This was actually quite interesting. Someone wrote an EXACT data point that happened hundreds of years ago, and we learned how it was captured. I like it!
SmarterEveryDay And it is from collections of individual data points like that one that let you calculate orbits. So that one single observation was valid Science, and worth publishing!
I adore Keith. In the most base sense he is adorable; I adore his career, commitment to this channel and the society, his demeanour and his obvious passion for history and history's things.
Keith is like an old school Google, finds a random name in an obscure letter and instantly "he was an instrument maker, he made telescopes". I'm amazed Brady wasn't amazed.
Yes. From time to time. Otherwise you wouldn't see much of the really interesting stuff. Even this little uninteresting things turn out to be very interesting. I wasn't expecting at all that they would be able to match the letter to the article.
brady showing his marketing genius here. I'm glad to see the white gloves of destiny have continued for a good dozen episodes - really amusing format, helps highlight the depth and precision of knowledge archived by the Royal Society.
Fourteen Lines It would have been quite a coincidence if Brady picked a card about a pair of white gloves in the archive! - I wonder if they have any famous ones?
TheDiggster13 Id really love to aswell, and remember what Brady said in a previous video, if you visit you get to do just what hes doing, there might be a few really precious items that they keep out of the publics hands because of their fragility but its all open for the publics use. Its like a giant library of science and history that you can touch!
Love this series, it really looks like Keith enjoys your visits and your amount of enthusiasm for each and every artifact. This was also a great idea for the episode, picking something by random. Please never stop this series.
I love how the finding of the object took up most of the video, yet the time still flew past. I really love the whole process that Objectivity shows. Thanks Brady!
Keith seems to have this astounding ability to make even the most mundane, and even short, objects so interesting with his little anecdotes and tidbits of information.
I definitely did appreciate the randomness. I would have liked to know why, exactly, the Royal Society was interested in a mortgage repayment... was it a building they owned maybe? In any case, more videos like this would be appreciated. As you say Brady, everything is interesting. I fully agree with that. During this video you mentioned that the catalog of objects has been computerized, but that leads me to wonder: Is there any effort to digitize the actual objects themselves? Scanning of the written material, of the various artwork, and 3D laser scanning of the physical objects?
Love this idea! You should make a separate playlist just of these! (Even if they aren't as exciting, it is still interesting to hear about the diversity of items at the Royal Society)
+Objectivity I love the white gloves of destiny! Make more of these videos! Even though some are hits and misses, it still puts you in someone's life as they wrote it and made some history!
I wouldn't mind if you did more of this ^^ Of course it's not guaranteed to be as interesting as it is with famous items or such things, but it can be interesting to see just what kind of data/archives/info the Royal Society actually has saved :P
Even though the object wasn't the most interesting of them, the video still was. It was nice to see the whole process of retrieval and how its structured. Thanks for another great video Brady!
BeastOfTraal The two terms are different. A mulligan would be acting like the first shot had never happened and not counting it. If they had simply closed the drawer and ignored the card, never looking it up, that would be a mulligan. A provisional is different. When you hit the ball in the water (or out of bounds or something) you have the choice to drop it where it went out (counting both the original stroke and a penalty stroke) or you can (still counting those strokes) hit another one from the same spot you hit the first. If you're not sure whether you hit the ball in the water or not, you can hit a provisional, so that you can avoid walking all the way back to the tee box. If it went in the water, you just play the second ball you hit, but if you didn't, you play the original one and never play that second ball you hit. In the video, once they checked out the first card, and determined it was a dud, they were able to simply pull out the next slip instead of having to walk all the way back to the tee box (or card catalog) because they had hit a provisional.
A brilliant idea to find something (okay, one thing and a provisional thing) at random, based on one simple assumption: if it was truly uninteresting and unimportant the Society wouldn't have saved it. Looking forward to another WGoD in the future!
***** Having a software developer background I was implicitly thinking of cryptography randomness. The important thing about that is that you can't even approximately guess the result. (Or you shouldn't be able to - if you can your crypto is broken.)
