A nuclear bomb in Yorkshire, and the Longoose.

• Alex, "French Guy cooking", investigates pasta that tries to be both artisanal and mass-market as part of a bigger series. I know, that doesn't sound like it's much, but I found the journey and explorations fascinating.
   
• In 1987, the police had just over half an hour to deliver a liver for transplant. The journey would normally take at least twice that. The footage was made into a single episode of a TV show, and while it's a little dramatised (I'd suspect the countdown was not quite as strict as it appeared), it's worth a watch — if only to see the city as it was 35 years ago.
   
• In less professional driving: you'd think that, if a driver arrives at a deeply flooded ford, with a load of children watching clearly hoping for cars to break down, and with people filming for YouTube, they'd turn around. They don't. Although some people are more confident.
   
• I've now watched the ten seconds of the LONGOOSE several times, and it makes me smile every time. The comic timing, the visuals, the sound effects, they're all great. (Turn on sound.)

• The Marble Arch Mound was a disastrous attempt at creating a temporary viewing platform in London that was also public art. It was pilloried in the press and by the public: and now the architects are telling their side of the story, in one of the most coldly polite "wasn't my fault" articles I've ever read.
   
• I know, everyone's tired of Wordle variants. But this grid-based version is a delight. It's a challenge in the vein of Sudoku: entirely possible, but difficult to get your head around, with a steady reveal over time. I'd estimate around 10 to 30 minutes to solve your first one, and it's definitely worth reading the full instructions first!
   
• And finally, a retired couple found that, under certain circumstances, a lottery had positive expected value, and made a lot of money from it. This is a lovely interview about what feels almost like a legal heist.

And one last note: I can confirm, after the experiment two weeks ago, that sending a load of newsletter subscribers to an old video seems to do absolutely nothing to boost it in the YouTube algorithm. I'm not surprised by that — YouTube's systems aren't that naive! — but it was worth a try, so thanks to those of you that headed over!

All the best,

— Tom