The Two Hole in a Straw

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In the book, you talk a lot about mosquitoes at some point in service of a greater idea. You lead into it by talking about something called the scrotch plane. There's a lot of weird stuff like that in the book. Aa, come with the book, like, maybe it's ike gloedh spine. That would be killer.

In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.

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