WEBVTT - Ig Nobel: Strange Science Part 2

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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<v Speaker 1>Works dot com. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow

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<v Speaker 1>your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas.

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<v Speaker 1>This is part two of our pair of episodes about

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<v Speaker 1>the two thousand twelve Ignoble Prizes. In our last episode,

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<v Speaker 1>we told you what the Ignoble Prizes are and we

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<v Speaker 1>ran through a couple of the winners. We mentioned the

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<v Speaker 1>prize and food dynamics as well as the prize. And

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<v Speaker 1>what was the other one? Neuroscience? Neuroscience, Yes, there was

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<v Speaker 1>a dead salmon and and there's also some spilt coffee

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<v Speaker 1>in the other experiment. Just to rehatch really quickly, ignobed

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<v Speaker 1>Bele Prizes. He's happened every year, put on by the

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<v Speaker 1>Annals of Improbable Research. It is a celebration of the weird,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes mundane, often hilarious, but ultimately useful scientific studies, real

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<v Speaker 1>scientific studies that happened every year. Uh and uh and

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<v Speaker 1>and why we should care about The aim is to

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<v Speaker 1>make you laugh and to make you think. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think they do both of these really well. Yes, So

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<v Speaker 1>this is the part B of the episode where and

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<v Speaker 1>this one we're just going to run through some of

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<v Speaker 1>the really cool winners from this year. And uh so,

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<v Speaker 1>if you haven't listened to the previous episode, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>required for this one. Um so you can. You can

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<v Speaker 1>listen to this one first and listen to the other one,

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<v Speaker 1>or take them in the order that God intended them.

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<v Speaker 1>But let's let's go ahead and launch into it. The

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<v Speaker 1>first of the prizes that were going to discuss today,

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<v Speaker 1>uh relates to monkeys behind. This is the twelve Anatomy Prize. Yep.

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<v Speaker 1>Franz Dawal, a biologist at Emory University, and Jennifer Pocarni,

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<v Speaker 1>a researcher at Emery, won this prize because, uh, they

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<v Speaker 1>showed that chimps can match the behind of other familiar

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<v Speaker 1>chimps to their faces. Um so, face to butt, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and the two were trying to determine whether chimpanzees can

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<v Speaker 1>interpret gender from appearance. So, first of all, why is

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<v Speaker 1>this study funny? I don't even think we really have

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<v Speaker 1>to say it. First of all, it involves monkeys. Anything

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<v Speaker 1>involving monkeys that doesn't also involving a vicious mauling attack

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<v Speaker 1>or or or a tragic death of some kind is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be hilarious just because monkeys are. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we can't help it see ourselves in the ways monkeys

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<v Speaker 1>behave and monkeys do ridiculous and grotesque things. Uh. So

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<v Speaker 1>there's that level of it. And then it involves it

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<v Speaker 1>involves butts. Anytime a butt is involved in a scientific study,

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<v Speaker 1>we're all over. It's hilarious, The butt is funny. The

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<v Speaker 1>things that come out of butts are the are the stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>the the the ground floor of of comedy. And in

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<v Speaker 1>this study we have monkey butts, the double good scatology

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<v Speaker 1>humor in this let's get into the specifics. What they

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<v Speaker 1>did is they looked at six adult chimpanzees trained on

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<v Speaker 1>computerized matching to sample. Um, we're shown a sample behind

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<v Speaker 1>when and if you want to get some scientific about it,

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<v Speaker 1>you could say the ano genital region of a chimpanzee.

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<v Speaker 1>And then they were rewarded for selecting a corresponding facial image.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like three thumbnails, one thumbnail of a monkey's button,

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<v Speaker 1>and then two thumbnails, each with a different monkey's face.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think, I mean, I think the actual paper

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<v Speaker 1>I was reading there's actually a comparison made to like Facebook.

