White Gloves of Destiny (feat. Real Engineering) - Objectivity 159 

"Don't you wish they were better written?" And now everyone at work is wondering why I'm laughing out loud.

Keith's capacity for reading handwriting should be recognized as a superpower.

Keith is brutal. Just brutal

"Don't you wish they were better written". Keith's death blow.

Regarding the date of the first document: The 6th of march is obviously not a Monday every year. In Herschel's time as an astronomer, in the following years the 6th of march were a Monday: (18), 20, 26, 29, 35, 37, 43, 46, 48, 54, 65, (71) If we can assume that he was President of the Royal Astronomical Society while receiving the letter, the year would have to be either 29 or 48. If anybody wants to dig a bit, feel free to do so :) EDIT: 35 & 37 are unlikely, since Herschel was in southern Africa from 33 to 38.

Keith: "Don't you wish they were better written?" lol, poor Brady... are you going to start emailing him in the P(rolled R)oper English?

There's a limited number of years that Monday, March 6 could be. Within John Herschel's lifetime (1792-1871), we have 1797, 1809, 1815, 1820, 1826, 1837, 1843, 1848, 1854, 1865, 1871 (just a couple months before his death). However, then we can consider that D'Urban died in 1849, eliminating many of the later years. I'll also make the assumption that this was at least after 1816, when Herschel took up astronomy (according to Wikipedia). This leaves, 1820, 1826, 1837, 1843, and 1848. Still several possible dates, and someone with better knowledge of Herschel's life (or more time to Google things) could probably narrow further.

I wish someone would actually choose a bottom left or right drawer for once..

of course your emails to Keith are archived. they're an important part of history for the Royal Society now because I would have never cared about that thing if it wasn't for these videos and I doubt I'm the only one

I agree with Brady that the use of the black border is quite interesting. I know it was probably just a formality more than anything else, but you could also see it as a neat way of communicating to the recipient of the letter that "Hey, just so you know, I am in mourning, my view of the world is currently distorted in this particular way, so please cut me some slack."

Brady, when you're next down the Royal Society, do they have anything on the colour of tennis balls?

Keith's common knowledge is not common

What is most notable in regards to the black bordered stationery is that if Brady had not called attention to it, he would have never known. Science!

I had no idea about the black border thing either, pretty interesting.

Now I am curious, let Keith use the white gloves of destiny and see what he can randomly pick out of the boxes.

Maybe not the two most interesting letters in the world, but you still made it in to an interesting and fun video.

Brodie was in mourning because his wife had died. Anne Sellon Brodie died in the summer of 1861.

Posting this from Durban, South Africa: A city named after Benjamin D'Urban.

I wonder why we don't still use a black border for mourning on correspondence? What time period was that actually a practice?

Perhaps the "Lassell affair" is talking about the " Lassell-Holden affair"?

Come on Brady, you’ve heared about the black border before. I’ve seen & heared about it on Objectivity before...

The white gloves of destiny is a very cool section, but I wonder if the cards in the front and back, specially from drawers closest to the corners are going to have equal chance of being picked. Perhaps we're losing a few treasures because of unlucky placement decisions! Isn't there any equipment in the Royal Society that was used as a form of lottery or random generator in the past that could help with that?

@0:50 "I'm a little patriotic about South Australia." Really Brady, just a little? ;)

Can we have a Stephen Hawking episode soon. He was a fellow of the RS , it would be interesting to see what material they have for him.

Wait are any of the cards they pick from recent enough to point to the digital archives, or are they only for the physical ones? Because that would be amazing if someone picked an email from Brady!

@2:39 Ouch, need a bandage for that *BURN!*

3:38 "I can list you a thousand reasons to go to South Australia." Go on then, Brady. List a thousand.

You guys should do a tribute to Stephen Hawking.

"don't you wish they were better written" oof

I just love these white gloves of destiny videos - always great.

Brady gonna need to drink some Aloe after that burn.

Keith could use his own channel or BBC series. I really enjoy his content. Does he have a fan club website?

I love this true reflection of science. It's not all whizz bangs; a lot of it is everyday admin, correspondence and repetition.

To really have a chance to pick some interesting material that's not located in the center row, center column, center of the stack, they should use three die. The first number would be the row, the second, the column and the third, how far in do you go before picking any card you feel like.

Was this staged? He just happens to pick South Australia?

Brady, I love this channel but the white gloves of destiny episodes always seem to be duds. Also, it bugs me how no one ever goes to be edges or corners of all the drawers of cards!

I can’t believe no one has picked, for example, the rear card of the lower right drawer!

I honestly Love the "white gloves of destiny" videos!

Right in the center with his left hand, middle card. Random

Poor Brian.

Who is filming at 1:46 - 1:51 if not Brady ? 😨

Brady is looking great.

How deep are you gonna go?

I'd like to see the very first card and the very last card in the card catalog.

Press 3 6 to hear "Sixty"

Dr. Dresden, some ancestor of Dr. Dre

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