Tower workers and expensive typos!

• Deconstructed Animations makes excellent "how it works" explainer videos for common tools, like an oscillating sprinkler or torque wrench. These must take so long to produce! I know a couple of folks who have "faceless" channels, voiceover and animation, who are worried about the rush of spam-churn, AI-created, low-quality competitors that are appearing; and I think one of the things I like about this channel is that it's clearly being made by people (probably, just one person). There are occasional imperfections, in the animation and the voiceover; it "feels like" an actual person telling you something they're interested in, rather than the cash-in scripts you can find in many other places. (Thanks to Chris for sending this over.)
   
• Qualified "debunk" videos are a great genre, and over at Lab Muffin Beauty Science, a chemistry PhD takes on TikTok's haircare misinformation. (I didn't even know how shampoo worked before watching this.)
   
• I went to Zermatt last year, but didn't have time to travel on any of the many gondolas and cable cars. Well, DownieLive has been on all of them (and a few other, more fun ways to travel, too). That includes the huge and newly-opened linked network of gondolas that crosses an international border!
   
• Turns out there's a whole genre of professional tower-climbers who post their jobs on YouTube: here's a seven-minute, uncut POV shot of a team stacking a piece of a new radio tower on top of the other pieces... using a helicopter.
   

• A typo that cost the US postal service $500 million. This is a fascinating story of how seemingly double-checked systems can fail. But I would love to see some sourcing on this: the story makes sense, but it's on a blog run by a tech startup as an advertising base, there's not even an  "according to" in there, and I can't find any other references.
   
• Forty years ago, scientists did the impossible and found a cure for cockroach infestations, and it feels like the world has forgotten.
   

And finally, over on TikTok, Marcus Keeley visits... well, I wouldn't want to spoil the glamorous destination.

All the best,

— Tom