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<v Speaker 1>So you had like monkey Facebook and then monkey butt book,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you have to to to piece the two together.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're studying they're studying this because obviously the way

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<v Speaker 1>that animals identify each other is of endless interest. We're

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<v Speaker 1>very interested in how we identify faces as humans, where

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<v Speaker 1>how other animals identify each other. Like in our previous

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<v Speaker 1>bat episode, we talked about how bats were able to

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<v Speaker 1>perceive other members of their species or peer group via

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<v Speaker 1>the sounds that they make. I mean, it's a vital

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<v Speaker 1>part of how we interact socially with the world around us,

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<v Speaker 1>So we're always interested in that. Monkeys, obviously there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of butt going on in any kind of monkey environment.

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<v Speaker 1>There's especially if you've ever been to the zoo, you

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<v Speaker 1>know baboon butts everywhere monkeys are are are naked creatures,

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<v Speaker 1>they're not wearing clothes. The butt is very much a

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<v Speaker 1>part of their social interaction, much in the same way

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<v Speaker 1>of the butt of the dog. It's a part of

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<v Speaker 1>this well like baboon's. I'm thinking too about um. Like

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<v Speaker 1>the estraus, for a baboon, you would be able to

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<v Speaker 1>tell whether or not a female was um was ready

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<v Speaker 1>for mating by looking at her butt. Um so of

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<v Speaker 1>course there's a culture. Yeah, yeah, um, of course. I

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<v Speaker 1>can't help but think of humans and think, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if if another life form we're testing our recognition capabilities,

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<v Speaker 1>what would they test us on? You know, would they say, no,

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<v Speaker 1>we could pick one another out by hair? Well there,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw a study recently about that about hair. How

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<v Speaker 1>easily we recognize hair, particular hairstyles with an individual. And

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<v Speaker 1>in the study, they would take a celebrity with a

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<v Speaker 1>particular hairstyle like say, I don't know, like a uh,

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<v Speaker 1>just pick anyone like a John Ham. You know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>like like John Ham and his hair, and then another

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<v Speaker 1>celebrity with their sort of signature hair. And if they

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<v Speaker 1>put one celebrity's hair on the on the other head,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, digitally, not with a with a blade or anything.

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<v Speaker 1>No scalping involved. That for at least for a second,

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<v Speaker 1>you identify the person based purely on their hair. So

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<v Speaker 1>take John Ham's hair off, put it on I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>Ron Howard, and at a first glance you'll be like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's John hamm and they're like, oh no, it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>actually Ron Howard wearing John Ham's scalp A scene. It

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<v Speaker 1>always boils down to those most simple things, right, like

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<v Speaker 1>how our brain is just trained to go into pattern

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<v Speaker 1>recognition mode and create this fact simile of what we

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<v Speaker 1>look like or we think we look like to one another.

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<v Speaker 1>So with humans, we see, we see hair, we see face,

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<v Speaker 1>and we see things like glasses. We all have that

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<v Speaker 1>situation where someone who wears glasses suddenly isn't and we

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<v Speaker 1>don't recognize them, you know, the whole Superman Clark kn't think. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's true. You know, actually when I was little, I

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<v Speaker 1>remember when my dad would take off his glasses, I

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<v Speaker 1>would always be a little bit decentered because it wasn't like, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>you're not Dad anymore, you know, when you're very young

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<v Speaker 1>like that, it sort of occurs to you in that way.

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<v Speaker 1>But I do think that this is an interesting study,

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<v Speaker 1>and I do think it's uh. I mean, it is

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<v Speaker 1>about monkey butts, there's no getting around it, um and

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<v Speaker 1>the recognition, but it also says something about being with

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<v Speaker 1>people who are familiar to you in the ability to

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<v Speaker 1>pick out these different things about them and community to

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<v Speaker 1>write because they were talking about familiar faces to them

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<v Speaker 1>and familiar butts. Yeah, and they ultimately found that that

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<v Speaker 1>that they could they could they could pare a butt

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<v Speaker 1>with a face that they knew, but not a not

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<v Speaker 1>a face that they didn't know, you know, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like it's not that interlinated with them. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not like some sort of magical butt sense that they have. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>So a Facebook of butts really for the monkeys, So

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<v Speaker 1>it's like butt book, and then we could have hairbook

