1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,453 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,453 --> 00:00:16,493 Speaker 2: That'd be Kevin Milne is with a skelder Kevinder Jack. 4 00:00:16,653 --> 00:00:19,533 Speaker 3: Can I just quickly put in a correction from last week? 5 00:00:20,053 --> 00:00:24,333 Speaker 3: Sam Ruth did break John Walker's New Zealand outdoor mile record, 6 00:00:24,693 --> 00:00:29,533 Speaker 3: even though he ran the race indoors. World Athletics changed 7 00:00:29,573 --> 00:00:32,613 Speaker 3: the rules a few years ago, apparently to allow indoor 8 00:00:32,693 --> 00:00:36,573 Speaker 3: records to count as overall records, and Athletics New Zealand 9 00:00:36,693 --> 00:00:42,773 Speaker 3: went with that rule change. Now. Interestingly, subsequently, overall records 10 00:00:42,893 --> 00:00:46,693 Speaker 3: or open records for the New Zealand Men's and women's mile, 11 00:00:47,213 --> 00:00:50,973 Speaker 3: the New Zealand men's five thousand meters have all been 12 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:54,693 Speaker 3: set on indoor tracks. Very interesting. 13 00:00:54,813 --> 00:00:57,853 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's curious. Oh, thank you for that, Kevin. Yeah, 14 00:00:58,053 --> 00:01:02,133 Speaker 2: we always appreciate that. I didn't know that they had combined, 15 00:01:02,133 --> 00:01:04,053 Speaker 2: you know, that World Athletics had made that call and 16 00:01:04,133 --> 00:01:08,773 Speaker 2: that do you go good to know? Forget well, and 17 00:01:09,053 --> 00:01:11,613 Speaker 2: given Sam Ruth's rapid rise, it's probably the sort of 18 00:01:11,653 --> 00:01:14,693 Speaker 2: thing it's worth knowing now, given y that's going to 19 00:01:14,693 --> 00:01:16,013 Speaker 2: be any ricer he'll be breaking. 20 00:01:16,773 --> 00:01:17,053 Speaker 3: Yeah. 21 00:01:17,093 --> 00:01:19,373 Speaker 2: Anyway, Kevin, you you went and saw a friend of 22 00:01:19,413 --> 00:01:22,693 Speaker 2: the show, writer Bill Bryson, live on stage this week. 23 00:01:23,493 --> 00:01:25,933 Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack, I hated science when I was at school, 24 00:01:25,933 --> 00:01:29,493 Speaker 3: but during the week I watched spell Bound for over 25 00:01:29,613 --> 00:01:34,133 Speaker 3: two hours as Bill Bryson Live on stage talked about 26 00:01:34,173 --> 00:01:38,333 Speaker 3: his heavily updated version of his two thousand and three 27 00:01:38,413 --> 00:01:42,493 Speaker 3: book The Short History of Nearly Everything. I read the 28 00:01:42,533 --> 00:01:45,853 Speaker 3: original Short History about twenty years ago and it won 29 00:01:45,893 --> 00:01:50,133 Speaker 3: me over to science. But because discoveries moving so fast, 30 00:01:50,573 --> 00:01:53,773 Speaker 3: Bill Bryson's had to rewrite the book. By way of 31 00:01:53,813 --> 00:01:56,533 Speaker 3: illustrating this, he was saying, the number of moons in 32 00:01:56,573 --> 00:02:00,573 Speaker 3: our solar system has more or less doubled in the 33 00:02:00,693 --> 00:02:03,773 Speaker 3: time since he wrote the first book. It's facts like 34 00:02:03,853 --> 00:02:07,693 Speaker 3: this that fascinate me. Here are some other fascinating facts 35 00:02:07,733 --> 00:02:13,013 Speaker 3: from Bryson. Scientists still don't know what the vast majority 36 00:02:13,373 --> 00:02:17,213 Speaker 3: roughly ninety five percent of the universe is made of. 37 00:02:18,293 --> 00:02:22,613 Speaker 3: Ninety seven percent of life on Earth, particularly in the sea, 38 00:02:22,973 --> 00:02:27,933 Speaker 3: has yet to be identified the atoms with this interest. 