They don't at all, look ahead to the hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as efficient weekly podcast this week. Coming to you from the Birmingham MAC. My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage it's the three regular elves, Andy Murray and itches in sky and James Arkin. The again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go starting with you, James Arkin, okay, my this week is that in two thousand and five there are plans to make a fifty foot tall, robots, Michael Jackson, that would Rome around the Nevada Desert

how advanced where these planets they were pretty Stem Michael Jackson was gonna do residency in Vegas they wanted. advertise it, and this was their big idea that were to a massive robot. He was wander around the desert? He was going to fire lasers out of his eyes is, as you Ajuua flying into to the first thing you see when you came into Vegas massive Michael Jackson. This was a couple. Months after he had been acquitted on charges of child molestation. Of a some reason. Raising money was a problem for this crime yeah. I think, then they scaled down a bit. Didn't they and they decided to make a Michael Jackson themed title, I casino in Vegas, which had a smaller robot the door, that's right, and that would also fire lasers from a huge Michael Jackson face that was going to be painted on the huge hotel yeah so the hotel didn't happen either not now. None of this happen. But I mean they always have these big plans in Vegas down. They have what they're going to do in this one: didn't quiet,

I read one thing that they were going to do, which was make a lot. If size starship enterprise that was gonna, be in Vegas and not go quite far down the line that they were going to do this, but they never did and is still trick yeah Scope I really like the idea of turning certain celebrities into robots, No sorry not like the existing living into a cyborg like, for example, Philip K, Dick they actually made the robots of Philip K Dick and they left his head on a plane. Accidentally, and it became a huge story of Philip K. Dick's head, the Roma who, let years a river beds, so they did it with Philip K Dick and a wish they did it with Michael Jackson. What what was that? Sorry? It was the purpose of the Philip K, Dick when I was just so that they could have the headline Dick had missing laughing

is obviously the connection that he has. Where do electronic sheep I a dream of electric sheep yeah exactly so it was. He was just such a founder of the idea, so they were trying to do ai and they created a Philip K, Dick Robot but lost his head, and I was reading about robots and walking robots and why it's so hard to make walking robots. So the distance record for walking robot is fifty four miles, which is amazing. Longer than I can walk, but it was a very set path. It was around, at course, in an indoor arena, then ran out of badger power. If it stops learned about it said unconscious and they mobile, changing and against world record and has little mustache painted on the front. But the thing useful because to walk on rough terrain is much much

always divorce yell and then it just walk round circles exactly and as the article says, the robot is not really designed for real world applications, as there are a few jobs that require robot to walk a smooth circular power. Until I read an exciting bit of robot news yesterday as well, which is that there is a robot, currently writing new episodes of the sick com. Friends, how they tell it's it's interesting. It's a guy, called Andy heard and he's been feeding all the scraps of friends into a machine and spin generating would effectively is really weird fanfic set of friends but doing full scripts and doesn't make total sense they ve put a few extracts online. One is this: is from Chandler so brackets, first off Chandler brackets in a month

in the brackets, runs to the girls to cry, and then the dialogue can I get some presence. So that's where that's at the moment and they're doing a reunion of friends. They should take one of these. That is an actual friends and other huge found of actual freedoms. Incredible, I read quite cool, line about robots and is USA, he challenges Japan to a giant robot battle. wow that sounds cool! Isn't it? Where can we get tickets? Well, I don't really know, but is that there's a company called Mega BOT Usa that raised one in eight million dollars through kick to make massive robots and apparently there's one of, company in the world to make massive robots and that from Japan, and they have challenged each other Big vice and he's gonna happen some time this year, each

robot suit will be piloted by a team and both are laden with guns that can shoot, paint filled, cannon balls. I imagine Japan or Ngannou absolutely smash that every impressive robot advance you hear about comes from Japan. Isn't it yeah there's one which is comes from Harvard University, which is robot bees, which quite cool these waiver bees. They can swim and fly swim like a puffin, apparently rather than making swim like the face of a fly like Muhammad Ali rejected, slowed the fly like they felt like but they can be used to pollinate crops in future. They think I'm too Bavaria real our reasons, but ultimately pollinate crops that are struggling to upon it is naturally a search and rescue operations. Military surveillance trot monitoring of rabies buzzing above our come? No business losing. Can I am clay, bring up

