The history of the world is, you know, long and complex but that doesn’t mean to say it can’t be summarized in a 20 minute internet video.

Musician and historian Bill Wurtz follows up his hugely popular History of Japan video with this equally brilliant recap of the evolutionary history of earth and everything in it.

Chances are, if you were a bit of a nerdy kid you got into Lego Technic. Chances are you’re probably still into it as an adult. One of the best things there has always been about Lego was to use your imagination to it’s limits as you tried to create mini replicas of your favorite cars, trucks, diggers, trains, planes, and well, pretty much anything that floated your boat as a kid.

Even if the end result looked nothing like the original. But all that’s now changed.

Things have come a long way since those days with an amazing approach to detail, workings and reconstruction of the real thing and you’ll find out in this video just how much workthat goes behind the design of a Lego Technic 42030 Volvo L350F Wheel Loader, it’s very appealing.

To create the toy version of this real world piece of construction equipment the design team went to meticulously-detailed lengths.

The result is a complex, remote-controlled model which replicates all the features of the actual L350F, the largest of Volvo’s wheel loaders.

The films shows how the team shrunk the giant vehicle to create the miniature version, which has 1,600 pieces and can lift more than 1kg in its bucket and drive over hardcore terrain.

“We tried to make it as realistic as possible, so it drives, steers and lifts the load just like the real thing,” says design manager Jeppe Juul Jensen . “You can also remove the oil filters, the radiator-door swings out, pistons move and the engine is painted green, just like in the real thing.”

The meticulously detailed and fully remote control Volvo model LEGO 42030 is available from LEGO Shop and all participating retailers.

There’s 32 teams competing in the World Cup in Brazil, so prankster and football ace Gaillard dons the kit of each country and performs 32 tricks shots.

Whether he actually performs them or whether the post-production editing performs them is another matter—but don’t let a little thing like fakery bother your enjoyment of it.

You might think it impossible to travel to every country in the world in under four minutes.

Well not if you’re Graham Hughes—the first person to visit all 201 nations of the world without flying.

Imagine a world without cell phones. Go on. It’s a terrifying thought, like having a limb amputated or something. But the world used to be like that, remember it?

When you’d be queuing at a bus stop and the only game you could play to pass the time was a boxing puppet match, or when the mail man used to punch you in the face before stuffing spam in your jacket? Bad times.

So as we enter the final week of our existence and the countdown begins to the end of the world, lets take a moment to reflect on what advantages the Mayan prophecy has presented us with. Sure there might be erupting volcanoes and rivers of lava blocking our escape from the marauding zombies intent on getting a quick brain-snack before we all perish into the void.

But don’t let that put you off kissing that cute girl/boy/zombie you’ve secretly been in love with and max’ing’ out your credit cards as you shower them with anything it takes to get you laid. See, it isn’t all bad news!

It’s the kind of situation that demands a #FailFix solution–if you know of any other situations that showcase the art of failure, share them with the web here and be in with a chance to win $1000.

Remember Matt, the guy who danced around the world to make us all feel better about all the killing and hating going on?

Yeah, well he’s back and he’s off again, dancing with strangers so you don’t have to.

Youtube’s Scooter Magruder lists 100 problems only suffered by residents of the first world.

Chances are you’re guilty of at least one of these and when you compare them to problems faced by third world countries you’ll feel like a total douche. Enjoy!