39 00:02:28,293 --> 00:02:32,013 Speaker 3: The atoms were made up of a ninety nine point 40 00:02:34,293 --> 00:02:39,933 Speaker 3: nine percent empty space. If you removed all the space 41 00:02:40,013 --> 00:02:43,373 Speaker 3: from the atoms that make up the human body, you 42 00:02:43,413 --> 00:02:46,853 Speaker 3: could fit the entire population of the Earth into a 43 00:02:47,013 --> 00:02:52,853 Speaker 3: sugar cube, but it would weigh billions of tons. If 44 00:02:52,933 --> 00:02:57,293 Speaker 3: you're healthy, you're currently host to roughly one trillion bacteria 45 00:02:57,653 --> 00:03:00,933 Speaker 3: on the surface of your skin alone, plus trillions more 46 00:03:01,013 --> 00:03:05,573 Speaker 3: in your gap. Your immune system captures and kills between 47 00:03:05,773 --> 00:03:09,733 Speaker 3: one and five I've cance aus cells every day. The 48 00:03:09,773 --> 00:03:13,493 Speaker 3: outermost layer of your skin is made entirely of dead cells. 49 00:03:13,813 --> 00:03:17,853 Speaker 3: Where your body meets the air, you are essentially a 50 00:03:17,933 --> 00:03:24,453 Speaker 3: cadavera Most men have twelve meters of tubing tucked inside 51 00:03:24,493 --> 00:03:29,653 Speaker 3: their scrotal sacks. Jack, I can't wait to read Bill 52 00:03:29,693 --> 00:03:33,813 Speaker 3: Bryson's new Short History of Nearly Everything. It might be 53 00:03:33,893 --> 00:03:35,853 Speaker 3: the most interesting book I've ever read. 54 00:03:36,013 --> 00:03:41,813 Speaker 2: Yeah, he is just an extraordinarily gifted writer, isn't he. 55 00:03:42,253 --> 00:03:46,053 Speaker 2: I remember? I think it was Bill Bryson where iland 56 00:03:46,093 --> 00:03:47,653 Speaker 2: that we still don't know what chins are for. 57 00:03:50,693 --> 00:03:51,973 Speaker 3: He's just a green. 58 00:03:51,973 --> 00:03:58,373 Speaker 2: Neck for these little quirky little facts he that. Yeah. Yes, Similarly, 59 00:03:58,453 --> 00:04:00,613 Speaker 2: remember reading A Short History of Nearly Everything the first 60 00:04:00,613 --> 00:04:04,773 Speaker 2: time and just being like totally enchanted by it. But 61 00:04:04,933 --> 00:04:07,653 Speaker 2: so much has changed, So much of the science that 62 00:04:07,853 --> 00:04:12,213 Speaker 2: underpin that book has changed. So yeah, like you say, yeah, 63 00:04:12,213 --> 00:04:13,853 Speaker 2: a Good Time and the Short History of You Near 64 00:04:13,893 --> 00:04:14,413 Speaker 2: Everything too. 65 00:04:15,533 --> 00:04:18,013 Speaker 3: He also wrote this book about Shakespeare. Now I don't 66 00:04:18,093 --> 00:04:21,573 Speaker 3: really go for Shakespeare, but he wrote a really interesting 67 00:04:21,613 --> 00:04:23,653 Speaker 3: book about Shakespeare. And the main fact out of that 68 00:04:23,813 --> 00:04:26,413 Speaker 3: I took away is that picture of him, that sort 69 00:04:26,413 --> 00:04:29,533 Speaker 3: of bald headed guy with hair down the side of 70 00:04:29,573 --> 00:04:33,333 Speaker 3: his head. They're not sure that. They're not absolutely certain 71 00:04:33,373 --> 00:04:34,573 Speaker 3: that that Shakespeare at all. 72 00:04:34,693 --> 00:04:40,933 Speaker 2: Oh well, hey, killing you're in the nine this weekend 73 00:04:40,933 --> 00:04:41,973 Speaker 2: for the polo. 74 00:04:41,813 --> 00:04:43,933 Speaker 3: I am in the nine. I'm up here for the year. 75 00:04:44,813 --> 00:04:48,053 Speaker 3: I'm up here for the for the polo finals, which 76 00:04:48,093 --> 00:04:50,573 Speaker 3: I'm hoping won't be ruined by rain. Ah. 77 00:04:50,853 --> 00:04:52,653 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we've got the fingers crossed. We're going to 78 00:04:52,693 --> 00:04:54,813 Speaker 2: be watching the rain throughout the country today because obviously 79 00:04:54,853 --> 00:04:57,293 Speaker 2: it's causing some disruptions all over the place. Thank you 80 00:04:57,413 --> 00:04:59,773 Speaker 2: very much, Kevin. 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