From Ordinary Things. Get an exclusive Black Friday deal! Enter promo code ORDINARYTHINGS to get up to 6 additional months for free at https://surfshark.deals/ORDINARYTHINGS TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ordinarytings PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ordinarythings 00:00 – Intro 01:40 – STEP 1: Conditions must be (im)perfect 03:36 – Guatemala 05:32 – Luttwak 07:26 – Poor Countries 08:35 – The French Exception 12:04…
From Tom Scott. The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city? ■ Austin Energy: https://austinenergy.com/ ■ Moonlight Towers https://www.austintexas.org/listings/moonlight-towers/5895/ Producer: Jodi Shores at Sparksight https://sparksight.com Director: Kelly Shores at @readysetdrone…
From Tom Scott. At Port Iława in Poland, pilots and captains of massive ships train on 1-to-24 scale ship models: and I got to drive one. ■ The Ship Handling Research and Training Centre: https://www.ilawashiphandling.com.pl/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) Edited by Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux…
From Atomic Frontier. I used machine learning to create the world’s worst (and best) keyboard layouts. Along the way I learned how QWERTY came to be, how simulated annealing works, and got a little better at typing. Full code at: https://github.com/AtomicFrontierCode/keyboards Music by Julian, camera by Julia, story by James. ———- II ———- This video…
From Tom Scott. Time to correct the record. ■ AD: 👨💻 NordVPN’s Black Friday deal is on: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott – with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ✅ All corrections: https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/ | ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with…
From Donna. Almost a year ago, I investigated why so many minimalists in the community were making videos explaining minimalism’s dark side. Some have even expressed leaving the lifestyle. In an interesting twist of events, 3 of the movement’s most prominent figures saw the video and reached out to me for a discussion. This is…
From Tom Scott. No. Mostly. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen’s podcast has an episode all about Arrival: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/157167562811/transcript-lingthusiasm-episode-3-arrival-of-the • More Language Files: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0 Gretchen’s book BECAUSE INTERNET, all about the evolution of internet language, is available: 🇺🇸 US: https://amzn.to/30tLpjT 🇨🇦 CA: https://amzn.to/2JsTYWH 🇬🇧 UK: https://amzn.to/31K8eRD (Those are affiliate links that give…