Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 12, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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What's the Use of the Stapling?
In order to get something on the roof of a building, you may have to build some whole scaffolding. And that's just left over as kind of a construction artifect. Cause we haven't evolved that far from over the last ten thousand years. There are weird cases where our fingers actually grow in a weird way. But if you look at the sort of tree of life evolving towards us, it's like that flip around is really hard to do.
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