Plakat: Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

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Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know

2014 - 2023 10 sezonów 268 odc. U

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4 min

S2023 · E1 · 9 sty 2023

This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically Odcinek 1

The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is the second oldest rollercoaster in the world: and it's one of only a few which still uses a manual brake.

3 min

S2023 · E2 · 16 sty 2023

These chickens save lives. Odcinek 2

"Sentinel chickens" are an early-warning system against some nasty mosquito-borne diseases. I visited a flock in New South Wales, Australia.

9 min

S2023 · E3 · 27 lut 2023

This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway. Odcinek 3

The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that

6 min

S2023 · E4 · 10 kwi 2023

This tiny hovercraft went viral. Odcinek 4

Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft.

6 min

S2023 · E5 · 1 maj 2023

How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese Odcinek 5

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse

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S2023 · E6 · 22 maj 2023

Shake tables are way more complex than I thought Odcinek 6

At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table: an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world.

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S2023 · E7 · 29 maj 2023

This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel Odcinek 7

The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel that has a new use: a secretive car testing facility, like a wind tunnel but in reverse. So rather than just show it to the world, I thought l'd answer a question: if you stick a camera on the outside of your car, how much does the drag cost you?

6 min

S2023 · E8 · 5 cze 2023

No-one knows how explosions work (yet) Odcinek 8

The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it.

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S2023 · E9 · 26 cze 2023

Climbing frames were meant to hack kids' brains Odcinek 9

Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking.

8 min

S2023 · E10 · 3 lip 2023

How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910? Odcinek 10

Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B: a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.

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S2023 · E11 · 17 lip 2023

If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test. Odcinek 11

At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by actual bears.

7 min

S2023 · E12 · 24 lip 2023

A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie Odcinek 12

An unexpected update to the Bear test video

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S2023 · E13 · 4 wrz 2023

Why are adverts so loud? Odcinek 13

This was so much more complex than I thought.

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S2023 · E14 · 11 wrz 2023

This library has every book ever published Odcinek 14

The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK - and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. This video has a correction: it turns out the formal interview requirement for a reader pass has been dropped. However, you'll still need to get a pass, and you're not allowed to take books out of the reading rooms!

5 min

S2023 · E15 · 23 paź 2023

0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving. Odcinek 15

AMZ Racing's "mythen" holds the world record for electric vehicle acceleration: 0-100km/h in 0.956 seconds. And they let me drive it.

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S2023 · E16 · 30 paź 2023

Boarding planes could have been very different Odcinek 16

There's a world in which everyone boards planes with "mobile lounges", PTVs, or Plane-Mates... but this is not that world.

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S2023 · E17 · 27 lis 2023

Why use many streetlights when one will do? Odcinek 17

The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city?

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S2023 · E18 · 18 gru 2023

Why the government drops flies on California Odcinek 18

There's a good reason for it.

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S2023 · E19 · 25 gru 2023

People are going to be angry about pylons. Odcinek 19

Britain's power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one.

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