Tom Scott
Gravity Doesnt Always Point Straight To The Earths Core
updated
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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 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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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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Thanks to the museum staff for fact-checking and translation!
Camera and local production: Otto Beck, HayotFilms hayotfilms.com
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Editor: Julian Domanski
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DoP: Dave Mackie davemackie.co.uk
Camera; Jared Zwarts
Editor: Julian Domanski
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Camera: Martin Bäbler
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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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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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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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This is not an advert; I received no payment other than access and had full editorial control.
Camera: Juan Gracia, Bream Velasquez
Local production: @TwoBitDaVinci
Graphics: Stijn Orlans
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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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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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Previously: why Hollywood explosions don't look like real explosions: youtube.com/watch?v=nqJiWbD08Yw
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Camera: Jamie MacLeod jamiemacleod.co.uk
Editor: Michelle Martin twitter.com/mrsmmartin
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
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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
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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
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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.)
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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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Local producer: Yasuharu Matsuno at Mind Architect
Camera and edit: Julian Domanski
(This video has an English dub available on supported devices. Change the language option to use it!)
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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.
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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.
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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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Predator Free 2050: pf2050.co.nz
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Producer: Virginia Wickham at Kevin & Co kevinandco.co.nz
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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.)
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
Camera: Rakaea Te Rangi-Trotman
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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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MVE was actually found in the area I filmed, just a couple of days later, although in that case it was direct mosquito detection, not via chickens. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20230111_00.aspx
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Thanks to @JulianOShea on camera: visit his channel for lots of stories about Unknown Melbourne, including this great video about the bridge that trucks keep crashing into: youtube.com/watch?v=HR7NivKqfzo
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Thanks to Jacob DeBoard for the suggestion
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Thanks to Graeme Wiltrout for the suggestion
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Here's the full, thoroughly referenced report: tomscott.com/corrections/firemarks
Thanks to historical consultant Paul J Sillitoe: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-sillitoe-avi-consultants
Thanks to Afonso Noronha for the email sparking this whole discussion! All the corrections on this channel can be found here: tomscott.com/corrections
The original video, now deprecated and unlisted: youtube.com/watch?v=sehyLDPeB6M
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With thanks to Sherbrooke team members Basem (who also flew the drone!) and André (who also wrote the French subtitles!)
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Runner: Victor Gade
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