Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One” took over the radio in the mid-to-late 1990s. But, after about 1999, no one thought much about the song. But these musicians, at least, haven’t forgotten Shania Twain’s hit song, and they dedicated a little bit of their free time to breathing new life into the piece. With their funky jazz style, excellent vocals, and obvious passion for music, we’d say they did a great job at giving “You’re Still the One” a second chance. What do you think?

The otamatone is a strange little instrument that looks like a cross between a hockey puck and a toilet plunger, and it makes an eerie, squeaky kind of music. Some musicians have taken to the otamatone, but not nearly as much for its dulcet tones as for its novelty. These musicians covered Toto’s (semi-cult) classic “Africa.” It’s far from enjoyable, but it definitely has a train-wreck quality. Once you start watching this video, it’s going to be hard to stop.

While ancient materials like mosquitos stuck in amber can’t really bring back the dinosaurs (or dino-sours, for you Jurassic Park fans), scientists can learn a lot from ancient life forms. They can learn so much, in fact, that there is actually a field of study called paleoecology. By studying ancient pollen, for example, scientists have been able to learn about life during warmer periods in the earth’s history. So if you want to know what global warming has in store for us, take a look at this video.

Captain Beefheart’s “Trout Mask Replica” is among the most influential albums in rock and roll history. If you listen to it (you can’t find the full album on spotify, but you can find playlists that piece the full album together. It’s also on YouTube in full), the words “terrible,” “unlistenable,” and “crazy” might come to mind. Though the album is polytonal and polyrhythmic and rather hard to listen to for the uninitiated, it’s incredible significant in rock history. Not only do other musicians and visual artists list it as one of their influences, but it also inspired the movie “Frank”––Captain Beefheart also locked his band in a house to practice for nearly a year before making his record.

It has happened to the best of us: we’ve gotten into a little comment war on YouTube, Facebook, or (God forbid) Yahoo! Answers. If it’s the latter, please stop using that webpage, it’s the dregs of the internet. Whatever causes us to fall into those arguments, we learn the same thing at the end of every single one: you never win. But we try anyway, because maybe, just maybe, this one will be different. But it won’t, and this video delves into human psychology to explain why not. Multiple psychological traits explain why you can never convince someone they’re wrong, especially on the internet––things like confirmation bias and just plain confusion. 

So-called “smart” products are starting to hit the market––things like smart fridges and smart thermostats. Alexa and Google Home are also making technologically integrated houses easier. Now, you can dim lights and turn on TVs and adjust thermostats with a voice command. But how close are we to having everything fully “smart?” This video examines the various difficulties––including processing power, design, technologically sophistication, and human behavior––that goes into making a perfect smart home.

In thirty years, we will look back at these days and realize that this was the moment that things changed. The women’s suffrage movements of the late 1800s and then early 1900s movements laid political foundations, the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s laid social foundations, and the LGBTQ empowerment movement in the early 2000 opened the door for a new challenge to abuse men who, heretofore, have been able to harass and abuse men and women without consequences. Social media also played a critical role, with the #MeToo movement giving support and momentum to the women and men opening up about their sexual abuse. This video chronicles ten more famous men exposed as sexual harassers or abusers since the Weinstein scandal broke. 

It’s always interesting to learn about the history of ancient, powerful civilizations like ancient Rome. Everyone loves to learn about the political intrigue and battles and heroes and villains. But what’s often far more interesting is what’s called “social history,” a movement that emerged in the 1970s. Contemporaneous social movements inspired academics to look at the lives of everyday people, to learn what their experiences were throughout history. Academics had to learn to listen to the silences of history, things that other historians hadn’t cared about. This video gives you an idea of what social history is like: a slice of a teenager’s life in the Roman empire. 

Cities are meant for people on the move, not for people to lounge in. So city benches tend to be very uncomfortable––intentionally so, as a matter of fact, so that people don’t get too cozy. Benches have arm rests to prevent people from laying down, for example. That’s called defensive design. Defensive design applies to all sorts of things, for example, those metal rivets on planters to prevent skateboarders from sliding across them. But defensive design is also called hostile design. Why? Because it’s hostile to particular populations, especially the homeless and the disabled. 

Cheese is like wine: it has got delicate flavor differences, loads of varietals, and it can be ridiculously expensive. And, just like, wine, cheese can be either dirt cheap or extraordinarily expensive. This video pits a cheese expert versus a few cheese comparisons. Can she guess which is the cheaper cheese or and which is the more expensive cheese? She’s quite good, and not only will you learn a lot about cheese from this video but you’ll also learn to distinguish between expensive cheese and cheap cheese. 

By now, you probably have heard that Harvey Weinstein has not only been sexually harassing and abusing women for literally decades, but also that his behavior has been the worst kept secret in Hollywood. But despite how many people knew about Weinstein’s sexual harassment and assault, nothing was done about it, either by his peers or by the police. Why? Because Weinstein went through extraordinary measures to keep himself out of trouble. Here’s how his wall of protection fell. 

If you live in Los Angeles, you know one thing above all else: the freeways dictate pretty much every aspect of Angelenos lives. And, since news stations have had helicopters and live feeds, those freeways have seen more than their fair share of live chases. The city, in fact, has become almost obsessed with them. This video ponders the questions: why are high-speed chases so common in Los Angeles, and why do so many people watch them on the news? And what should do we about it?