What’s trending: Creepy origami robot, snake dance, Spelling Bee contestant spurns mom’s kiss

Published 8:27 am Friday, May 29, 2015

Here’s what was trending on Friday.

1. Maybe the geniuses at MIT should pump the brakes. Because how many dystopian robot movies have started exactly like this? 

{{tncms-asset app=”editorial” id=”fb6f8bdb-01e2-5927-9d4e-a285a8a66da1″}}

If you somehow manage to avoid being colonized by the origami nanobots, don’t feel left out — you can still be hunted down by their robot cheetahs. 

{{tncms-asset app=”editorial” id=”29cfa55a-be2a-5dfb-b458-b8672c648a81″}}


2. Word to the wise: Don’t text while walking across a parking lot. Because you might be bitten by a four-foot bull snake.

{{tncms-asset app=”editorial” id=”578651d8-965e-582c-aab0-a9a19b784f62″}}


3. “Back off, mom. B-A-C-K O-F-F, M-O-M. Back off, mom.”

{{tncms-asset app=”editorial” id=”2d082316-e65e-5153-8537-a900f22f364d”}}