On January 1st, 2014, I uploaded the first "Things You Might Not Know" video. Once the initial rush of videos settled down, I aimed for one video a week, and while there have sometimes been guest videos and occasional blatant filler: to my own satisfaction, I never missed a week. But now, it's time to stop.
I never got to space. I never got to the ocean depths. And I never got to fly off into the sunset, harnessed underneath a helicopter. I couldn't find an excuse for that one.
CREDITS
Producer: Cambria Bailey-Jones Director: Guy Larsen DoP: Jamie MacLeod | jamiemacleod.co.uk Stunt Coordinators: Dilwyn Sanderson-Jones; Scott Heffield Drone Team: Lec Park; Andrew Lawrence Pilot: Will Banks Refueller & Ground Co-Ordinator: Gary Wise BTS: Bryn Williams | brynscamera.com Editor / Colourist: Jamie MacLeod Composer: Ben Squires | benjaminsquires.co.uk Sound Mix: Dan Pugsley | cassinisound.com
On January 1st, 2014, I uploaded the first "Things You Might Not Know" video. Once the initial rush of videos settled down, I aimed for one video a week, and while there have sometimes been guest videos and occasional blatant filler: to my own satisfaction, I never missed a week. But now, it's time to stop.
I never got to space. I never got to the ocean depths. And I never got to fly off into the sunset, harnessed underneath a helicopter. I couldn't find an excuse for that one.
CREDITS
Producer: Cambria Bailey-Jones Director: Guy Larsen DoP: Jamie MacLeod | jamiemacleod.co.uk Stunt Coordinators: Dilwyn Sanderson-Jones; Scott Heffield Drone Team: Lec Park; Andrew Lawrence Pilot: Will Banks Refueller & Ground Co-Ordinator: Gary Wise BTS: Bryn Williams | brynscamera.com Editor / Colourist: Jamie MacLeod Composer: Ben Squires | benjaminsquires.co.uk Sound Mix: Dan Pugsley | cassinisound.com
Camera: Kamil Manysiak, Nathan Trays, Lauren Morley Local production: Greg May and Matt Ellis at Broadcast Media broadcastmedia.co.uk Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Audio mix: Dan Pugsley cassinisound.com Thanks to Dave Brain for camera-sensor-dust paintouts @davebrainvfx
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Camera: Dion Huiskes https://feedbuilders.nl/ Editor: Julian Domanski juliandomanski.com
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LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH Dubbing Translator: Regina Barajas Dubbing Director: Aureliano Castillo Voice Talent: Jesse Torres Subtitle Translator: Andrés Negrete
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE Dubbing Translator: André Conchon Dubbing Director: Gilberto de Syllos Voice Talent: Vitor Paranhos Subtitle Translator: Pollyana Tiussi
Translation Studio: Iyuno Operations Manager: Coolbe HungWhy use many streetlights when one will do?Tom Scott2023-11-27 | The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city? ■ Austin Energy: austinenergy.com ■ Moonlight Towers austintexas.org/listings/moonlight-towers/5895
Producer: Jodi Shores at Sparksight sparksight.com Director: Kelly Shores at @readysetdrone DoP: Noah Killeen Drone: Kris Waters Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
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REFERENCES: Levinson, S.C. (2012). Forward. In Whorf, B. L. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (J. B. Carroll, S. C. Levinson, & P. Lee, Eds.). (2nd ed.) The MIT Press. Chiang, T. (2016). Story Of Your Life. In Stories of your life and others. essay, New York: Vintage Books. Parry, A. (1969). There Is No Russian Word for Privacy. The Georgia Review, 23(2), 196–205. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41396556 Groskop, V. (2017). Personal distance: Why russian life has no room for privacy. The Guardian. Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers’ conceptions of Time. Cognitive Psychology, 43(1), 1–22. doi:10.1006/cogp.2001.0748 Chen J. Y. (2007). Do Chinese and English speakers think about time differently? Failure of replicating Boroditsky (2001). Cognition, 104(2), 427–436. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.012 Samuel, S., Cole, G., & Eacott, M. J. (2019). Grammatical gender and linguistic relativity: A systematic review. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 26(6), 1767–1786. doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01652-3 Haertlé, I. (2017). Does grammatical gender influence perception? A study of Polish and French speakers. Psychology of Language and Communication, 21(1) 386-407. doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0019 Mickan, A., Schiefke, M. & Stefanowitsch, A. (2014). Key is a llave is a Schlüssel: A failure to replicate an experiment from Boroditsky et al. 2003. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2(1), 39-50. doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2014-0004 Deutscher, G. (2010). Through the language glass: Why the world looks different in other languages. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company J. C. Jackson et al. (2019) Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure, Science, vol. 366, no. 6472, pp. 1517-1522
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REFERENCES: Zwicky, Arnold M. 1977. On clitics. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. Anderson, S. R. 2005. Aspects of the theory of Clitics. New York: Oxford University. Palmer, F., Huddleston, R., & Pullum, G. 2002. Inflectional morphology and related matters. In R. Huddleston & G. Pullum (Authors), The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (pp. 1565-1620). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316423530.019 Zwicky, Arnold M. 1994. What is a clitic? In Nevis, Joel A. & Joseph, Brian D. & Wanner, Dieter & Zwicky, Arnold M. (eds.), Clitics: a comprehensive bibliography 1892-1991, xii–xx. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pullum, G.K., & Zwicky, A.M. 1997. Licensing of prosodic features by syntactic rules: the key to auxiliary reduction. Zwicky, A.M. 1970. Auxiliary Reduction in English. Linguistic Inquiry, 1(3), 323–336. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2003. ‘Constructions in grammaticalization.’ In Brian D. Joseph & Richard D. Janda (eds.) The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwel
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The Extremely Large Telescope, in Paranal, Chile, is probably going to be the largest optical telescope that will ever be constructed. I was invited out there by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council and the European Southern Observatory, and I wasn't going to turn down a chance like that.
