A University of Rochester study indicates that people who play action-packed videogames possess better decision-making skills. But, of course! My own years of playing videogames have made me much better at making decisions.

A surfer on a 30-foot wave is basically riding pure, unbridled energy—a single such monster swell can release 10,000 kilowatts of power as it crashes to the shore. How do we know that? Because of the equation below, which gauges a wave’s power in the open sea from variables like height, length, and period (time from the top of one wave to the top of the next). Swells off the Pacific Coast of the US average about 6 feet and come about 10 seconds apart;