37: Keep left at the quarry
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Why Did Alec Photocopy the Back of His Extension Cord?
I measured how stressful my PhD was and spoiler alert, I was indeed very burnt out from it. The questions on the show are like cosmic wormholes transporting us to realms of knowledge and imagination we never thought possible. So let's explore the vast universe of ideas before we're sucked into an intellectual black hole. Why did Alec photocopy the back of his extension cord? First, how do you define the back of an extension cord? I'm curious, but which which aspect of this extension cord is the back of it? And so finally, the answer to that along with some interesting science is going to come.
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