World's Unluckiest Picks (feat. Ayliean MacDonald) - Objectivity 260

Ayliean MacDonald is back at the Royal Society to take a 'lucky dip' in to the famous card catalogue... What will she pick?! More links below ↓↓↓
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The extra footage with Ayliean is here: www.patreon.com/posts/70371771 And scans of all the pages as promised are here (this page should be accessible to non-patrons): www.patreon.com/posts/70372537

[@Bibibosh]

miss mcdonald is such a funny chick! bloody love the acent!

[@peteranderson037]

I know it isn't sexy, but grunt work like setting up a bunch of weather stations to record observations across a large area is the kind of thing that gets science done.

[@WilliamWallace14051]

It seems the attachments should count as part of the pick.

[@brandonwinstead7137]

Can we get a full length motion picture starring Keith and Brady? "Is it a clue?" "Of course it is! Shut up Brady!"

[@jcortese3300]

I know -- these two need to be novelized and solve Restoration-era crimes and mysteries.

[@sam08g16]

Keith and Brady magically switch bodies after touching a mysterious ancient artefact, cursed by the ghost of a rejected Royal Society applicant. Only by working together can they reverse the spell, uncovering a centuries-old deeply hidden secret that will blow everyone's mind and change the course of history forever. In the end Brady and Keith defeat the frustrated ghost, return to their own bodies and learn the meaning of true friendship.

[@bigwave2975]

I think that second dip was quite wonderful. Early establishment of weather system concepts? Is there a more commonly affecting thing than the weather? That and the introduction where a scientist has done some thinking - consultation and then experimentation which turns out to not help the hypothesis - wonderful! In science - negatives are also important.

[@BeingFireRetardant]

This whole channel is librarian nerd humor at its finest...

[@tabularasa0606]

I for one would love to spend a few weeks in a library like that.

[@no_handle_required]

Keith is one of my imaginary picks for "pick someone to have lunch with and talk'.

[@ZaximusRex]

Has anyone ever taken from the drawers along the wall? I feel like I see people try and do "random" but they always end up generally near the middle.

[@Cooper_42]

It’s like a physical manifestation of the normal distribution.

[@cleon_teunissen]

I agree. Maybe they should draw a repeating grid, (the drawer grid represented multiple times), so that blindly drawing a cross in that grid has equal chance of landing on a wall-adjacent drawer.

[@blindleader42]

To be fair, she did pick from the top row, and the second pick was from the second column. I suspect she was semi-consciously trying to mitigate the phenomenon you refer to.

[@CaptainHoratioPugwash]

I always thought that if I were to be in this situation I would go to the very bottom right hand drawer and choose the very last card.

[@marmelade5118]

Humans are incredibly bad at making a random choices, even if they try. Maybe we will sometime see someone pick a scientific letter on that topic ;-)

[@RoelfvanderMerwe]

Klipfontein is an area just outside of Cape Town, South Africa

[@iteerrex8166]

I’ve said this before, Mr Moore does have a superpower, especially to none English speakers, like seriously that’s just a squiggle.

[@likebot.]

"Gonna take a raincheck on that" 8:15 Drole. Dry English humour, with a twist of irony.

[@Yupppi]

I usually also write 15 pages on youtube comments saying "we need to measure this topic".

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I have a hypothesis!

[@Yupppi]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Let's hear all the preparing words for it!

[@scrotiemcboogerballs1981]

It’s amazing all the history in that place a person could spend a lifetime looking over it and not see everything thanks for sharing always very interesting praying nothing ever happens to that building and all the history is preserved for future generations to come

[@luckyrashes]

only her accent could she get away with "Im pershal for some Hershel"

[@pekaca]

You'd think scientists penning handwritten letters would keep it short and efficient, at least to save on quills, but no! They just waffle on, basking in their victorian eloquence for 15 pages...

[@user-iu1xg6jv6e]

You've destroyed the image in my mind I always thought that Keith is the only one working/living there.

