Facts and Nostalgia

52 Things I Learned In 2025

Tom Whitwell | Medium | 1st December 2025

This list is an annual institution and always provides a smorgasbord of interesting facts from the year. Some highlights: Spotify still hasn't found a level of randomness for their "shuffle" that listeners like, almost 0.7% of US exports are of human blood or blood products, MIT researchers have created a stretchable and washable computer, and Americans have been shrinking since the 1980s (1,600 words)

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Last Night On Youtube

Finlay McLaren | Lion & Unicorn | 4th December 2025

Examination of nostalgia as represented by the clips that the BBC Archive packages for modern digital consumption. Videos of train commuters in the 1970s, pub pianists in the 1980s, and a man who cycles across the Cairngorms just to find that his friend isn't in evoke a bygone, analogue age. That's not a bad thing, though. "If you’ve never missed a moment you can never return to, you simply haven’t lived" (2,000 words)