Clocks! AirTags! And just one video.

• Sure, there are a lot of people who talk about science in front of a green-screen, but Kyle Hill is a cut above — he's designed a world of custom graphics and animation that put him inside a big CGI "facility". And from there: nuclear waste is safer than you think.
   
• The BBC regularly reuploads this old footage to YouTube on one channel or another now, but that's because it's spectacular: legendary Blue Peter presenter John Noakes climbs Nelson's Column to see how it's cleaned. Risk assessments were very different in the 1970s. And of course, the cameraman did it backwards while carrying heavy equipment.

• When New York City was a wiretapper's dream. Turns out "wiretapping" wasn't just something for law enforcement: there was a whole illegal industry spying on anyone and everyone.
   
• Inside the tow truck mafia: "inside" is a strong term, this article is very much describing from the outside, but it's worth a read. And it reminds me a bit of the famous "Glasgow ice cream wars".
   
• Megatron Memories: a thread about a bizarre 1990s UFO-shaped, sci-fi-themed restaurant in a rural bit of Britain. (I wish this were a proper web site or article; somehow posting an "archive" on Twitter feels wrong.)
   
• And finally, I know we're all tired of Wordle variants, but Duotrigordle has pulled me back in. It changes the style of play to be more about careful double-checking and cross-referencing, while still being a challenge, and while still providing little hits of "oh, I've worked that out now!" along the way.

Oh, and a free idea for anyone who wants to make it: 4D Wordle. A four-dimensional cube of connected words, like Squardle but worse. I don't think it'd be playable, I don't think I'd want to play it, and it wouldn't be popular. But I know it'd be catnip to a very specific type of nerd out there ...

All the best,

— Tom