[@xchurricane]

As a meteorologist, these are somewhat lucky finds!

[@GoldenLion8]

But why didn't you go to the roll that was mentioned in the first pick??

[@zapfanzapfan]

I shall print out all my e-mails and make a book of them to preserve them for posterity 🙂

[@CoolAsFreya]

15 page letter about a hypothesis on the weather, I'd struggle to write 15 pages of anything!

[@michaelhaig1317]

‘I’m perschel to a bit of Herschel’ That needs to be on a T-shirt!

[@IntelVoid]

Dr Gardens had some very good thoughts about air pressure and wind (and temperature driving them, though it was his 3rd option). Not entirely sure about his water vapour theory.

[@TheRealInscrutable]

My word that second letter has beautiful handwriting. The last classroom in which I was taught penmanship was in 1979 at Yarm Grammar School (now just Yarm School), is it even taught any more?

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

never lose your four leaf clover

[@subjectline]

I dunno the weather one was a pretty interesting discussion of scientific method, I might go and see what he was saying.

[@RFC-3514]

4:10 - So, the superpower is getting it wrong despite having read the right name on the card? 😛

[@jochum334]

I like the non cool stuff. It gives such sense of volume

[@HectaSpyrit]

"I'm partial to a bit of Hershel" :')

[@professorofdeath7965]

6:34 he took off his gloves to touch the page. A couple shots before this he had it on

[@culwin]

Back then, they hadn't invented tldr; yet

[@Agrajag22]

Has it ever been explained why Keith doesn’t wear gloves? Are librarians genetically altered to remove all oil-producing glands from their fingertips? 😆

[@teen-at-heart]

:) I think with paper you often do not need to….I think they mentioned that once. But they do wear gloves from time to time, only more often with objects that are not made of paper.

[@Varksterable]

It has been explained before, I'm sure. IIRC the lack of tactile feedback with gloves on often causes more damage than oils from the fingers do. Especially now we are all washing our hands about 20% of the day, according to government guidelines. Of course, this is highly dependent on the paper, the person, the item being handled, and a big bunch of other circumstances. The white gloves seem more ceremonial than functional, at least for most of the books we see here. For other items, the gloves are off. By which I mean they are often actually on. It's all a bit confusing, really.

[@NotKyleChicago]

The weather paper is better than the Herschel, in my opinion.

[@una_10bananas]

I loved "shut up Brady"

[@aner_bda]

Always happy to see Ayliean in a Brady video!

[@brandonwinstead7137]

I too blame a lost four leaf clover for all my problems

[@Bibibosh]

i wanna see more of her! shes awesome and dang smart!!

[@klipkultur2951]

Klip Fonteyn? Funny...

[@iugoeswest]

Haha. Of course

[@Sgt-Gravy]

DR. Gardens would be very impressed by satellites & GPS

[@eoin7756]

👋

[@EtecMax]

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[@CodingDragon04]

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[@morkmon]

👋

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

Keith must be about worth his weight in rhodium in those archives.

[@_rlb]

Ayliean, Keith and Brady together in a video... it feels like my birthday.

[@user-pp2rz2mh3f]

math

[@Schnabeltassentier]

Without doubt, Ayliean is the best recent addition to the Brady cinematic universe!

[@fonkbadonk5370]

I kinda disagree.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Of course random chance would lead them to the most boring conversation topic possible, the weather.

[@KNemo1999]

Such a lovely personality, Ayliean is always a great pick.

[@tbird81]

As-bag

[@myysterio2]

Why are people touching 400 year old letters with their bare hands?

[@CaptainHoratioPugwash]

As I understand it using gloves tends to inhibit dexterity making people less delicate with the documents. I assume that you would be asked to wash your hands first to remove any excess oils etc.

[@Quamsi]

Clearance is correct here, i think brady talks about it in objectevity #1. Also im not sure for these specifically, but sometimes the documents they look at are just reproductions collected into a book (i assume the original would have been on a roll of paper, not pages).