250. Angkor Wat & Collapse

Angkor Wat & the thousand stone temples surrounding it are some of the most impressive structures humanity has produced - what happened to the society that built them?

- Links for the Curious -

1. Stoddard, I. et al. Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven’t We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46, 653–689 (2021).
2. The contribution of latent human failures to the breakdown of complex systems. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 327, 475–484 (1990).

[MasacoteSenpai]

I've been watching your channel on and off since high school (I remember PBS Idea Channel still posted videos, so it has been at least 6 years, but most likely more). And every time I rediscover your channel I feel thankful to have even discovered it in the first place.
This video was beautiful to watch, and while I'm not the most avid viewer, I'm really thankful to see you still posting, and that your videos are every bit as good as I remember them being when I was in high school.
Thanks for the video, love from Brazil

[michaelroberts]

I've been subscribed to Thunk for a few years. I've lived and worked in Cambodia for the last 30 years. Great that you visited and enjoyed it, even during the hottest month of the year! Angkor Wat should definitely be on everyone's bucket list.

[Xob_Driesestig]

This video is, like your last one, different from the rest of your videos. Is this your new format? A static scenic long take with voiceover, instead of jump cuts of you standing in front of the THUNK sign? It's very pretty, but I think you're going to be in a bit more trouble once you need to show a graph or paper again. Will you just put them over the scenic shot? That's going to be tricky to pull off aesthetically.

[ineshahuja]

Love your channel, some reason stopped showing up in my sub box youtube is weird.

[bthomson]

"Becoming, persisting and ending!" Shakespeare said we ripe and ripe till we rot! I say that's life on the single scale and the overall existence. Enjoy the ride!

[DAYMENEA]

Man... what the hell... this is such beautiful footage

I'm even not hearing at what you say

[somedude]

A serious discussion about an intricate stone carving begins.
Me: wait a minute, where's the pun?
* a few seconds later *
Me: oh, there it is 🙄

[alan]

8:19 Oh hey, my name [among two other patrons] is green in the credits! I wonder why