Man-Made Horrors: January 2026 - The Cancer Witchcraft Brew Edition

Once more into the arbitrarily selected breach! A new year, one which we hope will be filled with an ever growing list of horrors for your pleasure. December was a banger month where we were able to push out 3 videos, the new pipeline for getting more content out is finally set up. It’s taken some serious work in the background to get this secondary video production going and is a complete team effort.

So what should you be expecting on the channel this year? We’ll be trying to maintain  a higher tempo posting schedule, but science is rarely consistent and sponsors have preferred posting times to coincide with their sales or special offers, and as such, all we can do is try our best. The aim is to have at least 1 main video out every month. These will be the type of videos you’ve all come to expect from us, mad science projects and crazy experiments. There should also be 1 secondary video coming out each month starting in February. These will be tackling a variety of subjects from recaps of the current state of the art, ‘what if’ explorations and a series we’re calling internally Making Monsters. Basically, how we’d go about creating the horrors of myth, legends and cinema if we had an unlimited budget and an interest in unleashing xenomorphs or actual dragons on the world. Finally, at some point this year we will be releasing a podcast, the working idea for it is building the future we want to live in, so mad science but with a hopeful outlook. 

One of the reasons we even get to this job is the open access to information that only the internet can provide. And each member of our team proudly sponsors the Wikimedia Foundation, the host of Wikipedia. Individually it’s not much, but if we all contribute, we can help to maintain a free and as trustworthy information source as possible accessible to all.

From the Cutting Room Floor

So last month we put out a video covering our bug enhancement experiments. This one took quite a while to come to fruition, but as fast as bugs grow they still have to grow. We didn’t want to stop the experiments as the mealworms just kept growing. We set up a shelf in the lab. Put some lights on an artificial day night cycles, as we quickly learned the bugs don’t do well without one, and just kept up a regimen of feeding, and cleaning the bug enclosures. I won’t lie, we’re pretty glad to be done feeding and cleaning a dozen such bins 2-3 times a week. As mentioned in the video, we do want to attempt to make something truly monstrous like a Heracles beetle or something in that vein, but we’re definitely going to sit down and get a plan of action before we start this again.

On the plus side though, the process of setting up longer term experiments that only require a low level of regular maintenance was refreshing. We’re already preparing these shelves to host the next experiment, another thing that’ll grow for a few months, well hopefully. But back to the bugs, there is a certain amount of bugs wriggling in your hands that hits a point where the brain wants to recoil. Individually, some of the bugs like hornworms feel incredibly delicate, but a fistful of mealworms is another level of sensation. Of course the cutest of the bunch were the silkworms, and they are such fussy eaters, only eating mulberry chow. The controls who made it through pupation and became silk moths were the best part, insert *so fluffy* meme!

In The Works

As much as we’re trying to charge forward with 2 videos a month every month, January might only have just 1, as we did take a bit of time off for the holidays, and we’ll be banking some footage to reduce the stress of production on all following months. The next main video should feature a cameo from another Youtuber, still scheduling the film date, but it should close an open loop and make things… right again. For the memes some would say, but cool science nonetheless.

Neat Finds

Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice?

Compressed Air Energy Storage Making Progress?

Regrowing Knee Cartilage?-