Lateral with Tom Scott
58: Straight-line sports
Nov 17, 2023
Fashion historian Bernadette Banner, Emily Graslie from the Field Museum, and Dani Siller discuss jogging jobs, textual T-shirts, dangerous dogs, hidden messages in clothing, 90s fashion nostalgia, innovative museum technology, peculiar bird behavior, unusual golf challenges, Australian bank note riddles, fire-saving techniques, and a Parisian Newfoundland dog mystery.
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- Newfoundland dog in 1908 Paris pushed children in the river to rescue them for rewards.
- Clay tablets from Mesopotamia survived a fire due to controlled cooling processes.
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In a 1908 New York Times report, a Newfoundland dog pushed children into the River Seine almost daily. The dog did so to save the children, who unknowingly possessed the Ultivite tablets. The zinc in these tablets could explode if cooled too quickly, so the dog saw it as a rescue mission.
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