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#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Do You Come Up With the Answer?

A scientist notices that when he looks out the telescope at a forty five degree angle to the horizon, he sees the top of a nearby tree. The scientist measures that the foot of the tree is ten meters along the street from the entrance of the building. What is the height of the tree, assuming that the tree has grown straight up? We oed, i'm drawing a little picture here. Ha, ha, ha, 50 tallit's not obviousth, you know, momentary panic. So so i looked this up. I looked up the question my grat five came home with. Andits a telo set up on the roof of an office building so that the

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