A perfectly safe footpath, and a lot of big boats.
28th February 2022
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Hello!
This week's video is a bit rough-and-ready: the Elie Chainwalk is safe, as long as you follow the signs. I didn't want to lug heavy camera equipment round icy rocks, so the footage is... well, a bit less professional than normal!
This week's video is a bit rough-and-ready: the Elie Chainwalk is safe, as long as you follow the signs. I didn't want to lug heavy camera equipment round icy rocks, so the footage is... well, a bit less professional than normal!
Also, this week I had a cameo at the end of Matt Parker's ludicrous 22-YouTuber collaboration for 22/2/22!
Elsewhere in the world of video:
- Friends of the channel Mike Boyd and Steven Bridges collaborated, and Mike tried to learn card counting. It's worth watching both his video, and Steven's series that's linked from it!
- TikToks from folks working on big ships:
- Mark Maguire takes you inside a gigantic cargo hold
- Kate McCue shows off her half-constructed cruise ship captain's cabin before sea trials
- Joe the Sailor answers: what happens if you get ill in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
- Brian David Gilbert's Just One Day is a tour-de-force of musical comedy: four different characters and different voices from one person, good punchlines, and — crucially — an actually good song that's been stuck in my head for a while now.
This week's web links are mostly a Debunking Special, partly because that's a lot of what I've found while researching, and partly because it feels good to cast some doubt on misinformation:
- The true story of the viral false teeth that fooled the world. A great, if ultimately somewhat unsatisfying, bit of fact-checking, and an important reminder: if a story seems a bit too good or a bit too strange, it's worth asking questions.
- Storms with female names are not more deadly. Eight years ago, when I was just starting out my channel, I nearly made a short video on this study. I'm glad I didn't, because in hindsight — well, of course it's not true.
- The famous "marshmallow test" is... questionable at best. Turns out you can't cast doubts on a child's entire life path from one test on one day.
- And finally, on a much more lighter and truthful note, the Royal Mail has issued a set of stamps where the design is... stamps. So, stamp-stamps. I hope that, in a few years, they go one layer deeper and issue a set of stamp-stamp-stamps.
All the best,
— Tom
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