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Why Hold Music Sounds Worse Now
- Published_at:2017-11-27
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know hold music audio compression cell phones mobile phones telephone exchanges
- description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to the Milton Keynes Museum, and their Connected Earth gallery:...
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The German Town That's Literally Breaking Apart
- Published_at:2017-11-20
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott staufen germany black forest geothermal energy geothermal drilling anhydrite aquifer gypsum subsidence property damage amazing places
- description: The town of Staufen, in the south-west of Germany, has a problem: a drilling operation in 2007 that went very wrong. Half a metre of movement might not sound like much, but in this town, that's enough for the buildings to crack and fall apart. Thanks...
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Is It Dangerous To Talk To A Camera While Driving?
- Published_at:2017-11-13
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott built for science national advanced driving simulator university of iowa driving simulation driver safety driver distraction
- description: I'm visiting the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator, to answer a question: how unsafe is it for me to vlog while driving? Is vlogging while driving dangerous? The team at the simulator are the experts to ask. More about the...
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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
- Published_at:2017-11-06
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott cloudflare lava lamps entropy random number generator rng pseudorandom number generator encryption ssl amazing places
- description: At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good bit of the internet secure: here's how. Thanks to the team at Cloudflare - this is not a...
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The Story of Salvation Mountain
- Published_at:2017-10-30
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott salvation mountain california salton sea amazing places outsider art
- description: Near Slab City, California, a man painted a hill. It was outsider art: Leonard Knight had no training and no great masters to imitate. But somehow, he created something that resonates with the world. This is the story of Salvation Mountain. Thanks to...
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What Is Sea Level, Anyway?
- Published_at:2017-10-23
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know sea level calipatria salton sea flagpole
- description: In Calipatria, California, the town is below sea level -- but their flag pole isn't. But what does "sea level" mean? Is it just theory, or is there more behind it? I'm at http://tomscott.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at...
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Why California's Musical Road Sounds Terrible
- Published_at:2017-10-16
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott amazing places musical road lancaster lancaster ca rossini william tell overture
- description: In Lancaster, California, there's a musical road. When you drive over it, it plays the William Tell Overture. Unfortunately, it's out of tune. Here's why. Thanks to David Simmons-Duffin, who figured this out about nine years ago:...
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The Centuries-Old Debt That's Still Paying Interest
- Published_at:2017-09-25
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know Beinecke beinecke rare book library lekdijk bovendams Stichtse Rijnlanden carolus guilders financial instruments perpetual debt water bonds netherlands debt bearer bond
- description: In the archives of Yale University, there's a 367-year-old bond from the water authority of Lekdijk Bovendams, in the Netherlands. And it's still paying interest. Thanks to: Prof. Geert Rouwenhorst for his time and explanation All the team at the...
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How Computers Compress Text: Huffman Coding and Huffman Trees
- Published_at:2017-09-11
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott the basics computer science huffman coding compression huffman tree lossless compression
- description: Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don't we use them? And how can we fit more text into less space? Let's talk about Huffman coding, Huffman...
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The US Government's $983 Freeze-Dried Urine
- Published_at:2017-08-28
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know nist standard reference materials srm freeze-dried urine slurried spinach domestic sludge measurement metabolites national institute of standards and technology
- description: The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, sells Standard Reference Materials, or SRMs for short. They're analysed, quantified, and certified substances: everything from metals, to elements, to food items... to, yes, freeze-dried urine....
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What Counts as a Mountain?
- Published_at:2017-08-14
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know mountain prominence mount evans colorado fourteeners colorado fourteeners
- description: I'm at the top of Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level. This is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count? Let's talk about prominence. (Just not for too long, I'm getting low on oxygen.) ...
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Hello! I'm exhausted and travelling! Here's an update!
- Published_at:2017-08-07
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott updates announcements
- description: Once every few months, I do a quick update video. This is one of those videos. Don't worry, normal service resumes next week! LINKS: I'm at http://tomscott.com, on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott, on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott,...
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I Can't Show You How Pink This Pink Is
- Published_at:2017-07-18
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know pinkest pink stuart semple pink color gamut hdr video hdr rec709 anish kapoor
- description: I can show a brighter pink. I can show a more saturated pink. But I can't show you this pink. Not quite. More about Stuart Semple and his pigments: https://www.culturehustle.com/ [that's his store, we overloaded Stuart's personal web site,...
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Why Old Screens Make A ᴴᶦᵍʰ ᴾᶦᵗᶜʰᵉᵈ Noise
- Published_at:2017-07-10
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know crt cathode ray tube 15625hz 15750hz monitor screen hearing loss high pitched noise
- description: Last week I made a video surrounded by old-school CRT monitors and televisions - cathode ray tubes. And I completely forgot to remove the high pitched whine they produce. Here's why: why they make that noise, and why I didn't notice it. Thanks again...
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Benjamin Rush and Inventing the Bucket: Citation Needed 6x06
- Published_at:2017-07-06
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: citation needed citationneeded technical difficulties techdif techdiff tomscott tom scott matt gray mattgray unnamedculprit gary brannan garybrannan chris joel chrisjoel benjamin rush founding fathers american civil war lewis and clark mercury calomel...
- description: In the season finale: Gary gets nauseous, Matt gets accused of being a minor royal, and Chris pulls a face. This time, we're back at the founding of America, talking about a man who helped, or perhaps hindered, a famous expedition... BONUS MATERIAL:...
