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The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
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Ene 02, 2023
Poly Canyon, at Cal Poly, is an experimental architecture laboratory.
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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
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Ene 09, 2023
The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is the second oldest rollercoaster in the world: and it's one of only a few which still uses a manual brake. Here's how it works.
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These chickens save lives.
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Ene 16, 2023
"Sentinel chickens" are an early-warning system against some nasty mosquito-borne diseases. I visited a flock in New South Wales, Australia.
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I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
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Ene 23, 2023
The Parkes Radio Telescope, Murriyang, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section.
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Why Australia bottles up its air
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Ene 30, 2023
Every few months, when the wind's blowing in the right direction, a bottle of air is taken from Kennaook / Cape Grim, at the northern tip of Tasmania, and saved for science. Here's how and why.
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Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
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Feb 06, 2023
At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a pedal-powered monorail. It's a fun ride: but in 2010, Google gave it a million dollars as a potential "future of transit".
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I tried using AI. It scared me.
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Feb 13, 2023
I just wanted to fix my email.
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This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
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Feb 20, 2023
C1 Espresso, in Christchurch, New Zealand, has a set of pneumatic tubes. But that's not enough on its own to keep a business running.
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This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
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Feb 27, 2023
The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that.
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The city with a hundred private cable cars
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Mar 06, 2023
Wellington, in New Zealand, has more than a hundred private cable cars. I found out why.
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Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
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Mar 12, 2023
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is not just the world's oldest hotel, but the world's oldest still-operating business. Or at least, that's one way of looking at it. But things are changing here, just like they always have.
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This bus transforms into a train
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Mar 18, 2023
The DMV, or Dual Mode Vehicle, on the Asa Coast Railway in Shikoku, Japan, is a hybrid bus and train. And I rode it.
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I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
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Mar 27, 2023
I was going to film a video about a robot bicycle park. And then GIKEN, the company who built it, said: you know we do this for cars as well, right?
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I rode the world's fastest train.
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Abr 03, 2023
I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central's Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, I rode Japan's new maglev.
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This tiny hovercraft went viral.
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Abr 10, 2023
Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft.
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It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
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Abr 17, 2023
At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into simulated worlds, both virtual and physical, in the .. show full overview
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The military base where you drive over the runway
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Abr 24, 2023
Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, has an unusual feature: two public roads that go straight over the runway. How do they keep it safe? And, as a side note, just how loud is it when .. show full overview
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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
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May 01, 2023
Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse.
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The world's cleanest railway
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May 08, 2023
At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there's a "funicular" that not many people get to ride: because it's between two clean rooms, and getting to it requires quite a lot of preparation.
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The people who get paid to get sick
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May 15, 2023
I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV.
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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
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May 22, 2023
At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world.
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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
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May 29, 2023
The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to .. show full overview
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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
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Jun 05, 2023
The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it.
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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
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Jun 12, 2023
In an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, sits the Bathysphere Project at Explorandia: a submarine simulator that explores an actual, small pond. It might be the best homemade project I've ever seen.
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The cable car that you pedal by hand
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Jun 19, 2023
Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: some historic, some more modern. There aren't many left. I was able to try one, and to talk to the person who still .. show full overview
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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
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Jun 26, 2023
Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking.
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Six months from now, this channel stops.
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Jul 01, 2023
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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
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Jul 03, 2023
Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B: a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.
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I thought this rotating house was impossible.
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Jul 10, 2023
Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible?
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If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
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Jul 17, 2023
At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by actual bears.
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Grizzly bear GoPro selfie: raw unedited footage
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Jul 24, 2023
This footage is public domain, and the raw files are available at https://archive.org/details/grizzly-b... ■ An explanation, which is not public domain: • A bear found my GoPro .. show full overview
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A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
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Jul 24, 2023
An unexpected update!
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Storing dead people at -196°C
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Jul 31, 2023
In Switzerland, there's a new cryonics company: and they invited me to have a look around. I had questions: legal, practical, and ethical, and I want to be clear: this is not an endorsement. I just wasn't going to turn down that invitation.
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This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
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Ago 07, 2023
Zermatt, in Switzerland, bans all private cars and all gasoline cars. But if you run a business, you might be able to buy one of the special, tiny ones that are built right there.
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This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
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Ago 14, 2023
The Honiton Hot Pennies ceremony is the result of 800 years of tradition: from when rich people would entertain themselves by throwing scalding-hot pennies onto the poor people below. These days, it's a bit less dangerous... but only a bit.
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No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.
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Ago 21, 2023
Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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This man built his office inside an elevator
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Ago 28, 2023
The Baťa Skyscraper, in Zlín, Czechia, is a landmark of architecture. And the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator. [Correction: Jan Antonín Baťa's birth year is 1898; the graphic is a typo.]
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Why are adverts so loud?
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Sept 04, 2023
This was so much more complex than I thought.
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This library has every book ever published.
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Sept 11, 2023
The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse.
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How languages steal words from each other
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Sept 18, 2023
This is the only pirate reference you're getting from me. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch.
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Spherical houses weren't a great idea
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Sept 25, 2023
The Bolwoningen, in Den Bosch, in the Netherlands, are experimental architecture: the surprising part is that people still live there.
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
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Oct 02, 2023
The asterisk is important. The Extremely Large Telescope, in Paranal, Chile, is probably going to be the largest optical telescope that will ever be constructed. I was invited out .. show full overview
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I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator
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Oct 09, 2023
At the New Town Hall, the Neues Rathaus, in Hanover, there's a strange elevator where the track curves unevenly. For years, people from Germany have been emailing me about it: well, I finally visited.
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there’dn’t’ve
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Oct 16, 2023
This script was a nightmare to pronounce. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch.
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0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
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Oct 23, 2023
AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it.
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Boarding planes could have been very different
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Oct 30, 2023
There's a world in which everyone boards planes with "mobile lounges", PTVs, or Plane-Mates... but this is not that world.
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Does the language you speak change how you think?
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Nov 06, 2023
No. Mostly. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch.
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Every mistake I've made since 2014.
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Nov 13, 2023
Time to correct the record.
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These tiny ships have a serious purpose
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Nov 20, 2023
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.
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Why use many streetlights when one will do?
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Nov 27, 2023
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?
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Why don't subtitles match dubbing?
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Dic 04, 2023
Translation is really difficult.
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A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
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Dic 11, 2023
Nio is a Chinese auto maker that offers an alternative to charging: just swapping out the whole battery whenever you need it. I borrowed one of their cars.
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Why the government drops flies on California
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Dic 18, 2023
There's a good reason for it.
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People are going to be angry about pylons.
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Dic 25, 2023
Britain's power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one.

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