Have you ever stopped to wonder what ruler rules them all? How we set the standard for height, for weight, for everything around us? What if you weighed one thing one day, and travelled to another country and suddenly gained 5 kgs or had to use an entirely different weight system? What if you weighed one thing this week and more the next? This week we find out the history measurement systems, how we've standardised them and come up with unique and repeatable measures that don't rely on artefacts (real and metaphorically).
References:
Lagrange Point Episode 317 - Hydrogen fuel cells, storage, and cleaner generation
Episode 316 - Mice that sing and see in infrared, balancing predators and 2019MMM Preview
Episode 315 - Asteroids, meteorites and the destruction of moons
Episode 314 - Ancient life and life in extreme places
Episode 313 - Cross continent pop hits from whales and deep divers
Episode 313 - Cross continent pop hits from whales and deep divers
Episode 312 - Making water work for us in a Polar Vortex, Drought and Power plant
Episode 311 - Stellar deaths, black holes, white dwarf accomplices and crystal stars
Episode 310 - Glial cells and Neurons, putting a stop to degenerative neurological conditions
Episode 309 - Mysterious signals from outside our galaxy!
Episode 308 - Farewell to phantom limb pain, and better prostheses
Episode 307 - Ancient druidic treatments, wasp venom and peptide cages
Episode 306 - Drones as a force for good and evil
Episode 305 - Reaching space, the darkside of the moon and wet asteroids
Episode 304 - Flexible electronics, graphene transfer and paper sensors
Episode 303 - The risks of life in the big city from insomnia to cardio-metabolic health
Episode 302 - Ancient empires changing the planet, leaving behind ruins and relics
Episode 301 - More effective Vaccines.
Episode 300 - Once in a blue asteroid, hidden objects in the Lagrange Point
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