a couple of Michael Jackson, fags yeah eyes when Michael Jackson died. I read this massive biography of him and they such an interesting family, like when the Jackson five got big and then the subsequent solid careers, Joe Jacks, The dad started, releasing his own products. Thinking I can ride this wave, but celebrity he really It's the competitor to Coca COLA want to take these guys on releasing Joe COLA, but this is a thing that I didn't know about him: witches the family or Jehovah witnesses. At least they were back in the day and the moment didn't want. Jackson and the family to lose their connection with the job as witnesses, despite being famous so even at the height of his fame, when doing blame it on the Boogie and stuff Michael Jackson still had to go door under cover undercover as a is witness to tell neighbour and everyone they've interviewed about it said well, it was blatantly Michael yeah, just like a fake mustache talk to you about and they're like it's Michael Jackson, yeah. Of course he wasn't

five when they were doing, blame it on the buggies yeah. Who is it? Jack Jackson, gotta astonishing for hours, and they would just be like. Of course you can talk to us about it and he would sit in their house and he'd be stuck there and he would be probably the only Jehovah's witness in history going. How am I going to get out of this? I like the message, but maybe could you sing a few bars of the case over here? cycle that disguise, I think, because his two security guards it scares you guys, but as he of his life of written a book and they say that whenever they out go shopping, he wouldn't sneak out the back in disguise that we all might have seen Michael Jackson. But we would and once in nineteen eighty nine he went shopping in disguise. He was wearing false mustache, but also a red baseball AP and a Afro wig He was arrested because he looked like a shoplifter one of the phrases.

It is in the news article at the time I liked from this just cause. I've never heard it before was one of the security guards who arrested him, and then he started saying this guy, who looked like a crazy man said. I Michael Jackson, and security Guard said my first thought was this guy. Gotten off the elevator between floors- and I We know that praise, and it's not afraid us and with these words the move onto our second fact. So it's time for fact number two and that is Andrew Hunter marry. My fact is that in the sixteenth century people disliked hedgehogs because it was believed that they sucked cow others genuine myth. If you like about hedgehogs, so I looked into it. I found loads of books, nineteenth century eighteenth century saying and so the later, when the developing it so there's one from eighteen, sixty two which says that the hedgehogs sucks the milk from cows is a vulgar era. It is structural

impossible for the hedge or to drain the other back, our heads famous for standing on their back legs. Girls lay down at night, you're thinking, apparently like that, that shows our lactose intolerant honey. What is intolerant, yes, stop giving the milk everyone here. I would like a lot of cancer that is intolerable. I think, almost all hedgehogs are lactose intolerant, so they get really sick when he gives them diarrhea and then they come back and have more, but because they've had diarrhea because they like the as ever hydrated is why they can make them orbits people like it so hedgehogs We're richly gold, urchins gas, where see arch and comes from because it looks like a hedgehog of the ocean. Yet genes is still, Food see hedgehogs in Dutch.

you can call me you just a pack of sea hedgehogs and I can tell you something else that people used to think about. Hedgehogs are so plenty who's, one of our favorite guys playing the elder, that hedgehogs climb trees knocked down apples and then roll on the apples put them on their spikes and then run away stealing the apple skirt thousand they cod why why they don't work that out, that's untasted, they roll into balls. They rolling spalls yeah honey that I think the spice just out spiky enough, I'm no, but that that was built. into the now we have the kings of it and that they can claim they can climate bulls long as you're thinking of spiders regret, evil, saying to begin to get others. needs

into the first floor flat the target's way with gathered together yeah, but should we talk about hedgehogs are the best more about hedgehogs and you know how they can go into a ball dumber saying the muscle which allows and scorns the ball is the same muscle they use when you're frowning when your face kind of crunches, applied that their muscle their version of that muscle in your face goes all the way down the body and its that the targets will ball they do and all sprout on the front the first thing they do is frowned without from and then finds come over then base and then they in all sprout with the end of this buying, and then that makes us binds cover, thereby, and then they have thirty muscle, which lunches those two bits of bull together so that they can, They can survive ours, and I was wondering why mazes it must be so closely. yeah

when another few quotes from seventeen sixty cents resources about had shot and one of them is from sixty no seven to pull the history, have forfeited beasts and it's about what foxes when they find a hedgehog, an apparent It was thought that want to folks finds a hedgehog Looketh gently, the face and snout of the hedge hope by that means bring. Himself to unfold himself and to stand upon his legs, which Donnie poison at the beast with a year and that he render it upon the head chokes faith. We saw a piece on it's face a little foxes, we'd had jokes to death, and then I heard another thing about foxes and urine and hedgehogs, which is the oh yeah. I just that foxes. I read that Had I had children a ball, then Fox would urinate on it to make it open itself up and then go,

