Videos
I tend to watch rather than read, so you can find all sorts of content here. Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember much of what I've watched. Perhaps the articles I've saved are more insightful?
Many of the videos are put up as segues into channels that I enjoy; feel free to shop around. Conversely, the YouTube algorithm tends to lock you into a loop where you're shown videos from the same few channels, so I'd be grateful if you sent me anything else you found interesting.
Science
- A Geometric Answer to the Basel Problem [0:17]
- Why Slicing a Cone Gives an Ellipse [0:13]
- Why do Colliding Blocks Compute Pi? [0:15]
- The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [0:25]
- Cursed Units [0:18]
- Newton's Principia and a Book about Fish [0:09]
- What Everyone Gets Wrong about Planes [0:19]
- The Effects Of The Ionosphere On Radio Wave Propagation (1950) [0:29]
- The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions [0:21]
- Smoking is Awesome [0:12]
Computers
- QWERTY is Broken [0:15]
- Deep Blue [2:09]
Stories
- Flight 370 [0:25] / Flight 522 [0:23]
- The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper [1:09]
- The Battle of May Island [1:00]
- The Eddystone Lighthouse [0:26]
- The Drift King: Keiichi Tsuchiya [0:17]
Societies
- The Life of an Old School Japanese Cafe Owner [0:23]
- What the Gulf? – Nation Building [0:12] / What the Gulf? – Blood and Oil [0:12]
- An Interview with a North Korean Spy [0:40]
- Haiti is Collapsing [0:47] / Caught in Shooting in Haiti's Biggest Slum [0:34]
- Why Repressive Qatar Broadcasts Progressive TV [0:13]
- The Slow, Quiet Death of Hong Kong [0:26]
- How a CIA Base Works [0:14]
- What's Inside this Crater in Madagascar? [0:24]
- The Archaeology Iceberg [0:54]
- Masks and their Mysteries [0:32]
Travel
- Riding the Bernina Express [0:39]
- Jungfraubahn: Europe's Highest Railway [0:08]
- Winning a Multi-Million Resort in Paradise [0:09]
- I was Detained in Lebanon as an Israeli Spy [0:52]
Nature
- Iguana Chased by Killer Snakes [0:02] / Bears Dancing to 'Jungle Boogie' [0:02]
- Blue Jays [0:13]
- We're Missing Six Sea Monsters [0:07]
- The Mount Everest Climb – Drone Footage [0:04]
Art
- Why Sargent Painted Outside the Lines [0:08] / Madame X and Dr. Pozzi [0:32]
- How Japan Influenced Van Gogh and the Impressionists [0:10]
- Art of the Unconscious Mind [0:14]
- Mai Yoneyama – the Art behind Animation & Illustration [0:13]
- Westworld: What Makes Anthony Hopkins Great [0:09]
- Tarantino Saw It Coming [0:25]
- A Beginner's Guide to South Korean Cinema [0:16]
- The Beauty of The Fall [0:03]
Essays
- Fear of Cold [0:48]
- Fear of Forgetting [0:49]
- Journeys to Hell [0:59]
- Pandora's Box [0:33]
- The Goddess of Everything Else [0:16]
Games
- Predatory Practices in Mobile Games [0:20] 🆕
- What Games are Like for Someone Who Doesn't Play Games [0:21]
- Searching for Disco Elysium [0:24]
- Hollow Knight Critique [1:06]
- Return of the Obra Dinn – Hopefully a Classic [0:20]
- Polybius – The Video Game that Doesn't Exist [1:09]
- BLOCKED: The Hideki Kamiya Story [0:25]
Fun
- Tatefacts – Phosphorus [0:08]
- Australia is Wild [0:01] / Looking for a Huge Anaconda [0:01]
- Blunders! With GM Ben Finegold [0:57]
- Best of James May: Our Man in Japan [0:25]