This elephant calf was stuck in a ditch; the walls were too steep for it to get out, and it was too deep for the elephants to pull the calf out. Fortunately there were some people nearby with a backhoe. Using the backhoe, they were able to push enough dirt down into the ditch to make a kind of dirt stepping stool. After the baby elephant gets out, the adults come by and offer up a salute of thanks to the humans. 

When most people want to graffiti something onto a wall, they go out and buy a mask and some spray paint. That’s how Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) got his start. But then he realized that he was adding graffiti to old walls, walls that had been painted over again and again and layered over with different materials. So why keep adding things to those walls? Why not remove things to make images? So that’s precisely what he did. 

In this increasingly cable-cut world, you might not have to sit through commercials anymore. But you probably have seen at least two or three commercials for feminine products. The only thing about those commercials is that it’s almost impossible to tell what they’re for until the very end. This fake ad perfectly parodies those feminine product ads, mocking the ways in which advertising agencies talk down to their audiences. It might make you rethink what products you buy.

Happiness: it’s something that everyone wants, but few can easily get. Heck, some people never find it at all. This animated short plays on the idea of “the rat race” to explore what happiness means and how we get it. As the artist points out, we tend to look for happiness in all the wrong places––at the bottom of a bottle of booze or pills, for example––and we work ourselves sick trying to keep that faux-happiness. The end is about as bleak as you can imagine. 

Katie Cooke is 20 years old, and she’s a competitive runner from Dublin. She has an extremely aggressive form of epilepsy that causes her to have up to fourteen seizures a day. It seems unlikely that someone who suffers from so many seizures could ever be a competitive runner, but Katie won’t be stopped. With the help of her neurologist-cum-running partner, she’s able to hit the roads as much as she wants. 

ElectroBOOM has over a million subscribers on YouTube at this point, and his videos are getting better and better. He ha been covering more elaborate and more interesting topics. But one thing has not really improved––his sound quality. In this video, he analyzes different microphones and explains why some sound better than others. He also offers some tips on how to improve audio quality in your own videos using his electric engineering expertise. 

“The Room” has gone down in film history as one of––if not the––worst film ever made and released. It’s so bad that there are still screenings of it, where “fans” get together and mock the film. Almost every decision in the movie was the wrong one. It’s so famously awful that a movie, “The Disaster Artist,” has been made about it. If you don’t want to watch “The Room” but still want to see “The Disaster Artist,” watch this honest trailer. 

If we asked you to name your favorite teacher, how long would it take you to think of her or him? If you’re like most of us, not that long. If we asked you to describe that teacher, would you be able to? Probably in great detail, and with lots of your favorite memories throne in. That’s because our teachers impact us far more than anyone else on the planet, excluding our parents. Listening to Seth Meyers’s tribute to his own favorite teacher is going to inspire you to look up yours and write a quick thank you email. 

If you walk into a Ghanian funeral, you might think you’ve entered the wrong building. You’ll see people dancing and clapping, performing with coffins on their backs, and generally have a fabulous time. This, obviously, it’s at all what an American funeral is like. This video explains that Ghanians perform and dance at funerals because they see a funeral as an opportunity to celebrate life, not to mourn loss. It sure looks like a good way to send someone into the afterlife. 

The entirety of American society might have just written off Kevin Spacey, much as Freddy wrote off Frank Underwood, but that doesn’t mean that we should ignore one good thing House of Cards brought us: Freddy’s delicious smoked ribs. In this Binging with Babish episode, Babish teaches you to make Freddy’s famous ribs using both fake smoke and real smoke. So even if you live in an apartment in New York City, you can approximate the smokiness of those delicious-looking ribs. 

If you ever doubt that there’s latent sexism in the world––even just the tiniest bit of that sexism––think about the way we as a society speak of certain stereotypically feminine sports like cheerleading and ballerina. The fact is, we don’t consider them sports. But we challenge you to take one look at this video and maintain that opinion. Misty Copeland is a master ballerina, and she’s as much of an athlete as an stereotypically “male” sport might produce. 

Borders represent liminality––a fancy word for “in-betweenness.” Borders separate order from chaos; us from them; good from evil. But the actual space of the border is up for grabs––it’s where order disintegrates into chaos, where we mix with them, where good becomes evil. Films use the ideas of borders to explore the limits of civilization and humanity alike. This video essay examines how the filmmakers behind Sicario used borders to explore these limits.