***** Except that is pretty much the definition of random selection, the first 5 results on google (at least for me) all say something along the lines "of in which all outcomes are equally likely"
Hate to point that out, but not random at all. The top right box didn't stand a chance. Humans, including Brady, are poor at picking items at random, or generating a random sequence. Perhaps a topic for the Numberphile video ;)
+Pāvils Jurjāns (Passiday) Still random enough since Brady doesn't know where things are in the catalogue, so essentially any of the cards in the catalogue could have been in that top right box that Brady was never going to pick. It makes me laugh every time....you can literally open *any* Brady channel and any video on that channel and the comments will be full of people trying to point out - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and almost all of the time unimportant technicalities or corrections. I thought somehow this video would be spared from that fate but I was trying to kid myself. Not trying to knock you for pointing it out, this is just a fun thing I check on every brady video now. It's endemic to his videos, more so than the rest of youtube. Check for yourself sometime.
Maybe he does this every time and this is the first time he has recorded it. Maybe the gloves of destiny are picking them all. Wouldn't you feel foolish.
I think the mortgage application is also very interesting! The "real value" (increasing the figure by the RPI for each year between 1891 and 2015) of £15,000 in 1891 is just over £1.46m today.... But, as it was a mortgage application then the real estate in question would also have it's own intrinsic value which would have increased by far more than that... A commodity of £15,000 in 1891 is likely to be worth £10m or more today. That's quite a mortgage, anyway!
Brady there, playing the ol' dunderheaded Aussie cameraman, blundering his way round the Royal Society archives. Then he makes a spot on analogy to the shortest verse in the Bible, proving that there's a great deal more going on in that blond noggin.
A very interesting video on the Partial(Saros 112) lunar eclipse of 1760 Nov 22.(I looked it up at eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov). Observations can be by their nature can be "short" and "dry" however they can tell people a lot. James Short's Observations where cited in: English Mechanics and the World of Science, Volume 14, No. 363 p. 644, Mar 8, 1872 (Google Books). Objectivity(or one the sibling channels) should do a video on James Short's "timing" compared to the "timing" of today...
I could lesson to Keith for hours. Please make him narrate an audiobook, any audiobook. I would even lesson to getting things done if it was narrated by Keith!
This was actually quite interesting. Someone wrote an EXACT data point that happened hundreds of years ago, and we learned how it was captured. I like it!
SmarterEveryDay look forward to getting you down in the archives, Destin.... Keep a whole day free at least!
- Brady & James
SmarterEveryDay And it is from collections of individual data points like that one that let you calculate orbits. So that one single observation was valid Science, and worth publishing!
I adore Keith. In the most base sense he is adorable; I adore his career, commitment to this channel and the society, his demeanour and his obvious passion for history and history's things.
Short by name, short by nature...
Poor man ;)
Keith is like an old school Google, finds a random name in an obscure letter and instantly "he was an instrument maker, he made telescopes". I'm amazed Brady wasn't amazed.
"It's crowded down here today."
David S. 3 people, one being an employee xD
Rusty Heart 4, Kieth, the woman, Brady and the camera man (James).
Good call, good call.
jrandall15ec That we saw. (There *_were_* corridors obscured to the camera).
Nice. I would love to see more of the "white gloves of destiny".
Arthur Vieira I agree but no more than every few episodes
Yes. From time to time. Otherwise you wouldn't see much of the really interesting stuff.
Even this little uninteresting things turn out to be very interesting. I wasn't expecting at all that they would be able to match the letter to the article.
Arthur Vieira David S. Brady could just create an another channel by that name :D
I liked this video, it showed the process of retrieval nicely and also the orderly way everything is stored
daveangels You can click on the little arrow near the comment and edit it.
Alex Shannon thank you
brady showing his marketing genius here. I'm glad to see the white gloves of destiny have continued for a good dozen episodes - really amusing format, helps highlight the depth and precision of knowledge archived by the Royal Society.