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<v Speaker 1>as well. I mean these are possibilities. Yeah. I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>The other hilarious thing about this is you can't help

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<v Speaker 1>but anthromomorphize the situation and you start thinking, well, what

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<v Speaker 1>if they did this with humans? And you're like, you

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<v Speaker 1>ask yourself, how many butts in the world could I

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<v Speaker 1>pair with with faces? And uh, you know I I

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<v Speaker 1>have a hard time answering that one. Well, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think most people wouldn't be able to. Yeah, I think

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<v Speaker 1>maybe maybe one, but but it was you're in a

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<v Speaker 1>newdest colony. Well even then, you know, I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>just don't think we have the butt sense unless there's

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<v Speaker 1>something particular about the butt, Like I could probably pick uh,

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<v Speaker 1>my friend oz Is butt out because I know that

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<v Speaker 1>he was. This is a great story of his that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm stealing here. He was shot with a flaming arrow

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<v Speaker 1>in the arm when he was a kid, because he

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<v Speaker 1>was apparently one of those kids the kind of good

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<v Speaker 1>shot in the arm of the flaming era. So they

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<v Speaker 1>had to take um some butt tissue off to patch

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<v Speaker 1>up his arm. So he has like some sort of

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<v Speaker 1>like he has a big notch out of butt from that.

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<v Speaker 1>Did he grow up in a big carning community? Um?

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<v Speaker 1>I think he was just kind of like a Tom

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<v Speaker 1>Sawyer upbringing. I guess, you know, Um, I thought perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>his parents were in the gym rost circus. I didn't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I just I think it was just kids running while

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<v Speaker 1>with flaming eras like they did back in the day, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>back in the day before helicopter parents. All right, so

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<v Speaker 1>let's move on to the next prize that we wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to discuss, the acoustics prize. Yes, this one is pretty great.

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<v Speaker 1>This one, Uh, it comes to us from a pair

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<v Speaker 1>of researchers in Japan, and they invented this device called

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<v Speaker 1>the speech camera, which the idea here is, and we've

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<v Speaker 1>all been in a situation somebody's talking and you really

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<v Speaker 1>don't want them to talk anymore, You would rather they

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<v Speaker 1>stopped talking, And this could be Yeah, the oscars, it's

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<v Speaker 1>like or you know they're up there. They just keep going.

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<v Speaker 1>When are they going to stop? Yeah? Yeah, what if

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<v Speaker 1>I could put a book push your button and make

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<v Speaker 1>them shut up? And that is what we have here

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<v Speaker 1>and it but but it's the way they went about

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<v Speaker 1>it is they they looked at how we speak, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>when when we're speaking, we're also listening. Words are coming

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<v Speaker 1>out of our mouth, and even though it's not really

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<v Speaker 1>happening on a conscious level, we're checking everything that's coming out.

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<v Speaker 1>We we have a q A department in our mind

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<v Speaker 1>that's making sure that the words coming out of our

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<v Speaker 1>mouth are saying what they need to say and sounding

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<v Speaker 1>the way they need to sound. And if that doesn't happen,

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<v Speaker 1>then it's I mean imagine it's it's like a conveyor

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<v Speaker 1>about at a at a factory. You're building something. You're

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<v Speaker 1>building your words and if they and if things start

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<v Speaker 1>coming out at the other end of that assembly line

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<v Speaker 1>wrong and incorrect, you're gonna shut down the whole line

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<v Speaker 1>and figure out what's wrong. And that's what happens when

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<v Speaker 1>when your speech, if some only things don't seem to

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<v Speaker 1>be coming out right, it shuts it down. Yeah, And

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<v Speaker 1>the speech jamra actually creates this shutting down process by

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<v Speaker 1>playing back the voice of the person who is speaking

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<v Speaker 1>at a really slight delay, and that does cause confusion

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<v Speaker 1>in the parts of the brain that are responsible for

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<v Speaker 1>hearing and processing, and then it causes the person to

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<v Speaker 1>either start stuttering or just stop talking altogether. And I

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<v Speaker 1>do think, as you were saying, it's it's uh, it's

