The popularity of YouTube and Google Video continues to rise, and the number of Hubs we've seen that have cleverly integrated videos has also grown by leaps and bounds. Here are some examples that illustrate how nicely videos can complement a great Hub:

• Health: Self-exam for breast cancer
• Health: Self-exam for testicular cancer
• Music: Trashiest 80s videos
• Music: White Stripes video
• Music: Kelly Clarkson videos
• Music: Django Reinhardt video
• Music: Culture Club videos
• Appliance: How to roast coffee at home
• Appliance: Home bidet system installation
• Gadget: Nintendo Wii
• Gadget: Verizon vCast Video on Demand
• Humor: Funniest SNL skits
• Humor: Most embarrassing moments
• Interview: Les Loken, WWII veteran
• Interview: Aubrey de Grey, longevity gadfly
• Interview: Kathy Griffin, D-List comedian
• Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness
• Education: Praying mantis feeding
• Education: Mandarin Chinese basics

Here are some guides to help you get started:

• How to add a video to your Hub
• How to upload videos to Google Video
• How to record directly to YouTube from your Webcam

Dig into these excerpts of great Hubs you might have missed this past week:

HubNugget 1: The Benefits of DIY

"A bigger savings will come when you clean your own house. I could pay $100 a week to have someone come clean my house. It would be nice not to clean it myself. But I would rather have that $5200 every year. If you have someone come every two weeks, you will save $2600 or so by doing it yourself. This money would pay for a pretty nice vacation for my family. Mowing your own lawn will save you several hundred dollars each summer..." Read more »

HubNugget 2: The case for dairy

"Milk has gotten a bad rep from most dietary plans in the last few years. But now the problems of eliminating milk and milk products from your healthy diet are coming to light. PMS, sleep, dental health and muscle repair and maintenance are all helped or enhanced by milk. Before you start up about the fat content, low-fat and nonfat milk have the same nutritional properties as whole milk..." Read more »

HubNugget 3: Poetry: touching you

I love to touch you

I try to decipher the secrets of your skin

I caress you carefully

I taste you timidly

I breathe you into my body

you are warm and smooth

and there is something strong and safe

that lies in the very texture of you

like DNA it seems to exist

in each and every cell of you... Read more »

HubNugget 4: Chinese New Year custom

"Lai See is the custom of giving a gift of money in a special red envelope during the New Year's celebration. In the Chinese culture red is a lucky color. Both red and gold (which represents wealth) are popular colors for the New Year celebrations. The combination of the red envelope and money represent a wish for good luck and good fortune in the coming year as red represents good luck and money wealth. While the amount of money in the envelope is usually small (a single, low denomination bill - never coins) it symbolizes a wish for good fortune. Many believe that good luck will come to both the giver and the recipient of the Lai See..." Read more »

HubNugget 5: Majority of U.S. women are single

"So I would like to set the record straight. When it comes to availability of marriage-able and willing men, all women are not created equal! This issue shakes down differently depending on your race. Yes, I said it...it needed to be said. You see there is just not a big pool of black men who can and want to get married. And not all of those black men want to marry black women. To each their own, but the problem is there is not a high demand for black women among men of other ethnic backgrounds. Now, before you go off the deep end, read a bit further. If you ask any man he will tell you how he would happily marry Halle Berry or Beyonce. But we all aren't those women...and if you will notice neither Halle or Beyonce are married. Incidentally, Beyonce has been saying she wants to have a family for a few years now and no ring is forthcoming from Jay-Z (I'm just saying). " Read more »

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Did you know?

1. What unusual thing do clams do?

a) young clams will eat old clams, even their parents

b) clams are male when young, and then change to female

c) clams typically travel more than 3,000 miles along the ocean floor over their lifetimes

d) clams always return to their place of birth to die

2. What is the name for the plastic clasp at the end of shoelaces?

a) a crimp

b) an aglet

c) a wainscot

d) a batange

3. What is panophobia?

a) a fear of cookware

b) a fear of bread

c) a fear of crustaceans

d) a fear of everything

4. What was the original name of The Grateful Dead?

a) The Warlocks

b) The Grateful Living

c) The Wastrels

d) Heaven's Tears

5. How fast does Earth move around the sun?

a) 3,280 miles per hour

b) 18,070 miles per hour

c) 67,060 miles per hour

d) 1,380,470 miles per hour

Answers: 1 b, 2 b, 3 d, 4 a, 5 c