from last year but it popped up on Digg today and I really don’t care that it’s old because today is the first real work day of 2015 and that’s sad because work and the passage of time are two of the main reasons I’m going prematurely gray. So, instead of letting that frown sit unturned upside down, press play and, awwwww.

Here is a GIF of the moment when, in Mother Jones copy editor Ian Gordon’s words, “someone takes her batteries out.”

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