I'm waiting for Keith to start his own vlogging channel. :)
"Magnets How do they work?" Cracked me the hell up.
Ooh, I thought this would be a video about the gloves themselves.
Fourteen Lines same here..
Fourteen Lines The gloves are made from 100% cotton.
Fourteen Lines It would have been quite a coincidence if Brady picked a card about a pair of white gloves in the archive! - I wonder if they have any famous ones?
KingOfChaos213 i hope they AND the thread in them are made in England, it would ruin it for me if they were not
Yeah and they would use antiques to hold them
You could have literally found a shopping list and I would have still thought it was interesting.
I 26thed it
This place is beautiful! Really want to visit,
TheDiggster13 Id really love to aswell, and remember what Brady said in a previous video, if you visit you get to do just what hes doing, there might be a few really precious items that they keep out of the publics hands because of their fragility but its all open for the publics use. Its like a giant library of science and history that you can touch!
No way,!! Do you know which video??
Love this series, it really looks like Keith enjoys your visits and your amount of enthusiasm for each and every artifact. This was also a great idea for the episode, picking something by random. Please never stop this series.
I love how the finding of the object took up most of the video, yet the time still flew past. I really love the whole process that Objectivity shows. Thanks Brady!
These book bindings are all so gorgeous.
This is incredibly exciting. I'm shivering.
Keith seems to have this astounding ability to make even the most mundane, and even short, objects so interesting with his little anecdotes and tidbits of information.
This was fun. Would love to see some more in the same style, Keith not knowing what's coming up is quite entertaining.
I would love to see more White Gloves of Destiny videos!
5:55 I love Brady's face when Keith says that.
I loved this random selection from the archive, this is the best way of finding some hidden "treasures".
Awesome episode!
i dont care if it was a letter about mortgage, man oh man is it fun to see brady in a good mood like that.
"Short by name, short by nature." - Brady Haran
Brady, I love this channel. Thank you, and thank Keith.
One of the best Objectivity videos yet. Gloves of Destiny ftw.
Also those sound like some type of RPG equipment. Gloves of Destiny. Luck+7.
Awesome. Loved the randomness of this
I enjoyed the randomness of this video. Please do more occasionally.
+Jake Stanger glad to hear it. Check out our new video - it's another WGOD!
Are there any actual white gloves in the Royal Society that you can do a video about?
I definitely did appreciate the randomness. I would have liked to know why, exactly, the Royal Society was interested in a mortgage repayment... was it a building they owned maybe? In any case, more videos like this would be appreciated. As you say Brady, everything is interesting. I fully agree with that. During this video you mentioned that the catalog of objects has been computerized, but that leads me to wonder: Is there any effort to digitize the actual objects themselves? Scanning of the written material, of the various artwork, and 3D laser scanning of the physical objects?
The face Brady does after Keith tells about the possibility of a discovery is priceless. He could barely speak for 5 seconds.
This channel keeps getting better and better.
Thanks for continuing to make interesting content across multiple channels and topics.
I absolutely love this channel. So much fun to watch! Keep it up!
So natural the way this episode played out. Nice adventure quality about it too.
"Magnets, how do they work?" XD
Love this idea! You should make a separate playlist just of these! (Even if they aren't as exciting, it is still interesting to hear about the diversity of items at the Royal Society)
This is so cool. Thanks for these videos, so unique and brill to watch!
I'd love to see more of this, maybe every 4th or 5th episode or something
+Objectivity I love the white gloves of destiny! Make more of these videos! Even though some are hits and misses, it still puts you in someone's life as they wrote it and made some history!
I feel that those chests of draws should be in the archives aswel.
I really liked this idea and would like to see it again.
I wouldn't mind if you did more of this ^^ Of course it's not guaranteed to be as interesting as it is with famous items or such things, but it can be interesting to see just what kind of data/archives/info the Royal Society actually has saved :P
Even though the object wasn't the most interesting of them, the video still was. It was nice to see the whole process of retrieval and how its structured. Thanks for another great video Brady!
