An Adventure with Alice - Objectivity 211

[@aliceness]

This was a lot of fun, thanks so much again for having me along for the adventure! :)

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

And they let you keep the gloves...(!) I would bet The White Gloves of Destiny shield against open flame even better than asbestos.

[@aliceness]

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 Honestly the best part about the experience was getting to keep the gloves!

[@ethan_martin]

@@aliceness ... and meeting Keith ofc haha

[@matthewwillis5242]

aliceness great picks!! I was skeptical of the miner's lamp, but it ended up being fascinating!

[@GraemeBray]

A Kiwi picked an item from 1772 about the 'recent' transit of Venus, which coincides with Lt James Cook's voyage to Tahiti to record that event. Then he circumnavigated around New Zealand.

[@cybercat1531]

XD

[@MrPictor]

From "Pointe Venus" to be accurate. Beautiful black sand beach.

[@krissp8712]

Haha, what a coincidence!

[@Dave_Sisson]

That was the first thing I thought of; the correlation of Cooks observation of the 1769 transit being selected by a New Zealander.

[@MrVasile]

Great concept, having patron "choose" via Skype! Also, Keith continues to be one of my favorite KZbin nerd heroes! Is there anything he doesn't know?

[@delve_]

He doesn't know how to be unlikable.

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

Kieth doesn't know how to pronounce the name "Audubon", famous American naturalist and ornithologist. In a previous episode, Keith manages to mangle that name. Unlike everyday words, names can be tricky. This was one he stumbled on.

[@MrVasile]

@Sandcastle • Haaaaa ha ha ha ha!

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

4:22 "18th of June. That's my birthday" 2019-1849 = 170 years old. You do not show your age Brady, well done.

[@xtrakewlguy666]

That's why he works with TRS. He was there for many of the cataloged events.

[@domramsey]

S**t man, that was great!

[@llloyd4]

Well, in regards to asbestos in mining lamps, back then miners was dealing with Miner's Lung from inhaling coal dust. Pretty much adding asbestos would be like chugging Draino and following it with a hemlock chaser. The asbestos would be the least of their worries, the bigger worry would be either explosion, cave in, asphyxiation, drowning from water ingress, in some really deep mines being cooked/boiled alive, or getting Miner's Lung.

[@Kae6502]

The WGoD is a wonderful concept, and this episode took it to a new level. Brilliant! Okay, here we go: Top row, third drawer from the left, the card exactly halfway back. Cheers. :)

[@kriijan3747]

That's a great concept you have there ! I've known about this channel for only a couple of weeks, yet it's already one of my favourites !

[@kguy152000]

What fun, great video!

[@sjlarue1]

Love it! Alice did a great job. :-)

[@Oxtorayk]

Best youtube channel ever.

[@BThings]

Brady always complains about there not being pictures, but I have to say, I actually kind-of enjoy seeing different people's handwriting from the past 🤓

[@enormhi]

Well done Alice!

[@madmanarca3558]

Now this has me wondering if there are any writings by (or correspondence by/on) Charles Dodgson A.K.A. Lewis Carroll in the Royal Society's archives, a number of things are attributed to him.

[@urbanana725]

200 objectivity videos I can't believe it!

[@flymypg]

I agree with the other commenters: Anyone with any ind of connection with Objectivity can be a terrific Guest Selector of the Cards. Well done!

[@Sam-lr9oi]

"Shit man" lol

[@MattStum]

I thought he was going to say "This is why we don't let Kiwi's on the show"

[@yetanotherjohn]

Brady, upon viewing antique correspondence: "Ah, that's a right old mess!" Priceless.

[@boredgrass]

Science as the endeavour of connecting people and ideas through kindness. THAT'S social media!

[@romanbuksak1064]

We still know that purple gloves of power are far more powerful than the white ones

[@gabotron94]

As much as we today have the right reaction to the mention of asbestos, we got to give credit for the idea of a woven nonflammable material. We still use them today =, although we now make the fibers out of glass or ceramics

[@mendali]

7:40 lolllll

[@leplum2001]

For a heart-stopping moment I thought that you had managed to capture Alice Roberts! No disrespect intended to Alice-ness :-)

[@realspacemodels]

This was a lot of fun. But even with the Patreon notification and clicking "the bell" I still had to search in my feed to find this video. Thanks, KZbin algorithm!

[@ObjectivityVideos]

KZbin’s algorithm doesn’t seem to like us. :( but thanks for finding us.

[@kwiebusch]

A 'geeky', swearing enthusiastic person. Make her a co-host! :o)

[@WeAllLoveYorkshire]

Next time you do this, send white gloves to the skype caller, for conceptual consistency

[@aliceness]

I did get to keep the gloves!

