Tom Scott
ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ and ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ
updated
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
A Penny4 Production | penny4.co.uk
Special thanks to Abi Hensby and the team at GB Helicopters | gbhelicopters.com
"Lifted" by Benjamin Squires is available on streaming platforms: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/benjaminsquires/lifted
MONTAGE VIDEOS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
youtube.com/watch?v=B98O6LlLT4Y
youtube.com/watch?v=FGxKQvdLrng
youtube.com/watch?v=IsmjW7-IaSo
youtube.com/watch?v=mRQt_PMhBXY
youtube.com/watch?v=d3WiRunOsWY
youtube.com/watch?v=bPTSSHRnnWw
youtube.com/watch?v=fzfpExS_wic
youtube.com/watch?v=S0zMip62o5E
youtube.com/watch?v=UaGTFeibOEk
youtube.com/watch?v=tozuzV5YZ7U
youtube.com/watch?v=5te73hfCpuU
youtube.com/watch?v=q1oRaUTbk3k
youtube.com/watch?v=-khe6IY9bTM
youtube.com/watch?v=kjQLT5CKEAU
youtube.com/watch?v=ZLF7yife8YE
youtube.com/watch?v=DpfrGZJyKmo
youtube.com/watch?v=UWSckm8zTc8
youtube.com/watch?v=4ZX9T0kWb4Y
youtube.com/watch?v=iCQEc736GO4
youtube.com/watch?v=DMKcO-T5Y4o
youtube.com/watch?v=EN9JzxzDXU0
youtube.com/watch?v=IsWJKyR664s
youtube.com/watch?v=FO_Ox_dH0M8
youtube.com/watch?v=2h1s6S4kotE
youtube.com/watch?v=ef1jPbezKDM
youtube.com/watch?v=c8W-auqg024
youtube.com/watch?v=HuGHV0fbBiE
youtube.com/watch?v=ELGWbY4xBDs
youtube.com/watch?v=lLUcOFwZvyY
youtube.com/watch?v=6o38C-ultvw
youtube.com/watch?v=3fJhTu-0zmo
youtube.com/watch?v=GFWsYJ0_KMI
youtube.com/watch?v=pk9v3m7Slv8
youtube.com/watch?v=CwABJGzifao
youtube.com/watch?v=72RxerDwzEo
youtube.com/watch?v=XQIu5tZ0vbQ
youtube.com/watch?v=2nQ-rijlX3o
youtube.com/watch?v=RYGFczNMAMk
youtube.com/watch?v=Trqqn2xPaY0
youtube.com/watch?v=l0fViGU-Snc
youtube.com/watch?v=TUKQfMFKfjk
youtube.com/watch?v=10Y-gWNJ2Sw
youtube.com/watch?v=0MqtTlzde0g
youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
youtube.com/watch?v=ecVHYg4_vZw
youtube.com/watch?v=kMLYLcniXIc
youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E
youtube.com/watch?v=xXC6U0NfJg8
youtube.com/watch?v=39nNXdBFQhA
youtube.com/watch?v=xym2R6_Qd7c
youtube.com/watch?v=vxfJbW6KDp4
youtube.com/watch?v=F0JDK_71yDg
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
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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🌐 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
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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VIDEOS MENTIONED:
2014
youtube.com/watch?v=Ko51cynAjzY
youtube.com/watch?v=ByUPFYxy5vw
youtube.com/watch?v=gN_PK5pXmIY
(Technology Connections' video: youtube.com/watch?v=zLFG068HtgM )
2015
youtube.com/watch?v=eYH1lPm41-0
youtube.com/watch?v=oZ2Qms2fMH8
youtube.com/watch?v=BTPToO-gfTE
youtube.com/watch?v=5erVH-zk7Uk
2016
youtube.com/watch?v=MVI87HzfskQ
youtube.com/watch?v=18_6kLLKoEc
(Thomas Frank's counterpoint: youtube.com/watch?v=mKdm5xSZiOA )
youtube.com/watch?v=iGjPn8V4O9E
youtube.com/watch?v=5uz6xOFWi4A
youtube.com/watch?v=iaSaWfw07Sw
2017
youtube.com/watch?v=4aCMDQsx740
2018
youtube.com/watch?v=E4nZDSLdIiM
2019
youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI
2020
youtube.com/watch?v=mmh819Lfgfs
youtube.com/watch?v=m__OZ3ZsO4Y
2021
youtube.com/watch?v=8UmsfXWzvEA
youtube.com/watch?v=2h1s6S4kotE
2022
youtube.com/watch?v=Wif1EAgEQKI
youtube.com/watch?v=9XSzwbFCFtc
2023
youtube.com/watch?v=1yfX84RMQ3M
youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVuIU6UUiM
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 •
More Language Files: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0
Gretchen's book BECAUSE INTERNET, all about the evolution of internet language, is available:
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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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Thanks to Eric Forest and the airport team, and to Christian Brice for stepping in for additional camerawork!
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Main camera op: Juan Pablo Salazar
Additional cam op: Tobias Binder
Drone camera ops: Felix Kunz, Marco Odermatt
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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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Camera: Maximilian Unger
Producer: Viktor Sramo at Klein Aber
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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!
🖼 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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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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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 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
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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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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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.
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"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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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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(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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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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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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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
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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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