There are Roman ruins in London. And they are located… underground.
And this is not the only amazing attraction hiding under London.
Today we will descend step by step into the underground depths of this amazing city and find out: What is under London?
RYV Team:
Voice Over: Kent Bleazard
Thanks for the footage:
Kathryn and Edward, “The Wright Life” – @TheWrightLifeTravelChannel
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It is estimated that more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs were dropped on London and nearly 30,000 civilians were killed by enemy action. In the post-war era, the city had a mammoth task ahead of it. In this video we explore how London re-emerged from being almost completely destroyed during the Blitz – and how the city wears these scars of the Blitz that you can see in plain sight.
This video has been several months in the making and I’ve enjoyed every second of putting it together. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. I’d like to thank Lima Charlie for letting me use his camera, mic, and flat!
00:00 – Intro
01:04 – Gap sites (Notting Hill)
02:25 – The Barbican Estate
03:57 – Burgess Park
04:54 – St Mary’s Newington, Kennington
05:23 – Christ Church, Lambeth North
06:05 – Ladbroke Gardens
06:36 – Walcott Square, Kennington
07:13 – St Thomas’ Hospital
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Hello from the Netherlands! In this video I’m comparing Dutch and UK approaches to urban planning – from street design and greenery, to cycling and even bins and street lights. I think there’s a lot we can learn from the Netherlands which would make the UK’s towns and cities even better – which may even save public sector services and the NHS some money too.
00:00 – Intro
00:10 – Urecht motorway to canal
02:10 – Greenery
04:32 – Paving
05:20 – Good Street Design
08:40 – Bins
09:39 – Amsterdam
14:44 – Cycling
17:48 – Amsterdam Noord
20:38 – Brandevoort
23:13 – Street lights
Great video from Streetscapes going into much more detail about why Dutch street design is genius: • What New York Could Learn From Amsterdam’s…
More information from Not Just Bikes about Amsterdam’s plan to remove 10,000 car parking spaces from its city centre: • Why Amsterdam is Removing 10,000 Parking S…
A bit about the parking spaces removed from one Amsterdam canal to be replaced with a park on top and underground parking beneath: https://www.zja.nl/en/Albert-Cuypgara…
The development of Amsterdam Noord: https://bureauvaneig.nl/project/elzen…
More information about Brandevoort: https://www.visitbrabant.com/en/locat…
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What makes someone real?
And if we met a machine that could feel, how would we even know?
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In Blade Runner, the Voight-Kampff test measures empathy, not intelligence, not memory. Just an involuntary emotional response. But what happens when the machines we build can fake that too?
In this episode, we’re breaking down the science and story behind the Voight-Kampff test. From Turing’s original challenge to AI mimicry, to the rise of affective computing and the real-world limits of how we define consciousness.
This isn’t just about science fiction anymore.
It’s about how we decide what counts as sentient and what happens if we’re wrong.
Topics Covered:
-What the Voight-Kampff test really measured
-Why empathy doesn’t guarantee humanity
-The shift from detection to control in Blade Runner 2049
-Why we still don’t have a test for consciousness
-What AI mimicry tells us (and hides from us)
And why language like “reasoning” and “emotion” misleads us when applied to machines
This one’s for the sci-fi fans, the AI researchers, and anyone who’s ever wondered what proof would ever be enough.
#bladerunner #science #scifi #explained
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