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Video and Podcast person — @numberphile @periodicvideos @sixtysymbols @Objectivity_Vid @DeepSkyVideos plus @HelloInternetFM @Unmade_FM & other stuff

Joined June 2013
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EVERYONE: I can’t believe New Zealand would shut down its biggest city because of just three COVID cases! NEW ZEALAND:
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What could possibly go wrong? 😬
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@tweetsauce Freezing and boiling water - the only thing we freeze and boil in our daily life(?) - seem good bookends. In Fahrenheit, 0 and 100 are both kind of nothingy? But each to their own. I grew up with C. A planet with Mercury-based life would feel very differently.
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Imagine if you couldn’t comment on a YouTube video until you’d watched, say, 50% of its duration.
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I live in the UK these days, but my heart is always Australian. So this Australia Day I was very proud to receive an honour from my homeland.
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My big takeaway from the 2020 US election is that I now know where Wisconsin is.
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I see a lot of tweets asking “Is Brady the greatest of all time?” Well, it’s not for me to say. I’m just a guy doing my best to make a few videos and podcasts.
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Why does no-one on Twitter understand rhetorical questions?
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Finally back in the Bay Area and reunited with this @numberphile legend.
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Why am I taking the price sticker off a Christmas present bought for the dog?
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The BBC called it…
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A little bit proud that my phone just autocorrected “Baywatch” to “Bayes’ Theorem”.
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Using The Prof’s hair to white balance the camera - @periodicvideos
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Turning clocks back and getting an extra hour of sleep is the best. We should do that EVERY night then just remove an entire Monday from the calendar every 24 days. No-one likes Mondays anyway.
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Recorded an @Objectivity_Vid today that many people have requested.
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What were the odds that Britain’s shortest serving Prime Minister was in office for the death of its longest serving Monarch?
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Just a quick note to my friends out there - this is not my position on friendship.
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YouTube
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friendship is sending each other #YouTubeShorts ❤️
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Due to a new arrival, The Champions League Final may not have my full attention tonight. But indoctrination has begun…
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Does anyone know the code for buying Toblerone at Tesco Express in Edinburgh?
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If Lewis Hamilton was a cricketer he’d have three knighthoods and seat in the House of Lords by now.
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@tweetsauce I didn’t realise people felt so passionately about this - or that this was how it looked on a map.
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. @smartereveryday sends parcels with the respect one deserves.
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Must admit I ❤️ that little Audrey.
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@cgpgrey @BradyHaran , you know you have a good podcast when it appears in r/place even with 2 years without an episode
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Happy Birthday to the best little penguin a podcast could’ve adopted.
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Preferring Fahrenheit or Celsius is like being sorted to Slytherin or Gryffindor... (Fahrenheit is Slytherin, obvs)
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Still love seeing the Nail & Gear in amazing places - here atop Mt Whitney. Courtesy of Jonathan & Jennifer
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It was only a matter of time until dishwasher tablet technology tapped into the ultimate power of quantum mechanics.
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“Worried the vaccine might have some risk associated with it” she typed into her phone while simultaneously driving a car at 70mph.
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Does Twitter need to be fast? I’ve never had a problem with Twitter’s “speed”! It just needs less lying and fighting and spite.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out. Twitter should feel faster.
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In case May the 4th was not nerdy enough for you, this will totally blow your mind... It's 314 days until Pi Day! #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
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When you accidentally have a giant pair of scissors in your scanned cabin bag… and the first thing security pull from the bag is a book about a plane hijacking. 🤦‍♂️
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Frankly I’m beginning to think it’s amazing all six Apollos managed to hit dry land.
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Hidden pockets of water on the Moon could be much more common than scientists previously thought, and the discovery could have potential implications for future lunar missions
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Just learned an editing software shortcut that could have saved me like 100 hours over the past few years…. Almost wish I hadn’t learned it.
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Who would have imagined we'd live in age when you can watch literally any film by simply subscribing to 38 different streaming services and then praying your internet is okay tonight!?
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Totally regretting that “I❤️2020” tattoo I got last January.
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Thanks for some fun memories David Prowse. (Sorry I played the wrong version of Star Wars)
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Fridge with a “d” but not one in refrigeration? English you are a cruel mistress.
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Proposing a new pastry-based temperature scale: 0 is the temperature of a Gregg’s Steak Bake bought at a motorway services at 3pm Greenwich Mean Time 100 is the temperature at the core of McDonald’s apple pie (ie: the sun’s corona)
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America is great at inventing sports that, no matter what happens for the first few hours, it always come down to the last two minutes.
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No credit to @Numberphile - no link back to the source... Just thievery as usual.
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Mathematics!
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Americans perplexed over football games ending in “ties” (draws) are going to freak out when they learn cricket games can end in ties AND draws and they are two completely different things.
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The Great British Eclipse. #Eclipse2021
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Just received the best gift from glassware genius Lucas Clarke. My very own Coca-Cola Klein Bottle.
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It’s taking all my will power to not tweet this @thetimes article and point out the picture is not Neil Armstrong but Buzz Aldrin.
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Is it supposed to look like that?
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Glad we cleared that up.
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Managed to capture this rare ISS transit between courts 1 and 2.
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Being on Twitter right now is like watching a dumpster fire from inside the dumpster!
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Me when someone recites my phone number back to me - but with different cadence & different spaces between numbers.
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People wearing masks that don’t cover their noses are the epidemiological equivalent of misused apostrophes.
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I’m convinced those red balls in dishwasher tablets have immense and crucial cleaning powers. They’re made from rare elements found in diamonds that were mined on distant ice planets in the Oort Cloud.
