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Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories

Tom Scott 2024-10-21 | Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories

After ten years, its time to stop weekly videos.

People are going to be angry about pylons.

Tom Scott 2023-12-25 | Britain's power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one. ■ The "Great Grid Upgrade": nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade

National Grid also asked if I'd plug their Early Careers page, for anyone in the UK thinking of joining the industry: jobs.nationalgrid.com/UK/content/Early-careers

Camera: Kamil Manysiak, Nathan Trays, Lauren Morley
Local production: Greg May and Matt Ellis at Broadcast Media broadcastmedia.co.uk
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Audio mix: Dan Pugsley cassinisound.com
Thanks to Dave Brain for camera-sensor-dust paintouts @davebrainvfx

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Why the government drops flies on California

Tom Scott 2023-12-18 | There's a good reason for it. ■ More about the program: cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/prpinfo

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A robot just swapped my electric cars battery

Tom Scott 2023-12-11 | Nio is a Chinese auto maker that offers an alternative to charging: just swapping out the whole battery whenever you need it. I borrowed one of their cars. ■ Nio: nio.com

Camera: Dion Huiskes https://feedbuilders.nl/
Editor: Julian Domanski juliandomanski.com

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Why dont subtitles match dubbing?

Tom Scott 2023-12-04 | Translation is really difficult. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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🌐 TRANSLATION CREDITS

FRENCH
Dubbing Translator: Noreen Ropers, Aurélia Naamani
Dubbing Director: Stéphane Valverde
Voice Talent: Pascal Nowak
Subtitle Translator: Justine Derhourhi

HINDI
Dubbing Translator: मीनल वि. पाटिल (द स्क्रिप्ट शॉप )
Dubbing Director: अनुज सुरेका
Voice Talent: राजेश शुक्ला
Subtitle Translator: संवाद अनुवादक: हिमांशु पाल

JAPANESE
Dubbing Translator: 琢磨有香里
Dubbing Director: 工藤美樹
Voice Talent: 橘潤二
Subtitle Translator: 大渕誉哉

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 Hung

Why use many streetlights when one will do?

Tom Scott 2023-11-27 | 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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These tiny ships have a serious purpose

Tom Scott 2023-11-20 | At Port Iława in Poland, pilots and captains of massive ships train on 1-to-24 scale ship models: and I got to drive one. ■ The Ship Handling Research and Training Centre: https://www.ilawashiphandling.com.pl/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com
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Every mistake Ive made since 2014.

Does the language you speak change how you think?

Tom Scott 2023-11-06 | No. Mostly. •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about Arrival: lingthusiasm.com/post/157167562811/transcript-lingthusiasm-episode-3-arrival-of-the •
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Graphics by William Marler: wmad.co.uk
Audio mix by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios: haerther.net

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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Boarding planes could have been very different

Tom Scott 2023-10-30 | There's a world in which everyone boards planes with "mobile lounges", PTVs, or Plane-Mates... but this is not that world. ■ YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport: admtl.com/en ■ AccessAir: accessairsystems.com

Thanks to Eric Forest and the airport team, and to Christian Brice for stepping in for additional camerawork!

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0-100 in less than a second. And Im driving.

Tom Scott 2023-10-23 | AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it. ■ AMZ: https://www.amzracing.ch/en instagram.com/amzracing ■ Their world record video: youtube.com/watch?v=88cVs5zZFTE

Main camera op: Juan Pablo Salazar
Additional cam op: Tobias Binder
Drone camera ops: Felix Kunz, Marco Odermatt

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there’dn’t’ve

Tom Scott 2023-10-16 | This script was a nightmare to pronounce. •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: lingthusiasm.com/post/662535562508517376/lingthusiasm-episode-60-thats-the-kind-of •
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Graphics by William Marler: wmad.co.uk
Audio mix by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios: haerther.net

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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I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.

Tom Scott 2023-10-09 | At the New Town Hall, the Neues Rathaus, in Hanover, there's a strange elevator where the track curves unevenly. For years, people from Germany have been emailing me about it: well, I finally visited. ■ More about the Hall: visit-hannover.com/en/Sightseeing-City-Tours/Tourist-Highlights/The-New-Town-Hall

Camera: Maximilian Unger
Producer: Viktor Sramo at Klein Aber

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The largest telescope that will ever be built*

Tom Scott 2023-10-02 | The asterisk is important. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ More on the ELT: @ESOobservatory eso.org

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!

🖼 IMAGE CREDITS
Images and footage from ESO is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 eso.org/public/outreach/copyright

First image of an explanet: eso.org/public/images/26a_big-vlt
Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole: eso.org/public/australia/videos/eso1825e
VLT light path: eso.org/public/videos/LightPath-VLT2021
VLTI delay lines: eso.org/public/videos/esocast13
ELT render: eso.org/public/images/elt-fulldome-1_cc

📽 PREVIOUS VIDEOS
Previously, in Arecibo: youtube.com/watch?v=d3WiRunOsWY
and in Parkes: youtube.com/watch?v=6o38C-ultvw

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Spherical houses werent a great idea.

