TIME Entertainment Television Watch the 10Most Popular Late-Night TV Clips of 2014 Host Jimmy Fallon watches as actor Daniel Radcliffe performs the "Alphabet Aerobics" rap by Blackalicious on October 28, 2014. NBC / Getty Images Featuring Emma Stone lip-synching, Daniel Radcliffe rapping and a whole bunch of other celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves

Its almost 2015, which means now is the time to look back and reflect upon the past year. In this case, lets look back and specifically reflect upon the past year in viral videos generated by TV shows because you know you secretly love them.

The content analysts over at CrowdTangle combed through thousands of YouTube clips from late-night shows like The Tonight Show, Conan and Late Night, along with daytime talk shows like Ellen and The Wendy Williams Show, to determine which earned the most views this year.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the top 10 results all came from late-night shows (with just one exception).

1. Jimmy Fallons lip-synch battle with Emma Stone

The Tonight Show

This very spirited musical face-off managed to rack up more than 38 million views.

2. Celebrities read mean tweets about themselves

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In the seventh installment of Jimmy Kimmels popular segment, we saw celebs like Sofia Vergara and Don Cheadle read nasty tweets about themselves and the video ended up garnering 33.5 million hits.

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It is almost New Years Eve, almost New Years Day, those times when we humans like to make resolutions. We notice, as we return on Jan. 2 to the aerobics classes we neglected during the holidays (and, truth told, some other times, too), that the classes are really full. We see more people in the produce department of our grocery store, not the cookie department. Were buying kale, too, not pastry. Smokers are determined to stop practicing their habit; the ranks of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are swelled, as over-drinkers declare their intention to quit.

And yet, Mark Twain said, New Years Day, now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Alas, we see that he is right, as enthusiastic resolvers drop by the wayside. Our exercise classes go back to their usual sizes (with or without us). The Weight Watchers and AA meetings lose many of the exuberant folk determined to change their ways.

To make it worse, I am reminded by some that calendars are human inventions, anyhow, so why should we bother coming up with resolutions in January, when any number of other times during the year would be just as good?

Actually, those cynical-sounding people are at least sort of right. But I will argue for taking our commonly-agreed-upon New Year seriously, using it as an opportunity to resolve in ways that are more significant than habits of eat and drink and exercise. The New Year is a powerful symbol of renewal, and symbols systems are, in fact, vital to us. Maybe, if we use the New Year opportunity to examine our hearts about how loving and generous we are, we wont fall completely by the resolution wayside.

Humans need to reflect deeply upon purpose and meaning. We ache to ponder the human condition, the religious questions: Why are we born, just to die a few short years later? How do we live, that we may make the best of this little span? How will we be remembered? Will we be remembered? What makes life worthwhile? Is love our companion? Who or what guides our life, and do we take this guidance seriously?

What if we take this New Year opportunity to sit still, to talk with loved ones, to pray, to ponder: What have we done that will be remembered with gratitude in the years to come? More importantly, what are we doing, right now, to increase the store of love in this world? How can we do more?

Sure, lets go to those spinning classes and eat healthy soups and practice moderation. There is nothing wrong with those worthy goals.

At the same time, though, let us use our New Year opportunity to ask and answer our spiritual questions. Let us, at the end of this old year, make our deepest resolutions aim toward caring, justice, harmony, compassion. Let us, as we enter 2015, examine our hearts and resolve to love better.

May it be so.

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You've probably heard that staring at a screen could ruin your eyes. But now, some say it could help improve your vision.

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New mobile apps aimed at improving your vision are now available, and some claim they can even allow you to throw out your reading glasses. It's an issue that affects millions of people, as generally speaking, eyes tend to gradually weaken as we approach our mid-40s.

Apps like Glasses Off and Ultimeyes are designed to excercise eyes, just like our other muscles, to improve vision. They present games and excercies to retrain the way the brain interprets images.

"We can potentially improve the image processing unit in our brain to do a much better interpretation of whatever visual image coming in from the eyes," said Shai Novik, chairman of Glasses Off.

Glasses Off is a free download, but access to the program costs $60. Novik claims when the app is used correctly, 90 percent of users will no longer need to wear their reading glasses.

"You need to play the game three times a week, fifteen minutes each time for approximately three months," Novik said.

Medical experts said there is some validity in these claims, as the brain can be continually improved with practice.

"I think that's what these apps really are talking about. Not so much improving the eye, but improving the brain," said Mark Blumenkranz, the Chair of Stanford University's Department of Ophthalmology.

Researchers at Stanford have developed their own vision-related app called Sightbook. It offers a series of vision tests a patient can do at home in order to help diagnose problems.

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