I LOVE this! Brady thank you for pointing us viewers to the channel! I'm a massive fan of all your channels on YT!😊
Steven Bird thanks Steven - this one is still bit a of hidden channel, hey?
- Brady
Indeed! Don't be shy to show off your latest baby! I'm really enjoying it 😊
This made me chuckle :-D
That face at the thought of possibly discovering the shortest paper
This episode was great! More WGoD!
This made me realize that it almost doesn't matter what we see from the archives, they are all fascinating to me.
I love this idea, please do more from time to time,
That was a genius idea! The white gloves of destiny have spoken.
I've heard a second chance called a Mulligan.
BeastOfTraal The two terms are different. A mulligan would be acting like the first shot had never happened and not counting it. If they had simply closed the drawer and ignored the card, never looking it up, that would be a mulligan. A provisional is different. When you hit the ball in the water (or out of bounds or something) you have the choice to drop it where it went out (counting both the original stroke and a penalty stroke) or you can (still counting those strokes) hit another one from the same spot you hit the first. If you're not sure whether you hit the ball in the water or not, you can hit a provisional, so that you can avoid walking all the way back to the tee box. If it went in the water, you just play the second ball you hit, but if you didn't, you play the original one and never play that second ball you hit. In the video, once they checked out the first card, and determined it was a dud, they were able to simply pull out the next slip instead of having to walk all the way back to the tee box (or card catalog) because they had hit a provisional.
Magnets! How do they work!?
Yours and Keith's humor at the end. I laughed strictly at your laughs
The final pun was epic !!!!
Great video guys! : )
The end of this video made me laugh out loud. Great video.
This was pretty cool. You should do more Gloves of Destiny videos!
While neither document is extremely exciting, it's still interesting to see that they're still around, documented, and well cared for.
God, I love this channel.
Cool idea! I would love to see the White Gloves take another crack at the card catalog...
A brilliant idea to find something (okay, one thing and a provisional thing) at random, based on one simple assumption: if it was truly uninteresting and unimportant the Society wouldn't have saved it. Looking forward to another WGoD in the future!
I would love this to be a recurring feature, very cool.
Haha this was great, would love to see another!
i am liking this new method of finding items.
~brady "dont check it becuase i dont want to ruin it"...
~keith "okay."
It's gonna be an episode of astonishment!
I love this channel
There should be a "Win a day with Keith" contest. The winner gets to wander around with Keith all day just picking random stuff to look at :-)
iambiggus I feel like I won that!
- Brady
Objectivity Oh, you did! Now share the love )
One word. Brilliant
Zeedijk Mike thanks!
I bet Grey got 'short' tempered at that last joke...
I'll get my coat
An interesting insight into the machinations of the Society.
loved it! What better way to show how the archive works than to do a random multi-stop treasure hunt?
Bbonno indeed - cheers for watching!
This isn't an insult but this is such an British channel
I think the folks over at Numberphile would not agree that your selection was totally random, Brady. ;)
Hahaha! This was so entertaining! Thanks, Objectivity!
5:08 I guessed it so bad ! I really wanted to see it, thanks guys !
I love these! So cool!
"This is total random."
Not really. It was obvious that you'd chose a drawer from the middle and then a card from the middle of that drawer.
***** Having a software developer background I was implicitly thinking of cryptography randomness. The important thing about that is that you can't even approximately guess the result. (Or you shouldn't be able to - if you can your crypto is broken.)
blenderpanzi You have a software developer background and you still believe in randomness? lol...
Isu Asenjo I also know a tiny bit about physics. And it's no question of believe. I just know what current textbook physics says.
***** Except that is pretty much the definition of random selection, the first 5 results on google (at least for me) all say something along the lines "of in which all outcomes are equally likely"
blenderpanzi What does it say?
Interesting video as always. :)
Signed, Mr. Objectivity, aka Brady Haran, aka Bradley Haran
Goddamn Brady, you never disappoint.
Love the idea of choosing a random object, I hope this becomes a normal thing.