she been inside like a, I think. Still some people in the countryside believed I don't know if it's true or not, but a lot of people died. They also are immune to snake mostly ought not completely immune, but almost completely resistant to. Now, you can hedgehogs have been known to kill snakes, poisonous snakes, but wow they can bite back and they do this. Other sorry, during a run of Hedgehog facts now but they cover themselves in ready, grow substances, and we don't know why, real around annoying delay, lay our space on themselves a little but the eye exactly when they find weird stuff like turpentine, which is obviously very potent or tobacco they'll to it, and then they like get a little laugh, the worktop in their mouth and they spit all over their spines as they cover themselves in Terps or tobacco, or something like that. And we don't know. Why is it might be to me. That's why it's a little bit toxic or maybe to kill parasites, but it might just be. I read one idea was that it's that they were trying to camouflage themselves, the the smell would create a sort of camouflaged effect, and I,

love the idea that it there's no truth to that and the hedgehogs don't It has no things. I'm a cigarette smoking me, you know, when you're playing sonic the hedgehog. If you go underwater, sonic drowns and you lose alive, okay, it they. They forgot to fact check that because hedgehogs actually can swim. So there's was a lot of unnecessary death is about humans. Again, hedgehogs can swim, pele yeah yeah for a bit. They real we're actually quite regretful of the fact that they didn't fact check the fact that they could swim cause. I could have led to great so in some great underwater levels they should That's only day by a fox, your lady,

We move it's time for fact number three, and that is just this week that the english philosopher Herbert Spencer, had an angry suit, specially made She will only one he was feeling irritable. So this is how the Spencer just go through. Who is he's basically Charles Darwin, but he's also not. He's the guy at First only popularized the time evolution. He said that eating fifty two, I think in a book he wrote, which was seven years before Darwin, wrote the origin of species and even in the origin of species. Darwin used a very sparingly. The only use evolution for the first time in the sixth addition I think, whereas hub expensive, as using all over the shop,

and he also came up with the term survival of the fittest and then Darwin liked that, and so he used the term survival of the fittest to replace the term natural selection which he'd come up with. She wasn't nearly as catchy and Darwin called him twenty times, my superior totally loved him and he had some kind of sea was a suit. Oh yeah right the suit, so it was a. It was a woolly, garment, apparently, and it was designed so that, though we minimal exertion and getting dressed, because I guess, when he's in a bad mood, he doesn't want to have to go to the trouble of putting proper clothes on, and so it was basically elaborate ones, but it has of shoes fitted in a coat fitted and you just stepped in with your legs first and then you got your shoulders in and you did you just well bays and people up and then yeah. You had boots trousers in Kosovo. Sometimes he wore for weeks at a time. Apparently that's how he got,

yeah when he was wearing it, because people kept laughing at him. The people would stare at him in the streets, but I had no idea that the ones he went back that far because we've talked before on the podcast about maybe actual mad once again had a special cycle, while a saving adapted boil assume which he would way in the cabinet orbs. So I thought that was the very first one's a, but this is different. We always have a space was quite aware. Guy wasn't me yeah is where he decided. He should avoid all over stimulation for the sake of his health, and so if he thought conversation was getting a bit too excited, he would move to another room, is quite good and if you haven't, sat next to a notably person at dinner, he would move so he wouldn't risk is digestion he also a firm, he didn't have the liberty to move to another room. He always carried airports with them, so that, if conversation was boring to him or getting him over excited, he would just put your plugs and to block out irritating people. But I read that

if put them. Even if he was losing in an argument, Those basically law you invented below Well, that's the thing you know he also is said to have invented the prototype of the paperclip yeah. So it sounds the keys invented a lot of things, but this whole survival of the fittest thing is really getting the headline ongoing extraordinary life? This paper collapses in the british library. I think you can still but it was quite successful in this time it made him seventy pounds in profits in its first year. Why are we days is a lot of money, but then it kind of you to stop in that popular after that, I was looking into other interesting suits that have been invented and there's a there's really exciting, one which is bat senses, suit and, So the idea is actually for blind people. To really is a really great idea. It helps to see it's when objects are near. It's really advanced bit a technology that they're working on so that you have the build.

see, I guess, an advanced version of the walking stick that that can help you find it kind of thing so they've been inventing that that's in the prototype stage. At the moment, it's like having whisk it's basically yeah yeah, seeing stuff around you, that's so cool yeah, it's amazing and this is not a suit by a lady called Elena Bodnar, who is a scientist invented a bra that doubles as a gas mask, which is really. The idea is that, in the event of a very chaotic moment of gas, going off everywhere, you can just take. The bra and you can put it over your face, but it actually works. You know there's some cows in Russia that worrying brows in Siberia. What so cold that the nipples will freeze, if they don't browse, can't quite get through

