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:
Episode 56: Memory, Sleep, Pet Language And Brains In A Jar
Episode 55: Video Games, Ethics, Twitch And Group Decision Making
Episode 54: Culls, Ethics And Bringing Animals Back From The Dead
Episode 53: Winning Gold At The Olympics With Hot Pants, Gps And Wind Tunnels
Episode 52 - Street Science Part 2 - Living In Space And What Food Is Safe
Episode 51 - Street Science Part 1 - Black Holes And Animals In Casinos
Episode 50: Randomness, Bees, Robot Language And Dinosaurs
Episode 49: Bronx Frogs, Listening With Your Mouth And Hacking Frog's Brains
Episode 24: Intelligent Cities, Cyber Vigilantes And Urban Design
Episode 48: Lovely Lizards, Legless Lizards, And Laconic Lizards
Episode 47: The Exceptions To The Rules And Breaking The Laws Of Physics
Episode 1 - The Pilot
Episode 2 - Breast feeding dinos, Crazy Kickstarters and a Human magnet
Episode 3 - 3D Printers Special
Episode 4 - All About Asteroids
Episode 5 - Iron man suits, fact or fiction and curing blindess
Episode 6 - Plasma wings, Teleportation and quantum computers
Episode 7 - Zombies and the Equinox Special
Episode 8 - Biomimicry special Special
Episode 9 - Brains, Dreams and mind over matter
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