EUTube — the YouTube channel of the European Union — is seeding a video called “Electrical Derby,” whose job is to educate viewers about electricity, while propagating the Eurotrash pop culture aesthetic that gives spoofs like this a perpetually appreciative audience.
After a few watches we’re fairly confident we’ll be experts in how batteries work; but every time we start the video up again, we get caught up in fantasizing how RAD it would be to spend a few hours at a neon roller derby.
We like the idea, but imagine trying to explain supermagnets at a rave. (Actually, it’s possible we’ve done that — and it all went horribly wrong.) In any event, “Electrical Derby” is a follow up to “Chemical Party,” last year’s attempt to teach chemistry with synthesized music and mating rituals.