fumbling around with them when they ve scale beside you know that guy I will go to the wall over this. What have they removed because, presumably they didn't evolved to be its Abuja, whether Naples would now. But, of course there are farmers in Siberia and people need in our food and appeals in Siberia they doing this place in. I me I come. I will in Siberia and the. Local civic leaders said that the the cow seemed to like it, because it can't be I used to have such cold teats, actually just one cows cause. I found the most amazing thing about cows, the other day that maybe everyone knows, but a lot of kinds of windows in their stomachs. So this is we can study, digestion and like work out how to feed them better work out what they should be, these a paint painless

operation, Para Nico into the people, who've done it. The coffee into the side of the bill is so creepy, though you should look it up and it works exactly like a petrol cap on a car, so you can unscrew it really easily if you're a vet. Let's say you want to screw it and you can dip your arm into a cow stomach and you pull out the contents of it's stomach. So one of the applications, for example, is if you've got already sick cow. That is not digesting stuff very well, then you go to the healthy cow. That's got the in it's stomach and then you unscrew it and you put your hand in, and you pick out the grass from in the stomach and you squeeze out his digestive juices, because that cow has good digestive juices, and then you insert the digestive juices into the sitko, and then you put the garage back in the canal. Come again. It's like nothing ever happened. Isn't that bizarre? That is why I voted as I have done. It said all by when the believed a word of it taken, I told very quickly about how other people have dealt with their anger leads to anger management, MEL Gibson.

On the trip in all the trouble he got into. He did and anger management course. His first meeting immediately. He had a verbal arguments with the guy. leading the meeting over a name tag. But he was wearing this not only to wear a name tag. Everyone knows about fucking, I'm already dead and, and then the guy was Ike. Ok, so Thank you actually do need to do this course in Dallas, says I place you can go to called and anger room. You can just basically smash it up They were a load of stuff there, which is smash a ball. They give you a baseball bat and they say do your worst and it's the you know you pay, I dunno fifty dollars for fifteen minutes and you can smash up as much. She likened it's supposed to be a way to let it all out fifteen minutes. time to be that angry.

Five minutes in the under these items. Dozens fifty minutes is forty five dollars and that's called the lash out session and for twenty five minutes- total demolition. You have to pay seventy five dollars. Maybe you need to pre book to get your anger. I am so must be when you're in the moment of absolute fury margin how bad the job is for the reception is taking those right now, sorry, sorry is: are we don't have a room for another? We now would be the worst job ever have so just quickly back to how to spend said, because he was hilarious, I say just one more funny thing about him. He was obsessed with taking his pulse, so he was a hypochondriac and he used to when he went out in a carriage. I think he was afraid of travel when he went out in a courage and then he said shoutout, stop

in the middle of traffic and Piccadilly or Regent Street, or whatever the carriage would have to stop dead old, traffic's disrupted silence reigns and he has to consult the diktats of his pulse their sources, and if his pulse is too fast, the carriage immediately had to turn around and go home. if not, he could go on and similarly at train stations, he would bring first of all, he'd bring a woman to train stations when he was going to get on a train specifically to read to him and then to wave him off as he it and before getting on the train, he'd make his secretary take his temperature in a waiting room. If his temperature was fine, they had to string up a hammock and first class and he was good to go. Evans temperature was too high. Then he sent the train away and encourage you to do that part time and, as I said at the start of a man, he said the train away. Well,

he stayed behind humming his head wrapped in vinegar and brown paper really does a thing: Well, the thing it's in the first of a version of judge, Alia, the of the Jack and Jill, went up the hill to fetch a ball to Jack for down and broke. His contract came tumbling after and then there's a second verse of checkouts and haunted trots as fast as he could caper and he went to bed and his head with vinegar and brown paper is a Victoria version is as unpatched his knob with vinegar and brown paper, but they mean his head, but that was an old word for your head You know the confusion we move on to an exact lets me. Ok, it is time for a final factor. The show- and that is my fax. My fact this week is in order for spider man to climb buildings. You would need size eighty nine feet. So they just work this out. You may have seen it in the news. They've just worked out that Spiderman could not literally,

in buildings, with the size feet and hands that he has the hand if he was called Hedgehog Gabon, he would have the well. He could certainly get the I say I read it to clarify what, because I know Spiderman as well as some, so why wouldn't? He just have to have super strong super glue on his hands and then it can be any size. Is it? Is it something to the surface area of his hands that causes them to stick to belong? I think what this is. Is it stumbles you all adjusts is now yes, and these are people who are studying geckos they climb up and they use fundamentalist forces on their on their hands and paused to climb up things, but they depends on how big the surfaces, how easy it is for them to hold on now is Spiderman use. This kind of tactic for climate walls and he'd need massive feet. But do we know that he does? He could just be using superglue the Van Der Waals force,

