I fired a rifle over a busy road, and tried to learn to like coffee.

18th October 2021

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Hello!

In this week's video, I visited a rifle range where you shoot over a major road. And over on the second channel: can James Hoffmann teach me to like coffee?

Other videos I've found this week that you might enjoy:

I've just discovered Adam Ragusea, who makes brilliant videos about food science: he asked "What is malt, and why does it make milk, bread and beer taste so good?", and it occurred to me that I had no idea what malt actually was. This video's well worth its 16 minutes.
Why Japan looks the way it does is a very pleasant breakdown of zoning in Japan, and... well, why the country looks the way it does.
Jeremy Fielding talks through the induction motor, from the very basics, in a way that beats most high-school science teachers.
And drones rained from the sky in China after a light show went wrong!

Elsewhere on the web:

It's rare that an article is gripping and well-written enough to make my heart race, but this story of escaping a flood in the world's deepest cave did just that. The photography is a bonus.
A brilliant interactive quiz about clickbait from a former colleague of mine, Matt Round. He's taken clickbait-testing data from viral site Upworthy, and made questions out of it: can you guess which headline most people click on?
"Your Stay at Palmer Antarctic Station", a 1980s pamphlet given to expedition members, featuring the now-incredible phrase "no smoking during the movie".
A lovely article by a TV translator talking about the art of subtitling and dubbing.
Last week, I featured a student who rickrolled his entire school district and got away with it. The final link was going to be a cautionary tale to balance that out, because most schools aren't as tolerant, but I couldn't resist changing the link to a rickroll instead. But: this week there's been a much more relevant cautionary tale. A Missouri newspaper told the state about an incredibly obvious security hole in their web site, responsibly disclosing it. The governor wants to prosecute them for it.
And finally, yes: the final link in last week's video was a rickroll. I'd say I'm sorry, but it'd be a lie! If it helps make up for it, then as several people requested, here's a graph of how many people clicked the rickroll link over the last week.

All the best,

— Tom

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