Recast: Ella on That's Absurd, Please Elaborate

What does it mean to perform magic with only sound, and can Ella perform it LIVE at the Bedford Pub in London? And... wait has Tom not prepared a topic?Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:13) Auditory Magic(00:32:42) The Second Topic(00:59:39) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:The Science of Cameron, Shepherd’s tone, phantom words, I heard kill the president, I heard Tom sucks, illusions vs magic, magicians are lazy, auditory trick challenge, David we’ve technically never met, you’re just being nice, the cone of confusion, the unreleased magic trick, magic ethics, THEY’RE DOING NUANCE, the game you can win but not this interaction, alluminum foil! you can take plastic straws away from my cold dead hands, America is not real and it can’t hurt me, testimony, never say santa is not real to anyone, no preference, what’s the sexiest number of legs? Taha’s telling on himself, Geology is the hardest science, sounds like science, oh Of Course it’s the sound of two black holes colliding, GAAAAAAARY, 5 dollars and a blue ribbon, Ella’s first prepared review corner.Sources:Hearing Research: Unveiling the Mind's EarSplice: The Shepard ToneDiana Deutsch: Phantom Words Museum of Illisions: Magic and Optical Illusiions MAGIC Lab: Magic InSIGHTMAGIC Lab: Social Coginition Trends In Cognitive Science: Magic for the BlindEureka Alert: Are Auditor Magic Tricks Possible?MAGIC Lab: The Audtiory Trick Challenge MAGIC Lab: Challenge Winner Science News: Magical Illusion for the Ears ---Debunking the Santa MythTrolley Self Driving Car SurveyLIGO Gravitational Wave ChirpHusband Calling Contest Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

It's our first ever LIVE SHOW!!! We return to the threequel of eyevolution to look at... eyelids? How interesting could that be? And Caroline teaches us about the competition, the science, and the adorable bears of fat bear week!Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/115/)Tom's Topic Reveal SlideSpecial GuestSealBear 480: Otis 1Bear 480: Otis 2Bear 480: Otis ComparisonBear 132 Cub 1Bear 132 Cub 2Bear BracketBear 89 Backpack 1Bear 89 Backpack 2Bear 89 Backpack 3Bear 747 Bear Force One 1Bear 747 Bear Force One 2Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:06:51) Eyevolution III(00:28:06) Fat Bear Week(00:52:01) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:Sources:The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapodsSouthwest Eye Institue Blinking and Eye HealthReview of Opthamology on Blinking and TearsReview of Lacrimal Gland from Journal of OpthamologyAdvances in Clinical Chemistry: Chapter on Tear FilmAlaska Department of Fish and Game on Seal Tear Ducts---Four Paws: Torpor vs HibernationNorth American Bear Centre: Bear Activity and HibernationFour Paws: The Brown Bear: Way of Life & OffspringExplore: Bear of Fat Bear WeekDOI: Everything You Want to Know About Katmai National Park’s Fat BearsExplore: FBW 2026BBC: 'Backpack' declared Alaska's Fat Bear Week winnerWiki: Fat Bear WeekNational Park Service: Bears of KatmaiExplore: FBW Hall of ChampionsGuardian: Backpack Wins Fat Bear WeekPBS: Gentle Giant Backpack Declared Winner of Alaska's Fat Bear WeekFriends of Bridger Teton: When You Have to Eat All Day – HyperphagiaFWS: Fat Bear Diet PlanNational Park Service: FBW Past and PresentWiki: Hibernation Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

How many bones are in the La Brea tar pits? And what can that teach us about life, death, and oil? And what's the point of growing giant vegetables? Well, the pure whimsy of it all, as well as some fascinating techniques and tales.Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/114/)Tom's Picture from La Brea2nd Picture from La BreaGiant TomatoesGiant CarrotGiant ZucchiniGiant PumpkinEating PumpkinPumpkin RaceTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:05:37) La Brea's Bone Count(00:49:35) Giant Pumpkins(01:36:04) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:Good to be back in the bone zone, how many corners does LLE have? wolf skull wall, untangling all the oil words, life uh dies, Coal Oil & Gas, crude oil has over 350 different hydrocarbons, refining oil is just separating different hydrocarbons, the official stance of the podcast is that fossil fuels are cool, hey kids - see what it was like to be in the asphalt’s deathly grip! Kids Yearn for the Tar Pits, La Brea has the bones of Tigers and Lions and Camels, I’m actually an epoch girlie, um actually it’s the La Brea Woman, it’s 10,000 years ago - women can be fossils too, predator traps and carcass domination, the