Return of the Gloves - Objectivity 141
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- It's another 'lucky dip' into the Royal Society archives!
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I absolutely love the white gloves of destiny! Even the so called "boring" ones add humanity to the past and are still bloody interesting
+Nicholas
I agree. You get to picture this guy sitting there in 1842, writing down observations he hoped would come to some benefit one day. A short blip in humanity's history and record keeping. Out of the figuratively endless possible submissions to the Royal Society that could have been chosen, that little 2-day effort was plucked from the abyss of forgotten time and briefly perused by us, 175 years later.
Even the "dud" ones are still interesting to see what kind of things people were documenting at the time, like meteorological observations
Brady: “I’ve picked a boring one, haven’t I?”
Keith: “Well it’s not great”
😂
Probably best to let Keith decide indeed, but I actually really liked the gloves’ choices today! I can see how meteorological records like that would be useful to climate scientists or historians etc, but I think they could also be interesting to writers who are setting their work in an earlier time. Also, the rambling cover letter about the barometer was amusing! That pavement was rather spectacular though, I’m glad that you guys were able to find an actual picture of it!
Vardagaladhiel I'd be really interested to see what the Royal Society has in the way of early climate science. The Royal Navy did a lot of observing in the 17th-19th centuries so did any of those logbooks end up in the hands of fellows who knew what to make of them?
crashmancer I totally agree! That would be so interesting to see something like that to see how things have changed etc.
There's something I like about the White Gloves of Destiny videos, even if the objects tend not to be the most interesting on the channel. It's a good bit of fun, and I'm always impressed by the variety of odd, mundane, or sometimes magnificent things that pop up.
I think what's so appealing about it is that it connects us to past figures in a more close way than simply perusing their work. Even the most boring stuff has gems of mundane brilliance in them, and for me personally they help take out the aloofness in my understanding of history and helps ground my perception of it in very recognizable things. The fact that the white gloves episodes go wherever they go without deliberation aids that fact, because a lot of those mundane records would never be intentionally sought out on normal occasions.
I love the gloves of destiny. Please don't give up on them.
The handwriting from the second letter is amazing.
I love the random choices! Without the random choices you would never find new things, just the same known interesting items. If anything just pick 5 and with the magic of editing show the most interesting 2.
+KylieTastic I’m being stubbornly honest with these. What you see is what we got.
Is it weird that I find the more "mundane" entries from the white gloves of destiny to actually be more interesting? The amount of data that scientists had to compile by hand in years gone by is simply astonishing!
Once we saw what was being described, that back-up choice really paid off. In my opinion the gloves win again!
I really want Keith's job. He seems to know at least something about everything and just walking round those archives all day seems so cool. How do I apply?!
Phoebe HB looking on Keith's page on the royal society website, it looks like before this, he was a librarian and curator at quite a few other institutions before the royal society, including the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Wellcome Institute, and before that the Wordsworth Trust and Armitt Library. Seems like the best way to get a job like Keith's is to get involved with a local library!
You'd want to get at least a Master's Degree in Library Science and then try to get a job as a librarian at a local library and work your way up to bigger institutions.
EVERYBODY LIKES A GOOD PAVEMENT
Brady, as much as I love all of your channels, it seems like this is the only one where you actively participate in the videos and I think we all like that. Any reason why? Also, electrical engineeringphile. Something like that could open up a whole other dimension of Sixty Symbols and Computerphile videos!
Keith Becker As an Electronic Engineer, this would be pleasing to see
Roll 1d10 for columns, 1d8 for rows ignoring 8's.
Those were both fascinating from the perspective of seeing how such things were reported. While the weather data itself might not be of interest, its existence at the RS and the presentation in a beautiful hand-drawn table and the note about the barometer added a lot of value. The description of the mosaic was a great example of enlightenment era information collection.
As a meteorologist, I found the weather records quite interesting indeed. Thanks for taking a look at them!
Brady sure got to eat his words about that second choice, it turned out to be incredibly interesting when combined with pictures!
The white gloves of destiny are bound to, over time and with regular repetition, discover nuggets that Keith might not have thought to pull out of the archives. They can't all be the most interesting ever, but keep this up!
You guys even makes "boring" stuff interesting.
Keep it up.
Just think of all the information in all the archives all over the world that no one will ever look at or care about, nor even know exist!
We now have digital archives that can be searched with any number of criteria, yet most of the archives are still just in books on shelves and more or less inaccessible due to the vast volume of similar information.
It's like trying to find an individual fish in the sea that you don't know anything about.
+Eric Taylor I know - this frustrates me. So many hidden gems.
Superb! Sometimes the uncertainty of The White Gloves of Destiny segments can get me a little over excited, so it's nice to have nice mild results every now and again.
3:11 That's a cool looking ring on Keith's hand. I know that's not the point of the video but it is somewhat hard to miss it when Keith tries to read Victorian Chicken Scratch and he has to hover his hands over the paper like he's casting a spell.
