Although we hate to think about it, at some point the current Queen of England will pass away at some point. When her death comes, it will trigger a series of protocols about which you have likely never thought. This is what they might be. First, important world leaders will get a phone call with a secret phrase (“London bridge has fallen”), letting them know that the queen has passed.  Every news station in the country has a blue light in their station; that light will turn on and somber music will start playing. The news will then take over the programming and make the announcement. There’s even more––take a look.

Archimedes once said that if you give him a place to stand and a large enough lever, he could move the world. This video proves that, with just the right understanding of human behavior and some duct tape, you can at least move some people. These behavioral scientists use a technique called “nudging” to get people to make slight modifications to their behavior. Those slight modifications, on a macro scale, end up having real consequences on the world.

Everyone knows that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand sparked a series events that led to World War One. But this video offers a rereading of the history, digging farther back into the history of military spending in Europe in the years leading up to the war and asking, “Why was there such an arms race?” The video traces that arms race to the psychological hangups of one German leader, and his obsession with building a bigger, better navy. 

A speech jammer is pretty much just what it sounds like. It jams your speech by delaying your auditory perception, making it difficult to tell if you’re even talking or not. The result is that you sound like you’re periodically losing your ability to speak or even think clearly. So naturally the guys at Good Mythical Morning attached themselves to a speech jammer and made a prank call to a hotel, asking for a path of hummus leading to a bed and pillows made of pita. The results are, predictably, hilarious.

There’s a good chance you already have your own pumpkin pie recipe. Perhaps is a family recipe that goes back a few generation, and you’re loathe to give it up. You don’t have to. The thing about “You Suck at Cooking” videos is that you don’t need to like cooking––hence the channel’s title “You Suck at Cooking”––all you need to like is entertainment. The guy behind this channel is hilarious, and this pumpkin pie recipe is no exception. 

We’ve all had this experience. You go to a restaurant, you don’t have a set budget in mind but you know you don’t want to spend that much money, you just want a decent meal out. One thing leads to another and you’re on your third glass of wine. You go for appetizers, a more expensive meal than you thought, and, who knew? you have room for dessert. What happened? Well, it may not be your fault. You’re not necessarily a weak-willed individual. Restaurants hack your brain using known psychological effects to get you to spend more money. 

We all want to take the cheapest flight possible. While you can often find good flights for good deals, the problem is that sometimes you get what you pay for. Spirit Airlines, for example, is very well priced. But the moment you step on Spirit, according to this comedian, you’re going to see why it’s so cheap. It’s the only airline with cockroaches, as he says, but even the roaches on Spirit don’t want to be there!

When it comes to experts in restaurant foods, chefs are probably top of the pecking order. In other words, you should listen to them when they tell you what foods to avoid––and some of these foods are surprising. Chicken, for example, seems like a safe bet. But the problem is many restaurants overcook chicken for fear of making their customers sick, leaving the chicken dry. Kobe beef, the famous Japanese delicacy, is another risky bet thanks to some labeling confusion between Kobe beef and Wagyu. 

Anyone who has read Harry Potter can probably name at least ten mouthwatering food items that appear throughout the series––not to mention the disgusting-sounding Every Flavor Beans. In this Binging with Babish episode, you can learn to make three of the simpler recipes: pumpkin pasties, treacle tart, and butter beer. All three recipes are pretty simple for the home chef or home baker. You can’t give the kids butter beer, though, because there is butterscotch schnapps in it. 

The Jun’s Kitchen YouTube channel has over a million subscriber, so chances are you’ve seen one of his videos. Perhaps you remember this noodle dish he made? Well, it wasn’t just him making the noodles––it was him and his feline helpers. His cats actually appear in all of his videos, “helping” him make his delicious-meals. OK, so they don’t actually help but they are well trained, and they don’t eat the food when he turns away––oh, and they do some pretty impressive tricks. How did he train them? He explains in this video. 

Almost everyone agrees that Stranger Things season one was a very special bit of television. It was set in the 1980s, but it doesn’t use nostalgia as annoyingly as some other shows. It references a ton of 1980s pop culture elements, but it doesn’t do so in a cheesy way. In fact, Stranger Things adopts some of those pop culture references and then takes them even farther, bringing them into fruition. Take a look at this brilliant video essay. 

Pairing food and wine has been a popular art since the first vintner quaffed his creation with a mouthful of food. Now, it’s an extremely developed and lucrative art form. We may be witnessing the birth of a new pairing art form: pairing hot sauce with food. There’s a lot to keep in mind: flavors of the hot sauce, level of saltiness, level of acid, texture of the sauce, temperature of the food, and so on. You also have to learn to care for your sauce properly: don’t expose it to direct sunlight, don’t let its temperature fluctuate, and so on.