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32: Losing golf balls for fun

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Longest Golf Button History

Each of our guests has brought a question along and today we're going to start with Zyla. An 8th grader loved baking but kept mixing up his set of measuring cups even though they were labeled. So he came up with a more visual alternative design that made such mistakes far less likely. Do you remember when Ruth found out that you could microwave a mug of water? Wait, who's using the microwave to heat your water?

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