Space! music! and an architecture graveyard.
2nd January 2023
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Hello! Happy new year. That means it's 2023, and I've got one year left of weekly Monday videos to get through. Let's get started with the first:
I'm off to the "architecture graveyard" that's alive and well. And that's all from me on YouTube for this week! Just one video! It's time to calm down a bit after the rush of December.
I'm off to the "architecture graveyard" that's alive and well. And that's all from me on YouTube for this week! Just one video! It's time to calm down a bit after the rush of December.
Over in audio, Lateral continues as well! Trace Dominguez, Nahre Sol and Jordan Harrod face questions about crafty candidates, protective parking and goofy glasses. There are, as ever, highlights over on the YouTube channel.
Elsewhere on YouTube, I've found two videos about space and two about music:
- Destin, from Smarter Every Day, takes you along on
an hour-long private tour of the Saturn V rocket, from an actual Apollo engineer. This is exactly the sort of thing that television couldn't do: a personable, friendly, deep-dive on a fascinating subject. (There's an extended cut, too.)
- In other space news: the first YouTuber to go the moon has been announced! Well, hopefully, there's a lot of steps to take between now and launch. I'm incredibly envious, but
even if I was physically able to go, I have to admit that Everyday Astronaut would be a far better choice. He's got the knowledge to film everything on the way, and I wish him a safe flight.
- Adam Neely breaks down whether C♭ is the
same note as B. I know almost nothing about music theory and this still fascinated me.
- And Play It By Ear is an entirely-improvised musical. I've seen a couple of improv groups do this sort of thing, and it's rarely pulled off with this level of skill and technical ability.
Other interesting links I've found this week:
- A climber in Utah rescued a base jumper who'd crashed into a cliff. Yes, there's video of it, although it's unfortunately edited in the hyperactive US local news style. (Brief strong language in the article; thanks to Michelle for sending this over.)
- A great explanation of the "Yard-sale model" of the economy by The Pudding, who continue to make brilliant interactive explainers. The clickbait title is: "why the super-rich are inevitable".
- The plutonium from Apollo 13 is sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Which feels like something I should have known before this week.
- The first intercontinental-range weapon was the balloon bomb. It was mostly unsuccessful, but it does mean that technically, in the Second World War, Japan did bomb the mainland US.
And finally: 2022, in 7 minutes.
All the best,
— Tom
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