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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.

The most effective way to undermine climate change is to suggest that there is a debate about its veracity. But is that true? Is there really a debate about whether the climate is changing? As this video explains, there absolutely is not. Unless you call three disagreeing against ninety-seven a “debate.” This video also explains how these numbers were determined, and it is not just a compilation of papers. It was really a study of studies.

With all the superhero movies coming out, you might be thinking about what kind of superpower you would want. Some will say flight, some will say super strength, and some will say super speed. Now there are problems with all of them, and this spoilsport ruins the strength in another video. But this video is about why super speed would be so bad. First, the acceleration. Your body would be turned to mush. Next, if you really did move at supersonic speeds, you’d be unable to see anything. The world would be a blur. 

There have been ninety years of best picture winners at the Academy Awards. You probably remember a few of those films, but it is a darn long shot that you know the first one. It was called “Wings” and it was a silent film. It was a massive production; the shoot lasted three to four times longer than the average shoot of those days. There were hundreds of pilots and extras involved, and technological advancements from this film revolutionized the industry. 

You might remember hearing about inflation in your high school economics class, or maybe even a college economics class. But could you explain it now if you had to? Say explain it to a teenager? Probably not, so this video explains the three types of inflation, how they’re caused, and what kind of damage they do to economies. This video is a heck of a lot easier than reading the Wiki article, so have a look.

You have probably seen a few articles floating around on Facebook and Twitter about how cheese is addictive as cocaine. So what’s the deal, is that a case of so-called fake news? If so, we know that you camembert any more fake news, so here’s the truth. Basically, the scientific studies that did that were not really gouda-nuff  for the news stories to make those claims. So live brie let them eat cheese!

It may seem that the f-word is just a curse, something you throw around when you are angry or frustrated. There’s not a lot of art to the word, unless you’re trying to make a movie rated PG-13. If that is the case, then you need to limit the number of times you say the f-word to one or two. And even then, the f-word can only be used in certain contexts. So there’s an art to using the word.