A flight simulator from the past, and I apologise for terrible Latin.

4th July 2022

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Hello!

In this week's video, I try out a working flight simulator from the 1930s, with no computers necessary. I don't do very well.

I was at Vidcon this week, which means ironically I haven't been watching all that much video! But here's the best of what I have seen this week:

I know most of the folks reading this will already have seen Kurzgesagt's incredible "The Last Human": but if you've not, it's a wonderful reframing about our place in time. (That said, I wonder if it should have had a declaration of interest in there, somewhere? The description doesn't say it's sponsored, but it's not quite clear what the relationship with the "in partnership" means...)
The titles to 1990s British TV comedy series Smith and Jones are surprisingly modern, and surprisingly complicated. Smooth transitions like this would still require a huge amount of planning and careful preparation today, let alone when the editing's being done on much more basic
hardware and software.
LegalEagle debunks headlines: no, someone's not getting a $5.2 million car insurance payment for catching an STD from, uh... in flagrante vehiculo. (Latin pedants, do not email me.)
For a moment of joy: boioioioioing. (Turn on your sound.)

I've spent a lot of time researching too, but not much :

She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed. (What a spectacular title. That's a YouTube video title applied to a blog, right there.)
From the genre of "sarcastic design": one-star reviews for US National Parks, as retro-themed travel posters.
The UK police are holding a priceless Nigerian artifact, and for once, it's not because of colonial history.
I didn't know it was possible to get nostalgia from a Federal Trade Commission press release, but somehow this link has survived from 1998 as a reminder of a much simpler time. I think the best part was the "no period", because that's the sort of thing you had to make clear then.

And finally, a frog so small, it could not frog.

All the best,

— Tom

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