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Sezon 2018
2018x1
17 Tonnes of Spinning Glass: Making the World's Largest Telescope
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Oca 01, 2018
At the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, under the football stadium of the University of Arizona, there's an enormous rotating furnace, keeping tonnes of glass heated as it forms the mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. Here's a look inside!
2018x2
Sign Language Isn't Universal
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Oca 08, 2018
There isn't one universal sign language for all: even British and American sign languages have very little in common. Here, with full subtitles, is someone actually qualified to explain why!
2018x3
A Language Made Of Music
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Oca 15, 2018
Solresol is a language, invented out of whole cloth by Jean-François Sudre in the 19th century, that used seven musical notes to create all the words that he thought you'd ever need. It did work: so why aren't we all speaking in notes right now?
2018x4
Canada's Most Successful King
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Oca 22, 2018
William Lyon Mackenzie King was a sexually repressed, hypocritical, guilt-ridden, prostitute-visiting momma's boy who was exceptionally weird. He was also, perhaps, Canada's greatest .. show full overview
2018x5
Remote controlling an entire airport
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Oca 29, 2018
London City Airport's getting a new control tower: but it's just going to be a large mast with 14 high-definition cameras on it. The actual tower will be 80 miles away, in the headquarters of NATS near Swanwick. It feels questionable: but is it?
2018x6
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
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Şub 05, 2018
I was going to tell a science fiction story about faceswapping, and mass blackmail. Then the news broke about unethical faceswapping videos, and software designed and marketed for .. show full overview
2018x7
Making artificial earthquakes with a huge steel ball
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Şub 12, 2018
In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny, artificial earthquakes: here's why.
2018x8
This city centre has no street names
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Şub 19, 2018
In the Quadratestadt of Mannheim, Germany, the streets aren't named: instead, the blocks are. It's an exception to a rule that most people don't even think about — especially not mapping .. show full overview
2018x9
Launching An Entire Fireworks Display At Once
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Şub 26, 2018
Human error has launched massive barrages of fireworks at the wrong time before. We're doing it deliberately!
2018x10
The moiré effect lights that guide ships home
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Mar 05, 2018
I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I .. show full overview
2018x11
European clocks ran slow for a bit. British clocks didn't.
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Mar 12, 2018
Many people sent me this story: it covers my favourite topics of power grids and temporal anomalies. But when the mainstream press have already covered it, how could I add something .. show full overview
2018x12
How formation flying works
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Mar 14, 2018
The Red Arrows are the Royal Air Force's aerobatic display team - the best in the world. They fly Hawk T1 jets, powering through the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, pulling high-G .. show full overview
2018x13
There's a mermaid show in Florida
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Mar 26, 2018
In Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, Florida, there's a mermaid show -- and there has been for 70 years. It's one of the United States' oldest roadside attractions, and it still does .. show full overview
2018x14
The US president has a bulletproof railcar
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Nis 02, 2018
US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President .. show full overview
2018x15
Making an international standard cup of tea
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Nis 09, 2018
As far as I can find, no-one has actually made a International Standard Cup of Tea - ISO 3103 or BS 6008 - for the internet before. Lots of people have talked about it, but that's easy. .. show full overview
2018x16
G-force, jerk, and a giant centrifuge
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Nis 16, 2018
At the Royal Air Force training centrifuge in Farnborough, pilots learn how to avoid G-LOC: g-induced loss of consciousness. Let's talk about g-force, about jerk, and about how to keep circulation flowing to your brain.
2018x17
We Sent Garlic Bread to the Edge of Space, Then Ate It
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Nis 23, 2018
The title says it all, really. Thanks to Barry from My Virgin Kitchen - go see him cook and test three different garlic breads here: • 'Out of this world' Garlic bread ft T... - .. show full overview
2018x18
⚫ How The Black Point Message Crashes Android Apps
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May 04, 2018
"_If you touch the????black point then your whatsapp will hang_", says the message that's being sent around, and it's right. It's a text rendering bug, the same as many others -- which .. show full overview
2018x19
How planes stay safe over the Atlantic
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May 14, 2018
Over the North Atlantic, there's no radar coverage: so how do air traffic controllers keep planes safe? The answer, at least in part, can be found at Nav Canada's Gander Area Control .. show full overview
2018x20
A Town Called Asbestos
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May 21, 2018
In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So why haven't they changed it? [Update, October .. show full overview
2018x21
The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle
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May 28, 2018
Rue Canusa (or Canusa Avenue) is a street that's split in two by a border: the northern part is in Stanstead, Canada, and the southern part is in Derby Line, USA — and border crossings here aren't as easy as they used to be.
