Tom Scott's Weekly Newsletter
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May 13th, 2024: Ice, music, and mirror balls!
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Previous issues
May 6th, 2024: Water towers, drinking fountains, and level crossings!
April 29th, 2024: Flying balls! twitching curtains! and 2000s trance.
April 22nd, 2024: Skateboards! circling flames! and rude songs.
April 15th, 2024: Big rocks! car shuttle trains! and a good bird.
April 8th, 2024: Storytelling, breaking IKEA, and a proper cup of tea.
April 1st, 2024: A bizarre escalator, and tickets to tour a laboratory!
March 25th, 2024: Xylophones! international cows! and a peek into a musical alternate universe.
March 18th, 2024: Breakfast! fiction! and a theme tune cover.
March 11th, 2024: Doornails! palindromes! and try to find a cat.
March 4th, 2024: Spacecraft re-entry, and no more Rickrolls.
February 26th, 2024: Dominos! LEDs! and the best dance-game performance I've ever seen.
February 19th, 2024: A daredevil trick; a bus debunk; and more ducks!
February 12th, 2024: Pop, scrolls, and a toothbrush debunk.
February 5th, 2024: Ferrets! radio telescopes! and henchmen!
January 29th, 2024: Lifts, ridiculous baking, and flaming cheese!
January 22nd, 2024: Tower workers and expensive typos!
January 15th, 2024: Dutch aircraft! linguistic questions! and a good road sign.
January 8th, 2024: Great science! a toilet! and one-dimensional Pac-man.
January 1st, 2024: A final video! an ejector seat! and puns.
December 25th, 2023: I climb a pylon! and an owl update!
December 18th, 2023: An airdrop! a correction! and terrible birds!
December 11th, 2023: Disappearing stars and electric cars!
December 4th, 2023: Translations! time travel! and one month to go.
November 27th, 2023: Moonlight towers! flamethrowers! and a terrifying plaque.
November 20th, 2023: Ships! heist news! and the best video I've seen in a long while.
November 13th, 2023: Mistakes! fiction! and flags!
November 6th, 2023: Language! rings! and cats!
October 30th, 2023: Odd vehicles! a genius invention! and ska!
October 23rd, 2023: A fast car! droids! and cereal!
October 16th, 2023: Apostrophes! diners! and toast!
October 9th, 2023: An elevator! a cursed language! and harmonitrees!
October 2nd, 2023: A telescope! strange shoes! and sandwiches!
September 25th, 2023: Spherical houses! Scrabble! and a man gets hit by a pigeon.
September 18th, 2023: Linguistics! a puppet cameo! and trains!
September 11th, 2023: Libraries, cooking, music and birds!
September 4th, 2023: Loudness! words! and a very fast sushi belt!
August 28th, 2023: An elevator office! road enthusiasm! and magpies!
August 21st, 2023: The neo-Neolithic! new musical instruments! and a typewriter.
August 14th, 2023: Hot pennies! a camera in a geyser! and a long traffic light.
August 7th, 2023: Tiny electric cars! strange food reviews! and buses!
July 31st, 2023: Cryonics! trains! and a frustrating game!
July 24th, 2023: A bear selfie update! an otter! and music!
July 17th, 2023: A bear stole my GoPro! wave machines! and lava!
July 10th, 2023: Strange plumbing! peas! and CT scans!
July 3rd, 2023: A no-cockpit airplane! a frustrating game! and otters!
June 26th, 2023: Brain hacking! ice! and a very fancy bridge!
June 19th, 2023: Cable cars! a screaming eagle! and jingles!
June 12th, 2023: A lot of good internet things!
June 5th, 2023: An explosion! Tech Dif returns! also, computers.
May 29th, 2023: A big tunnel! a big fight! and a big train!
May 22nd, 2023: Earthquakes! innuendos! and a radioactive dryer.
May 15th, 2023: Science! cheese slices! and how to identify a seal.
