I found a new use for red phone boxes, and learned about Dark Fish.

28th June 2021

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Hello! And welcome to all the folks who've joined the newsletter now it's starting to roll out a bit more visibly. I'm not 100% sure that it's stable yet, but it's getting there!

The title of this week's video, "The Shocking New Use for Red Telephone Boxes" is a bad pun, shameless clickbait, and also entirely accurate. I've done worse things.

Also, I made an appearance on the Worst Foot Forward podcast this week, putting forward a suggestion for the world's worst theme park.

Other interesting links I've found this week:

The world's largest migration is vertical and daily. And related to that, marine ecology has dark fish like astrophysics has dark matter.
In 2019, the world's largest treehouse burned to the ground in 15 minutes.
I didn't know that McMurdo Station, Antarctica used to have a nuclear reactor.
A really pleasing kinetic display made from smaller 7-segment displays.
Grady from Practical Engineering describes what's going on with the crack in the Memphis I-40 bridge in his usual, accessible style.
The ABC's Wide Open Spaces talks about rebuilding the outback dog fence: it's an example of a story that's ostensibly about infrastructure but which I couldn't tell with enough sensitivity.
And finally, because there's a lot of talk about things breaking and falling apart this week, a lighter note: a soccer goal scored in the most devastating way possible.

Right, that's it for this week. Next time, hopefully I'll find some stories that aren't just about collapsing infrastructure!

All the best,

— Tom

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