Rensselaer Polytechnic has Puckman (a hockey puck wearing an engineers hat, mostly for the hockey team). The school tried to change the official mascot, Engineer, to the Red Hawk which the students hated; the mascot was changed back. I seem to recall the women's basketball team had a red bee.

At NYU, after years of the Violet as a nickname, someone dressed up as a Violet. The school then adopted the Bobcat

I don't think this is a demonstration of lift/drag/thrust. I haven't had a chance to get the fans out of the attic to try this yet but I think they created a vortex around the plane. The fan is blowing a toroid, so there's actually a stable high pressure (low velocity) zone in the middle. Sometimes in department stores you'll see a fan pointed upwards with a beach ball floating in the low velocity region. For the more powerful fans they point the fan off the vertical. I think the clever thing here is the video used two horizontal fans and figured out how to create a stable zone in the middle with enough updraft to keep the plane aloft. That would explain why the fans don't point directly at each other. Or could be faked. I have to try it out.

I believe this is an old medical device used to bleed a patient. I forget if it was just used to bleed a boil or if it was used to create cuts to attach leaches. I think I remember seeing this in Williamsburg, VA.

Sounds pretty cool. Thanks.