oily stains on bones, fingers crossed the new museum invents new ways to confront my mortality, Summer’s Jumpret response to Michael, what’s y’alls familiarity with vegetables? I have to tell an asparagus story, perhaps Thoreau’s biggest impact was on the large vegetable world, fuck Leaves of Grass - One Big Pumpkin, big pumpkin at the Chicago World’s Fair, we’re going to need a bigger pub, it’s like very slow horse racing, it’s like a drug dealing community, the LLE ruler goes from Big to Fuck Me, seed auctions, the horror that is giant tomatoes, sorry what the fuck is the giant pumpkin common wealth, I love when a number is so preposterous it makes us angry, Ella is disappointed by carrots, pumpkins are an indeterminate plant, pumpkins are nature’s dyson sphere, auxiliary plants are so creepy, the theoretical pumpkin limit is 20,000 pounds, cheating and skullduggery, put me in a giant pumpkin and throw me in the tar pit, pumpkin regatta, I know you meant - no I meant punkin chunkin, you have to completely lack whimsy to not enjoy these guys.Sources:La Brea's HistoryUC Berkley La Brea HistorySmithsonian Fossil Fuel BreakdownNHM Tar Pit TravelogueSmithsonianMag: Animals Trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits Would Take Months to SinkUC Berkley La Brea HistoryIUGS on La BreaLa Brea CamelThe carnivoran fauna of Rancho La Brea: Average or aberrant?La Brea Carnivore AnalysisPlayback Carcass Domination StudyPhys.org La BreaNew York Botanical Garden: Origin of the Giant PumpkinYoutube: Giant Veg Wiki: Giant PumpkinBBC: Pumpkin seed bought online for £168Thompson and Morgan: Pumpkin PayoutGiant Pumpkin CommonwealthGPC: Newsletter Archive Thompson and Morgan Blog: How to Grow a Giant PumpkinNPR: Why Vegetables Get Freakish In The Land Of The Midnight SunBBC: How I grow my giant vegetables to break recordsScience News: Here’s how giant pumpkins get so bigLiveScience: Why Pumpkins Can Grow So Large2016 Paper: The making of giant pumpkins: how selective breeding changed the phloem of Cucurbita maxima from source to sinkShropshire Star: Pumpkin Controversy Blog: Beyond the Pond: Growing Giant PumpkinsBBC: What do giant veg growers eat on Christmas Day?CTV News: Henry the Polar BearSciShowThe Guardian: Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

Wait, how are we rediscovering organs in 2026?? Or... are we? Well let's learn about the history and fads of the insides of our bodies! And what is bird watching, why do we all love it, and how casual and competitive can you get with it?Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/113/)Clay LiverOnline Terminologia AnatomicaSalivary GlandsBird Study SkinsA Field guide to Birds Example PageTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:56) Rediscovered Organs(01:05:15) Bird Watching(01:50:12) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:Huh?? Mesopotamian organ divination, sheep liver phrenology models, everyone needs to talk about this, Al-Razi’s “Doubts about Galen”, the great ignorance time skip, hmm this dead body must be wrong, the dissection fad, the murder act, you don’t know Burke and Hare?? body snatching and anatomy murder, the vestigial craze, Wiedersheim’s minimal viable person, the problem of naming organs, 20 synonyms of organs, Ella goes feral over the online Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology, our 3-4, hi Dad and Ella’s mom - hope you enjoyed that clitoris joke, our 4th pair of handlebar moustache salivary glands, the interstitium getting reverse pluto’d, labelling an organ is useful but also not the full picture, gen Z loves birding, FUCK YOU JONO WE’RE DOING THE HISTORY, is paleontology birding if you’re looking at sauricia, ornithomancy, where there have been birds - we have watched birds, study skins, hey what if we looked at them alive? in 1901 Edmund Selous discovers bird empathy, “lay down the gun and take up the glasses”, POWs from WWII publishing their findings, slovenly non scientific bird watchers, it’s a hobby with no proper definition, Merline and ObsIdentify and Birder and Ebird and Rare Bird Alert and Birder’s Interface, it’s pokemon! WHO’S THAT bird, “oh my god I actually cannot do this any more”, apps aren’t perfect, twitchers, the New Jersey World Series of Birding, Big Year, the first book specifically for birding, the first big year was just some guy who wrote how many birds he saw one year and told people about it, a big year is a physical and mental trial for glory, it’s for the birds, has their love curdled or have they unlocked a true kind of love? why do we do anything at all? I do love birds but man do I love humans.Sources:NIH: Organ Definition2024 Paper: The Most Ancient Sources of Anatomic Knowledge2025 Paper: Galen’s Typology of Organs2013 Paper: The Air of History (Part IV): Great Muslim Physicians Al RhazesBBC Bitesize: Medieval MedicineWellcome Collection: Getting Under the Skin2011 Paper: The Study of Anatomy in England From 1700 to the Early 20th CenturyBook: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England by Hurren ET, Chapter 7.Wiki: VestigialityBritannica: AnatomyTerminologia Anatomica 2019 (TA2) OfficialBearBoat Terminologia Anatomica 2019 (TA2)Cleveland Clinic: OrgansWiki: List of Organs2021 Paper: The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapyArticle: The tubarial salivary glands: A newly recognized organ with dental significanceCORDIS: Did scientists just discover a secret organ in your head?Netherland Cancer Institute: Cancer researchers discover new salivary gland2021 Paper: The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapyCleveland Clinic: InterstitiumSciAm: Meet Your Interstitium, a Newfound "Organ"2024 Paper: A comprehensive analysis of the tubarial glands2018 Paper: Another new organ! is this a golden age of discovery in anatomy?BBC: Scientists just discovered the largest ever human organ – and we all have itIndependant: Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find2026 Paper: Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain2005 Paper: Gastrulation Movements: the Logic and the Nuts and BoltsNeuroscience News: The Brain Is Two Separate Organs Joined by EvolutionLiveScience: 'Useless' female organ discovered over a century ago may actually support ovaries, study findsUni of Colorado: Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: The “Antennae” of the Ovary2024 Paper: Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: the Development, Role, and Function of a Secreting Auxiliary Structure to the Ovary---BBC: Why Gen Z Birdwatchers Are Flocking to ReservesCNN: Why Gen Z is going bonkers for birdingWikipedia: OrnithomancySmithsonian Magazine: How Bird Collecting Evolved Into Bird-WatchingMy Bird Buddy: History of Bird WatchingHaikubox: Evolution of BirdwatchingPitville History: Edmund SelousBritish Birds: Best Bird Watching Apps10000 Birds: Can I rely on MerlinScience Base: Bird ID AppsSussex Wildlife Trust: The Good the Bad and the Middling ID AppsReddit: Pokemon Go is Basically BirdingReddit: Ever Wanted to Catch Em All IRL?Reddit: Why is Gen Z Suddenly Obsessed with BirdwatchingYoutube: ListersNew Jersey Audubon Society: World Series of BirdingWikipedia: Big YearSmithsonian Library and Archive: A Field Guide to BirdsAmerican Bird Association: Big Year RulesAudubon: The Big Year According to BirdersBirding (American Birding Association): The Next Big ThingSurfbirds (Wayback Machine): Alaska, The Last Frontier Attu IslandNPR: The Real Birdwatchers Behind Hollywood's 'Big Year' Help support this show and unlock bonus content! 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What happens to life inside exclusion zones like Chernobyl? Is it good? Bad? Or something much more interesting? And what happens when you try to codify every single character from human language? Well, it definitely leads to some fascinating linguistic rabbit holes!Images we talk about:Przewalski’s horse (yes that’s how it’s spelled)FrogsCharacter U+FDFDArabic TextDecorative U+FDFD'sTom's Favorite Use of KashidaTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:12) Life in Exclusion Zones(01:01:48) Every Single Character(01:52:06) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Actually defining it made it creepier, the zone rouge, we an area of Earth uninhabitable from war, chernobyl release over 100 radioactive elements, they really need to name the zone of alienation the zone of doing taxes, the liquidators actually did a good job of stopping the spread, is this a rewilding experiment? Ella deleted emails to poach this topic, Przewalski’s horse (yes that’s how it’s spelled), technically feral vs wild horses, I’ve reached the nuance center of my nuance pop, why isn’t it my job so sample chernobyl frogs, nearly all pine trees near chernobyl were wiped out, “the selective pressures of radiation”, bright birds used up their carotenoids for color, we’re doing nuclear ecological biochemistry, god that was an ugly laugh, maybe its counterintuitive for the small things - no this one sucks, the slow horror of a lack of decomposition, the ecosystem is not rewilded it’s entirely new, the Korean DMZ is like an ecological semi permeable membrane, DMZ ecology research institute, the DMZ has 40% of Korea’s endangered species, it’s a pitstop along the