2018x22
The town that was burned for science
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Haz 04, 2018
The St Lawrence Burns were a series of deliberate fires in the soon-to-be-demolished village of Aultsville, Ontario, which was due to be flooded to make way for the St Lawrence Seaway. .. show full overview
2018x23
The giant freezer that tests winter boots
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Haz 11, 2018
If you're in Canada, you need good winter boots. But how do you know whether they're actually safe, or whether you'll fall over the first time you step on ice? This is WinterLab, part of .. show full overview
2018x24
Making 200,000 tons of arsenic dust safe
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Haz 18, 2018
Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left the .. show full overview
2018x25
The new highway to the Arctic Ocean
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Haz 25, 2018
Until recently, Canada didn't have a road link to the Arctic Ocean. But last year, the all-weather Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway opened, which meant that finally the country was connected .. show full overview
2018x26
Watching for nuclear attack in the Arctic
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Tem 02, 2018
In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever .. show full overview
2018x27
The sourtoe cocktail has a human toe in it
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Tem 09, 2018
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 Cocktail.
2018x28
We Should Let Some Wildfires Burn
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Tem 16, 2018
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 British Columbia, and from .. show full overview
2018x29
Stories I Can't Tell
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Tem 19, 2018
There are some stories in Canada that I'm not qualified to tell. Pull down the description to find out about them.
2018x30
How the 90s VHS look works
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Tem 23, 2018
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 that question, I went to talk to the person that wrote it!
2018x31
This nuclear reactor is run by students
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Tem 30, 2018
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 deep swimming pool. I had to visit.
2018x32
Testing the sound mirrors that protected Britain
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Ağu 06, 2018
Over on the RAF Starrship channel, I'm talking about the history of radar: • A Brief History of Radar with Tom Sco... - but over here, we're testing a 90-year-old piece of .. show full overview
2018x33
I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
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Ağu 13, 2018
The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers .. show full overview
2018x34
Your private messages travel under this beach
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Ağu 20, 2018
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 isn't quite as obsolete as you might think.
2018x35
That Time I Got In Trouble With The Government
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Ağu 27, 2018
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 still going to need to do that.
2018x36
The Quiz That Was Shared A Million Times
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Ağu 29, 2018
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 needs them to go viral again. .. show full overview
2018x37
Why You Don't Want To Go Viral
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Ağu 31, 2018
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. The term "viral" has .. show full overview
2018x38
The collapsible crash-test robot car
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Eyl 10, 2018
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 fly apart. So if .. show full overview
2018x39
We Made a Banhammer (feat. NerdCubed)
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Eyl 17, 2018
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, a bit more real, anyway.
2018x40
Wingwalking used to be a lot more dangerous
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Eyl 24, 2018
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 line. Maybe they'd be .. show full overview
2018x41
How the first ever telecoms scam worked
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Eki 01, 2018
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 stretching from hilltop to .. show full overview
2018x42
What's The Longest Word You Can Write With Seven-Segment Displays?
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Eki 08, 2018
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. IT'S CODE TIME. Close .. show full overview
2018x43
If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos
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Eki 15, 2018
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.
2018x44
᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜
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Eki 22, 2018
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 and computer-science .. show full overview
2018x45
Why do London's manholes keep exploding?
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Eki 29, 2018
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. Here's why, complete with gratuitous pyrotechnics.
2018x46
Britain's largest battery is actually a lake
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Kas 05, 2018
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. Here's how it works, and why .. show full overview
2018x47
Why Computers Can't Count Sometimes
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Kas 12, 2018
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 computers to count? To answer .. show full overview
2018x48
Testing the world's longest echo
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Kas 19, 2018
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 loud noise and some very sensitive microphones.
2018x49
An American Stonehenge: The Mysterious Georgia Guidestones
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Kas 26, 2018
[See pinned comment for an important update.] In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they .. show full overview
2018x50
The other tree that owns itself
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Ara 03, 2018
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 place. Why?
2018x51
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
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Ara 06, 2018
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 — but the reason is an artificial intelligence called Earworm.
2018x52
The city of golf carts
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Ara 10, 2018
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 tracks helps to keep cars off the road.
2018x53
Your New Social Credit Score
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Ara 13, 2018
From January, every citizen of England and Wales will have a new social credit score. Advice from the Department for Community and Culture. [This video is fiction. See the pinned comment.]
2018x54
The Consequences of Your Code
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Ara 17, 2018
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 responsibilities that designers, .. show full overview
2018x55
Stealing Our Friend's Brain Backup PRANK (GONE WRONG!!!) ????????????
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Ara 20, 2018
WASSUP KINGDOM, it is time to GET JACK BACK for last week. Callum has Jack's backup and it's time for some FUN
2018x56
The canyon that humans made by accident
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Ara 24, 2018
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 geology. Is it natural? Or man-made? Or both?
2018x57 Sezon finali
Why NASA Spun Astronauts Around, But Doesn't Any More
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Ara 31, 2018
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 for?

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