It was the turning point in The Matrix. Cypher puts himself into the matrix to meet with Agent Smith over a steak dinner. Cypher plans to betray his friends in order to get himself put back into the matrix, and he says it’s because of the very steak on his fork. He just wants to get back to a world with tasty food. You too can get to a world of tasty food if you just follow Babish’s directions for making a delicious steak.

Black holes are the bane of sci-fi movies. Just see Interstellar or the latest Netflix Lost in Space for some examples of black holes simply wrecking everyone’s stuff. But this video explains how black holes might actually be useful for other things, such as powering entire planets for trillions of years or making the most powerful bomb humans have ever created. All you need is a mirror. OK, maybe it’s more complicated than that––you need a really, really big mirror. 

Elon Musk and Tesla has made the electric car a viable option for many people, but as this video points out Tesla’s production capacity will never be enough to actually take over gasoline cars’ market share. Real Engineering then goes on to wonder whether hydrogen can be part of the fuel of the future. Ultimately, the video states, the most viable way that hydrogen can be profitable is by creating its own industry.

You might have seen in movies or TV shows that diplomats can’t get arrested, and that’s because they have something called diplomatic immunity. Unlike most things you see in movies, that’s actually true. But the way that movies or TV shows talk about embassies is often incorrect. It’s not that you don’t have to abide by the host nation’s laws and that the embassies is technically on the soil of its home country. That’s not really true, as you’ll see in this video.

You might have seen a few videos of balloons sending things to space. But here’s the thing: most of those videos aren’t actually of balloons sending objects to space. Instead, most balloons are sending objets to the edge of space. This video is at least honest about that, and it does you one better. Tom Scott sends a nice piece of garlic bread to the edge of space, and then he gets to eat the bread. It’s a first in YouTube history!

Fish from the Atlantic are moving into the Arctic and, spoiler alert, it’s because of climate change. This Vox video explains what exactly is causing those Atlantic fish to move into the Arctic and, more importantly, why that’s such a bad thing. In brief, it’s because these fish are totally disrupting the food change, and they’re not great sources of nutrition. So they’re taking food from other fish, fish that would normally be good food for predators, and then becoming terrible food for predators. 

If you are only going to own one knife in your kitchen, it should be a chef’s knife. Once you decide to buy one of those bad boys, you have to do the research to find the right knife. The video is a great start. It explains the different country’s varieties of knives, including French, German, and Japanese. It also describes the different levels of steel hardness and the benefits of those levels. From there, you’ll learn about blade length, blade thickness, single vs. double bevel, hidden tang vs. full tang, and a bunch more. More importantly, you’ll learn how each of those styles affects the knife’s handling. 

The Iran Deal was hard won. Multiple countries and the European Union had to agree to the Iran deal, including the United States. It was one of Obama’s greatest victories in office, and it promised effectively to halt Iran’s nuclear program. One of Donald Trump’s major platforms, however, was how terrible the deal was and how quickly he would overturn it. In this video, Oliver tackles Trump’s claims that the deal was bad one at a time.

Joseph Campbell articulated the Hero’s Journey in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In brief (almost painfully brief), the Hero’s Journey describes the stages many heroes go through in fiction.Odysseus, Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, and countless other heroes share these stages, but Overly Sarcastic Productions think that they’ve spotted a few major flaws in Campbell’s classic articulation of the Hero’s Journey. Certainly these folks have done a lot of research into the matter and aren’t just throwing meaningless criticism at a very useful mode of analysis, right?

When he was only fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited to join the Neo-Nazi movement. He was naive, and his recruiter easily spilled hate into Picciolini’s ear, hate that eventually made its way to his heart. That hate was so powerful that it blinded Picciolini to his own hypocrisy. But this isn’t the story of how he was stuck in a Neo-Nazi organization, it’s the story of how he got out. Spoiler alert: it was the love a girl. 

Toxic masculinity describes normal masculine characteristics––aggression, competitiveness, and so on––but taken to an unhealthy degree. Toxic masculinity is one of the themes that pervades filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies. Take, for example, the two main characters in There Will Be Blood or the main character in Boogie Nights. Each other these men are “guilty” of toxic masculinity and the films are explorations of the effects of that kind of masculinity. The video explains in more detail.

The first season of Jessica Jones had one of the all-time great TV villains. Kilgrave had the ability to control people with his voice. That led to a series of small villainies, like making a guy throw hot coffee into his own face. It’s terrible because it’s on such a small scale. This video juxtaposes the first season villain with the second season villain (and red herring villains), including Jessica’s psycho mother, the return of a season one villain, and more.