Wheeler K. Neff, the lawyer behind some of the biggest payday loan companies in the country, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison. He has also been ordered to pay “$50,000 in fines, forfeit more than $350,000, and serve three years’ probation after his release from prison.” This sentence is one of the stiffest punishments dolled out for such a crime, and it foreshadows what might be to come for other industry pioneers.

Self-driving cars are the promise of the future. We imagine a world without traffic accidents, without traffic, without the stress of driving––we hope for Disneyland’s Autopia. Companies like Uber and Tesla are working on self-driving cars, but it seems like we’re still a long way from fleets of them cruising the streets. This video explains the challenge of building a self-driving car safe enough to trust your life with by getting into the technology a car needs to process all the information possible as it makes decision.

The 2008 housing bubble brought the entire worldwide financial system to its knees. Movies like The Big Short explained what happened, but even then it was complicated. This video makes the housing bubble a little easier to understand, and then it goes on to make a terrifying prediction: there will soon be another bubble, and one likely to be far worse than the housing bubble. That bubble will be caused by a combination of skyrocketing college tuitions and student loans.

Author Max Barry once described reading Ayn Rand in this way,” I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days.” And yet Ayn Rand, who has been dead for over three decades, still holds sway over modern politicians for her nonsensical and objectively incorrect (see what we did there?) philosophy. 

Here’s a video that’s sure to get you talking, and we hope you take that conversation to the comment box below. Essentially, this video is part historical recounting of monogamy’s development and part argument that our society has outgrown monogamy. They include not only historical accounting, but they also delve into biology and suggest that monogamy is a myth based in the male’s biological imperative to spread seed coupled with political and economic motivations. What do you think?

Amazon Echo sits in your house, generally looking like a harmless cylinder. That cylinder may not be harmless, however, it could do quite a bit of damage to you. A woman in Portland claims that her Alexa device recorded a private conversation and sent it to a random contact. It’s everyone’s worst nightmare––imagine complaining to your boss only to have an audio file of your complaints sent to the boss!

There’s something about medieval castles that capture the imagination. Perhaps because we have all seen movies or TV shows about the medieval period and have seen some pretty glamorous representations of castle living. This video starts with the most basic possible “castle,” which is really just a big ol’ walled room. From there, it builds to what bigger castles looked like from the inside. Don’t get your hope sup, though, because even the biggest or most elaborate castles weren’t that nice.

There are so many beautiful places on this planet. Some places, however, have a reputation for beauty that they perhaps do not deserve. Or at least they have reputations that should be carefully considered. Take Varanasi, India, for example. It’s one of India’s holiest cities. Mark Twain once quipped that Varanasi “is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together”. This video examines some of the other places that are a little rougher around the edges than you’d assume.

Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Bill Cosby, and more have all been accused of sexual assault or harassment, and their behaviors destroyed their careers. The movement has led all of us to wonder who in Hollywood is capable of such behavior and who we can trust. Many might have placed Morgan Freeman on the trust list, but according to recent accusations he may not be so trustworthy.

Amazon’s return police is pretty generous, all things considered. You can return things for free, and sometimes you don’t even have to ship it back. If there’s an Amazon Locker in your area, you can just drop it off. But all that convenience can be dangerous. It gets tempting to return things more and more often. You have to be careful––Amazon recently admitted that it bans users who make too many returns. One user, however, says that they were banned after only six returns in a year––one of which for a product they never even received.

This isn’t your average top ten video, so don’t expect a bunch of click-baity facts. This is a Lemmino video, which means it’s thorough and fascinating. For example, the first fact is about the oldest piece of music ever written down. You even get to hear one of the interpretations of it, but unfortunately it’s very difficult for musicologists to agree on how to translate the musical notations. There is also speculation on why music elicits certain emotions in us. 

Most people don’t carry around survival kits in their cars or when they hike or camp. But should the worst happen––say your car breaks down on a remote stretch of desert highway––you might have a lot of knowledge stored up in the old noggin that could keep you alive. Can you trust those survival tips you’ve learned? This video points out eight myths that are totally wrong, such as drinking booze to warm up or drinking your own urine if you’re dehydrated.