A ferry! Linguistics! And a tiny tank.

• Dr Geoff Lindsay sets Shakespeare to the theme tune of the Pink Panther. If you liked my old linguistic videos, you'll probably also like this: there are great videos about linguistics that are far more detailed than I ever made. (Thanks to Andrew for sending this over!)
   
• Fear and Delight by the Correspondents is a spectacular music video: a human-scale kaleidoscope put together with a cylindrical studio, multiple cameras, and clever compositing. There's a behind-the-scenes explanation of how it all works.
   
• Letters Live is a show where famous comedians, actors and orators read out letters. Some comic, some urban legends; some heartfelt, some heartbreaking. I've no idea how I've not stumbled upon it before, but a good place to start would be Matt Berry reading out a brutal, personal review of a jazz album.
   
• A while ago, I visited Zwentendorf nuclear power plant, which was never switched on. Something I never talked about was the incredible reverb in a couple of the locations — which was actually kind of disruptive, because it made clear audio very difficult to record. Well, Paul Davids went there with an electric guitar, and even got to ride in the gantry crane. (Thanks to Nicholas for sending this in!)
   
• It turns out David Bowie's "you remind me of the babe" lyric from Labyrinth first appeared a 1947 Cary Grant film. And the joke is a lot clearer when everyone pronounces it /hu:du:/.

• NASA built a tiny robot that was basically a drill attached to a 1:16 scale model of a tank, in order to test Space Shuttle tires. It was called the "Tire Assault Vehicle", and it was used because "an exploding test tire releases energy equivalent to two and one-half sticks of dynamite".
   
• I'd missed that the mysterious Windsor Hum had been solved! And all it took to figure it out was a pandemic.

And finally: hey, I don't work here. (Note: strong Australian language, extremely catchy music.)

All the best,

— Tom