I love the randomness of this. But really like when you have guests do the picking.
The poor drawers at the ends never get any love from the white gloves of destiny.
has anyone done a statistical analysis of drawers chosen?
I really do like the White Gloves of Destiny! I like that it is random and not always a hit.
white gloves should be some of the videos, but with two primary choices and a provisional for a total of 3. keep it up, my dudes.
George Martin, meteorology: “Winter is coming”.
See that in tropic
I´m a simple soul: I see Keith, I click like.
This is my favorite show.
+jaystevens137 thanks
Inquirer: Excuse me Keith do have the weather for Ventnor on 25th March 1842?
Keith: What's under here? *prods at the tarpaulin*
Inquirer: No don't touch that! It's just some new specialised weather sensing equipment.
thedenial Ha. Read that in Doc Brown's voice.
There are 70 drawers containing maybe 600 cards each. I think it would be fairer to use a random number generator next time.
poor guy probably spend a couple weeks writing that up. today could have just took a quick picture
What a painting!
Is the Card catalog still updated with new additions to the archive? Computers are great and all, but there is something about storing information in physical media that seems more durable, so long as stored properly.
I love how you can accidentally find a 150 year old "boring" scientific observation. The Royal Society is an impressive place, even if they have all but abandoned science for sociology.
So? Other people are doing it
I forgot about that, could somebody who remembers enlighten me, please? Is the card-catalogue still maintained or is this also an artifact now that doesn't get updated?
I love the white gloves of destiny - the sheer variety and topics and ages - even if it "only" turns out to be all written: Somebody, 2, 3 hundred years ago was so passionate about this and worked scientifically on it - i love those glimpses : )
Keith is just a wealth of knowledge... It amazes me how much he can remember :^)
We want video where you read whole text while showing us the illustration!
I miss card catalogs in libraries. I don't make as many serendipitous finds in electronic catalogs as I did in card catalogs in my undergraduate days.
I think you should try your white gloves at one of the other fantastic institutes/societies you've visited recently. If they still have an analog catalog, that is.
Okay we have proof Keith is not an Android. Androids may or may not dream of sheep, but they do not forget the keys.
its all a cover!!
They could maybe program in a few random "mistakes" to add humanity to their Androids 🤦🤦🤷🤷😬😬
Love the white gloves of Destiny.
I found the first interesting. Weather research from early 1800. The second was interesting too.
Were it not for Brady, I'd likely never have known of the national treasure that is Keith. (Makes one consider all the other national treasures going about their jobs with little or no recognition.)
i'd love to read that description. can we get a transcript of those 35 pages?
Good one.
Hey Brady, I do enjoy your vids delving into the archives of the Royal Society but I'm interested in the present and future, are there any expositions planned for the future?
Idea: 1 One gloves of destiny per drawer...then just keep cycling...
Nice.. a "Mortimer" !!
Now I'm very curious as to why anyone would ask the Royal Society what the weather was at an oddly specific place and date, over a hundred years ago. I assume that most of the time it would be to cross-check records of historical events?
I enjoyed these pieces haha
I thought this episode turned out great. Wish more of the description would have been read.
at 2:44 i suppose those are inert gas containers for fire suppression. But why are they red? Isn't red for flammable substances?
If I went to the Royal society can I randomly pick cards and have the librarian bring me things to look at
I'd like to know what is on the last card in the last drawer
Ahh, well you may enjoy this - ua-cam.com/video/ddx_nsYos1A/v-deo.html
Thanks! (More evidence that I'll never have an original thought :-D )
How is Keith able to read that chicken scratch?
Kind of opposite of WGOD: would you show us what the first and last cards are in the entire catalog?
+duncancoe like this? m.ua-cam.com/video/ddx_nsYos1A/v-deo.html
I just want to know what parent would call their child Cromwell
This was a good one Brady, the image of the floor was beautiful. Even if you had to insert it because there wasn't a drawing.
Neat!
But did your return the slab?
MA 110?
MA is my initials and 1/10 is my birthday!
woah
mosaic from the nile
What's in the gas bottles at 2:44?
An inert gas(nitrogen maybe? but i don't know what exactly) that fills the room in the event of a fire. The idea being to smother the fire by robbing it of oxygen and hopefully preserving the contents of the vault. Doesn't use water or anything that would damage the artifacts down there.
Whats with all those hydrogen cylinders?
First pick was from George Martin. It would have been interesting if middle initial were R R instead of A.
He would have killed the weather once we became interested though.
arcanics1971 Well, George RR Martin did forecast a coming cold spell.
a picture is worth 35 pages
Can people under about 20 years old even read that cursive writing? I can usually even read the badly written cursive, only because I've seen so much of it my whole life. But I have to wonder if young people can even read the clean stuff anymore.
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