Uploads from Tom Scott

743 videos · Tom Scott

• Why trains don't usually crash into each other
• I took a long walk on a dangerous beach.
• The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
• I should not have liked the world’s first smart home.
• If you found candy with my name in it, here's why.
• Hello from inside a tiny boat.
• I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed.
• These people walk towards mining disasters.
• "I feel like I've just destroyed evidence!"
• They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here's how.
• I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.
• I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.
• After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.
• People are going to be angry about pylons.
• Why the government drops flies on California
• A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
• Why don't subtitles match dubbing?
• Why use many streetlights when one will do?
• These tiny ships have a serious purpose
• Every mistake I've made since 2014.
• Does the language you speak change how you think?
• Boarding planes could have been very different
• 0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
• there’dn’t’ve
• I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.
• The largest telescope that will ever be built*
• Spherical houses weren't a great idea.
• How languages steal words from each other
• This library has every book ever published.
• Why are adverts so loud?
• This man built his office inside an elevator
• No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.
• This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
• This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
• Storing dead people at -196°C
• A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
• Grizzly bear GoPro selfie: raw unedited footage
• If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
• I thought this rotating house was impossible.
• How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
• The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
• The cable car that you pedal by hand
• I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
• No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
• This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
• Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
• The people who get paid to get sick
• The world's cleanest railway
• How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
• The military base where you drive over the runway
• It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
• This tiny hovercraft went viral.
• I rode the world's fastest train.
• I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
• This bus transforms into a train
• Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
• The city with a hundred private cable cars
• This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
• This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
• I tried using AI. It scared me.
• Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
• Why Australia bottles up its air
• I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
• These chickens save lives.
• This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
• The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
• Doing robotic surgery on a copy of myself
• I was wrong (and so was everyone)
• The US government is giving out free wasps
• Firing radioactive stuff at high speed under city streets
• Cheap, renewable, clean energy. There's just one problem.
• Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
• This river can be switched on and off
• This electric ferry uses a very long extension cord
• Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?
• The government approves of this shark now.
• This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
• Keeping the world's longest railroad tunnel safe
• I finally found a useful monorail.
• I thought the treadmill crane was fictional.
• Why do YouTubers clap at the start of videos?
• How much helium does it take to lift a person?
• This is the most interesting roof in London.
• This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
• Why the US Army electrifies this water
• Delivering mail by jumping from a moving boat
• How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
• A geyser that shoots sparkling mineral water
• The world's largest walking robot
• I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death
• Flying here is (surprisingly) legal
• A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
• This clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
• Can you really drive while facing backwards?
• It's a pile of mining waste. Want to go skiing on it?
• Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again
• I rode a giant mechanical elephant. You can too.
• The massive Fatigue Carousel helps keep roads safe
• I flew with birds. You can too.
• You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.