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Mount Taranaki, on the North Island of New Zealand, is a large-scale circle that's visible from space: a stratovolcano with six miles of forest around it. But that didn't happen naturally. Oh, and there's a good chance that, in the next fifty years or so, it might explode.

GOOD VIDEOS ON NATURAL PERSONHOOD:

Law professor Jacinta Ruru at TEDx Christchurch, for a formal talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zAPw...

Leonie Hayden at The Spinoff, for a more vlog-style approach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbS-b...

SOURCES:

Taranaki Civil Defence and Emergency Management https://cdemtaranaki.govt.nz/taranaki...

McWethy, D., Wilmshurst, J., Whitlock, C., Wood, J., & McGlone, M. (2014). A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand. Plos ONE, 9(11), e111328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111328

Perry, G., Wilmshurst, J., & McGlone, M. (2014). Ecology and long-term history of fire in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal Of Ecology, 38(2), 157-176.

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In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for government use only: but something as simple as the law wasn't going to get in their way.

Thanks to Victoria Harrison for all her research and translation skills! Pictures of the original documents are uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

CG effects by Mat Hill: http://mat-hill.com/

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What those boxes are for, and why you might not have to click them soon. • Sponsored by Dashlane —try 30 days for free at: https://www.dashlane.com/tomscott

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That's right, we're kicking Season 2 of the Basics off with a technical episode about a somewhat-obsolete technology! IT'S PARTY TIME. Wait, no, not party time. IT'S CODE TIME. Close enough.

Let's talk about seven-segment displays, and about the longest word you can write with them.

Public domain list of English words: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

Thanks to my proofreading team, and to Tomek on camera!

The Cambridge Centre for Computing History: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

BONUS LINK:
Genius regex crossword puzzle: https://regexcrossword.com/

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I went to a place called Coober Pedy to tell a story about water. • Sponsored by Audible: Go to http://audible.com/trustme or text ‘trustme’ to 500 500 to get started today.

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Thanks to everyone in Coober Pedy; I had a wonderful time there. I'm sorry this isn't the video you all hoped for!

Sources for this video:
Smerdon, B.; Ransley, T.; Radke, B.; Kellett, J. (2012) Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment. Australia: CSIRO. https://doi.org/10.4225/08/584c45a39e1b5

Martin, P. (2019). Opal capital Coober Pedy 'on knife-edge' as desert town faces water problem. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-0...

Coober Pedy weather: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/201...

Great Artesian Basin boundaries: Great Artesian Basin boundary: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/241d...
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., (c) Commonwealth of Australia (Bioregional Assessment Programme http://www.bioregionalassessments.gov.au), (c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2013

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Inside his homemade, hermetically-sealed, airtight biodome, Kurtis Baute is already out of breath and surrounded by more carbon dioxide than he should be. And that's going to affect a lot of things -- including how smart he is.

SOURCES:
CO2 and Cognitive Function Scores: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10....
Indoor Air Quality and Academic Performance: https://www.gwern.net/docs/co2/2015-s...