east asian australasian flyway, endangered cranes have bounced back in the DMZ, the DMZ crane watch, the cranes and natterjack toad require human farming to thrive, synonyms of nuance and thrive, Baarter economy standing ovation, conflictful chicken, Unicode is the ISO standard for text on computers, ASCII’s 128 characters is surely enough right? why do you have a period accurate phone? it turns out other cultures want to use the computer, there are 159,801 characters in unicode, the basic multilingual plane sounds like startrek shit and it kind of is, I mean it’s not like it has cuneiform except it does, braille unicode exists for a reason, braille doesn’t just map one to one with letters it also has contractions, contracted braille is a stenography, tweeting more in japanese, 101,996 CJK characters, Max Woolf’s Big List of Naughty Strings, after Mamdani was elected I had to learn how to pronounce the bismillah, “Bismillah is the Przewalski’s Horse of this topic”, I said we shouldn’t dive into the history of a language halfway through a topic but fuck it, LR0’s terrific Arabic typography essay, arabic script can be perfectly justified, “the justification lives inside the words”, Kashidas stretching across a map made it click for Tom, maing the bismillah beautiful, we all just want to make text look cool, the ottoman printing press ban myth, the cursed lost printed quran, oh my god is this the unifying thing, weirdly internet explorer had kashida justification for 1 year? Inshallah you find on the internet what you’re exploring for.Sources:Chernobyl Frogs ImageWikipedia: Exclusion ZonesWorld Nuclear AssociationWikipedia: Zone RougeExplorers Web: Montserrat and its Exclusion ZoneGuardian: UN Buffer Zone in CyprusInternational Atomic Energy Agency: ChernobylUnited Nations Development Programme: Chernobyl Recovery DevelopmentBBC Future: Chernobyl’s WildlifeRoyal Society Proceedings B: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as a Wildlife RefugeWikipedia: Red ForestCurrent Biology: Long-term Census Data Reveal Abundant Wildlife Populations at ChernobylScience: Chernobyl Hits Birds HardMicroorganisms: Soil Microbes and Plant-Associated Microbes in Response to Radioactive PollutionThe Conversation: The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Wild HorsesSan Diego Zoo: The Last Wild HorseAnimals: Endangered Przewalski’s Horse, Equus przewalskii, Cloned from Historically Cryopreserved CellsSan Diego Zoo: Birth of Cloned Przewalski’s FoalKorean Konsult: DMZ - Demilitarized ZoneDMZ: The Civilian Control Line (CCL) towns of the Korean PeninsulaReuters: South Korea to Shift Civilian Restricted LineSouth China Morning Post: The Korean DMZGuardian: How Wildlife is Thriving in the Korean DMZRoyal Society Notes and Records: From Warzone to BioreserveZooniverse: DMZ Crane WatchBiological Conservation: Winter Foraging of Threatened Cranes in the Demilitarized Zone of KoreaCultural Anthropology: Toward an Anthropology of LandminesKNews: Nature Thrives in Cyprus’ Forgotten Buffer ZoneUFZ EuMon conference: Monitoring Biodiversity of the Buffer Zone in CyprusSatoyama Initiative: The Cyprus Buffer Zone as a Socio-Ecological Landscape---UC Berkley Unicode OverviewUnicode's HistoryUnicode on BrailleRNIB Contracted BrailleBuzzfeed on Japanese TweetsLR0's Incredible Arabic Type EssayDesign Principles of Kashida Justification: A Unique Technique in Arabic and Persian MappingThe Lost Quran's DiscoveryKathryn Schwartz's "Did Ottoman Sultans Ban Print?" 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Due to some house woes, we're recasting Ella's excellent appearance on That's Absurd, Please Elaborate, where they actually solve a meme and invent Pee Day. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

What does an astronaut actually learn in training? And what surprises them about having to live in space? Well, fortunately astronaut Cady Coleman is here to answer these and many more of our questions!! See us live in London! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE See Tom live in NYC! OurFindingsShow.com Images we talk about:Cady's Background Image Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:03) Astronaut Training and Space Life (01:10:42) Space Suits (01:23:45) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Astronaut school, “the mission is exploration and only a part of it is human spaceflight”, the telerobotic surgery was real, living in NEEMO, Cady learned to remove a gallbladder, “what is it that I have to remember is not being simulated well?”, oh the telerobotic surgery was happening under water, it’s about sharing what you’re learning at the same time, spending 11 days underwater, bedrest studies in hawaii are actually a toll and a service, communication is key even in space, trust us space food is going to get old, not every day of training is remove 10 gallbladders, putting yourself in the picture humanizes it, which way is up? sleep flashes from cosmic rays, liquid sensors in our neck make you pee when you lie down and reduce blood volume in space, you can’t cough to hide your pee on the ISS, the future of the ISS, astronaut feet facts, Paolo and Cady’s toenail system, learning to fly in zero g, “you learn to live in 3 dimensions”, losing things in zero g sucks, CO2 buildup for the group photo, not washing clothes upset the balance, it’s all about fluid physics, “it’s all about interfaces between solids and liquids - and up in space it’s the biggest game in town”, peeing in space is easier than camping, how you determine your space order with feet, the domino effect of space suit sizes, your space suit is your space ship, IT’S LESS MATERIAL, there are people who are still waiting their turn, “how do you make sure these voices are heard when their presence is not missed?”, how to work for change collaboratively, you shouldn’t have to work so hard to participate, “oh that’s going on the website Cady”, one small step for you and one big step for democracy. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

What even is horsepower? Is it a silly unit of measurement, or actually an underrated marvel?? And how old is makeup? Why do we do it? And what historic looks can you steal for your next night out? What are the flaws in scientific publishing, who's responsible, and how can we fix it? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Images we talk about: Papyrus ImageFish PalettePatch PortraitPainting of Two Ladies Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:15) Horsepower (00:48:26) Makeup (01:39:07) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: I’m taking horse pills to get their powers, we can answer questions without getting klaxonned, abbreviated for french reasons, the meter is 1 ten millionth the distance from the north to south pole, I’m going to be talking about power “oh god”, power is the movement of a mass over time, you’ll notice nowhere in that definition did I mention horses, James perfects the steam engine, you can’t just say “hey this engine will get us to the industrial revoltuion” you have to sell it in horses, come up with your own unit of power dweeb, a horse can produce 15 horsepower,  you’re about to have a lot more nickels, there was a metric and imperial horsepower, all the international names for hosepower, watt SI unit is on first base? the father son and the holy ghost of electronics (the amp, volt, and watt), we didn’t have a unified unit for power before horsepower, Thomas Edison measured lightbulb efficacy by horsepower, IT WASN’T AN IRONIC CHOICE IT WAS CAUSE AND EFFECT, this isn’t a podcast it’s a slumber party, Caroline and Ella’s metallic blue eyeliner/facepaint, webster’s definition is somehow too broad and too narrow, prehistoric pigemtns may have been body paint, Ella’s surprisingly informative ancient egyptian ASMR video, from kohl to green malachite, caroline hiding the sexy bits of the papyrus from us, this makes my tummy hurt, fish palettes, ancient greek prostitues were required to wear lipstick, modern man or ro-man, a woman buys lotions and perfumes with cheating in mind, Elizabeth I’s lead and vinegar makeup, painting on fake veins, plucking hairs to match the queen’s forhead, the optical illusion dot, Caroline’s favorite fad: beauty patches, it’s so wild how excluded darker complexions are in the market when this topic started in ancient egypt, perhaps makeup imitates the moment of an orgasm, im inventing new sexism: men are blurry, we finally just asked women why they wear makeup, wearing makeup because we have to vs we want to, for other or ourselves, the ro-manosphere. Sources:History of the SI UnitsHistory of Imperial UnitsThe Fan-Tastic paper: The Origin of the Horsepower UnitJames' Encyclopedia Britannica BiographyHorserpower From a Horse PaperSiemen's Address for the Watt UnitEdison Papers Measuring Lightbulbs in HorsepowerNOAA Lightning Stats ---Merriam WebsterMakeup DefinitionBlog: BodypaintingWhy Do We Do That? MakeupArcheology Journal: Prehistoric Body Painting- 2000Independant: 300000 year old body artSmithsonian: Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave2017 Paper: Painted in red: In search of alternative explanations for EuropeanPalaeolithic cave artBritannica: MakeupBlog: History of MakeupWiki: Beauty and Cosmetics