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly Uh. It's just incredible how sensitive um our speech

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<v Speaker 1>and hearing abilities are. That just that's slight which just

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<v Speaker 1>shut everything. So it's not even like a full on

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<v Speaker 1>echo kind of a thing going on here. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>a slight tweak, just enough to make your q A

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<v Speaker 1>department in your brain shut down the line. Uh. Katsuit

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<v Speaker 1>Takakurajara and Colgi Toothka excuse me Soukata are the inventors

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<v Speaker 1>of this, and they said that this technology could also

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<v Speaker 1>be useful to ensure speakers in a meeting take turns

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<v Speaker 1>appropriately uh, and that when the person begins speak, you

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<v Speaker 1>just put this up. I'm just trying to imagine it

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<v Speaker 1>in corporate culture. Yeah, And I think that's one of

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<v Speaker 1>the great things too about it being uh. Some research

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<v Speaker 1>that came out of Japan, because uh, Japan has a

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<v Speaker 1>tendency you think of of the of Japanese culture is

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<v Speaker 1>very very polite and very esteemed and in in the

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<v Speaker 1>ritual of politeness, and out of that you can you

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<v Speaker 1>can sort of imagine a certain amount of passive aggressiveness

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<v Speaker 1>that that that aims at avoiding unpleasantly unpleasantries an awkwardness

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<v Speaker 1>in a social environment. So instead of having to actually say, look,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to be quiet. Now, you're talking too much

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<v Speaker 1>and you shouldn't be talking. Instead you can just push

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<v Speaker 1>a button and shut that down. Right, There's something wonderfully

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<v Speaker 1>passive aggressive about that and and perhaps to an extent

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<v Speaker 1>in a very broad sweeping way, distinctly Japanese. Yes it is.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a polite way of saying please stop. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, So let's go on to the last prize

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<v Speaker 1>that we are going to talk about, the Medicine Prize,

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<v Speaker 1>and once again, but yes, the paper that was honored

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<v Speaker 1>here was titled Colonic gas explosion during therapeutic colonoscopy will Electrocotti,

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<v Speaker 1>which is exactly what it sounds like. It basically has

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<v Speaker 1>to deal with the fact that when you're performing colonoscopies.

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<v Speaker 1>When you're sending in the troops through the back door

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<v Speaker 1>to see what's going on in the rectal region, you're

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<v Speaker 1>basically I mean enough people out there. No, no, exactly

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm talking about here, you're you're We've done podcast

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<v Speaker 1>about some of the technology involved here. We're using cameras,

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<v Speaker 1>we're using devices to see what's going on in the

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<v Speaker 1>rectal area. We're sticking things up there, electric things, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're seeing what's going on. So there are some complications

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<v Speaker 1>that can occur, right, Like we're talking about, like what

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<v Speaker 1>happens if there's some residue in the colin right, there's

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<v Speaker 1>some some fecal residue and you have a laser that

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<v Speaker 1>you're using. Yes, you can cregular the explosion of colonic gases.

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<v Speaker 1>It's rare. It's admittedly it's rare, but when it happens,

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<v Speaker 1>it can understandably be u um uh rather shocking event

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<v Speaker 1>and and and harmful event. Um. You have to have

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<v Speaker 1>just the right amount of gases. They have to you

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<v Speaker 1>have to have the combustible gases hydrogen methane, which is

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<v Speaker 1>produced by the fermentation of non absorbable carbohydrates in the

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<v Speaker 1>colon by calonic bacteria. Uh, you have to have the

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<v Speaker 1>presence of combustive gas, oxygen and the application of a

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<v Speaker 1>heat source. So uh, this and this occurs due to

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<v Speaker 1>the machinery, if you will, that is being introduced to

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<v Speaker 1>the area, right, because think of it in this context.