[@sadropol]

@@aliceness Fantastic! I hope you'll use them from time to time, like to choose what to eat for dinner...

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

@@aliceness Are the actual white gloves much better than virtual white gloves would be? Players of online role playing games will pay hundreds of real dollars for virtual swords, etc.

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Camping gas lamps use gas mantles, so I'm sure that asbestos is not that weird for the time!

[@webchimp]

And the fabric of the mantles used to be impregnated with thorium dioxide which glowed a nice bright white when heated by the flame. Problem is, it's radioactive.

[@WouterWeggelaar]

@@webchimp but only for the workers and the waste disposal. Danger for users is highly contested. In my area of the world, the background radiation is substantially higher that that of the average thorianated mantle. But better alternatives exist, so we got rid of them anyway

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

I think I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't want to be "famous". But I kind of do, solely so I would hopefully be invited to adorn myself with The White Gloves of Destiny on "Objectivity". I'm serious.

[@Tfin]

Just imagine how well known you'd be if you were the only person on the entire planet who wasn't famous for something. ;-)

[@RollaArtis]

It wasn't mentioned, but wouldn't this asbestos safety lamp idea pre-date the gas mantle for gas lighting?

[@Ogaitnas900]

oh my god she showed up! haha that was great

[@Epinardscaramel]

Love your t-shirt 😀

[@Yezpahr]

It took 211episodes, but it finally happened. A swear word was uttered.

[@bergfish7328]

📖Curious and Curiouser!🐇

[@vasilistoxo]

Nice video! I am not sure if this is related but gas mantles used to contain asbestos. So we kind of used asbestos for lighting. It does deal well with heat after all ;)

[@nayaraferreira920]

KEITH!!!

[@AtlasReburdened]

Whoa... How'd yall even get her out of the black hole? Has anyone told Bob?

[@Didntwanttomakeauser]

Why do you wear gloves for the index cards but not the actual manuscripts?

[@lukacrnomarkovic8172]

Because they are more clumsy with the gloves, and could tear the paper.

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

And they're magic.

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

The gloves are just a theatrical device for the index cards. Brady's video moment. "The gloves of destiny" he calls them. Normally, those gloves are used when handling physical objects, like wood, metal and glass. They reduce sensitivity, so when turning pages of manuscripts, tears are more likely with gloves on. So they take them off for manuscripts. Likely they are vigorously washing their hands prior to touching the manuscripts (off camera).

[@PassionPopsicle]

They will sometimes wear rubber gloves with especially old manuscripts. But never cloth :)

[@KarlFarbman]

I thought the circles shirt was a joke on that video!

[@MattStum]

Brady doesn't joke about shirts.

[@Sim.Crawford]

How do we get more objectivity faster?

[@PetrFlosman]

Pretty good pick for a Kiwi.

[@Ana_crusis]

I was born in Sunderland and that is 2 days before my birthday. Same year too :)

[@teen-at-heart]

A bit confusing. Alice lives in London, but isn’t just coming in? :) Edit: Ah, ok....she stopped by later.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

Please. Leave my family out of this.

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

That's rough, man. Kidding aside. I'll hook you up with Chuck Hitler. You guys can start a support group.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 No I literally mean leave asbestos out of that gauze. We are hazardous in large numbers. Just one won't hurt you too much though.

[@Physhi]

Did you gentlemen take pictures of the latin pages and upload it so people can translate them into English or whichever language they desire? There should be an effort in general to add English to Latin papers so future generations might understand.

[@bigsarge2085]

👍

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

in London and couldn't be there in person? the RI is in London right?

[@cybercat1531]

Scheduling, it's complicated sometimes.

[@yogitshankar6348]

The technology has taken over my friends.

[@swedishviking4086]

I thought it was Emilia Clarke!

[@XiXora]

No Apple Pencil in sight. #HI

[@francoislacombe9071]

Oh for Pete's sake! 🙄 Nobody's going to keel over dead because they are carrying a safety lamp with a screen made of asbestos.

[@CheshireTomcat68]

Whereas the people making the lamps...

[@TheGreatSteve]

Alice?.. Who the flip is Alice?

[@HebaruSan]

She's the one who's always trying to hide encrypted data from Bob

[@MrPictor]

@@HebaruSan From Eve, not Bob.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

A Patreon supporter.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Bob's very adventurous friend. Only person to survive being swallowed by a black hole.

[@pH7oslo]

Not many people getting that reference, apparently - which isn't necessarily a bad thing..

[@TheGreatSteve]

I've just broken off from watching a video about the FRENCH to watch this, double boo. It is about the Eiffel tower though.