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The Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations was an outright hit and is an auto-include in best of lists. But Polyphonic believes that the song’s impact has flown over the public’s collective head. He sets out to correct that with this excellent deconstruction.

Keystone Science shows us how to build a nifty bit of old school tech – an analog oscilloscope, made using the tiny CRT viewfinder from an old camcorder. If you’d rather build something bigger, he’s got you covered too.

Watching movies in a true IMAX theater can be an overwhelmingly amazing experience. Projectionist John Ruddock shows us that preparing the expensive equipment can also be intense. There’s a surprising amount of manual setup involved in playing a 70mm IMAX film.

Kurzgesagt kicks off a multi-part lesson that explains how an organism’s size drastically affects its evolution. For instance, droplets of water could be lethal to insects. So some of them evolved to repel even tiny particles of water.

Todd McFarlane reinvented Spider-Man, created Spawn, and helped revolutionize the comics industry by co-founding Image Comics. Now he has a toy empire. He sat down with Complex to share tons of practical tips for success based on his passion and experience.

(PG-13: Language) Mac Lethal’s Rap Tutorials isn’t what it sounds like – it’s a life advice series, much in the vein of Casually Explained. For this episode, we learn the answer to a much-asked question. TL;DW? Simply transform yourself into Zangief.

(PG-13: Language) Given the complexities of biology, chemistry, and evolution, it’s pretty amazing that human beings exist at all. YouTuber and backyard philosopher exurb1a does his best to explain just what it takes for us to be us.

There are millions of trick shot videos on YouTube (and we’ve featured our share of them.) Now, Captain Disillusion is here to burst our bubble – and all of those basketballs, footballs, tennis balls, and golf balls, as he shows us some of the tricks of the trade.

Mike Boyd shares a great realization that he had as a self-learner. Many times, the act of practicing or studying itself doesn’t take up a lot of time. But if you have to go out of your daily routine to pick up a skill, that’s when it becomes time-consuming.

Stereolithography or SLA 3D printers are great for making small, smooth and highly detailed objects. Bill the Engineer Guy breaks down the components of an SLA DLP 3D printer to explain how it works in his typically engaging and accessible approach.

If you’re about to get 7,143 abdominal X-rays, better change your plans. That’s just one of the many lethal doses that Asapscience mentions in its video, which also includes stealthy killers like nutmeg and toothpaste.

Adam Ruins Everything explains why healthcare is expensive in the US and practically anywhere else that has medical insurance. Hospitals jacked up their prices so that insurance companies get “discounts”, i.e. the original prices. Check out the show’s sources here.

MS Paint is dead, long live MS Paint! With the arrival of Paint 3D, Microsoft will no longer update or support its predecessor. Lazy Game Reviews traces the origins and evolution of the beloved application, which started as a clone of a Mac program.

(SPOILERS) Wisecrack points out how the excellent Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood urges us not to stubbornly subscribe to an ideology, rational or otherwise, because doing so would dehumanize us by discouraging us from questioning and thinking for ourselves.

Kurzgesagt turns self-referential in its latest clip, exploring their own tendency to create videos about bad things that may someday befall our universe, but still managing to have a positive outlook on humanity.

We all know that factories, cars, trucks, and other vehicles can result in significant carbon emissions. But what’s the environmental impact of making a single BLT sandwich? NPR’s SkunkBear has the answer to the question no one was asking, but has a fascinating answer.

This Exists talks about the rise of Japanese anti-idol groups such as Babymetal. While still manufactured and pigeonholed, these groups stray from the sweet and sterile facade of traditional pop idols by adding anything risqué and seeing if it sticks: metal, blood, Trump…

While you might think the universe is just an endless expanse, it actually has a shape that holds it together. MinutePhysics teamed up with PhD Comics to explore this puzzling astrophysical question and try to suss out some answers for us.

How to Make Everything visited Redmond Inc.’s salt mine in Central Utah to find out how these massive salt deposits were formed, how easy it is to chip off salt, and more. Somehow they ended up shooting bowling balls off a cannon.

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Mike Boyd is an engineer, but he swears he’s never used a 3D printer until he made this video. It’s heartening to see that you can go from knowing nothing about the technology to making model rockets in just a few hours.

Back in 1952, London, England was engulfed in a think blanket of smog that was so nasty that it caused the city to come to a halt, and actually ended up killing an estimated 12,000 people. SciShow looks back at this tragic result of industrial development without controls.

Adam Ruins Everything kicks off its second season by debunking myths about babies and pregnancy. Like how it’s actually perfectly fine and highly probable for a woman to get pregnant in her late 30s. Check out his sources here.