and others like the highways are well because you just get stuck rights for the floor, but the idea is doing a point, because the weight increases so much with the with your volleyed. So deckers is about four percent of their body surface area. Him and his even smaller animals like mites, they use, not point not to present, because they're so light in comparison with the surface area that use it as false okay. So she I for human of the average wait to do it. You'd have to have adhesive pads covering forty percent of your body climb and that of your target body. So it would be. Eighty percent of your front So it would you would you need? Basically, all of you to be sticking to the wall came up and have to shuffle up ready and waiting, yeah, yeah geckos, actually,

when their sticking to wars and savings they kind of work on don't, nay, because they dropped, so they ve got tiny, has on their feet. and that when they're on, when they're on a wet surface, so usually on a wet surface, I think the Vandevelde suppose would mean that you, you would slip off it'll be too slippery, but they trap air bubbles between these little heads. and so essentially when they're walking on a wet surface up a wall or on a ceiling they're walking on a thin layer of air just wow, that's really cool yeah, so the hovering yep exactly that help across that's incredible due to the half the geckos in the world of the species of gecko account climate balls. I didn't know that. Doesn't well sticky. Salamander is a northern slimy salamander and it's so sticky gives off this substance. It's so sticky that if any predator tries to bite it, it's mucus. Julie, seals, the predators mouth shut. What kind of things I have is that God, they

it's because we were saying about them? My idiot mistake the fact that superglue would actually just stick you to a wall and flies. Have this problem. I think so flies have sticky feet so they can walk up walls and across ceilings, but then they also have to have little claws on their legs, so they can scrape their feet. One day, when the need to move them, they stage with others and they have to claw pool their leg off in order to move it s great, it's weird when you He gets that kind, a level of life where things become much more sticky cause water is a big problem flies and another insects, because it it's actually really sticky and apparently surprise finally sticky for humans as well water, If you get out of the shower, for example, I cleared out the shower. A lot of water sticks to you. If you haven't wiped down, probably when you get out of the shower you're a pound, heavier that's, much the waterways that is sticking to you as you get out of the shower, thus vertical yeah, so from Spiderman

so the first Spiderman Comic is from nineteen sixty two, but the word Spiderman dates back to nineteen fifty five. The word. Spiderman originally meant someone who works on very high structures Jack really does they call them. Why? Why would they called? I guess they resist like a spider. Climbing up Waller had shall go whenever they like. working somewhere, really high and all of those guys were Itsy bitsy as well spiders just quickly, Guy meetings they have, they have. Six hundred thousand micro has on the legs in contact with the can contact rules, six hundred thousand and they can. support is being studied by Germany's Institute of Technical Zoology GI seventy times their own weight, And the guy's either said: that's like Spiderman clinging to the flat surface of a window by his finger Tipps and toes only while rescuing a hundred and seventy adults who cling

it onto his back wow yeah, that's amazing, better than he is, and this is Why there's a mystery about spiders, the great spider mystery is. Why didn't they stick to their own webs because they can, for that and they've got all these tiny hairs, but we don't quite know, but I think we think that they lick a sort of lubricant onto their hes, which means that they slide over their webs quite easily and someone- and I think that in ninety no five- the french naturalists tested this. So he put solvent some spiders legs and he found out that once you did that and it would dissolve the lubricant they'd licked on, and so they would stick to their webs. And then we decided to repeat the experiment recently and just pluck the legs off spiders and tested it again and it's true, so they lick the celebrate onto their legs to make sure they slide over their webs okay, wow I did some calculations about shoe sizes area of this weekend. So I worked. If I was a foot, size. One hundred ninety five shoe

it was a size. One hundred and ninety five shoe I buy with a thought. I would perfectly my heights with. It just won't- lie perfectly inside. The shoe is that Uk Sizes UK size yep. Do you have a phone weaken honey, honey, quick would you go face up If a view I dont think this working eyes gave me respected, deserve serious yeah. If the UK, the in Sweden, the If the UK was afoot, it would need a size, one hundred and seventy five million eight hundred seventy four thousand nine hundred and seventy four. According to my since they see which,

approximately two hundred million european size- you just said Italy was afoot. The facts. Thank you so much for being here. If you would like to get in contact with any of us about the things that we've said over the course of this podcast, we can all be found on Twitter. I'm on at Schreiber Land, James Arts, egg shaped Andy at Andrew Hunter, em inches in sky. You can email the podcast accurate outcome yet you can go to no such thing as a fish, dot com, our website, and we have all the previous episodes up there. Thank you so much for listening guys. Thank you so much for being here

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