Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they …
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High-frequency traders have a few tactics on stock exchanges: but simply put, they gather price information faster than anyone else, sometimes even faster than …
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The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what’s it actually used …
The tourist guides promote it as Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about …
WASSUP KINGDOM, it is time to GET JACK BACK for last week. Callum has Jack’s backup and it’s time for some FUN. Download link: https://share.dl/iijAKAJnn …
This is the story of one of the best, and also one of the worst, text messages I’ve ever received. It’s about harm, about consequences, and about the …
From January, every citizen of England and Wales will have a new social credit score. Advice from the Department for Community and Culture. ⏩ is a series of …
Some American cities use buses, or trams, or trains. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a different solution: it’s not quite public transit, but a hundred miles of golf cart …
In the last week of December, 2028, humanity forgot about more than a century of pop culture. You’ve probably never thought about it, and never found it strange …
The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, Georgia is well known. The other Tree That Owns Itself in Eufaula, Alabama, really isn’t. It’s the same story in a different …
That’s it! That’s the end of the series. You made it! Congratulations! Enjoy the best mime that Matt has ever done. BONUS MATERIAL: …
In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they’re ancient, but because they were funded by …
I realise we never actually define “pumpy thing” in this video. I’m not going to define it here either. BONUS MATERIAL: …
Technically, the Inchindown oil tanks in Invergordon, Scotland, have the world’s longest reverberation, but that makes a much worse title. We tested them with a …
No, a hail cannon isn’t for if you just want to accelerate a lot of hail really quickly. This week: pseudoscience and real science! BONUS MATERIAL: …
Sometimes, numbers on sites like YouTube and Twitter jump up and down; subscriber counts lag, like-counts bounce all over the place. Why is it so hard for …
Our traditional Wartime Badass Episode this week, albeit a wartime badass whose weapon included expense reports. BONUS MATERIAL: …
Dinorwig Power Station, otherwise known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydro station in Llanberis, Wales. And yes: it’s Britain’s largest battery.
This time, we’re taking on smørpanikk, food politics, and – for the second week running – brandy. BONUS MATERIAL: …
Every month or so, somewhere in London, a manhole explodes. It’s so common that it doesn’t make the news unless it’s spectacular or someone gets injured.
The final season begins! With a traditional tale of a military mistake and a wheel that spins and lands on France. BONUS MATERIAL: …
Ogham is an old Irish script made by carving notches into stones. It fell out of use more than a millennium ago – but it’s an interesting exception to a linguistics …
There’s a reason music videos look strange. I could just talk about framerate, cuts and continuity… or I could get an actual music video director. And a leaf blower.
That’s right, we’re kicking Season 2 of the Basics off with a technical episode about a somewhat-obsolete technology! IT’S PARTY TIME. Wait, no, not party time.
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In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers …
Back in the 1920s, wingwalking claimed lives. Daredevils would move around on the top of a plane’s wings, in mid-flight, often without any harness or any safety …
For years, moderators of online forums and chat rooms have wielded a metaphorical “banhammer” to deal with anyone who steps out of line. Now it’s real. Well …
The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it’ll …
On a rainy Scottish island called Jura, it’s time to talk about the Manual, about long-term sustainable success, and about not having just that one catchphrase.
I’ve put the North-o-Meter, and some other old UsVsTh3m games, up at https://www.tomscott.com/usvsth3m/ – I’ve disabled the sharing buttons, though. No-one …
The first part of “How To Be Popular On The Internet*” is all about an old saying: if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And if you do succeed… well, you’re …
In Porthcurno, Cornwall, there’s an old telegraph cable landing station. It’s how Britain talked to the Empire — and it’s now a museum. But the technology here …
The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3000 years ago. Every year, it’s rechalked …
Over on the RAF Starrship channel, I’m talking about the history of radar: https://youtu.be/VDC_RCh0ws8 – but over here, we’re testing a 90-year-old piece of …
At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there’s a TRIGA nuclear reactor, used for research. You can stand next to it and watch the blue glow from the bottom of a …
90s VHS video filters are in fashion right now, and most producers are using the same filter as everyone else. Why does the filter look like it does? To answer …
There are some stories in Canada that I’m not qualified to tell. Pull down the description to find out about them. YOUTUBE LINKS: * Residential Schools: …
In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse – and, oddly, it’s because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of …
In Dawson City, a small mining town in the Yukon, sits the Downtown Hotel. Inside there is a tradition that tourists have been trying out for decades: the Sourtoe …