May 8th, 2023: A clean railway, a bizarre ride, and nesting season.
May 1st, 2023: Cheese! A weird dark ride! And helicopter skills.
April 24th, 2023: Maze-solving, historic ice cream, and a very loud noise.
April 17th, 2023: Locusts! bike stunts! and scurvy!
April 10th, 2023: A tiny hovercraft, the history of pie throwing, and more bird news.
April 3rd, 2023: I ride the world's fastest train! Plus, some really good Lego.
March 27th, 2023: I climb inside a robot. Plus, bird news!
March 20th, 2023: A bus that becomes a train, and the food of the future.
March 13th, 2023: An old hotel, the world's biggest toilet, and an interesting puzzle.
March 6th, 2023: Cable cars, adorable mice, and the most vicious Wordle variant yet.
February 27th, 2023: An impossible challenge, a spectacular drone, and a goose.
February 20th, 2023: Pneumatic tubes, some index cards, and an owl.
February 13th, 2023: A lot of good things! Also, I got scared.
February 6th, 2023: The Shweeb, and that time I nearly violated the Geneva Convention.
January 30th, 2023: Clean air, lunar time, and robots falling over.
January 23rd, 2023: A radio telescope, and a Twitch stream from 1986.
January 16th, 2023: Lifesaving chickens, brain training, and British railway design.
January 9th, 2023: A rollercoaster, a cat calendar, and combat juggling.
January 2nd, 2023: Space! music! and an architecture graveyard.
December 26th, 2022: Season finales, and a very loud honk.
December 19th, 2022: I was wrong! Also, I'm on TV soon.
December 12th, 2022: Four whole new things! And also a dangerous kayak.
December 5th, 2022: High-speed pneumatic tubes! Helicopters! And a low bridge.
November 28th, 2022: High tides, the Best Tom, and unauthorised crosswalks.
November 21st, 2022: A very high diving board, and I remember to fill in the 'next week' section.
November 14th, 2022: A river with an off switch, and a chase around London.
November 7th, 2022: A ferry! Linguistics! And a tiny tank.
October 31st, 2022: Clams! Pylons! Mashups!
October 24th, 2022: A shark! Sneaky t-shirts! And I promise it's not a rickroll.
October 17th, 2022: A new podcast! Two simulators! And a lot of stories.
October 10th, 2022: A new project launch! Plus a firefighting train and a machete-wielding plant.
October 3rd, 2022: A useful monorail, and a Rude Trip.
September 26th, 2022: The incredible treadmill crane, and reinventing the wheel.
September 19th, 2022: An AirTag rematch, and a simple video about clapping.
September 12th, 2022: I fly under a balloon. Plus, a real-life lightsaber.
September 5th, 2022: Tattoos, magic, and a very interesting roof.
August 29th, 2022: Artificial earthquakes, 20-sided dice, and an aviation mystery.
August 22nd, 2022: Electrified water, and a painful experience with hot sauce.
August 15th, 2022: Dangerous mail delivery, and the Macarena.
August 8th, 2022: I get bodyslammed, and I read bad handwriting.
August 1st, 2022: A carbonated geyser, some welding, and an emu.
July 25th, 2022: Clay! Jousting! And the world's largest walking robot.
July 18th, 2022: Hints of a new secret project, and the Zone of Death.
July 11th, 2022: A surprising flight, a tightrope walk, and a steam train.
July 4th, 2022: A flight simulator from the past, and I apologise for terrible Latin.
June 27th, 2022: A clock ruined by the internet, and a goose parade.
June 20th, 2022: I drive facing backwards, and a tower of penguins.
June 13th, 2022: I'm terrified of rollercoasters, and I visit a pile of mining waste.
June 6th, 2022: Big fountains, heart-filling music, and tiny birds.
May 30th, 2022: A giant mechanical elephant, and a hovercraft battle.
May 23rd, 2022: A massive spinning road tester, and a correction.