in Ancient EgyptNHM Utah: Makeup in Ancient EgyptBlog: Ancient Egyptian make-upBook: Ovid on CosmeticsUniversity of Kent: The Painful Art of Being a Roman WomanWiki: Cosmetics in Ancient RomeThe Guardian: Medieval Christian Misogyny Shapes How We Judge Women Today, Says ScholarRoyal Museums Greenwich: Elizabeth I: Fashion and BeautyDMDA: You Must Get a PatchAuction Listing: Portrait of two ladies. Patch marks to their facesWiki: Allegorical Painting of Two LadiesSmithsonian: Make-upPreston Park: The History of Victorian MakeupYouGov: One in Six Women Wear Makeup at the GymYouGov: How Often - and why - American Women wear makeupYouGov: One in Twenty British Men Now Wear Makeup2022 Paper: The contrasting effects of body image and self-esteem in the makeup usageBlog: Why Do We Chase The Post-O Glow?2015 Paper: Facial coloration tracks changes in women's estradiol2015 Paper: Cosmetics Alter Biologically-Based Factors of Beauty: Evidence from Facial ContrastABC News: Makeup Makes Women Seem More Competent, Study Says2024 Paper: The Influence of Makeup on Individual Self-Identity: An Exploratory Study2016 Paper: Does make-up make you feel smarter? The “lipstick effect” extended to academic achievement Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

What are the flaws in scientific publishing, who's responsible, and how can we fix it? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:47) Scientific Publishing Part I (00:35:57) Scientific Publishing Part II (01:13:07) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: We almost do the same grim joke, the live show will have 50% more hosts than this, before publications there were societies and books and letters, in 1665 a Henry Oldenburg of the royal society starts “Philosophical Transactions”, the longest continuous journal (ignoring the time Olderburg was put in a tower for criticizing the king), the discovery of Jupiter’s red spot and also a deformed calf, Newton’s Optics was published in Philosophical Transactions first, Science has bad SEO, the doubling time of papers is 14 years since the 1950s, Ella’s peer review process, errors can be missed and biases affected, not paying reviewers is a bug that’s labelled as a feature, government funded research can still be privately owned, we’ve all agreed “processing fee” just means bullshit, there’s some things I don’t want to be “fun”, Elsevier has a 38% profit margin while Alphabet’s is 32%, editorial resignations in protest, I’m excited to add Robert Maxwell to my Arya Stark list of people, Maxwell died on his yes-that-Ghislaine-Maxwell Yacht, the scheme to buyout scientists for their papers, cover upfront costs - own copyright - flood with new journals - reap the subscription costs, “jesus wept”, retractions are growing by about 20% each year, I’m buying Ella a dictionary so she can learn what “fun” means, fool me 239 time shame on me, paper mills, predatory journals are pay to win, the Chinese restaurant metaphor keeps staying accurate, no it’s not nature our journal is nurture, is this finally rock bottom? the public review curate model, the pros and cons of preprints, diamond open access, the nelson memo, “I think the Ghislaine Mawell death yacht is fun”. Sources:Royal Society: History of Scientific JournalsRoyal Society: Philosophical Transactions The Early YearsRoyal Society: Philosophical Transactions Issue 1University College London: A History of Scientific JournalsPhilosophical Transactions A: Newton Shows the LightRoyal Society Notes and Records: 350 Years of Scientific PeriodicalsBroad Research Communication Lab: Peer Review - a Historical PerspectiveNature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: Growth Rates of Modern ScienceJSTOR: The History of Peer Review is More Interesting Than You ThinkBritish Journal of Biomedical Science: The Peer Review Process: Past, Present, and FutureJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine: Peer Review: A Flawed Process at the Heart of Science and JournalsThe Conversation: Academic Publishing is a Multibillion Dollar IndustryNew Scientists: Time to Break Academic Publishing’s Stranglehold on ResearchThe Lancet: Should Peer Reviewers Be Paid?Guardian: Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science? (Robert Maxwell Longread)Research Professional News: Elsevier ProfitGuardian: George Monbiot on Academic PublishersRetraction Watch: Statistics and Computing ResignationGuardian: The Murky Life of Robert MaxwellJournal of the Academy of Public Health: The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way ForwardEBSCO Research: Publish or Perish ParadoxUniversity of Technology Sydney: The ‘Publish or Perish’ Mentality is Undermining ScienceRetraction Watch: COVID RetractionsRetraction Watch: Most CitedRetraction Watch: Retractions by Nobel Prize WinnersRetraction Watch: Most RetractionsBritish Medical Journal: Boldt the Great PretenderNato Strategic Communication Centre: Disinformation and Scholarly CommunicationsThe Conversation: Paper MillsToxicologic Pathology: Predatory Journals: What They Are and How to Avoid ThemThe Lancet: Lessons From the Influx of Preprints During the Early COVID-19 PandemicThe Conversation: Diamond Open AccessSan Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