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Thanks mate… I can tell you really love my content on {channel name} #PersonalTouch
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That little Audrey in the top left melts my heart!
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Hello Internet: A podcast by CGP Grey and Dr. Brady Haran.
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Audrey defies the laws of physics in search of sunlight.
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@smartereveryday If that message is a badge of honour, then this is me. :)
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The Long Goodbye? We need a name for that period between ending a video call and then managing to actually to find/press the button that ends it.
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The Emperor’s New Bench
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The word “reasoned” is doing A LOT of heavy lifting here.
@elonmusk
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New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science
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Will delete as appropriate!
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Jupiter is ~890,000,000km away... Saturn TWICE as far. They’re nowhere near each other. But that’s why the conjunction is cool. Feb 10, 7541, will be way cooler - from 🌏 they’ll appear to actually touch. Love that we can calculate that & wonder if humans will be here for it?
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My twitter feed seems to be filling up with news of some pretty last-minute resignations!?
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Those eight minutes are what the English call “summer”.
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Such a relief to get my first vaccination today... and everyone involved was so friendly and efficient. Thank you. If you’re going crazy waiting for your turn - hang in there and stay smart.
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@smartereveryday @Rainmaker1973 @X That account seems to be stealing content at an industrial scale and simply saying where you stole it from does not constitute fair use. 🤷‍♂️
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Like this.
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Matt Henderson
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Cruithne has been nicknamed 'Earth's second moon'. Its elliptical orbit around the Sun is in resonance with the Earth's, so that from our perspective it appears to be following a bean-shaped orbit around us
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Couldn't help myself.
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Also, NASA has found something water-related on Mars and one of the Voyager probes has “officially left the solar system”.
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NFL quarterback Tom Brady, who won a record seven Super Bowls for New England and Tampa, has announced his retirement for the second time.
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Autocorrect strikes again.
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Can I default my timeline to the “Following” tab instead of having it constantly flip back to the awful “For You” (which is really “For Twitter”).
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Everyone getting agitated over the "Fahrenheit v Celsius" debate needs to cool down (by about 4 degrees, I’d suggest)
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About to go and see Tenet… I hope it’s good.
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Saw Tenet tonight. Don’t think I followed anything after the part where I bought a packet of Maltesers.
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You can always spot the “Red Label” tea by its distinctive blue and green packaging.
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Thoughts & prayers are with everyone who is video calling someone elderly today.
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@tweetsoutloud A fleet of space telescopes each named for a different actor from the show and collectively known as The Golden Girls.
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While I find this more telling, I guess this map won't catch on because people like clearly "seeing their state” on the map.
@Bill_Gross
Bill Gross
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"Land doesn't vote, people do." Here is what the United States looks like when you represent votes and not land area..
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The Prime Minister’s resignation was not the only big news in London today… Look who donned the white gloves!!! @donttrythis @royalsociety @Objectivity_Vid
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I’ve been on the McDonald’s website.
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Sporting the Flaggy Flag look today!!!
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I’ve watched so much CNN over the last 24 hours their logo is permanently burned into the corner of my retinas. I expect my dreams tonight will feature a BREAKING NEWS strap line.
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There needs to be a name for that moment you realise the Twitter tab has, yet again and against your will, flicked back to “For You” rather than “Following”
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Some email scams are harder to ignore than others @Tim_Hein
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NASA shortlist of names for its next Mars mission... Determination Resolution Freedom Courage Punctual Hygienic Good Table Manners
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Is this a World Cup or episode of @HelloInternetFM ?
@danroan
Dan Roan
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‘Flags & Banners Evaluation Area’ at the Al Bayt stadium here on the edge of the desert in Qatar after a politically-charged build-up to the World Cup
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@smartereveryday @TheSandlins Childhood pics of Destin. Particularly posed martial arts pictures. Thank you.
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I’ve been trying to explain how extraordinary it is to land a one-tonne rover on a pinpoint location on a planet 100s of millions of miles away... But Audrey would prefer I just scratch her tummy.
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About to watch recording of last night’s election coverage. No spoilers please.
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HOW I SPEND A DAY Sleep: 8 Hours Work: 7 Hours Verifying my identity and/or humanity to websites: 4 Hours Accepting cookies from websites: 3 Hours Re-starting crashed software: 1 Hour Watching YouTube clips of 1990s Australian cricket: 1 Hour
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How have I lived my life without really noticing the P in raspberry?
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Brady Haran
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My work here is done.
@tomstuart
Tom Stuart
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In June 2008, BBC journalist @BradyHaran began uploading educational chemistry videos to YouTube. Anyway one thing led to another and now every day of my goddamn life I sing the jingle from a 1980s advert for an Australian sofa shop
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Next level screwing over from our “friends” at @virginmedia Wanted service installed at our property. Pre-installation people came unannounced (we were not home) so they decided to “freestyle” this classic piece of workmanmanship on heritage area stone wall… but it gets worse.
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Realising the power these companies have by simply being uncontactable and “losing” the connection when things get sticky. @virginmedia are notoriously bad but they are outdoing even themselves. Moaning on Twitter is all I’ve got! 🤷‍♂️
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Found this old report I wrote in 1999 in Adelaide - might amuse a certain subset of listeners. (The digital mock-up was quite tongue-in-cheek by the newspaper art department, from memory)
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For the Tims
@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
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JFK touring mobile lounge at new Dulles International Airport, 1962: #JFKL
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Toblerone publicity stunt… @Toblerone
@CBSNews
CBS News
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A team of public safety officers discovered a mysterious monolith in a remote part of Utah – and said they have no idea who put it there
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