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362: Time and Cheese Grater

Dear Hank & John

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What Are the Costs of Matty's Coffee?

There's an energy cost to heating up the water that Matty is going to use for his coffee. Cost two is there are things in this water that aren't in the normal water that is used to make coffee and people who make coffee assume that you're going to have water that's not in use and foil eggs. And then I think number three, hold on, I'm thinking. Maybe you can put a bunch of calcium in the coffeemaker so it doesn't taste like raw eggshells. This next question comes from John Green's dear aunt Catherine - she asks how he started speaking at a university lecture about drinking tap water. Maddie: "I don't know if

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