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An Elevator That Actually Goes Sideways
- Published_at:2017-06-26
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott thuyssenkrupp multi thuyssenkrupp multi elevator lift paternoster paternoster lift linear induction motor linear drive elevator shaft safety amazing places
- description: I've filmed a paternoster lift; I've filmed the strange Genoa elevator that sort-of goes sideways. So when I got an email from Thyssenkrupp, an elevator company, saying "come and see our Multi elevator that actually goes sideways", I wasn't going to...
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The Museum of Failure
- Published_at:2017-06-12
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott amazing places sweden helsingborg museum of failure samuel west
- description: In Helsingborg, Sweden, the Museum of Failure has just opened. It's just one room, but inside, curator Samuel West has assembled some of the world's greatest commercial disasters - and also a few things that just didn't work out the way anyone...
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Why The YouTube Algorithm Will Always Be A Mystery
- Published_at:2017-05-15
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott youtube computer explanations bugs and computer minutiae youtube algorithm online video search engine optimisation video algorithm machine learning deep learning neural network watch time
- description: The mysterious YouTube algorithm. It's confused people for years, and will continue to do so. So why isn't YouTube more transparent? It used to be that they wouldn't tell anyone how it works - but now, it's that they can't. Let's talk about deep...
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How The Arecibo Telescope Could Help Save The World
- Published_at:2017-05-08
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott built for science arecibo radio telescope puerto rico arecibo observatory asteroid radar arecibo message asteroid impact
- description: 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. ...
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Why Song Translations Usually Suck
- Published_at:2017-03-27
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott playthemind play the mind melismatic syllabic song parodies translations linguistics phonology languages la vie en rose contrafactum things you might not know
- description: Today's guest video is from Alex at PlayTheMind! Go subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-oBbYS4LqupJ1vhOqUhJw It's been a long time since I did a linguistics video, but today Alex has stepped in and done a brilliant job. Song translations...
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The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
- Published_at:2017-03-13
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott practical engineering grady hillhouse hyatt regency hyatt regency collapse structural engineering box girders catastrophic failure things you might not know
- description: Today's guest video is from Grady at Practical Engineering! Go subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse The Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse was a disaster that changed engineering: it's taught in colleges and universities as a way to make...
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You Can Hear The Difference Between Hot and Cold Water
- Published_at:2017-03-06
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott steve mould stevemould things you might not know fluid dynamics temperature hearing viscosity hot cold water pouring sound acoustics
- description: The guest videos start here! Go subscribe to Steve Mould: https://youtube.com/stevemould Hot and cold water sound different when you pour them. When Steve pitched this to me, I didn't believe it, and then he sent me a couple of sound files, at which...
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The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand
- Published_at:2017-02-13
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know sand sand mining sand mafias vince beiser us army corps of engineers cape may new jersey beach renewal beach nourishment dredging beach replenishment
- description: I never thought of sand as a non-renewable resource, but there's only a limited supply: and to make things worse, it keeps getting washed into the sea. At Cape May, New Jersey, the US Army Corps of Engineers have just finished rebuilding a beach:...
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ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone
- Published_at:2017-01-23
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott ᚼᛒ harald bluetooth jelling denmark jelling stones jelling monuments bluetooth king gorm intel things you might not know jim kardach
- description: The Jelling Stones, thousand-year-old Viking runestones, sit in the town of Jelling in Denmark. They tell the tale of Harald Bluetooth: one of the first kings of Denmark. Here's why his name is on your phone. I'm at http://tomscott.com on Twitter at...
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The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets
- Published_at:2017-01-09
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott things you might not know tactile paving accessibility partially sighted blind infrastructure streets britain british rnib royal national institute for blind people
- description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design, about accessibility, and about those bumpy bits that you stand on when...
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The Confusing Borders of Lake Constance
- Published_at:2017-01-02
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tom scott tomscott lake constance konstanz borders international law austria germany switzerland amazing places cartography
- description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world where no-one really minds when international borders are not just...
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The City of the Dead: Colma, California
- Published_at:2016-12-05
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott things you might not know colma california graveyard cemetery archaeology grave robbing burial
- description: In this small city near San Francisco, the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. There's some gruesome history here - and a few questions for the future. I'm at http://tomscott.com on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott on Twitter at...
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Stopping a Disastrous Plan with Science: the Bay Model
- Published_at:2016-12-01
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places bay model john reber reber plan san francisco us army corps of engineers san francisco bay park ranger
- description: John Reber had a plan: to dam the San Francisco Bay. He convinced some politicians - and it took the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bay Model they built in Sausalito, to prove him not just wrong, but dangerously wrong. Thanks to all the team at...
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Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT
- Published_at:2016-10-10
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott amazing places morgantown west virginia prt personal rapid transit heathrow pod heathrow airport public transit public transport
- description: The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system threads its way through West Virginia University, taking thousands of people a day around the campus, non-stop. It's a system that was meant to be the future: so why isn't it? Thanks to all the WVU...
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No-One Knows Who Got To The North Pole First
- Published_at:2016-09-19
- Category:Education
- Channel:Tom Scott
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- tags: tomscott tom scott arctic north pole frederick cook robert peary roald amundsen polar exploration expedition kapitan khlebnikov quark expeditions icebreaker ice breaking things you might not know
- description: I thought I knew who got to the North Pole first. It turns out that it's a lot more complicated than you might think. [Pull down the description!] Frederick Cook; Robert Peary; Roald Amundsen. They all have claims, and they can all be disputed for one...
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