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Tom Scott
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Sun, Apr 05, 2020
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The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here's the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all ties in to the White Cliffs of Dover and the end of the universe.
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Why My Teenage Code Was Terrible: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Notation
Sun, Jan 05, 2020
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  • Why My Teenage Code Was Terrible: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Notation
When I was a teenager, I wrote some terrible code. Here's why.
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The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake
Sun, Jul 19, 2020
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  • The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake
Linby is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England. It wouldn't have much strategic value - unless some commander didn't read their map properly. Here's a local legend, with a few questions about it.
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How Neurosurgeons Navigate Inside The Brain

S10.E2 ∙ How Neurosurgeons Navigate Inside The Brain

Sun, Jan 12, 2020
The brain is a mass of neurons, but some areas are more important than others. How can surgeons navigate inside the brain? How do they know exactly where to operate, and what to do? Alex from Brainbook explains.
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The bridge that's in two countries at the same time

S10.E4 ∙ The bridge that's in two countries at the same time

Sun, Jan 26, 2020
Schengen is a small town in Luxembourg, on the borders with France and Germany. But one of those borders is a little more complicated: the Mosel (or Moselle) river is a condominium, it belongs to both countries at the same time. And thus, so the bridges above it.
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The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing

S10.E6 ∙ The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing

Sun, Feb 09, 2020
About once a year, on the Oosterscheldekering barrier in the south of the Netherlands, there is NK Tegenwindfietsen: a bicycle race cycling into a headwind. This year it was 120km/h: this is why it's so difficult, and also why it's so brilliant.
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The country where all public transit is free

S10.E8 ∙ The country where all public transit is free

Sun, Feb 23, 2020
From March 1st 2020, Luxembourg will have free public transit throughout the country: you'll be able to travel on buses, trains, trams, and that one funicular railway without a ticket. It sounds like a good idea: but is it?
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Sun, Apr 05, 2020
The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here's the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all ties in to the White Cliffs of Dover and the end of the universe.
8.7 /10
Abso-b____y-lutely: Expletive Infixation

S10.E15 ∙ Abso-b____y-lutely: Expletive Infixation

Sun, Apr 12, 2020
There are rules in the English language that you've probably never been taught, but you know anyway: how to split apart words with "infixes". But you've never been taught it because some of those infixes are words you probably shouldn't use in front of your high school English teachers.
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation

S10.E18 ∙ The Hidden Rules of Conversation

Sun, May 03, 2020
Gricean Maxims are a vital part of how we understand each other: a set of, well, maybe "rules" is a bit strong. They're guidelines that we follow without realising it. And it's the reason that "asbestos-free cereal" sounds suspicious.
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Why some remastered music videos look awful

S10.E20 ∙ Why some remastered music videos look awful

Sun, May 17, 2020
When YouTube allowed music labels to "remaster" their original uploads, different videos had very different approaches. Some are in crystal-clear 4K; others are very definitely not. Here's why some of them look terrible.
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How England's Oldest Road Was Nearly Lost Forever

S10.E23 ∙ How England's Oldest Road Was Nearly Lost Forever

Sun, Jun 07, 2020
The Icknield Way, in south-east England, is a road and footpath that's been part of the landscape for millennia. But if parts of it hadn't been legally marked down, then those parts would have become private land, gone forever. Who has the right to walk where?
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S10.E24 ∙ The "first internet bench" probably wasn't

Sun, Jun 14, 2020
In the Abbey Gardens of Bury St Edmunds, in a quiet corner of a park, sits the World's First Internet Bench. Well, sort of. It's been nearly twenty years, and it's arguable whether it ever did the job in the first place.
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The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament

S10.E27 ∙ The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament

Sun, Jul 05, 2020
Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, is a now-desolate hillfort run by English Heritage. But it was once one of the most important sites in southern England: so important that it had two members of Parliament. Then, it became a "rotten borough": and a warning about power.
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A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

S10.E28 ∙ A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

Sun, Jul 12, 2020
There are lots of ways to compare a million to a billion, but most of them use volume. And I think that's a mistake, because volume just isn't something the human brain is great at. So instead, here's the difference between a million and a billion, in a more one-dimensional way: distance.
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Britain once forgot how long an inch is

S10.E30 ∙ Britain once forgot how long an inch is

Sun, Jul 26, 2020
In 1834, Parliament burned down, and the Standards of Measurement were melted or destroyed. So when there's no agreed-upon standard for length: how do you fix it? Also: how you can still publicly check the length of your sandwich.
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Swimming between two continents, debunked

S10.E35 ∙ Swimming between two continents, debunked

Sun, Aug 30, 2020
Silfra, in Þingvellir National Park in Iceland, is where the Eurasian and North American continental plates are dividing. It's a crack in the earth where you can snorkel or dive between the continents. Well, sort of. As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that.
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Would you swim in power plant wastewater?

S10.E37 ∙ Would you swim in power plant wastewater?

Sun, Sep 13, 2020
Normally, the answer would be no. But in these very limited circumstances, at Iceland's Blue Lagoon, you can swim in geothermal power plant wastewater, and it's even healthy: although the marketing material doesn't usually mention it. Here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm.
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The tiny monorails that once carried James Bond

S10.E38 ∙ The tiny monorails that once carried James Bond

Sun, Sep 20, 2020
The Roadmachines Mono-Rail may have been the only truly useful, fit-for-purpose monorail in the world. Of the hundreds that were built, most were never meant for passengers. But they did carry a couple of famous people in their time, including a certain secret agent.
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If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.

S10.E44 ∙ If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.

Sun, Nov 01, 2020
The Ruhr Valley, in north-west Germany, is an industrial coal-mining area. And because of that kilometre-deep mining, parts of it have sunk, the drainage patterns have changed: and now, if the pumps of Emschergenossenschaft ever stop, quite a few towns and cities will end up flooded.
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We walked the most dangerous path in Britain

S10.E48 ∙ We walked the most dangerous path in Britain

Sun, Nov 29, 2020
The Broomway is surrounded on both sides by quicksand and deep, sucking mud. It has no markers and no guideposts. And if you mistime your walk, you won't outrun the tide. Oh, and it's in the middle of a Ministry of Defence firing range. But most of the time, if you want to visit Foulness Island, it's the only way.
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