The world's most expensive object by weight, and a symbol that I can't type.
6th December 2021
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In this week's video, I found the world's most expensive object by weight, at $8.3m for 40 milligrams. (If you're in a rush, though: it's a stamp.)
In this week's video, I found the world's most expensive object by weight, at $8.3m for 40 milligrams. (If you're in a rush, though: it's a stamp.)
Normally this next section of the newsletter is for video, but in this case there's some audio in here as well, so let's call this section... "this week's linear content that's quite good".
- James Hoffmann, recently seen teaching me to like coffee, gives his review of Aldi's espresso martini cheese. He tastes it, so you don't have to.
- How to build a supersonic trebuchet: a purely mechanical device that can break the sound barrier, albeit by firing a very very small object. This is the only video on the channel, and it's a bit rough-and-ready, but the payoff is there.
- I know videos from American late night shows are often a bit over-polished and "inauthentic". But I found this clip of Seth Meyers reading out rejected jokes from his writers, and I kept giggling at it: somehow it manages to both tear down the format and stay within the format at the same time.
(Late Night has been doing a lot of format-breaking lately, almost like they're playing more to YouTube than television.)
- Ryohoff makes instruments from household objects. Do check out the whole account, but I recommend starting with this shonky-but-incredible bagpipe.
- If you'd like to spend a few minutes going "nope, nope, nope" at someone else's job: this diver had to repair a 42" diameter pipe from inside.
Away from YouTube this week, I turned up on a podcast called Insult My Intelligence, talking about the intersection of copyright law and YouTube. It's a good format for a podcast: a journalist doesn't know about something, so he asks people who do, and then the result is edited
tightly enough to be interesting.
And from around the web, a series of articles where the title is really the best advertising for the story, and anything I write to convince you to click would be superfluous:
- The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1992 floppy disk.
- Here's why movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand (and three ways to fix it).
- And finally, a Georgia politician stands by giant topiary chicken that got him ousted as mayor.
If nothing else, I do recommend clicking on the "giant topiary chicken" article. The interview is great.
— Tom
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