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How to Be a Sneaker Designer

How to Be a Sneaker Designer

(PG-13: Language) Complex’s new show Jobs Unlisted is about uncommon professions. In its first episode, host Speedy Morman visited Pensole Footwear Design Academy to learn about designing sneakers. Eustace stayed up all night for you Speedy. Show some gratitude.

6 Brilliant Movie Shots

6 Brilliant Movie Shots

Video cameras move in six basic ways: pan, tilt, roll, push (or pull), track and crane. They can be combined, performed at different speeds, and cut into each other. But each one is rich enough on its own. CineFix presents its picks for the best use of each basic movement.

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Universal Basic Income Explained

Universal Basic Income Explained

There is growing evidence that giving citizens (or at least the poor) a stipend will make people healthier and happier without tanking the economy or productivity. But it can also be abused – not just by lazy or entitled individuals, but by governments and businesses as well.

21 Things that Turned 21 in 2017

21 Things that Turned 21 in 2017

The older you get, the more the years coalesce into one blob we call “the past.” But Mental Floss wants us to know exactly how ancient we’ve become with this list of things that happened or started 21 years ago, including Google, Space Jam, and A Song of Ice and Fire.

The Primate Tier List

The Primate Tier List

TierZoo finally gets around to the kings of the current meta. Primates prove that to reign supreme, you shouldn’t max one skill. Instead, you should have lots of great skills and traits. You know who’s at the top of the game. At least until the next expansion.

Learning to Break Glass with Your Voice

Learning to Break Glass with Your Voice

Serial learner Mike Boyd decided to take on a silly but tough to acquire skill: learning to break glass with one’s voice. Step 1: get something made out of crystal glass. Step 2: protect your eyes. Step 3: WUUUUEEEE

Aladdin: How Can We Be Free?

Aladdin: How Can We Be Free?

“But oh, to be free… to be my own master.” ScreenPrism argues that Aladdin has a nice message about freedom. The heroes each have different kinds of freedom. In the end, they learn that to maximize their own freedom, they should help others be more free as well.

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Why Is Glacier Ice Blue?

Why Is Glacier Ice Blue?

If you’ve ever seen a glacier up close and personal, you know they’re a beautiful blue-green color that’s unlike just about any ice or water you’ve ever witnessed. It’s Okay to Be Smart reveals the science behind what we see, then gives us a 360º view inside an ice cave.

Why Can’t We Live on the Moon?

Why Can’t We Live on the Moon?

While there have long been promises by space agencies that they would build a manned base on the moon, it has never come to pass. Life Noggin explains why the Earth-orbiting satellite that we first landed on in the 1960s has proven so difficult to colonize and sustain life.

How to Make Instant Ramen Broth

How to Make Instant Ramen Broth

Alex French Guy Cooking is addicted to instant ramen. He thought of four different ways to have instant ramen broth on hand, either as a powdered mixture or as a cube. Two of the recipes take only 5 minutes or less, while the other two take several hours.

Japan’s Love for Public Baths

Japan’s Love for Public Baths

Life Where I’m From created a brief history of Japan’s public baths. He also talked about why they remain popular despite bathtubs becoming commonplace, and an overview of onsens and other kinds of public baths that you might want to check out when you visit Japan.

Learning to Saber a Champagne Bottle

Learning to Saber a Champagne Bottle

Mike Boyd recently passed a milestone: 500,000 YouTube subscribers. To celebrate, he figured he’d learn how to lop off the top of a champagne bottle with a saber. It’s surprisingly easy to figure out, but you should still practice before trying it on expensive champagne.

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Liquid Sand Hot Tub

Liquid Sand Hot Tub

A fluidized bed is a mixture of a solid and a fluid that behaves like a fluid. To show us how it works, Mark Rober mixed sand with bursts of air – when the air is piped in, the sand behaves like it’s a fluid. Just for kicks, he also made a larger bed using a discarded hot tub.

Faster Than the Speed of Light

Faster Than the Speed of Light

It’s not too hard to travel faster than sound, but amping things up to the speed of light is a whole other level. Life Noggin pontificates on the what might happen if we could exceed 186,000 miles per second. The whole slowing down light thing seems like a cheat though.

Hidden Figures & Subplots

Hidden Figures & Subplots

Nearly all movies have smaller stories embedded around and within their main story. Lessons from the Screenplay uses the wonderful biopic Hidden Figures to show how subplots enhance the main plot when executed properly.

Your Amazing Molecular Machines

Your Amazing Molecular Machines

Veritasium explains how our cells divide with the help from astounding realistic computer animated clips created by Dr. Drew Berry at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Those walking proteins are amazing. Biological nanomachines, son.

Facts About Koalas

Facts About Koalas

Did you know that koalas have been around 100 times longer than humans? Mental Floss fills our brains with trivia about those adorable eucalyptus-loving marsupials. They may not be as pleasant to hang out with as you might think, but we want a giant koala anyhow.

Emergence

Emergence

Individual insects have limited skills, but when they form a colony, the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Kurzgesagt explores the phenomenon known as “emergence” – which sounds like a great name for a flick where billions of ants rise up to take over the world.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Why is it that people who have no idea what they’re doing think they’re good at it? David Dunning explains how their ineptitude makes it difficult for them to be self-aware of their shortcomings. Before you judge, the same thing can apply to all of us to an extent.

The Rules that Rule Japan

The Rules that Rule Japan

Japan has tons of rules and practices. But like other communities, some of them don’t make sense, and some of them are ignored. Life Where I’m From made this lighthearted guide about modern Japan’s rules. We can’t wait for the hit anime about the mighty safety cone.

Why American Land Looks Like This

Why American Land Looks Like This

When you fly over much of rural America, you’ll notice that there are lots of squared-off little blocks of land forming cool geometric patterns when observed from the sky. But why is this the case, and not so much in other parts of the world? Half as Interesting explains.

The Football War Oversimplified

The Football War Oversimplified

OverSimplified tries his best to squeeze humor out of the tragic Football War of 1969. Arguing over immigration issues, tensions between El Salvador and Honduras were aggravated when their national football teams faced each other at the World Cup qualifiers.

Relearning Downhill Mountain Biking

Relearning Downhill Mountain Biking

Mike Boyd’s latest learning challenge had a couple of twists. He was an avid mountain biker in his teens, but hasn’t kept up with it. He asked pro biker Ben Cathro to help him beat his personal time by 10 seconds. Excitement follows.

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