Dangerous mail delivery, and the Macarena.

• Laura Try tells how she rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. It's not a modern-style vlog, it's just someone telling their story, but I think it's absolutely worth a watch.
   
• Beau Miles kayaks the sickest urban river in Australia. That's "sick" as in "polluted", just to be clear. (Some moderate language.)
   
• Todd in the Shadows tells the story of the Macarena. (Some strong language.) Yes, this is one of those video essays where someone's spent a long time Googling and is presenting their research, but it's a good story, well told.  As a side note? I never actually learned the Macarena.
   
• And Stuff Made Here tries to build a jigsaw-solving robot. I thought that'd be a difficult challenge, but it's even harder than I'd imagine.

• The Ugly War over Bob Ross' ghost. Bob Ross was one of those American cultural icons that I only knew via the internet; this is a long-read about the legal battles about his image, and the people caught up in them.
   
• They're not meant to be taken seriously, and hopefully no-one does, but: Carlo Cipolla's tongue-in-cheek laws of human stupidity stuck out to me as being an interesting personality test: how much do you help yourself, and how much do you help others? And can you work to increase both?
   
• Disney World is built in a Florida swamp. Why do you almost never get bitten by mosquitos there?

And finally, I can't believe I've never seen this Tennis Balls skit before. From 2013, it's a Saturday Night Live digital short ("digital short"! there's a term that seems outdated). It mocks all the cable-channel hyper-produced "wow! science! amazing!" shows that were taking over the airwaves then. Comedy's always subjective, but it turns out that mixing highbrow style parody and a lot of lowbrow slapstick really makes me laugh.

That's it for this week. Next week: not a video about the postal service, I promise.

All the best,

— Tom