Lateral with Tom Scott 63: Upside-down riches
Dec 22, 2023
Mathematician Hannah Fry, domino artist Lily Hevesh, and comedy writer Brian David Gilbert discuss topics such as flying planes upside down, improving inventions like ketchup bottles, the existence of two javelin events in the Olympics, the mystery of a man-made water trough, and the challenges of organizing a massive funeral scene in a movie.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Variation in work, past encounters, and the mystery of flying planes upside down
01:54 • 3min
Containers and Improved Inventions
04:58 • 25min
Javelin events in the Olympics
30:15 • 7min
The Mystery of the Water Trough
36:56 • 5min
Movie with a Massive Funeral Scene and Thousands of Extras
41:54 • 3min