The San Francisco Bay Area is notoriously expensive, but just how expensive can be hard to grasp. The latest statistics are revealing just how bad it is there. In some counties, earning $117,400 qualifies as low income for a family of four. If you earn $73,300, you are considered to have a very low income. The median home price in the Bay Area, as of May, was a whopping $935,000. As a result, many people are leaving the Bay Area to escape the rising prices. 

One of the best parts of police procedurals are the crime scene investigations. These are the real Sherlock Holmes moments that keep us interested. And what we really like about those moments is the science. We like to see how people use their brains to figure out problems and how their mastery of science leads to problems’ solutions. This video kind of bursts your police procedural bubbles a bit, though, because this forensics expert picks apart most of your favorite shows. 

The Bristol Brabazon was meant to be the ocean liner of the skies. Britain designed the plane to save its airline industry, which it saw circling the drain towards the end of World War Two. The Americans had a number of planes that could be turned into airlines, and Britain wanted to compete. Enter the Bristol Brabazon, which was a massive luxury liner for the skies. It had a cocktail bar, a movie theater, and full berths. 

If you think that Americans feel passionately about Donald Trump, wait until you hear what many Mexicans say to their current president. That favorite slogan? “F**k your mother.” This Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment examines the upcoming Mexican elections, including why Mexicans are so upset with their president and what the alternatives are. There are some real gems, including the guy who wants to cut off the hands of anyone who engages in corruption. 

A child found a gun in a Wishers, Indiana Ikea. Another customer sat on the couch, his gun fell into the cushions without him noticing. Later, the child found it and fired a shot. Thankfully, no one was injured. This just goes to show two things. The first, kids need to know what to do if they come across a gun. The second is far more important: Ikea is terrible and will literally lead children to fire shots into the air in order to get out. 

The computer you are reading this on, the TV that you watch at night, the car that you drove to work today, and the work that you did there is all the result of the scientific method. Much of how we live came from a few centuries of the scientific method. This video summarizes some of those advancements, and also wonders what ten thousand more years of the scientific method might lead to. 

Cable “news,” if you can properly call what they do on those channels news, have a number of questionable features. Perhaps the most annoying of these features is the panel. If you haven’t seen a panel on a cable news show, just imagine a few people literally screaming nonsense over each other. This Daily Show segment dissects everything wrong with the panel format on cable news and will, hopefully, open the news audiences’ eyes to the destructiveness of those programs.

Pharmacists are allowed to refuse to dispense medicine to patients if that medicine violates their ethical beliefs. However, if a pharmacist wishes to do so, he or she must make arrangements so that the patient can be served his or her medicines in a timely manner. That’s the crux of this news story. A Walgreens pharmacist did not make timely arrangements for a woman who needed medicine to aid in the miscarriage of her deceased fetus. The woman was forced to leave the store in tears and then drive to another pharmacy twenty minutes away the next day.

Nine vice presidents have been promoted to the office of president after the death or resignation of a of the president. That means vice presidents are more than twice as likely to become president through the death or resignation of the president than they are through election after their term as vice president. This video lists the top five vice presidents based on their performance in the job. If you’re politically or historically inclined, leave your reactions to the list in the comments. 

There are two kinds of coffee drinkers in this world: those who are content to sip on a cup of (God forbid) Folgers in the morning––after all, we hear it’s the best part of waking up––and those who will only imbibe the finest pour over brews from their local five-dollar-a-cup shop. And, as the Bard once wrote, never the twain shall meet. For those who can’t understand why anyone would pay so much for coffee, this expert explains. 

No one can accuse Star Wars fans of being disinterested. At a recent auction in New York City, the blaster used by Han Solo in the Star Wars films went for a whopping $550,000. For the past thirty years, the blaster was in the possession of the film’s art director. For whatever this is worth, the blaster sold for a hundred thousand dollars more than a lightsaber used by Mark Hamill in two films. 

So many people wear glasses nowadays, and glasses are so easy and cheap to get (especially if you buy online) that we don’t think much about the inconvenience of having glasses. But what about people born before glasses existed? How did people get along? And were those people effectively unable to do real work? As it turns out, they were not––for the most part. It turns out that our ancestors had a variety of ways to get around poor eyesight, including special magnifying lenses.