📰 DISCLAIMER While the STFC and ESO invited me and arranged the logistics after arrival into the Antofagasta region, I was not paid for this (not even my travel costs) and I have sole editorial control over the video. This is not an advert.
👥 CREDITS Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Script assistant: Laura Conlon Audio mix: Graham Haerther and Manni Simon at Standard Studios
Thanks to Alex Fyans, Hannah Conduit, and William Taylor from STFC; to Francisco Rodríguez, Juan Carlos, and Michele Cirasuolo from ESO; and to everyone I met at Paranal!
Local producer: Jasper Deelen Camera: Jeroen Simons
Thanks to @NotJustBikes for the Rotterdam cube house footage
A lot of my history research for this video is based on the 2019 book "Experimentele Woningbouw in Nederland 1968-1980: 64 Gerealiseerde Woonbeloften", by Barzilay, Ferwerda and Blom: https://experimentelewoningbouw.nl/
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REFERENCES: [etymologies from OED and M-W] Sanchez, T. (2005). Constraints on structural borrowing in a multilingual contact situation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ircs_reports John Hewson. 1993. A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian. Gatineau – Quebec : National Museums of Canada. protoalgonquian.atlas-ling.ca
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This video has a correction: it turns out the formal interview requirement for a reader pass has been dropped. However, you'll still need to get a pass, and you're not allowed to take books out of the reading rooms! You can see all corrections on the channel here: tomscott.com/corrections
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Audio mix and script proofread by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios (who had to deal with the audio-nightmare that was the echoey green screen room I filmed in)
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Thanks to the museum staff for fact-checking and translation! Camera and local production: Otto Beck, HayotFilms hayotfilms.com
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DoP: Dave Mackie davemackie.co.uk Camera; Jared Zwarts Editor: Julian Domanski Thanks to Dave Jacobs for the suggestion
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Camera: Martin Bäbler Editor: Julian Domanski Local production by Viven https://viven.ch Thanks to Kevin Tedore for the suggestion
Milk float clip licensed from Reuters via Pond5.
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Camera: Martin Bäbler
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Europe camera: Martin Bäbler Yellowstone camera: Erik Resel at Backcountry Media backcountrymedia.com
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As these video files were created entirely by bears, by accident, I believe them to be in the public domain. If that's not the case, then as the owner of the camera and potential copyright holder, I'm happy to license these files under CC0 and dedicate them to the public domain as far as legally possible.
However, if I don't upload them to YouTube first, then someone else will — and YouTube's copyright systems often get confused by public domain footage, so for my own safety, this is the digital equivalent of sending them to myself in a sealed, postmarked envelope.
YouTube's system the license for this listed as "Creative Commons - Attribution", because "Public Domain" is not an option. You are not required to attribute this footage, but if you do use these files, it'd be nice to make a donation to the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center. They've got bears to feed. grizzlydiscoveryctr.org
00:00 GX010742.MP4 01:28 GX010743.MP4If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.Tom Scott2023-07-17 | At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by actual bears. ■ The Center: grizzlydiscoveryctr.org ■ Certified bear-resistant products: igbconline.org/programs/bear-resistant-products
Camera by Erik Resel at Backcountry Media backcountrymedia.com Edited by Julian Domanski
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Camera: Juan Gracia, Bream Velasquez Local production: @TwoBitDaVinci Graphics: Stijn Orlans
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Also referenced is "Winnetka: The history and significance of an educational experiment", by Washburne and Marland.
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Just to be clear, there are a few of these in other places in the world, too. There's at least a couple in North America, one in Germany, and one in Turkey! (Or at least, I think they still exist.) But the video of the Cicka got me to beautiful Slovenia, and the story that I found there was worth the trip.
Local producer: Jure Kreft at Fixmedia https://fixmedia.si Camera: Darko Sintič Audio mix: Manni Simon and Graham Haerther
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This is not an advert, Catesby Projects and the tunnel team had no editorial control and I wasn't paid. (In fact, I paid quite a bit for the fire safety team!)
