This is just a short video about some of the properties of sodium metal.
The mechanism of the explosion can be found in the link below to a Nature article:
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.html
Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA
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