Moonlight towers! flamethrowers! and a terrifying plaque.

• Cambrian Chronicles uses the Jon Bois/Secret Base style of video to talk about Welsh history: and despite knowing nothing about the subject going in, this tale of Wikipedia's King who Doesn't Exist fascinated me. History is difficult and fractal and one mistake can become "fact" so easily.
   
• I'm a little bit late to this, but: two of the best comedy musicians working today, Tom Cardy and Brian David Gilbert, team up for Beautiful Mind (strong language). The phrase "beagles eating bugles while a poodle plays the flugelhorn" has been going round my head for days.
   
• Emily Graslie's "The Brain Scoop" is back! This is just the announcement video, but it's great to see that the channel — which was originally part of the Field Museum — is now independent, and hers, and hopefully there'll be more from her very soon.
   
• Evan Hadfield's series Rare Earth, which I've mentioned a couple of times, returns with an incredible story of him being an accidental spy: "I Overheard a Secret Chinese Meeting in Micronesia on Vacation". Things like this just seem to happen to Evan.
   

• A video I never got to make, but which someone else has put into an article: how I learned to stop worrying and love unmanned aerial flamethrowers.
   
• From 2018: a long-dormant geyser in Yellowstone suddenly erupted, spewing out decades-old trash.
    
• Last week, I linked to a lovely retrospective video on the ITV Telethons (occasional strong language), and how the protests against them was one of the things that paved the way for the Disabled People's Direct Action Network. Well, I've since found this oral history of those protests — it's worth reading, partly because they're good stories, and partly for the multiple references to someone running over Chris Tarrant's foot in a wheelchair. As a kid, this all passed me by, and it's only now, decades later, that I'm finding out about what was a huge social change that I didn't notice at the time.
   
• The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards for this year have been announced! Personally I think the greenfinch argument should easily have been the winner.
   

Next week: if all goes well, a video in many languages, about videos that are in many languages. It was a nightmare to produce, but I think it's going to be worth it.

And finally: it's not always a good thing when the university puts up a plaque to remember you by. The terrifying part is, as far as I can tell, no-one can figure out exactly what the context is.

All the best,

— Tom