Tom Scott 2023-09-25 | The Bolwoningen, in Den Bosch, in the Netherlands, are experimental architecture: the surprising part is that people still live there.

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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How languages steal words from each other

Tom Scott 2023-09-18 | This is the only pirate reference you're getting from me. •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: lingthusiasm.com/post/684727483493384192/episode-68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get •
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Graphics by William Marler: wmad.co.uk
Audio mix by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios: haerther.net

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 library has every book ever published.

Tom Scott 2023-09-11 | The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. ■ The BL: bl.uk ■ UK Web Archive: webarchive.org.uk

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Why are adverts so loud?

Tom Scott 2023-09-04 | This was so much more complex than I thought. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Graphics by William Marler wmad.co.uk
Written with Sean M Elliott twitter.com/SeanMElliott

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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This man built his office inside an elevator

Tom Scott 2023-08-28 | The Baťa Skyscraper, in Zlín, Czechia, is a landmark of architecture. And the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator. [Correction: Jan Antonín Baťa's birth year is 1898; the graphic is a typo.]

Thanks to the museum staff for fact-checking and translation!
Camera and local production: Otto Beck, HayotFilms hayotfilms.com

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No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.

Tom Scott 2023-08-21 | Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history. ■ Soulton Long Barrow: soultonhall.co.uk/page/322/soulton-long-barrow.htm ■ Sacred Stones: sacredstones.co.uk/our-locations/soulton-long-barrow

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Editor: Julian Domanski

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This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.

Tom Scott 2023-08-14 | The Honiton Hot Pennies ceremony is the result of 800 years of tradition: from when rich people would entertain themselves by throwing scalding-hot pennies onto the poor people below. These days, it's a bit less dangerous... but only a bit.

DoP: Dave Mackie davemackie.co.uk
Camera; Jared Zwarts
Editor: Julian Domanski
Thanks to Dave Jacobs for the suggestion

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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)

Tom Scott 2023-08-07 | Zermatt, in Switzerland, bans all private cars and all gasoline cars. But if you run a business, you might be able to buy one of the special, tiny ones that are built right there. ■ Zermatt: https://zermatt.ch ■ Stimbo: https://stimbo.ch/

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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Storing dead people at -196°C

Tom Scott 2023-07-31 | In Switzerland, there's a new cryonics company: and they invited me to have a look around. I had questions: legal, practical, and ethical, and I want to be clear: this is not an endorsement. I just wasn't going to turn down that invitation. ■ Tomorrow Bio: https://www.tomorrow.bio/

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A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie

Tom Scott 2023-07-24 | An unexpected update! Thanks to @KarenPuzzles for handling the GoPro ■ The Center: grizzlydiscoveryctr.org ■ Certified bear-resistant products: igbconline.org/programs/bear-resistant-products ■ The raw footage, public domain: archive.org/details/grizzly-bear-selfie or youtube.com/watch?v=Oarf76MCrss — note that the rest of this video and my voiceover is not public domain!

Previously: If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test. youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_O2li_jpk

Europe camera: Martin Bäbler
Yellowstone camera: Erik Resel at Backcountry Media backcountrymedia.com

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Grizzly bear GoPro selfie: raw unedited footage

Tom Scott 2023-07-24 | This footage is public domain, and the raw files are available at archive.org/details/grizzly-bear-selfie ■ An explanation, which is not public domain: youtube.com/watch?v=xq4ZkfojSis ■ Two videos taken by grizzly bears at the Grizzy & Wolf Discovery Center, West Yellowstone, Montana. The bears found a previously-lost GoPro Hero 11 in a protective case, in their pond, which had enough battery left to take a couple of brief shots, including a selfie.

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

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If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.

Tom Scott 2023-07-17 | 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
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I thought this rotating house was impossible.

Tom Scott 2023-07-10 | Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible? ■ Al's site: rotatinghome.com ■ The real estate listing: http://navrealestate.co/4903-mount-helix-dr

This is not an advert; I received no payment other than access and had full editorial control.

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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?

Tom Scott 2023-07-03 | Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B: a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride. ■ The Museum: wright-b-flyer.org

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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids brains

Tom Scott 2023-06-26 | Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking. ■ Thanks to the Winnetka Historical Society! More from them: winnetkahistory.org/gazette/j-is-for-jungle-gym

Original patents referenced:
patents.google.com/patent/US1471465A
patents.google.com/patent/US1488244A
patents.google.com/patent/US1488245A
patents.google.com/patent/US1488246A

Also referenced is "Winnetka: The history and significance of an educational experiment", by Washburne and Marland.

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The cable car that you pedal by hand

Tom Scott 2023-06-19 | Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: some historic, some more modern. There aren't many left. I was able to try one, and to talk to the person who still maintains it.