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<v Speaker 1>You many times they're using lasers to cauterize polyps, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So if they go in there and they find polyps

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<v Speaker 1>and they're going to go ahead and take care of

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<v Speaker 1>those with a laser. So then, as you say, you're

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<v Speaker 1>introducing this element that could be combustible if you have

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<v Speaker 1>let's say, you know, a little release of methane and

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<v Speaker 1>hydrogen gases, electrocottery, You're cauterizing the wound in a colon

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<v Speaker 1>environment where there may be butt gas. And this I

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<v Speaker 1>hate to use the word perfect storm, but this could

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<v Speaker 1>be a perfect storm of of of conditions that could

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<v Speaker 1>lead to a colonic explosion. Now this you know these

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<v Speaker 1>as you say, this is rare, and these explosions have

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<v Speaker 1>happened in the patients have recovered. But if you are

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<v Speaker 1>undergoing this procedure, wouldn't you just feel so much better

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<v Speaker 1>to know that this person, this this Ben Emmanuel events

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<v Speaker 1>hasan worked on this and brought this problem to light

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<v Speaker 1>and said that we need proper surgery preparation. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>they're talking about performing enemas, making sure that the working

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<v Speaker 1>environment is clear before you send in the troops to

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<v Speaker 1>to deal with the problem. So again, it's funny because

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<v Speaker 1>a it involves butts, It involves butt gas, it involves

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<v Speaker 1>foreign objects going into the butt. All three of these

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<v Speaker 1>things are again bedrock comedy. Uh. You know, you go

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<v Speaker 1>back to Canterbury Tales and you have tales of foreign

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<v Speaker 1>objects entering the rectum um. Well, but I'm also thinking

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<v Speaker 1>about that then diagram that we talked about in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of like what makes something funny because it has to

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<v Speaker 1>be in that zone where there's actually uh, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>harm that's going to be done, right, because we're preventing

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<v Speaker 1>harm here. Uh, And yet there's an implied threat of

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<v Speaker 1>a gastro intestinal explosion. Yes, so the gastro intestical explosion,

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<v Speaker 1>colonic explosion, but explosion, whatever you want to call it,

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<v Speaker 1>in and of itself funny plus very very important because

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about preventing harm to patients who are undergoing

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<v Speaker 1>important procedures, and that's very serious. And and and key too.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, this whole thing is key to what ignobles

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<v Speaker 1>are all about, finding studies that that are important but

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<v Speaker 1>also hilarious, but and also people who are toiling away

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<v Speaker 1>for hours and hours and no necessarily getting the recognition

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<v Speaker 1>that they need or deserve. So it is a nice

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<v Speaker 1>way to bring light to the subject. Like I have

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<v Speaker 1>a print out of the article here, and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think like a like not worrying about like the medical

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<v Speaker 1>terminology in it. Like there's no way an eight year

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<v Speaker 1>old could get through this without dying of laughter, just

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<v Speaker 1>because there's you know, it's the whole thing is it's

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<v Speaker 1>about what it's about. It's about colon's and and and

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<v Speaker 1>gas building up there and things going into the rectum.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's a minefield. Yeah. And I mean, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a great wait to engage kids too, write.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean we always try to say, how can we

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<v Speaker 1>make science interesting to kids? Well, you know, for the

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<v Speaker 1>grotesque aspects here. So there's just so there's an extended

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<v Speaker 1>taste of what the two thousand and twelve ig Nobel

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<v Speaker 1>Prizes were all about. There were some other cool studies

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<v Speaker 1>they were not going to go into here. You should

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<v Speaker 1>definitely look up online people's hair changing colors because of

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<v Speaker 1>the water. Uh. Why a ponytail goes back and forth

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<v Speaker 1>and up and down when a person jogs. Yeah, there

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<v Speaker 1>was one related to Uh uh, it's like boring science

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<v Speaker 1>writing like wi is it like? It's very meta sounding. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it was a report on reports and the cost of

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<v Speaker 1>reports and assessing whether or not report another report should

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<v Speaker 1>be done. I believe that was the literature price for

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<v Speaker 1>the Probable. Yeah, so check those out if you were

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<v Speaker 1>at all into science or you're at all into into humor,

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<v Speaker 1>and definitely of those two interest crossover, and I feel

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<v Speaker 1>they do for most of the people listening to this podcast.

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