This week: a big ship, and an incredible self-portrait.

• Mike, ship enthusiast from the Great Lakes, gets full access as a 1000-foot ship crosses Lake Superior, and brings the audience along for the journey. This is a long deep-dive that includes tours of the bridge, engine room, and down into the depths of the ship. (Thanks to Billy for the suggestion!)
   
• Tech Ingredients turns $3 wine into $100 wine using science. Now, for a lot of folks, an hour and a half of this might be a bit too much: like all stories, this is fractal, and you could probably summarise this into a few minutes if you really tried. But it doesn't feel like wasted time: this seems thoughtful and measured, rather than padded.
   
• "It's 4 a.m. (Wizard Standard Time). You wake up to this on your orb." (Strong language.) "Dungeons and Dragons shopping channel" might seen like an obvious A-meets-B gag, but this video from sketch comedy group Wizards With Guns is so well-executed that it doesn't matter: there were multiple lines in here that made me bark with laughter, and if one joke doesn't work, there'll be another along a moment later.
   

• "Another day, I drive back to Milton Keynes again." This may be the most whimsical piece ever written about the town nicknamed 'Satan's Layby', and its fleet of small, friendly delivery robots.
   
• You may remember the container ship that lost power and destroyed a bridge in Baltimore last year. Well, the US National Transportation Safety Board's report is out, and the cause of the disaster was one loose wire.
   
• "Four bendy buses managed to enter a roundabout at the exact same time from four different directions in Oslo yesterday afternoon and get properly stuck, each bus blocking the exit for the one behind it."

And finally, a self-portrait with a piano.

All the best,

— Tom