May 16th, 2022: I flew with birds, and went back to a cave.
May 9th, 2022: A cave, code, and some gigantic geese.
May 2nd, 2022: A dangerous airport, and I'm defeated by sheep.
April 25th, 2022: Downhill on a sofa, and giant walking wind-powered robots.
April 18th, 2022: I wobble a bridge, and I get set on fire.
April 11th, 2022: I met my robot double. (Seriously.)
April 4th, 2022: Clocks! AirTags! And just one video.
March 28th, 2022: A place I've wanted to film for years, and a ghost junction.
March 21st, 2022: A mothballed airport terminal, and I get mugged off.
March 14th, 2022: Science fiction, Teletext, and something for linguists.
March 7th, 2022: Victorian technology, modern music, and popcorn.
February 28th, 2022: A perfectly safe footpath, and a lot of big boats.
February 21st, 2022: Wind, sign language, and also: I tried parkour.
February 14th, 2022: A nuclear bomb in Yorkshire, and the Longoose.
February 7th, 2022: A house in chainmail, and flying a plane while blindfolded.
January 31st, 2022: Rocks! lighthouses! And, finally, a video of a drone with a sausage.
January 24th, 2022: I saw the Chocolate Protectors, and got an electric shock.
January 17th, 2022: I looked for an expensive coin, and finally.
January 10th, 2022: I looked into my past, and tried hot-sauce ice-cream.
January 3rd, 2022: A mountain of mannequins, and some final friendly lies.
December 27th, 2021: I pitted friends against each other, and the Technical Difficulties returned.
December 20th, 2021: I found a noise that helps catch criminals, and ate some toast.
December 13th, 2021: The Thames Barrier, and made a video that'll come back to haunt me.
December 6th, 2021: The world's most expensive object by weight, and a symbol that I can't type.
November 29th, 2021: I held fireworks above my head, and learned to ride a bike.
November 22nd, 2021: A video I'm worried about, and the worst wind instrument ever.
November 15th, 2021: Railroads, games, teas, and chicken nuggets.
November 8th, 2021: A radar, a stoplight, and someone getting hit by a baseball.
November 1st, 2021: I found a robot dog, and got slightly burned.
October 25th, 2021: I rode in a truck, and considered stealing giraffes.
October 18th, 2021: I fired a rifle over a busy road, and tried to learn to like coffee.
October 11th, 2021: I visited the world's only float-through McDonalds, and saw a mast demolished.
October 4th, 2021: I got elevated sideways, and failed at caving.
September 20th, 2021: I travelled at 275kph, and played a game in a pub.
September 13th, 2021: I crossed a river, and finally found a video that changes.
September 6th, 2021: I shot lasers at satellites, and it was a good week for YouTube.
August 30th, 2021: I took the world's shortest flight, and found dystopian food.
August 23rd, 2021: Windswept islands and unauthorised signs
August 16th, 2021: I moved some tires, and things went round and around and around.
August 9th, 2021: I raised Tower Bridge, and found some magic.
August 2nd, 2021: I visited a strange German attraction, and got a Dutch song stuck in my head.
July 26th, 2021: Things went wrong, and I found a tale from the Hindenberg.
July 19th, 2021: I got a brilliant GoPro shot, and looked behind-the-scenes.
July 12th, 2021: I visited a brilliant bit of old technology, and launched a second channel.
July 5th, 2021: I counted some robots, and found video from the South Pole.
June 28th, 2021: I found a new use for red phone boxes, and learned about Dark Fish.
June 21st, 2021: I recreated old Welsh fireworks, and found footage from the past.
June 14th, 2021: I flew to the world's only beach runway.
June 7th, 2021: I found a clever bit of old technology
May 31st, 2021: I visited a once-dangerous island, and my friends made brilliant things.
May 24th, 2021: I wore a spacesuit. Sort of.
May 17th, 2021: A story about microwaves, and other interesting links