Sometimes to make sure kids aren’t scared on planes, or to give a kid a little treat, pilots will invite a young’un into the cockpit to show them how the plane flies. That’s what happened with this little kid on Etihad Airways, except the tables were turned. The pilots started to point to different instruments in the cockpit and asked what they did. Normally, kids have no idea––heck, normally adults have no idea. But this dude must have spent a lot of time on a flight simulator because, dang, he basically knew everything. 

OK Go seems to have an intuitive understand of viral marketing. They just about broke the internet in 2009 with their music video for “Here it Goes,” where they danced around a bunch of treadmills. If you need to remember, here you go:

This tough lookin’ customer in the title image is called a warrior wasp. If it means anything to you, the warrior wasp comes from the same place as the bullet ant, the most painful insect in the world. The host of this video, Coyote, has been going through the most painful insect bites on the planet to see what they’re really like. He’s already done a bullet ant and a tarantula hawk, both of which are brutal. But he says that the warrior wasp is a whole different kind of pain––it feels like it’s continually stinging you for minutes and minutes. 

Do you know anyone who just…well, there’s no way to say it…sucks? As in, they’re really not good at what they do, and they’re so bad at what they do that they don’t even realize that they’re bad at it! Well, don’t worry, you’re not alone in knowing that person. There are lots of incompetent people who don’t know they’re bad. As it turns out, it’s a known psychological phenomenon. It happens precisely because those people are incompetent: they don’t even know that they’re bad at what they do because they lack the skill. 

Most of us, unfortunately, do not have an Italian grandmother loving with us and making us pasta every night. But you don’t have to rely on the mythical Italian grandma to enjoy delicious pasta dishes. Basics with Babish teaches you how to roll pasta by hand––no special tools required. If you’ve got flour, a fork, and some eggs you can make this pasta. He also shows you how to make pasta with a roller. But that’s not all. He also shows you a few recipes to use your delicious pasta with.

Cochlear implants can bring hearing to the deaf, but most of us will never know exactly what that sounds like. This video explains the science of cochlear implants––basically, it pipes frequencies straight into one’s brain. Your brain then has to interpret the frequencies. The problem is the brain doesn’t know exactly how to interpret those frequencies. The resulting sounds are described like a toy running out of batteries, and the sounds lack pick and timbre. 

The pollution price you pay for juice from nuclear power is tiny. If you compare a nuclear power plant and a fossil fuel plant, the nuclear plant produces about three two-liter soda bottles worth of pollution for one kilowatt hour of energy. A fossil fuel plant produces about a bathtub’s worth of pollution for the same amount of energy. So why aren’t there more plants? It’s not about the fear of meltdowns, but rather the problem of nuclear waste. 

Did you already binge all of the new Netflix “Punisher” series? Are you hungry for more punishment? Then take a look at this awesome fan-made short film, directed by Phil Joanou and staring Thomas Jane. The plot is your basic Punisher stuff: Frank Castle sees bad stuff going down, tries not to get involved for awhile, and then finally gives up and doles out some (very graphic) punishment. Here’s what Thomas Jane has to say.

Gaten Matarazzo and Joe Keery, a.k.a.  Dustin and Steve, developed an adorable friendship during the second season of Stranger Things, and it seems like that friendship has carried over from the fictional world into the real world. Here they are with Wired to answer some of the web’s most googled questions about the show. It’s actually pretty interesting to see the questions people ask about the show. For example, some people seem to think that the show was based on a true story. Go figure…

Ballpoint pens are so ubiquitous that it seems impossible that China doesn’t make them. But, as a matter of fact, China has never been able to make a good ballpoint pen because the engineering is too complicated. That’s because the ball in the ballpoint pen needs to be housed very specifically and with very specific metal. If the metal is even a little bit lower quality than it needs to be, then the pen won’t work right––ink will spill out too fast or not enough, or the ball will lock up. 

Imagine a pond full of fish. There’s a group of fisherman who all live around the pond and rely on the fish to survive. You’d think that the fisherman would all work together to make sure they don’t overfish the pond. But that doesn’t happen––each person eats more fish than they should and, as a result, the pond runs out of the fish and they all go hungry. This is called the tragedy of the commons. People work against the interest of society in order to further their own interests, which actually screws them over in the long run. 

We all have a grandma or grandpa who claims to know when it’s about to rain because their joints ache. They may even claim to have an accuracy percentage higher than the local weather man. But is true that aches and pains predict bad weather? This video lays out a series of scientific studies that say, basically, there’s no conclusive evidence that joints predict bad weather. That doesn’t mean you can disrespect grandma, though. It’s probably in your best interest just to bring an umbrella.