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

"Cicka - ročna žičnica čez Savo by Jure Senegačnik" is available at youtu.be/w3i5BN2VpWs and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode (that license does not extend to the rest of this video)

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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator

Tom Scott 2023-06-12 | In an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, sits the Bathysphere Project at Explorandia: a submarine simulator that explores an actual, small pond. It might be the best homemade project I've ever seen. ■ More: https://www.explorandia.it/page/bathysphere

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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

Tom Scott 2023-06-05 | The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it. ■ A paper about their work, including data from a similar test: mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/2/964 ■ More from them: sheffield.ac.uk/civil

Previously: why Hollywood explosions don't look like real explosions: youtube.com/watch?v=nqJiWbD08Yw

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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel

Tom Scott 2023-05-29 | The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to the world, I thought I'd answer a question: if you stick a camera on the outside of your car, how much does the drag cost you? ■ The tunnel: catesbytunnel.com

Camera: Jamie MacLeod jamiemacleod.co.uk
Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux

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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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought

Tom Scott 2023-05-22 | At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world. ■ More about the table: https://nheri.ucsd.edu/ and the building: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/

With thanks to everyone at UCSD, including Shiling Pei and Ioana Patringenaru
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The people who get paid to get sick

Tom Scott 2023-05-15 | I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV. ■ Challenge trials looking for volunteers: flucamp.com and 1daysooner.org/recruiting-challenge-studies

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

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The worlds cleanest railway

Tom Scott 2023-05-08 | At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there's a "funicular" that not many people get to ride: because it's between two clean rooms, and getting to it requires quite a lot of preparation. ■ CEA-Leti: leti-cea.com/cea-tech/leti/english/Pages/Welcome.aspx

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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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese

Tom Scott 2023-05-01 | Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse. ■ Agroscope: https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home.html

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The military base where you drive over the runway

Tom Scott 2023-04-24 | Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, has an unusual feature: two public roads that go straight over the runway. How do they keep it safe? And, as a side note, just how loud is it when you're standing next to a fighter jet?

(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.)

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Its the Matrix, but for locusts.

Tom Scott 2023-04-17 | At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into simulated worlds, both virtual and physical, in the hope that they can figure out how devastating swarms form and move. ■ About the Centre: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/ https://www.ab.mpg.de/couzin

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Thanks to David Walter for the suggestion

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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This tiny hovercraft went viral.

Tom Scott 2023-04-10 | Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft. ■ The Laboratory: @hideito9042 http://mhlabo.web.fc2.com or twitter.com/microhovercraft

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I rode the worlds fastest train.

Tom Scott 2023-04-03 | I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central's Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, I rode Japan's new maglev. ■ The maglev: scmaglev.jr-central-global.com ■ The exhibition centre: linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp/english/index.html

Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect
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I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage

Tom Scott 2023-03-27 | I was going to film a video about a robot bicycle park. And then GIKEN, the company who built it, said: you know we do this for cars as well, right? ■ More details: giken.com/en/products/automated-parking-facilities

Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect
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Editor: Michelle Martin youtube.com/@OnTheCrux

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.

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This bus transforms into a train

Tom Scott 2023-03-20 | The DMV, or Dual Mode Vehicle, on the Asa Coast Railway in Shikoku, Japan, is a hybrid bus and train. And I rode it. ■ The railway: asatetu.com/en (English) or asatetu.com (Japanese)

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.

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Things are changing at the worlds oldest hotel

Tom Scott 2023-03-13 | Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is not just the world's oldest hotel, but the world's oldest still-operating business. Or at least, that's one way of looking at it. But things are changing here, just like they always have. ■ The hotel: keiunkan.co.jp

Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect
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The city with a hundred private cable cars

Tom Scott 2023-03-06 | Wellington, in New Zealand, has more than a hundred private cable cars. I found out why. ■ Access Automation: accessauto.co.nz ■ Rose's book: teherengawakapress.co.nz/all-who-live-on-islands

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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.

Tom Scott 2023-02-27 | 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

Predator Free 2050: pf2050.co.nz

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This café sends food through pneumatic tubes

Tom Scott 2023-02-20 | C1 Espresso, in Christchurch, New Zealand, has a set of pneumatic tubes. But that's not enough on its own to keep a business running. ■ C1 Espresso: http://www.c1espresso.co.nz

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I tried using AI. It scared me.

Tom Scott 2023-02-13 | I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ Code and full conversation: tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads

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 Scott 2023-02-06 | 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

SOURCES:
web.archive.org/web/20091109051951/http://shweeb.com/index.php?m=faq
web.archive.org/web/20081012033535/http://www.project10tothe100.com/faq.html
web.archive.org/web/20120506113239/http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/project10tothe100
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-27/whatever-happened-to-the-shweeb
nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/business/13m-backing-for-shweeb/ERNGSPNILIFWR7YC4TU2A6DEYY
businessinsider.com/google-human-monorail-shweeb-2010-9

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Why Australia bottles up its air

Tom Scott 2023-01-30 | 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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