Thank you to the many people who suggested this over the years, but in particular to David who was able to put me in touch with them directly!
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With thanks to everyone at UCSD, including Shiling Pei and Ioana Patringenaru Camera: Mark Liu and David Baillot Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
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This isn't an advert! the subject was suggested by the team at 1DaySooner, but that's it: no money changed hands and no editorial control was given away.
Two bonus facts I couldn't fit in the main video: 😷 There are some challenge trials which require stronger quarantine protocols or negative-pressure rooms, but they're much more rare (and much more difficult to film) 🧻 The tissues that volunteers sneeze into have to be put into a separate bag, so they can be weighed
Camera by Jamie MacLeod Edited by Julian Domanski
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For most of my research on this, I'm indebted to this French-language article from by Julien Meyrat: https://www.vepres.fr/vepres-presse-salles-propres-funiculaire/
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Camera: Tobias Buchmann Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux Local production by Viven https://viven.ch Thanks to Rafael Ferrara and Remo Schmidt for the suggestion!
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(Bonus things that didn't fit into the video: the aircraft aren't stored in hangars, but in caverns tunneled into the hillside! And if you want to get really close to the jets, there's a second, much narrower crossing over a taxiway to the caverns. They're not taking off at high speed there, though.)
Camera: Tobias Buchmann Editor: Julian Domanski Local production by Viven https://viven.ch
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This is the most uncomfortable I've ever felt while filming, for a few reasons. First, of course, because of the locust swarm itself. Second, because animal research — even on creatures as simple and pestilent as locusts — always raises ethical questions. Now, the researchers are careful with the locusts, and I don't think many people could have a problem with this. Indeed, most of the world currently has zero ethical restrictions on insect experimentation — but it's still worth interrogating whether this is okay. And finally: because if we can do this so easily to less intelligent creatures... what's to stop something more intelligent coming along and doing the same to us?
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Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera and edit: Julian Domanski
(This video has an English dub and limited audio description available. These are experimental and use AI-generated voices, so may not be perfect, and I can't promise they'll stay long-term. On supported devices, change the language option to use them!)
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I'm a bit worried that this comes across as an advert. It's not — I reached out to the team at GIKEN, they had no editorial control, and no money changed hands. (Although they did, of course, go through all the paperwork required to let me climb into their giant robot parking garage.) They also asked me to include this: “Eco Cycle and Eco Park are brand names of GIKEN LTD. in Japan”, which seemed a reasonable enough request.
This video has an English dub available by changing the language option on supported devices.
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An accessible English dub of this video is available. Plus, as there was (unusually) room for it in this video, there's also a version with audio description. You can turn those on in your device's player settings. Both are experimental and use an AI-generated voice, so they're a long way from perfect; I can't guarantee they'll be available for future videos, or even for this one long-term! But hopefully it's a step in the right direction.
Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera: Julian Domanski
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Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect Camera: Julian Domanski
An accessible English dub is available for anyone unable to read subtitles; you can turn it on in your device's player settings. It's experimental and using an AI-generated voice, so it's a long way from perfect, and I can't guarantee it'll be available for future videos, or even for this one long-term! But hopefully it's a step in the right direction.
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📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: tomscott.com/newsletter ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.comyoutube.com/lateralcast ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdifThis is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.Tom Scott2023-02-27 | The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that. ■ Predator Free Wellington: pfw.org.nz
Script assistant: Laura Conlon No AI assistance was used, except where noted.
ALTERNATE TITLES: Crypto and the metaverse aren't the future. AI is. I just wanted to fix my email. I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis Everything is about to change ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later. ChatGPT is 2023's Napster.
CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:07 I just wanted to fix my email 2:39 Gmail's label system sucks 5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code 7:36 It can't be that good, right? 11:31 Everything is going to change
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(Yes, that was a "Weird Al" Yankovic reference.)Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.Tom Scott2023-02-06 | At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a pedal-powered monorail. It's a fun ride: but in 2010, Google gave it a million dollars as a potential "future of transit". ▪ Thanks to Velocity Valley: velocityvalley.co.nz
Camera: Rakaea Te Rangi-Trotman Producer: Virginia Wickham at Kevin & Co kevinandco.co.nz
🟥 MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com (you can find contact details and social links there too)
📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: tomscott.com/newsletter ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.comyoutube.com/lateralcast ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdifWhy Australia bottles up its airTom Scott2023-01-30 | Every few months, when the wind's blowing in the right direction, a bottle of air is taken from Kennaook / Cape Grim, at the northern tip of Tasmania, and saved for science. Here's how and why. ▪ More about the Cape Grim Air Archive: https://research.csiro.au/acc/capabilities/cape-grim-air-archive/
There was no way to put this in the main video, but I have to point to some of the bleak history of Kennaook / Cape Grim, and the massacre that happened there: https://www.ourtasmania.com.au/northwest/history-cape-grim-mass.html
CSIRO and I acknowledge the Pennemuker people, traditional owners of Kennaook / Cape Grim, and their continuing connection to their culture; and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
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