Sugar, a show stop, and a spectacular sparrow.

• A while back, the Jet Lag team asked me: why do people think British trains are so bad? A good answer to this can be found as part of Tom Nicholas' excellent piece "can nationalisation fix Britain's trains?" His introduction casually tees up the fact that the video includes an interview with a government minister, and several other transport experts. And there's a pun counter, too.
   
• Adam Savage finds out how IMAX 70mm film is scanned and printed. This is an expert joyfully interviewing another expert, while still being able to make the result understandable to a lay audience. (Thanks Cal for sending this over!)
   
• Sound engineer Robb Gosset explains how to stop a musical mid-show: when a lead in Hadestown has a medical issue and needs to leave the stage, this is how a very professional production deals with it. What staggered me is: this is a school production?! The standards for school productions have got a lot higher since I was a kid. (Thanks Rory for the suggestion!)
   

• "Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult".
   
• Do you need to know what particular glue to use in order to stick one thing to another thing? This To That has the glue advice you need.
   
• An archive of Techno-Optimism: because, yes, technology does often change the world, but perhaps not in the way people expect. (Thanks Łukasz for the suggestion!)

And finally, on TikTok: hey. hey. hey. hey. watch this. (Far better with sound.)

All the best,

— Tom