How to Dad is a YouTube channel that gives loads of different tips for raising kids. First and foremost, the video is funny because of the Dad’s accent. It reminds you of “Flight of the Conchords,” a hilarious show that you should go watch right now. But that’s not the only reason this channel is funny. “Dad” pretty well encapsulates the daily struggles of raising kids; in this case, taking them out to restaurants while they’re in their terrible twos or “threenagers.” 

You might have heard that J.K. Rowling told Alan Rickman that (spoiler alert!) Severus Snape was a good guy all along as early as the first movie in order to help his performance in the movies. You might also have heard that “Avatar” took James Cameron a decade to make. And finally, you might also have heard that there’s a medical condition named after the “Truman Show” (why not name it after Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”?). Here’s the problem: all of those “facts” are wrong. 

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is not only required reading in military academies all around the world an in philosophies classes in universities, but it is also required reading in many of the better business schools. That’s because Sun Tzu’s classic offers brilliant insight into all kinds of conflict, not just physical. This brief primer well make the text easily comprehensible, enabling you to use it in your daily life––even if you’re not a soldier. 

The new “Avengers” movie is finally coming out, after an almost infinite wait (see what we did there?). This trailer is guaranteed to get you pumped––and the moment Captain America makes his first appearance you’re going to get the chills.

Kumari are manifestations of the Nepalese goddess. While she can take many forms, one of those forms is that of an innocent little girl. Because the Kumari are so pure, their feet must never touch the ground, so they’re carried around. When the girl gets her first period, she is dismissed and the people must find a new girl to be Kumari. This video introduces to you one of these girls and her family.

The varieties of religious experience know almost no bounds––humans have a nearly infinite variety of religious expression, in other words. This video is a perfect example of the diversity of religious experience. In Sumpango, Guatemala, townspeople celebrate the Day of the Dead with these huge, beautiful kites. This video tells the story of the nearly three-hundred-year-old tradition. Townspeople believe that the hum of the kites is the spirits communicating with the living.

If you’re old enough to remember actual phones instead of cell phones, you probably remember that hold music didn’t use to sound so crummy. So what changed? It all starts back when phones were still operated by switch boards. The long and short of it is that phone microphones and earpieces are designed for the human vocal range. Music doesn’t transfer so well. And now that cell phones are getting higher quality, that discrepancy is becoming more and more obvious. 

Although you probably have never tried to bring a mercury thermometer on a plane, you might be interested to learn that you can’t bring one on, even if you wanted to. Why not? Take a look at the title image of this post. That creepy looking mushroom thing is actually what happens when mercury meets aluminum: they react unceasingly until the mercury evaporates or the aluminum is gone. So if mercury touches the aluminum of the airplane, it will gradually destroy the plane. 

Think about a few of your favorite science fiction movies. Now try to remember their soundtracks. Were they ominous and dark? Intense and electronic? Probably, that’s kind of the sci-fi movie cliché. But “Her” took a different direction. Under the control of two famous indie artists, William Butler (of Arcade Fire) and his friend and musical collaborator Owen Pallett, this movie has a more nostalgic sound. The music has two different styles: happy when the main character is with people, more somber when he’s alone. This reflects his desire to find someone. 

You might not realize that Dana Carvey once had his own show. Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Dana Carvey all worked on that show. It was a sketch comedy bit, and it definitely pushed the limits of appropriate prime time humor. It was a pretty funny show, but it totally bombed. Why? It was right after Home Improvement––a totally family-friendly TV show. The moment Dana Carvey’s show came on, families turned the channel. 

This man stood at a bus stop in Japan pretending that he was a job seeker waiting for his bus. But he had a problem––he didn’t know how to tie his tie. With that story, he approached people to ask for help. You might imagine that people would blow him off or tell him to learn how to tie a tie on his own. But these wonderful people stopped not only to help him out, but also to give him some encouragement and advice. 

What on earth is a garbage plate, you ask? It comes from a Rochester restaurant. It starts “with a base of any combination of home fries, macaroni salad, baked beans, or french fries topped by your choice of meats and dressed to your liking with spicy mustard, chopped onions, and our signature Nick Tahou’s hot sauce. Each plate comes with two thick slices of fresh italian bread and butter” (Source: Wikipedia). In this video, Babish teaches you to make this dish…if you dare.