Drone boats! big art! and how to make your dishwasher work better.
17th June 2024
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Hello!
With the new block of Lateral episodes recorded and finished, I'm crashing back down to earth. That was the first time I've been in front of a camera for six months! The biggest shock for the audience, at least for those who watch the video highlights on YouTube, will be that I'm not wearing red t-shirts any more. Consider yourself prewarned.
With the new block of Lateral episodes recorded and finished, I'm crashing back down to earth. That was the first time I've been in front of a camera for six months! The biggest shock for the audience, at least for those who watch the video highlights on YouTube, will be that I'm not wearing red t-shirts any more. Consider yourself prewarned.
Those will start going
out in a few weeks, but first: on episode 88 of Lateral, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from 'Let's Learn Everything' face questions about devious designs, tantalizing tubes and baffling
bans!
Around YouTube this week, I've found:
- CPSdrone, a team of engineers from Poland, build an autonomous boat with a deployable underwater ROV to find and inspect a sunken plane. This is a well-told story that kept me interested throughout. (Thanks to jas for the suggestion.)
- About 15 years ago, I visited Seizure, an artwork made by submerging an entire derelict bedsit in supersatured copper sulphate solution, turning the whole place into a bizarre crystal grotto. I assumed this was a temporary and site-specific artwork, particularly because it will degrade over time: but I found out this week that the whole place was moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and ticketed entry is available on some days this summer! If you have the chance, it's worth visiting the park, and this artwork in particular. There's a more in-depth
piece on how it was made, and then moved to Yorkshire, here.
- Do you have a dishwasher? Watch the Technology Connections video on making your dishwasher work better. Does your friend have a dishwasher? Send it to them. Yes, it's a half-hour rant about dishwashers, but it summarises and improves Alec's earlier two dishwasher videos into one simpler, quicker video that front-loads all the important stuff. I have ranted at friends before about impromper dishwasher use, and now I don't need to, I can just point them at this video. It's great.
And now, links from the rest of the web!
- Want to paddle a canoe through the longest and deepest canal tunnel in the
UK? Now you can (assuming the places haven't sold out by the time this newsletter goes out). Apparently the leptospirosis risk is tiny.
- Voyager 1 is back online! After a technical issue last year, the 46-year-old spacecraft has been fixed remotely (while in interstellar space!) and is sending science data again, on a signal so attenuated by distance that it can be measured in individual photons.
And finally: "put your clothes in a vacuum chamber to clean them I guess?" A+ YouTube title, gets straight to the point.
All the best,
— Tom
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