Roads, tapes, rescue, and trains!

• Road Guy Rob, in high-vis vest and microphone, uses location filming, archive footage, and actual interviews to tell the story of how Minnesota drivers hated ramp meters... until they were gone.
   
• David Malawey tells you more than you ever wanted to know about tape. The video very much delivers on its title.
   
• Matt Gray joined a search and rescue team! I've linked to Matt's "trying" series before, and this might be the best one of the lot, both in terms of the story, and in the footage — which is surprisingly cinematic despite clearly being filmed on-the-fly. And at one point, it stops being a drill, and turns into an actual search-and-rescue.
   

• Linguistics! A good breakdown of the valuable role of interjections in language; this is like one of my Language Files videos, but in text form.
   
• Comic Sans? No: Comic Helvetic. Or: Comic Mono.
   
• And the award for best article title this week goes to: "Ping, you've got whale": a new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path. Will it work? Absolutely no idea, I just liked the title.

And finally: a staggering FPV drone video of a steam train. This is an incredible demonstration of pilot skill: I just hope it was done with the railway's permission. (Mind you, if there was a collision, the drone likely wouldn't cause the train any problems...)

All the best,

— Tom