Watching paint dry can be good for your health.
A brief meditative moment: watching this man paint parking lot signs with such assurance.
The concept of trade explained with a one-pot dish.
From "The Chopping Board Economist," whose videos explains basic concepts of economics in relation to food: a wedding goulash and other food-inspired examples show why governments limit trade "and how it hurts the most vulnerable."
A wonderful short animated film about horrible war.
Your daily experimental animated short film to help make sense of our warring world: Sasha Svirsky's Tanzonk.
A brief animated history of Radiohead.
"Radiohead is more than a band: it's a mythos. A mythos that's produced nine of the best albums of all time." Whether that's true or not—it's not—here's an amusing animated look at Radiohead's history.
Mesmerizing time-lapses of chemical reactions.
We may have failed chemistry, but we would've paid more attention if we were watching this all day. See more of these films at Envisioning Chemistry.
Dmitry Evgrafov, "Tamas"
Highly recommended: A transportive new video by Rus Khasanov for Dmitry Evgrafov's "Tamas."
The Devil and Daniel Bauhaus
The 1978 animated TV special, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, set to Bauhaus's "Party of the First Part," which is itself a sample (with jazzy interludes) of the show's dialogue.
Trump politicizes terrorist events except when they involve guns.
Trevor Noah makes a good point, that Trump and Fox News immediately politicize terrorist events except when they involve guns or neo-Nazis. By the way, banning bump stocks, once so widely favored in Congress, is going nowhere, now that it's out of the limelight.
Persistence of Vision III
An animation of the sculptures at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway.
Surfers not stopped by missing limbs.
For some inspiration, a pair of French "adaptive surfers"—a man who lost half his leg in a shark attack, and a guy who lost an arm when a tree fell on him—demonstrate how to catch waves despite physical challenges.