You might have seen the invisible box challenge on floating around on Facebook or on Instagram. If not, basically it goes like this: you pretend to step over an invisible box. Nothing too crazy, but it is really hard to do. So people have been posting their attempts to do that trick on YouTube. Most fail, but some are crazy––they even do two steps without touching the ground. Captain Disillusion shows you how those tricks are done.

More than fifty-percent of Americans believe in extraterrestrial life. According to this video, though, if those Americans are correct then we are in deep trouble. That’s because if aliens exist––and we find the aliens––that means that they have likely started traveling. And, as happened here on earth, when civilizations start to travel they do that with one purpose: colonization. We definitely do not want to be on the receiving end of that intergalactic colonizations.

In 2006, a documentary came out called “Who Killed the Electric Car?” As it turns out, that documentary’s question was a little premature. Take a look at this Economist video, which suggests that 2018 will be the year of the electric car. They’ll be easier to get, affordable, and go faster than ever before. But there will be unintended consequences. The materials for the cars come from politically unstable countries. Without oil money rolling in, the middle east will be totally destabilized. 

If you’ve spent any time on the internet in the last month or so, you might be wondering what the deal with the kids eating Tide Pods craze. Are kids actually eating Tide Pods, or is this more internet shenanigans? Well, sadly a little from column A and a little from column B. Nearly a hundred people have called the Poison Control Center for ingesting Tide Pods. What’s happening? Teenagers are basically being teenagers. This video digs into the psychology of why teens would eat laundry detergent. 

Super Bowl LII (fifty-two) is a few days away, so it’s time to get prepared. If you’re planning to have people over, then there are two routes you can take. You can buy some artichoke dip from the store, chuck it in the microwave (if you want to put that much work into at all) and then serve it up. Or you could follow this really simple recipe and impress all of your friends with your cooking talent. Or, surprise third option, just watch this video and enjoy it because it’s hilarious.

In honor of Ursula K. Le Guin, a science fiction author who recently passed away, Exurb1a wrote a short story. It’s about a bear and a goose having a chat at the end of the universe. Each of them is the last survivor of their respective civilizations, and each of them is attempting to come to grips with the end of the universe. In the tradition of good science fiction, there’s a nice twist to this video so stick around.

We’ve all had that embarrassing experience of raising our arms in an old white shirt, having forgotten that we’ve sweat them up over the course of months or even years. And it’s not just shirts––sweat turns white linens into a gross yellow mess. But here’s the rub: it’s not really the sweat that turns your clothes yellow. It’s the aluminum chloride that actually turns your clothes yellow. Some ways to avoid it: don’t use antiperspirant. Or you can use special laundry soap that has enzymes that’ll eat everything up.

They say that sitting is the new smoking. But why exactly is sitting so bad for you? This video explains that your body is built for movement, one body part at a time. Then, it tells you exactly the damage that sitting does to those body parts. After you watch this, you’re going to want to quit that desk job and become a park ranger. You’ve been warned, now get out there and get moving!

Buying a new bike is a minefield, but buying a used bike is worse. If you look on eBay or Craigslist, you’ve probably had a hard time sifting through the dross. This video is more than just pure entertainment (though it is really fun), it shows you some of the pros and cons of different styles of bike you can get used. Plus it shows you cyclists struggling to make it up a hill on a fifty-pound crappy bike.

Audiobooks are the perfect way to pass the time during a long drive. Many of us have probably listened to dozens of audiobooks without thinking about how they’re made. This Vox video takes you behind the scenes during a recording session for an audiobook, a book that they wrote. The voice actor explains her profess for how she preps the material that she reads, and how she decides how to deliver the material. 

Toto’s “Africa” is such an iconic song that it’s become a must cover for choirs and a cappella groups the world over. Most groups do a pretty straight forward version of the song, but this choir decided to go a different route. They mimic thunderstorm sounds with their hands, with snapping, and then with stomping. The result is a pretty remarkable recreation of a thunderstorm. And of course the thunderstorm ties straight into the “I bless the rains down in Africa” line, which they deliver very well.

Do you feel like your commute is slowly draining you of life? Well, we hate to say this but you might not be wrong. Many Americans have a commute that’s almost like a second job, and many cannot afford to move closer to their place of work. The result, for many, is a long, long commute every single day. Some of which are several hours per day. And there are loads of health consequences––both mental and physical––to that commute.