No Such Thing As A Fish 516: No Such Thing As Zeno's Harbour
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Feb 1, 2024 Discover an artificial island turned landfill hosting the 2020 Olympic archery competition. Learn about rotting food in landfills, archery feats, and interesting incidents. Explore Erica Eiffel's object sexuality and her lost sponsors. Delve into cooking experiences, the controversial electric blanket inventor, and the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea. Uncover cheating in Uzbekistan's exams and landlocked sharks on an Australian golf course. Finally, dive into biomimicry and the rise of robotic animals.
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The Archers' Paradox Explained
- The archers' paradox explains how arrows wobble around the bow to hit the target accurately.
- Arrows must flex and snake toward the target; otherwise, they veer off diagonally every time.
Inventor of Electric Blanket's Quirks
- George Crowley invented the modern electric blanket and an electric device to deter squirrels from bird feeders.
- He later abandoned the squirrel device feeling guilty about shocking animals.
Aral Sea's Lost Harbor
- The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan has dried up so much that harbors are now 150 km from the water.
- Rusting ships remain stranded, symbolizing one of the greatest ecological disasters of the 20th century.