We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

Being awesome at dodgeball and busting out ninja flips to help your team to victory is such an impressive, yet completely worthless talent. 

Does one Parkour or does someone participate in Parkour? Anyways, we wouldn't know because the staffers here, save for Rebecca Greenfield, are pretty wimpy. What we do know is that we won't be doing any of that nonsense in Egypt. 

Michael Phelps is good at other things besides swimming: 

Oh yeah, that's not us getting all teary-eyed over this Expedia short film. There's a ragweed advisory here we heard, and the cats from the PR firm next door all wandered in, and did we mention that we're allergic and stuff, oh and that our officemates at Quartz are cutting up like 100 onions for their salsa-making party? Okay. Just making that very clear: 

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Alexander Abad-Santos