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My weekly newsletter is where I put the good stuff I’ve found from the rest of the internet — the links that make me stop, read, and go “hang on, that’s fascinating.” It’s not just updates about my work; it’s a curated list for people who like learning things accidentally. If you enjoyed this video’s sense of discovery, it fits nicely alongside it.
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After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.
12.1M views · 2024-01-01 16:00:06

People are going to be angry about pylons.
2.1M views · 2023-12-25 16:00:08

Why the government drops flies on California
2.2M views · 2023-12-18 16:00:18

A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
2.0M views · 2023-12-11 16:00:31

Why don't subtitles match dubbing?
2.0M views · 2023-12-04 16:00:40

Why use many streetlights when one will do?
4.1M views · 2023-11-27 16:00:13

These tiny ships have a serious purpose
1.6M views · 2023-11-20 16:00:29

Every mistake I've made since 2014.
2.4M views · 2023-11-13 16:00:28

Does the language you speak change how you think?
1.5M views · 2023-11-06 16:00:12

Boarding planes could have been very different
3.7M views · 2023-10-30 16:00:36

0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
4.9M views · 2023-10-23 15:00:24

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4.7M views · 2023-10-16 15:00:09

I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.
6.2M views · 2023-10-09 15:00:33

The largest telescope that will ever be built*
2.9M views · 2023-10-02 15:00:29

Spherical houses weren't a great idea.
6.4M views · 2023-09-25 15:00:06

How languages steal words from each other
1.6M views · 2023-09-18 15:00:18

This library has every book ever published.
2.3M views · 2023-09-11 15:00:22

Why are adverts so loud?
2.6M views · 2023-09-04 15:00:13

This man built his office inside an elevator
3.4M views · 2023-08-28 15:00:02

No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.
1.5M views · 2023-08-21 15:00:25

This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
2.5M views · 2023-08-14 15:00:38

This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
2.6M views · 2023-08-07 15:00:14

Storing dead people at -196°C
2.8M views · 2023-07-31 15:00:07

A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
1.7M views · 2023-07-24 15:00:46

If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
2.3M views · 2023-07-17 15:00:22

I thought this rotating house was impossible.
7.6M views · 2023-07-10 15:00:38

How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
1.5M views · 2023-07-03 15:00:15

The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
4.0M views · 2023-06-26 15:00:44

The cable car that you pedal by hand
987K views · 2023-06-19 15:00:04

I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
1.8M views · 2023-06-12 15:00:44

No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
2.0M views · 2023-06-05 15:00:02

This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
1.9M views · 2023-05-29 15:00:45

Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
1.4M views · 2023-05-22 15:00:30

The people who get paid to get sick
1.8M views · 2023-05-15 15:00:01

The world's cleanest railway
2.0M views · 2023-05-08 15:00:21

How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
3.1M views · 2023-05-01 15:06:00

The military base where you drive over the runway
1.8M views · 2023-04-24 15:00:35

It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
3.1M views · 2023-04-17 15:00:19

This tiny hovercraft went viral.
2.5M views · 2023-04-10 15:00:23

I rode the world's fastest train.
7.4M views · 2023-04-03 15:00:05

I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
1.5M views · 2023-03-27 15:00:44

This bus transforms into a train
1.5M views · 2023-03-20 16:02:04

Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
2.9M views · 2023-03-13 16:00:29

The city with a hundred private cable cars
1.9M views · 2023-03-06 16:00:31

This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
6.6M views · 2023-02-27 16:00:36

This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
2.0M views · 2023-02-20 16:00:24

I tried using AI. It scared me.
8.2M views · 2023-02-13 16:00:23

Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
3.2M views · 2023-02-06 16:00:08