Return of the Gloves - Objectivity 141 

+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

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.

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.

+KylieTastic I’m being stubbornly honest with these. What you see is what we got.

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.

Keith Becker As an Electronic Engineer, this would be pleasing to see

See that in tropic

has anyone done a statistical analysis of drawers chosen?

+Eric Taylor I know - this frustrates me. So many hidden gems.

thedenial Ha. Read that in Doc Brown's voice.

its all a cover!!

They could maybe program in a few random "mistakes" to add humanity to their Androids 🤦🤦🤷🤷😬😬

+jaystevens137 thanks

So? Other people are doing it

Ahh, well you may enjoy this - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddx_nsYos1A.html

Thanks! (More evidence that I'll never have an original thought :-D )

+duncancoe like this? m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ddx_nsYos1A.html

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.

He would have killed the weather once we became interested though.

arcanics1971 Well, George RR Martin did forecast a coming cold spell.