Master Marf I liked it too - I'm sure we'll do it again!
"....by James Short"
Keith, you quick librarian, you!
Hate to point that out, but not random at all. The top right box didn't stand a chance. Humans, including Brady, are poor at picking items at random, or generating a random sequence. Perhaps a topic for the Numberphile video ;)
Pāvils Jurjāns I can't help it if the White Gloves of Destiny chose the more central draws... blame the gloves! - Brady
+Pāvils Jurjāns (Passiday) Still random enough since Brady doesn't know where things are in the catalogue, so essentially any of the cards in the catalogue could have been in that top right box that Brady was never going to pick. It makes me laugh every time....you can literally open *any* Brady channel and any video on that channel and the comments will be full of people trying to point out - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and almost all of the time unimportant technicalities or corrections. I thought somehow this video would be spared from that fate but I was trying to kid myself.
Not trying to knock you for pointing it out, this is just a fun thing I check on every brady video now. It's endemic to his videos, more so than the rest of youtube. Check for yourself sometime.
Pāvils Jurjāns they did a video where people chose a number 1-10 and showed why the most common choice was 7
Sorry, but I prefer when you guys pick out the interesting things. This seems like something that would go on extras or something.
Lagniappe*
***** everything is interesting to someone. The archival process is pretty interesting in of itself imo
Maybe he does this every time and this is the first time he has recorded it.
Maybe the gloves of destiny are picking them all.
Wouldn't you feel foolish.
sheepdean I was thinking to myself, "I wonder what CGP Grey thinks of their archive retrieval process."
Misleading title: The poster boy of free-booting wasn't in this episode
Enta_Nae_Mere Read the title a bit more closely. It clearly says destinY, not destin. If it said "Destiny White Gloves", then you'd be right, though
-"Short by name, short by nature!" they said laughing.
And then they kissed.
Great way to do it, very exciting :-)
Should of also asked to see one of the telescope made by Mr. Short that he might of view the eclipse with.
Oh, wow. I didn't think that old book would look like It was made yesterday
Brady's all caps handwriting strikes again.
I just now noticed that the glove is in the thumbnail of all these videos.
I am seriously going to have to visit this place now! :-)
Wout Wynants it's pretty cool - get a pic for our white gloves page!!!!
www.bradyharanblog.com/white-gloves/
Objectivity I will be in London in September and may make a pilgrimage out there with a friend :-)
I think the mortgage application is also very interesting! The "real value" (increasing the figure by the RPI for each year between 1891 and 2015) of £15,000 in 1891 is just over £1.46m today.... But, as it was a mortgage application then the real estate in question would also have it's own intrinsic value which would have increased by far more than that... A commodity of £15,000 in 1891 is likely to be worth £10m or more today.
That's quite a mortgage, anyway!
Brady there, playing the ol' dunderheaded Aussie cameraman, blundering his way round the Royal Society archives. Then he makes a spot on analogy to the shortest verse in the Bible, proving that there's a great deal more going on in that blond noggin.
Does anyone know why the first letter is archived? Does it hold special value for someone?
Surprise Brady and Keith handled the documents without gloves especially papers from 1760.
A very interesting video on the Partial(Saros 112) lunar eclipse of 1760 Nov 22.(I looked it up at eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov). Observations can be by their nature can be "short" and "dry" however they can tell people a lot. James Short's Observations where cited in: English Mechanics and the World of Science, Volume 14, No. 363 p. 644, Mar 8, 1872 (Google Books). Objectivity(or one the sibling channels) should do a video on James Short's "timing" compared to the "timing" of today...
We all know that Keith is going to go behind Brady's back and secretly pore over all the old Phil Trans in his free time looking for a shorter paper.
It appears that fun can be orderly
5:57
could feel the amazement xD
sooooooooDark Into his mind:
"OMG OMG OMG OMG"
I could lesson to Keith for hours. Please make him narrate an audiobook, any audiobook. I would even lesson to getting things done if it was narrated by Keith!