Tom Scott

@tomscott

I make things. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time.

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Tom Scott

@tomscott

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New video! Six months from now, this channel stops:

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Six months from now, this channel stops.

VIDEO SUGGESTIONS: https://tomscott.com/lastcall/ |

LATERAL the podcast: https://lateralcast.com or highlights at https://youtube.com/lateralcast |

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New video! I tried using AI. It scared me.

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I tried using AI. It scared me.

I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD:

NordVPN's best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ Code and full co...

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New video! I rode the world's fastest train:

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I rode the world's fastest train.

I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central's Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, I rode Japan's new maglev. ■ ...

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New video! This is "impossible", but New Zealand is trying anyway.

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

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, wh...

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New Technical Difficulties! Chris does drag:

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Chris does drag

We weren't ready for this. ■ With thanks to Letitia Delish and Dragged Around London: https://www.instagram.com/letitiadelish/ https://www.draggedaroundlondo...

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New video! This café sends food through pneumatic tubes:

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This café sends food through pneumatic tubes

C1 Espresso, in Christchurch, New Zealand, has a set of pneumatic tubes. But that's not enough on its own to keep a business running. ■ C1 Espresso: http://w...

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New video! This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically:

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This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically

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 ...

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New video! This house rotates. How can the plumbing work‽

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I thought this rotating house was impossible.

Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's t...

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New video! The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well:

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The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well

Poly Canyon, at Cal Poly, is an experimental architecture laboratory. And it's open to the public: http://www.caed.calpoly.edu/content/facilities/poly-canyon...

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New Technical Difficulties! Tom becomes the Mayor of Hell:

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Tom becomes the Mayor of Hell

A little piece of Americana. ■ With thanks to Hell, Michigan: https://www.gotohellmi.com/The Technical Difficulties are:

TOM SCOTT: http://tomscott.com - h...

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New video! The city with a hundred private cable cars:

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The city with a hundred private cable cars

Wellington, in New Zealand, has more than a hundred private cable cars. I found out why. ■ Access Automation: https://accessauto.co.nz/ ■ Rose's book: https:...

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New video! These chickens save lives.

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These chickens save lives.

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

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New video! A bus that transforms into a train:

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This bus transforms into a train

The DMV, or Dual Mode Vehicle, on the Asa Coast Railway in Shikoku, Japan, is a hybrid bus and train. And I rode it. ■ The railway: https://asatetu.com/en/ ...

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New video! There's an archive of air in Australia.

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Why Australia bottles up its air

Every few months, when the wind's blowing in the right direction, a bottle of air is taken from Kennaook / Cape Grim, at the northern tip of Tasmania, and sa...

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New video! I took a ride on a moving radio telescope:

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I took a ride on a moving radio telescope

The Parkes Radio Telescope, Murriyang, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up an...

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New video! No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

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No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

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. ■ A paper about their work, in...

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New video! The cable car that you pedal by hand:

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The cable car that you pedal by hand

Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: some historic, some more modern. There aren't many left. I was able to try one, and to talk t...

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New video! This is just an excuse to show you a really good tunnel:

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This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel

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...

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New video! Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.

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Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.

At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a pedal-powered monorail. It's a fun ride: but in 2010, Google gave it a million dollars as a...

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New video! I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage:

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I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage

I was going to film a video about a robot bicycle park. And then GIKEN, the company who built it, said: you know we do this for cars as well, right? ■ More d...

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New video! It's the Matrix, but for locusts:

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It's the Matrix, but for locusts.

At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, researchers are putting locusts into simulated worlds, both v...

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New video! How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?

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How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?

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 wen...

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New video! This tiny hovercraft went viral.

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This tiny hovercraft went viral.

Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to meet him and ride his incredible four-bubble hovercraft. ■ The Laboratory: @hideito9042 http...

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New video! How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese:

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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese

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 chees...

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New video! The military base where you drive over the runway:

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The military base where you drive over the runway

Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, has an unusual feature: two public roads that go straight over the runway. How do they keep it safe? And, as a side note,...

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New video! The world's cleanest railway:

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The world's cleanest railway

At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there's a "funicular" that not many people get to ride: because it's between two clean rooms, and getting to it requires quite a lo...

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New video! This submarine simulator floats through a tiny world:

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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator

In an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, sits the Bathysphere Project at Explorandia: a submarine simulator that explores an actual, small pond. It might ...

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New video! Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel:

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Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel

Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is not just the world's oldest hotel, but the world's oldest still-operating business. Or at least, that's one way of looking at it....

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New video! Deliberately giving people viruses (for science):

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The people who get paid to get sick

I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), people are volunteering to get colds, flu, and RSV. ■ Challenge trials looking for volunteers:...

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New video! The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains:

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The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

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

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New video! Shake tables are way more complex than I thought:

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Shake tables are way more complex than I thought

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

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New Technical Difficulties! Matt tries not to fall over:

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Matt tries not to fall over

How do you do, fellow kids? ■ With thanks to BAYSIXTY6: https://www.baysixty6.com/The Technical Difficulties are:

TOM SCOTT: http://tomscott.com - https://...

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New Technical Difficulties! Gary ends the season with a banger:

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Gary ends the season with a banger

We're really sorry, vegans. ■ With thanks to Knavesmire Butchers in York.The Technical Difficulties are:

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