There’s a good reason for it. ■ More about the program: https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PDEP/prpinfo/ Edited by Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif
At Wilkin & Sons in Tiptree, a city boy gets impressed by agriculture, and meets some robots that work better than others. | AD: 💼 Find a fulfilling career that also helps the world: https://80000hours.org/tom | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact […]
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. ◾ Luna Park: https://lunapark.com.au/ @lunaparkmelbourne Thanks to @JulianOShea on camera: visit his channel for lots […]
The Under the Pier Show is @timhunkin1’s collection of weird automata and arcade games, offering something more interesting than tickets and prizes. | ▶️ The next episode’s on Nebula right now! https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-why-robots-cant-pick-strawberries-yet | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ The Under the Pier Show: https://www.underthepier.com/ Novelty Automation, London: https://www.novelty-automation.com/ 🟥 MORE […]
The Chauvet cave, in the south of France, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, filled with art that’s tens of millennia old. No-one’s allowed in, for very good reasons: but just a few kilometres away, there’s a near-exact copy. Is that enough? Camera: Simon Gillouin […]
At the Hippodrome Circus, I witness the Globe of Death, and cue the Water Spectacular. | AD: 🪒 Get less razor burn with a Henson Shaving razor: https://hensonshaving.com/tomscott | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) ❓ […]
The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can do something that most radio telescopes can’t: it can transmit. And that’s useful for something other than sending messages to the stars: it might just help save the world one day. More about the Arecibo Observatory: http://www.naic.edu/ Behind the […]
I try to recover childhood muscle memory, to play some students at a Victorian parlour game. | ▶️ Next episode on Nebula right now: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-when-i-blow-this-whistle-a-swimming-pool-appears | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) ❓ LATERAL, free weekly […]
I’m not saying this would be a good idea, and it’s definitely not a prediction of the future. It’s just a story. I think. An Evening of Unnecessary Detail runs once a month from January to June at the Backyard Comedy Club in London: thanks to all the team there, […]
At the Nene Valley Railway, I find out why Victorians might have found trains terrifying. | Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=TOMSCOTT and use my code TOMSCOTT to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details […]