We all thought quicksand would be a bigger deal than it is, but what is the science behind them and all the other worries I had as a kid? And how does pinball reflect the changing cultures of our time, and could now be the best era of pinball? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Things we Talk About:   BagatelleRedgrave's PinballHumpty DumptyBeat TimeLambeth & Sarceni's Amazing Pinball Talk at MagfestDavid Barber's Magfest Pinball PanelTechnology Connection's Great Pinball BreakdownPinballMap.com Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:22) Quicksand and Other Childhood Worries (01:05:22) The Undying Game of Pinball (01:55:32) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Ella’s spoon collection is much more important than our live show, the never ending story, quicksand was in 3% of in the 1960s, the problem with gen z is they’re not afraid of quicksand, quicksand is reverse oobleck (sheer-thinning), the settled sand at the bottom requires the force of lifting a car, quicksand is unfortunate physics circumstances burying you, 11th century quicksand art in the Bayeux Tapestry (also Haley’s comet), we’re less dense than quicksand so you’d float at your waist, you could listen to this podcast twice while hanging out in quicksand, Ella cried so much she couldn’t cross the piranha plank, piranha fear is President Roosevelt’s fault, you know you’re making fun of a ten year old child right now, my main takeaway was what a cogent president he was, piranhas reloading their teeth, piranhas have 10x the relative bite force to size of a crocodile, piranhas aren’t carnivores - they’re opportunistic omnivores and a skittish prey species, the cow just walking out of the piranhas, it’s like two truths and a lie but all three are true, ARE WE DOING SPIDERS GEORG, spiders have acute mechanoceptors, tarantulas aren’t just hairy for fun, debunking the Lisa Birgit Holst debunking, a 50 spiders salute for georg, Beans Britain is a statistical outlier and should not be counted, spiders georg as a stats teaching tool, spiders georg was NOT an outlier, the moment Tom and pinball fell in love, we’ve been throwing balls at pins since ancient Egypt, indoor parlor games were for the aristocracy, fixing the pins to the table with bagatelle, the depression sparked the start of pinball’s craze, evolving their legs back, truly pinball is what caused the depression, pinball was the avocado toast of the time, pinballs were literally turned into billy clubs and bullets, pinball was banned for 34 years in new york city, the historic humpty dumpty machine first gave us flippers in 1947, pinball was cooler than porn, the bootles, it’s games sex and games AGAIN - but this time it’s bad, Suzanne Ciani’s digital design for Xenon, guess the pinball cabinet from the sound, the sopranos’ profanity filter, NBA fastbreak isn’t a basketball themed pinball - you are playing basketball, Dave demonstrating a Tap Pass, pinball is the most open it’s ever been, finding cabinets is a somehow even nerdier version of birdwatching, oh nooo don’t send me pictures of pinball cabinets. 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People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year While They Sleep |Springer Nature: The Vibrational Sense of SpidersWiki: Fried Spiderr/HelloInternet Reddit: Lisa Birgit Holst Doesn't Exist Snopes: Lisa Birgit HolstTumblr: Spiders GeorgWiki: Spiders GeorgJournal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics: View of How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat? Medium: The Spiders Georg Problem ---Lambeth & Sarceni's Amazing Pinball Talk at MagfestDavid Barber's Magfest Pinball PanelClive Thompson for Smithsonian Mag on PinballNational Museum of American History on Pinball and BagatelleMontague Redgrave's Pinball PatentAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Pinball and GamblingTechnology Connection's Great Pinball BreakdownSuzanne Ciani's Audio Design for Xenon Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn