They don't want to huddle all the hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QR offices in Covent Garden. My name is and Schreiber. I am sitting here with annexes and Ski James, hearken and Andy Marie Anne. Again we ve 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, Okay, my thought this week is that the great wall of China is held together by Sticky rice rye is not sure It's true that possible. Well, it's the mortar that holds the bricks together. Must be extremely over cooks I good sticky rice if it's like cement well, what they found is that

They got this kind of Malta, which is half organic and half inorganic, and the organic compounds in it is something called a memo pected. I was just like a starchy stuff that you would get if you cook, potatoes or rice or whatever and they're pretty certain that they got that through cooking sticky, rice and then extracting this starch and then just mixing it with lime and making the mortar wow really cool. I've always thought food would make great cement. Because have you ever left a sort of the remnants of a we too big yeah? We took that we debate. Why do we not using we too big to hold buildings together right elite in five minutes? You cannot wash them up this done. My I throw away the Baltic, which is why we are cooperating records, are how much of the great wall with used so the great wall started being built two thousand two hundred years ago, and this mall, came in one thousand five hundred years ago so it's not all of the wall, but the main bit, which was an built by the Ming dynasty. The bet that you kind of seeing the photos that huh sticky rice at it.

We owe it fancy towers and really good bits yeah. It's not that. I urge and mountains yeah yeah, which on even really the great wall of China. Are they that there I had them described as the the CHI Wall, which is about the q I will, which is quite nice, and but it was built in five hundred BC and is mostly just earth, but it was really quite effective because, if you're an infantry army trying to cross that you can cross it, but eh it'll take loads of time and be you We have to leave some supplies behind and it's just a pain yeah. The thing is that is great, and it's a wall and it's in China. So I think we should call that I've ever as well. And that was that was by the emperor who kind of created China Modern Day, China, my guess and who was credible character and preachy. Amber teeth and he was a tariff quota warriors guy. He was amazing when you look at what he did in one lifetime. I mean he killed a lot of people in the process, but it's it's

that hold that against. He had an army of one point: five million men where imagine if the ground well duke of cut. Had an army of one point. Five million the the would would fold very, very, very, very hard. You know that now they ve trying to combat the thing of everyone going on the woollen graffiti in it, and so they ve actually created a section that you can legally graffiti now in the great wall of China, yeah there's a graffiti corner. That seems the crazy idea. I saw that I couldn't quite believe it exceeded make sensory, but it does take the fun out of Fiji, though yeah when is allowed, hey, guys welcome to the coup graffiti area, where you can draw what you like on the wall. So you know last week I think I mentioned that they've just realized. There are eight times as many trees as we thought they were worth which, if it was edited out, lots of thought for this week's progress or eight times as many trees as we thought. Well, we just miss counted as they're. In the same way, they recently measured the great wall of China and it's like three times longer than we thought it was

freeze behind it idea tat we- that wrong. So we thought it was nine thousand kilometers and then it turns out. There just announced its twenty one thousand soku halfway around the earth. That's half as a compromise of the wild If stretched out and it's all sorts of different bits folded in on itself, and so but yeah, it's lots of different rules. Isn't it it's not actually one? proper wool depending on whether you go with James, is it's all. Definitely the great wall of China theory every single wall in China, which I consider to be great apparently there, been to the great wall of China. Have you yeah? So why have you I was reading waxy I wasn't reading. I saw the cynical pelicans

an idiot abroad where he visited there and he was reading a little pamphlet in it where it said. Basically that section most people go to has been renovated, so much that it's basically a whole new wall. It's it's just it's all new bricks. So since nineteen eighty three that's what people are visiting a sort of nineteen. Eighty three version of the great wall of China yeah, which is probably safer, because so many people are visiting it and are somewhat saying, is really ironic that it was designed to keep people out is now one of China's biggest tourist attractions attracts millions of people who, at every year, yeah was it definitely to keep people out. I remember once reading that it was a place to collect tax or something not sure do you know what you're thinking of what a great hedge India, oh my yeah, so there's India there's a huge hedge that runs along and it was a it was a borderline to collect tax on and so you'd get to the hedge, and there might be someone patrolling the hedge and they would collect taxes, something like that and call the time

the hedge fund. Don't do you guys know who the first person to be filmed on the great wall of China was just in Bieber? No Chairman MAO, no for movie sorry, I who is closer to saying just change yes, Steven Seagal so close, in name Stevens. You go no so Steve Coogan. What Steve Coogan was the first ever person to be, and he made a movie called around the world in eighty days it was the Jules Verne movie he's the first person to be filmed in it for a movie. They got access to it for the first time ever had never been didn't. I found the full lighted. The agenda has been proven, been featured. It was just purely a shot, as opposed to someone walking in dialogue in a sense it's awesome exactly yeah. So on the great wall of China, you know the whole thing about. Whether you can see it from space, yeah yeah, so in two thousand and three China sent its first astronauts as they could take an old can take. Her is chinese for space

They said the first asked rolled up young you I and he said guys. I can't see it never appendix eventually they decided you can only see it from a really low orbit, whether what is good and if you got a powerful telephoto lens painted pink yeah they do something different, because it's quite it they do, really care about it. Every single chinese astronaut has been up has been given. The role of looks for the great wall of China and has failed to fight so the photos that they did get the astronaut who took the photos where you could see it. If you looked really closely and sort of blew it up quite to a big photo, he said he just didn't know if it was in the photo at the time when he took it. So it was by coincidence that he managed to get it and in two thousand and six someone went on television in China associated with a space program, and this is what he said. He said we need to carry out more tests and improve astronaut training, so that's

That's like still their main focus. As I know, we don't want to write it off just yet, but you know when it dates back to it. Dates back to before and like three astronauts were the earliest I've found is Ripley of believe it or not fame in nineteen thirty two. He said that is the mightiest work of man. It was the only one that will be visible to the human eye from the moon, which definitely isn't, but there was a writer and seventeen. Fifty four called William Stickley, who said this was about Hadrian's wall. He said it's a mighty wall Fasco miles in length, which makes a considerable figure on the terrestrial globe and may be discerned at the moon. While I was my Hadrian's will, I know, and you can barely see from like zoning until I wonder Helen Sherman, how to look down to say she could see Hadrian's yeah and if not, I think we need to send some more Brit self is not anymore training TIM peaks going up. We could give him a special mission to do That's what I really liked by the way. The first mention that you could see it from the moon was the reply, I believe in a knot, book

I didn't realize that Ripley's believe it or not was an actual question. That's what it feels like it's not! I don't believe it feels like it's an actual god. Is that what the whole like fifty percent of that book was his fault, maybe we're reading it wrong yeah. So I was looking at sticky rice because I thought it's truly more interesting. The great wall of China, so every year in Japan, they eat these sticky rice, cakes and the health departments have to advise people that before they eat the cakes, they need to cut them into small pieces, chew them slowly and learn how to perform basic first aid before indulging, because so many people keep choking on them. I think maybe it's the same stuff. They used to build the great wall because it just doesn't but then it maybe it's drawing up and lodging in their throw it like a concrete boy swallow it down. Did you know? An italian bride recently was rushed to hospital because people was showering her with rice as she was exiting the church and she got a bit of rice stuck in her ear.

and had to be hurried to the ear she was okay. Does it like a common myth that if you throw rice on the, Then pigeons accept lower explode, but it's not true and we have a tested it. No, I don't really want to do the experiment just doubly off childless. Snowplow is wrong, and this we propose the pod Katharine my twenty minutes later- oh my god, they're letting everywhere pal guess that, should we move on Saint or an exact yeah, I've one thing or the great will ya just going along the Steve Coogan Line, yeah the first man we think to walk the complete great wall of China was an american American Aventura called William. Good guile and he was a really incredible guy and he tracked across Africa and he traveled lonely.

it's river. He did all these amazing expeditions and no one's heard of him. These days he was late nineteenth century and when he died, he left three thousand dollars to commission a biography of himself. He wrote my life has been unusual and the story of it is likely to benefit young people she's. Very very confident, and he he wanted He wrote the first ever book in the west about the great wall of China and he said he wanted it to be so good that any historians and future writing about it would find little to write about, unless you pirated all notes, just one more thing

right yeah have you guys heard of a ducky go Coachee and I don't know if that's how you pronounce it almost, certainly not, but in Japan this was a tradition in two thousand and eight Sonny became a craze where you get a rice filled bag and you draw a baby's face on it. If you've got a friend, who's had a baby and you present that to them as a gift- and you say you try to draw the baby that they've had like an image of it on a bag of rice and not see your baby warming present. That's the way it isn't it, what purposes that serve as it like in those sitcoms where they give a child like

bag of flour to look after as if it was a baby. I had that MIT Joe yeah. I went to a really backward school. It strikes me sometimes yeah. We have to care for a flower baby in year, seven yeah! So do you think? Maybe it's the same kind of thing? If you look after the rice and don't accidentally boil it have a look it up the babies. So if you must accidentally boil one of these two things that you've just gotta make sure it's the right. That's very confusing, though, because you think, oh, that is lovely I'll, have that rice for myself, I know or it's like well, I need some multis. Who put up this case sign for fact? Number two, and that is Andrew Hunter Murray. My fact is that the world's largest single celled organisms can get up to twelve inches long as great as radical as amazing. What is it? It's an owl, geeky or an alibi.

It's called calibre taxi, fuller and it's a single cell, and yet it gets up to a foot long, and it has all these different things in it. That has so. It looks like a plant. It has these fronds, which look like leaves, and then it's got little root like pets as well, which hold it in place. it's, but it is one cell. Why it's so cool yeah, that's cool single celled organisms. I've realized are much more complicate, can be much more complicated and interesting than you'd. Imagine like there's one. That's recently been discovered that has kind of what they think. The eyes isn't that which take up about a third of it's body, and it is just one cell you're talking about while no weeds I saw or what what are they called oak or kill it they're called ASA Lloyd's Lloyd's. I, like the things little black dots inside the single celled organism and it seems like they appropriate bacteria to be used as their I,

Why? Yes, so the colony! I, what you would council the colony irresistibly little bacterium on the rest, nope, what you, what you would think is similar to a human retina is actually another. Ethereum, I know, but then how they become a multicellular organism. That's a good point, but this was discovered. Wasn't it. a hundred years ago by this guy use or under the microscope and said, look this thing has eyes and no one believed and so is one of those things that we just assume it didn't have eyes for another hundred twenty is having believe it. Not because I frankly don't believe it. I saw a fish today with four eyes to do what it's called before I fish and has four eyes. Is this. This is the beginning of a joint. Not land were either when Mary. I once a year went to the hormone museum ends, which is got an inquiry minutes, and yet they have one other things as a forum. The point is, they have like kind of two eyes like a normal fish, but then the top of one eye is got

as lens in the bottom has a so they can see outside the water as well as inside the actors that right as is insane so cool the joke you were thinking of was I saw fish with no eyes a fish. Yes, that's what I thought you were screwing up there, but you weren't is an interesting bags. Portugal, a fish with foreign, actually sorry. Another amazing single celled organism, which does the thing that's kind of similar to that- and this is the zoo fire freeze, which I think was the biggest known singles out organism before yours came in. Then a fire for Means power, foreign objects, and that is because it makes of constructs its own body out of stuff is lying around. So it kind of picks up bits of like dirt and dust immaterial off the ground and by terror. Like a MR potato head, it's exactly like a MR potato heads, yes, just remote! Sorry, I just was talking about MR potato head just a little facts about that: yeah when

Mr Potato, head came out. It was chairing rationing in America and no one wants to advertising on the appetite with appetizer because they thought it would encourage children to play with a food. So until the rationing stop, they couldn't really the railways. Anyway, you or getting courage, doesn t, eat plastic which might arise out of phase. I thought it was a baby aside, I was just gonna say so, there's a d. I why living thing that build itself as it goes when it comes to self extension. They gonna build a house for itself, but in the deep sea there Is there no firefighters. There are up to two thousand every hundred square meters on the sea bed, while the kings down there, yeah yeah that the king's relate one celled organisms, of the world there. Are they way out number organisms? Don't they? There are many

and then there are of us yeah, so we're animals, and we and at the very top level of tax on taxonomy, is a domain. I think everyone else learned this year. Nine biology- and I snooze lesson, but I didn't know there were three domains and every living thing that you know of fits into one. So animals plants funghi everything you think of as an animal fits into one, and then there were two whole different domains. These bacteria, basically you know all everyone else, just learning that at school Anna was sweeping up flour from the block yeah, I'm just the idea of single cell organisms, when I think that I just think of the earliest of life, that's how we we all came about right. into early life and and how we came about generally, and I read about a thing that has been observed in deep space, seven hundred and fifty light years away from earth. It's a protostar,

It's like a sun like star, shooting out these huge bullets of water, and they actually think that that's how water is getting seated around the universe from these kind of stars. These huge, like huge amounts of water and So they say that if we picture these jets as giant hoses and the water droplets as bullets, he manage shooting out equals one hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River. every second. Nevertheless, cities are reaching two hundred thousand kilometers per hour, so eighty fast eighty times faster than bullets flying out of machine gun and they ve been observing this huge batches of water coming out of it. eyes and because I did read a long time ago, there was a theory that maybe the way the earth got water was from one of these, a huge just whatever bullet of water. Take maybe comments, yellow. Yet I am, I think, an enormous com. It might have provided a lot of economies and that much water coming to some comments, though, is controversial. I think yeah. What is it

This is just as is quite a new report has come out where they ve observed a protein start shooting out as he has a fit. Nine million was so amazing yeah. I know I can believe it, but you you think it's not fully. I don't. I haven't read that outright, but some people think that Walter came from space. Some people think it managed to be made on earth. I might well be true for all I know, speaking of early life forms Do you guys know about the boring billion. The boring billion is a period of time that scientists use to describe between one point, eight billion and eight hundred million years ago, when life just stopped evolving. Complete and the whole of us. The only life on earth was one huge layer of slime. is so good for a billion. Nor was it like slime, mold kind of a member kind of stuff it was, it was like an a what's. It called sheet

my actually just like that kind of thing. Yet, oh, it was like a microwave. Nobody reveal that yeah you still get microbial mats today does a huge patch of them the size of recycling. Yet this one like this one layer of microbial mass on the bottom of the ocean as just Aventis, whaler and is the size of grace, and it can be up to seven centimetres thick as a bottom to top, and it's just this incredible web of strands and filaments and microbes living in these. They look. like little whole cow pats on the ocean floor and an area the size of grace undersea, which is these is cited as Anti, is getting about this. I think he would have loved it in the burning value should have been living in that time over the course of the brilliant Billy and I randomly was flicking through the other day, a book by Michael Palin on his trip to Brazil and the books called Brazil

he was talking to a guy in the Amazon, about deforestation and so on, and when there actually just chopping down up and this Guy said that the term that they all refer to when they talk about a size of area that their deforestation in the Amazon, they call it one Belgium or six Bell do they yeah? They use Belgium. As the we would say. Wales, I think like size of Wales, is chopped down every two minutes. Yes, they they seem to think they'll say to each other it. So they kind of use it as an unofficial, really unit of measurement. something about bacteria, I so the largest bacterium is called Theo. Margarita namibiensis. Actually quite a pretty name. It sounds like your parents actually named a child. That is, I I tried to look up. If there was anyone called Theo Margarita in the world, there was one guy he's. A football agent always sign up to be a football agent, but there's not really much about him. He he didn't. interesting about the shame This is the biggest bites here in the world. It's big enough to be seen with the naked eye and its volume is three

millions million times more than the average bacterium, and I thought that if you had, the average human and it was someone who is three million times bigger than that. It would be about ten times as large as the world's biggest tree. Wow yeah, you don't be bullied by that guy, no other. Both these things are so cool so that I think it's the thickness of seven pages in in a book. If you hold those together, that's the width, that's that's how long they get so you can see them. Another thing about them is that these bacteria, the world's largest bacteria, Yeah, it's the same size as the world's smallest snail. Do they hang that's cool, at Camella Nana, and it was only described this month November, two thousand and fifteen is that really snail

when you like all. I feel like I'm just coming down with a bit of a bug: yeah, it's actually the same size as me, cool those two are both slightly larger than the very smallest plants in the world, which is a duckweed, and it gets just no point six millimeters as an individual plugged. It tiny oh, I like the merchant all three of them and that have higher little prevention. this is one that I like about cause. You mentioned it, giving things their scientific names, the binomial naming system. It just struck me the other day when I read it in a book thoughts. Its one of the only maybe the only universal bit of language. So whenever you in the world: you're not gonna able to communicate with anyone. You know who speaks a language, you don't unless you need to describe a certain type of plan or mole or something, and then you just say you know puffiness, puffiness and they're, going to know exactly what you mean. If there is a biologist, I wonder about

Future code is a bit similar that maybe the other thing is partly there's one word which is understood by everyone on earth and that's how paper earlier this year. Saying that this word is everyone knows what that means. Do you have to make that reading it is faced with it. You just wish everyone could. I started researching single celled organisms and then, I stopped because I didn't understand anything about it. So I looked at the rest of the facts, which is that the single cell organism can be up to twelve inches long names of the twelve inches long down. I dunno. If we want to put out this podcast about the name of the stuff, that's twelve inches long, so I started looking into things at a twelve his long one of the things that two years ago Subway got sued, because customers will complaining that there twelve inch foot long, sandwiches weren't in fact twelve in

but Longs yet and bring in your single cell to hug in his measured against exactly and someone. Actually, there was a big lion action, lawsuit and they were representing customers who purchased the six inch foot, long, sandwiches anytime between January first, two thousand and three and October second, two thousand and fifteen. So if anyone felt like they were duped and had a bit of proof, they could come forward and say actually six years ago I was pretty sure that was a bit shorter than like eleven point: nine inches yeah exactly and they have to pay up, so the subway actually paid up the settlements of five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars american and now they have to measure all of their bread, but they could have just claimed that. Oh sorry,

when we said foot long, we just meant as long as Michaels Foot FUCK yeah Michael Foot was much bigger than he was five or six feet or so, and can I give a really interesting theory, I think about single celled organisms that I read today. It might be quite random. I only read it in this one tat? It was really believe in the second half of good work, but so is its content, mystery why animals happened. Why multi celled organisms happened? You know what what was it amazing or cells go to multi cells are various there. Is I like this theory, which is that is because we able to eat our selves, so in so cells need organisms need food to survive right, so they each other cells. Other things are made of cells. So, when cells rural clustered together

if they go hungry. They could just ate their cell next to them that they were attached to so that when they never got hungry, but the cells that was single celled organisms couldn't find if they got hunger and there wasn't it. at the single cell nearby, then they just starve to death, and so suddenly, evolved that is better to be a multi, The organisms happened because you could just eat the other bits of yourself, so even digest yourself easily without having to go out looking for food and that's why they mean in Sauk the island of sock. There is a child with a singer. So you can fit to prisoners in it a I have to be amoeba but yeah, I'm too old to know a cool thing about what I think is the one first animal on earth so any gas, a tortoise okay, I was something ocean based right, so well, yeah, like Coral Bruce foresight, I think not

dead, Denzil as having its own sponges are technically animals which never fails to surprise me, lay ass in the animal kingdom and they they looked just like spent his. But there are these giant barrels punches, which can be up to two and a half meters tall and that much across his well single animals and some of those they. think could be up to two thousand four hundred years old, which out strips anything I'll see. You know that you couldn't kill a sponge with your bans. Tied disagree with it, because if you kind of train ripped apart a polar or anything like that, just re grow. So how can they be killed, probably, let's say with fire, I thought we were actually bringing them closer to extinction, because back in the day before we use toilet paper, people use sponges, so we will sort of bottom wiping them to death. Basically, he has, especially as in bacterial. What then get into the the ecosystem is our right to know. That implies that we didn't take it,

to wipe out us as we just sat on a huge love sponge on the age limit. Our put it back, put it back in a k, reattached it in the old days you had to swim to the bottom of the sea. To want, It was terrible for the people living next to the Mariana trench coat at the Marianas trench. Yeah I'll go quiet, getting an amoeba. Actually, just that say the there's a amoeba called the chaos amoeba, which I think is quite cool. oh, it's a chaos is agendas of amoeba and was named by the mass, and I think it was the first to me, but to be seen and named, and then this reminded me. Ellen S, oversee was responsible for seeing a lot of these metals species in naming them for the first time- and I was in the other day, by Colin Touch is amazing, and you should read his books that as when he went on botanical expeditions would have me the cold band leading the way I would make one dress and ready wacky costumes here. They did have one know that

And whenever they allowed the new species, he would like ring a bell or something like that: more tired, too, to HOLLAND or something the Uno using them ring billions Ounds fund that I think that sounds like a more we're all work it out were in history, we're gonna, go without side, machine and basement gonNA, well yeah I said, how long have you been some slime? Okay sign for fact number three, and that is just and ski. My vote this week is that if your bitten by the boom slang snake, you bleed from every orifice. frightening James finds it funny. I find the word orifice funny: yeah yeah, that's pretty terrifying, even your gums yeah, I mean every every part of your body

reform, YO gums, your eyes. You know you know the bits down. There are others who tried to marry her strange, exactly Marline honest I don't get anything else. The can anyways

This is really horrible. We shouldn't be laughing and nobody has find this. The boom time flying snake, which is quite a cool name, is not particularly dangerous because it very very rarely attacks people. I think it's only killed seven people on record, but when it does kill you, it has a venom which is called a Hema toxin which destroys your blood cells, and the first recorded incident was an expert on snakes who got bitten by him when he was in his lab and he thought nothing of it, because it's just a tiny little bruise and he actually because he was a snake x, but he noted down the symptoms as they went along and spent the day going. Well, my bruises looking at little bit purple had a tiny bit sore now and then he was dead within twenty four hours because suddenly about you know six to eight hours later he stopped Bruce was he? Yes, I think he was yeah and I think was it thought to be homeless at the time slang. So he said if he'd been bitten by a snake, then thought to be dangerous. He obviously would have been reported, but he's just always just a

I love say the boom slang, and so it's killed seven people with its by. I reckon it's only seven, because it must be such an ordeal for it to actually bite someone properly, because it's fangs are located at the back of its mouth yeah. That's a ridiculous reason: evolution put it back there, so in order to buy it, has to open it's mouth. One hundred and seventy degrees like this and then make the bite. But that's that's such an odd placement as amazing that they called they called back. Fanged snakes. Aren't they and there are loads of species of snake, which I didn't really understand it either supposedly, when fight you princelings they have to. It looks as though that chewing on their prey, supposedly when they

they pray. It looks as though they're showing on them, but actually all they're doing, is working the venom into their prey because they have to open their mouths. I wise to get their fangs actually and that then they need to. It looks like they're jumping on you. Have you guys heard of the Japanese Tiger keel back? No, no! It is the most bad ass snake. This this snake is incredible, so it can bite you and kill you with a poison with a toxin. However, it's a non venomous snake and what it does is it bites poison frogs. It takes from it the venom and the toxin from the toad, and then it lets it drip back to it's backfiring.

as well, and it keeps it in these little. I think pouches and then bite something and it uses the poison that it's carried over to kill it's enemy. That's insane right! That's amazing! Yeah! That's cause! It takes a lot of energy to make your own venom. Doesn't it it's actually really clever, it's much less energy to just go Niko. Someone else, then, like walk out with the test tubes inside your body, how to actually can coax? What do they tell each other, though, like to the snakes? Go that's cool, there's no venom, but that toad will give you it. You just have I put it to your back to like how did John is it like with beavers. I just know how to build dams when they're born or they kill box. Did you say yeah, so female kill box when they have babies and the babies don't have any venom. Yet they will find a a toad and then collect the venom from the toad and then give it to the children so that they have some have some phantom when they're first born, so that might be observational. It could be a.

Do you guys know how many people would you guess I think I'd hold onto this the other day and said: don't answer it? How many people would you two guests per year are killed by snakes around the world around the world here and I would say about one hundred how many people do you reckon down have killed. I dunno maybe something ridiculously low like seven, because we have so much it's two hundred thousand watts Rarely two hundred thousand people a year that the most dangerous animals live in mosquitoes and is a massive health emergency, because it's a really unfashionable thing for pharmaceutical companies to be investing in because everywhere, where snakes are dangerous, is in like rural, developing, the poorest areas, and so lots of pharmaceutical companies are stopping producing an anti venom which is killing enough people. But two hundred thousand people year that

Will the new it expects it right learn raising its insane yet those those guy. Recently you survived a brown sneak attack, which is, I think, a strategy is most dangerous snake. He was doing a charity woke and he came across a snake that he thought was dead and leaped up and it bit him, but he survived the attack because this entire work, which was right across Europe, huge wilderness rightly he was wearing a storm, trooper outfits from star wars, and so it hit the plate on his on his chin, and he made all the dos and Australia's not surprised yeah at every single, every single news channel that interviewed him asked him if he was a massive star wars nerd, when he doesn't even like star wars like what star wars. I was just worried by anti snakes I read a list yesterday of the one thousand two hundred and ninety five venomous snakes as the list of them online. I'm not sure it's all of them, but I think it might be pretty close to one of his

the okay at the moorish snake. with two hours and all I know is in what you heard, what you just can't the Tiger cat snake, which I really like cause it's like three animals in one yeah yeah, that's a bit like there's a hawk moth caterpillar. I think I think maybe it must get really upset cause. It's called the HAWK moth caterpillar and then, when it turns into a moth,

I reckon the things that must be the things I turn into as I keep going on the rest of his life. He seems difficult know of anyway is incredible if you google it because it can disguise itself as a snake in order to repel birds, and so it's like it's underside has this pair of false eyes on it and it sort of causes itself to becoming a bit and gorged where the snake's head would be. And if you look at pictures it looks exactly like the head of a snake, except that it's obviously a caterpillar sized. So I don't know what kind of a frightening snake is three inches long, but it works that's great and that they've apparently found out that snakes are actually seventy million years older we first thought they were. These snakes sometimes were massive and one of them. This is what they ate. Dinosaurs was a dinosaur. Eating snake is amazing, although you did get small dinosaurs back in the I know, but just the word here is as a lodging a kind of locking its jaws around like a

productivity, so slowly it is a small mammals, lizards and even dinosaurs. I read quite cool new story from ninety ninety six about a snake and I'm dress. I now I wouldn't recommend s because actually fascinate but you're not supposed to create attorney k, because that people often think that the right thing to do, but actually sometimes that can attract the volume in the wrong place and then make it more harmful than otherwise would have been. However, does sometimes work in ninety. Ninety six in Texas amendments bitten by a poisonous coral snake. He killed the reptile by biting off it's head and then peeled off his skin and used a Tunica to wrap around, injury. That's amazing, that's pretty hot! Isn't it odd you know they can hear through so that I don't know if this is all species of snake, but they can hear through their Joel Barn so that Joe burns on the ground, but what's really interesting, is that the jawbone is split into two, so they can work out the direction,

because if the left Joel is going, Bul does a little value other. Yet they can certainly be going. Ok, left left or at least make a move. It also has to ways of smelling and one is the classic way a classic snakes. Norway, the other, is through its tongue tasting the air that's how it smells. So when you see a snake and it's kind of sticking out his tongue, just like how it is doing now, is trying to kind of see if it can taste any predators or prey okay. Speaking of being able to hear, do you know the death other, not okay, the death other, it kills. It kills lot of people a lot. People are killed by it, but it's not called the death because of that it used to be called the death other. Then it just kind of got switched around, and it's because when early People went to Australia, they saw it and it never run away from humans and so they seem that it could just couldn't hear the humans, and so that's they thought it was. Deaf, though, is that of the deaf atta became the debt

due to a miss hearing. Have you seen footage of flying snakes? Oh yeah. There may be an illegal long wait and they go a long way and their well do you. Where do they get flying to serve the rough on a tree and they want to get to the ground, but they kind of cover some distance, always they always fly from somewhere higher it's a well loved, never never the other way very good point. So it's not it's. I guess it's more parachuting mechanism that they do because they flatten their body into a sort of spine. Almost like when you seeing their limping the ribbons that they do not ribbon, display its like that I'm in Burma is still laughing and that Europe will give it a few million years and you won't be laughing when there are flying snakes with windows. You'll be harking back to that time and boring variations. Slime ok time for our final factor. The show- and that is my facts. My fact this week is that Albert Einstein has a social media team. Yet so he had

this is a genuinely devoted team who are paid specifically to keep up his twitter presence. His facebook outputs his by the wayside over the past seventy years How does it feel to be less technologically So you what you will see on Twitter, that people would set up accounts for debt, historical characters, someone even has doubled for God, and they run it as if they are God, that's a verified account exactly so that's the difference. Albert Einstein has a little blue tick next to his twitter account because it's a verify, a verified account. He on Facebook has a little tick as well. He's got seventeen million followers on face

fuck seventeen million, so this is Corbis who looks after his output and they have the license to his image and as a result of the money that they get from it, he is the fifth most profitable dead person. Basically, he makes he's the so I think only people like maybe Kurt Cobain and a few others, Elvis Elvis and

maybe John Lennon and Yes- and the fourth is Charles Schulz, who drew Pena, really cause his still so popular and still say, love but the I. I was very skeptical about this, because I thought this sounds terrible using Einstein's image after his death a prophet. It turns out that actually on his death, he left the rights to his image to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he cofounded. So he said you can have the rights to my image after I die and use it to make money for the university. So they licensed out to Corbis the right to use this image and corpus take a cut of the money. Basically, but most of it goes back to the hebrew university. So it is actually an odd way of fulfilling your will or you know, having a charitable legacy. They actually really care about it. The guy who runs the team at Corbis says that every day he thinks about what Einstein stands for and what he doesn't stand for, and then he sends out a tweet or

He sends out a facebook message reflecting what he thinks Einstein might have set about a situation. Also. He corrects people who miss a tribute quotes to Einstein, so Einstein will right back to them. In one case, he wrote to one of the car dashi in saying up, I saw never said, so he's also doing damage limitation on on the spread of misinformation, and I just love the quote: the guy at Colbert, nor the guy who actually runs Einstein's count, but one of the managers, the Kevin Connolly who said it's not rocket science, social media presence that no one on the Corbett team has any scientific experts so that yeah I'd stand still gets five to ten request for an autograph every day. How true via like me, will ask on twitter of his autograph, I'm afraid I don't have much more detail than that. I suspect they go disappointed most of the Einstein, those pictures of him from the thirties look old.

These guys are in black and white, so you can tell they're a long time ago. How ancient do they think this guy is and so on signs, but slightly disturbing person right because he's he seems to have no flaws. Well, he has one Well, he has one floor, but in every other way, so great all these quoth. He said that also wise and pretty unease. It's great pacifist he's, a genius. If you read in o, though I think new, scientist or scientific American a couple of months ago, did the top ten greatest scientist of old time and you can feel they all want to be a bit less failed. But in the end they all say Einstein's the one, and yet he had this weird relationship with his wife. So his list of ways that his wife to behave around him if the marriage was to function is so weird they. Yet they were on the brink of a divorce and then they decided to hold the marriage together. For the kids in a part of the deal was Einstein wrote this letter to her, yet that's featured in the letters of note book. If anyone has that you can do it

what is so, the conditions of him of the remaining together with a contract that he wrote the shout to sign, and she had said that she would make sure that is. Closing laundry were kept in good order. That he'd get his three males regularly in his room. Bedroom and study captain need stuff like that, but then you are renounce all personal relations with me in so far as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. You will stop talking to me. If I request it up to decide what you will stop there, it's me if I request it, I mean this doesn't I'd, be pleased yeah. This doesn't sound like a guy who, great on social media. If he actually was allowed, blocks lies. This is what he promises are in return in return, we have proper component on my part, such as I would exercise to any woman as a stranger o out ass. She signed it ass one hour and then they divorced a couple years later. I think

alright can keep it up kept on yammering on dingy, yeah yeah You know the weirdest thing about that list. Is it feels really awkward having to say bad stuff about Einstein by it? true it's. This is who he was, but you really kind of, I feel almost dirty saying this out loud, but it's kind of it's just true yeah, it's odd! Well, that's because of the x expert but being done by the folks at cool. Very rarely tweets. You will not talk to me if I request it. On the load of way. Then you can use a thought buttons. Did he really signs? The market with at age has invented he invented and painted today, but no one ever made it. is a blouse with two sets of buttons, some parallel to each other, so that would fit both. slim person and the fat person is a good idea. It means that you can use the slim buttons and, if you put on a load of weight, then you can use the fat buttons did. He really signs the market would at each has invented he invented and painted today, but no one ever made it because I've got shut cuffs

You can do something yeah anyway yeah As a mother, he pages at a hearing aid I think, and a refrigerator yes, which didn't take off at the time and literally or metaphorically hand, wasn't ready, bore, but now that thinking about introducing it cause it's very environmentally friendly, so is that she was very ahead of his time is not the reason he did though he did it because fringes at the time were lethal, so they all used gases like ammonia to actually do the cooling of the food or other gases like methyl chloride, and several people died as a result of these gases leaking out into their homes. Basically, so Einstein was one of several scientists who worked on fixing that and am in nineteen twenty five. He co developed with the former student, a fridge patented it, but then they invented a non poisonous refrigerant

which is what better do you know? Yoda was based on Einstein: no, no, the guy who designed the Otis Eddie based on a combination of himself and Einstein. It was Stuart Freeborn, so hang on. If one element of Yoda is taken from Stewart as promised, It means the Stuart must be three foot tall agreed yeah when I Stein became really famous and he had lectures. People really wanted to go to the lectures, even though they didn't understand any of it, and so he it's not to lecture and then stop after five minutes and say I will. Paul is so that those with no further interest in the subject can leave ready much. Everyone would go and wire like two or three people left while they were in Oxford, visited it quite a few times. I did understand what I was looking at, but you can see the chalkboard that Einstein when he came to England to explain equals empty squared. You can see

the chalkboard way or the workings out are on there. It's quite not it's a weird bit of history to look at weirdly and nope. Nowhere on the chalkboard does, it say, equals Mc Squared, so I just have to assume in that they're, not telling the truth. Definitely one of the people in the lectures weren't knew as soon as you sat down. I was like God, five minutes all the way until he excuses me. Yeah, definitely not for the science, You can just- and I dont know what purpose it has because then not be short, helpfully fits together, say. The main purpose is to get super yeah. I guess I any mathematician consults reach other about months by just using the symbols that you know how I signs brain was chopped up. There is now an app that you can get and I think it's for doctors, where they ve got high rise images of the brain. Are you can download it and you can t go close into its and you can just- and I dont know what purpose it has, because

not quite sure how it fully fits together, just going back to the sort of naughty or side of Einstein, does an idea that his granddaughter, who was raised by HANS, which was his son, was in fact an illegitimate love. Child Stein's name was Evelyn and she was actually given a bit of Einstein's brain and the idea was that she was actually going to do a dna check up to see if she was waited because she got no money at all, like the will when it went to the hebrew University, his likeness and all that stuff. They didn't give her a cut of anything and most exciting thing about. Her, though, is that, for a period of about thirteen years she was married to Grover Krantz who all the bigfoot enthusiasts out there will know, is the first scientist to believe in and try to prove the existence of Bigfoot,

the door in dressed in having that, and he said it would be interesting to have close kind of ironic legacy, but then she said, but I'm not sure, you'd be interested in reading it It's done go over current. Can we do a quick thing on social media, social media, particularly after death, because the companies now which offered to keep tweeting the kind of things that you would have tweeted after you die. So let's take a sample of all your previous tweets and their slogan is when your heart stops beating and you'll keep tweeting and I've read. I was reading a story about these firms, and that was one business woman who had registered her interest in having that, and she said it would be interesting to have a quote kind of ironic legacy, but then she said, but I'm not sure who'd be interested in reading a computer generated me in the cold light of say it is a very conceited thing to do. Is I think self? Yet?

and there's another one called attorney me. I think which one you sort of can train your avatar. So it recommends that, if you sign up to it, the best way to have as realistic tweeting as possible after you die, is to properly train up your avatar and feed it with your whole personality. So give it all your pictures or your tweets, and then it creates a thing that looks like you and that can You know speak speak to people as you would have, while it's Omar brave New world yeah, the there there's a guy called Joe beaks of Vikes, and he is a writer for the music and pop culture website, death and taxes, and he has served. It is a definite Texas yeah? It's already gone and he's kind of got onto hoot, which is an app which will send tweets in the future. So you can do it for a tweet next week, if you're not going to be in the country, it'll just send that, but anyway he has got some messages to be sent out in twenty eight,

six and he wants to be the last person to ever tweet and he reckons that just twitter with it being an internet company, whatever all just any company, really probably still won't be going in those times, but he will still have one last tweets wow, but if twitted of an existing, how will it go out? Yeah it could still post up my space, even though no one's going to levy a that's true wait, The cost time get up the off Myspace and there are some things. Twitter accounts that make me really happy. I'm on Twitter, so one although these favorite does do that and one that I do like, though, is there, on a par with the big bends, was a phase which is fun test, it costs Ethiopia about banned blog is so good. It's one o'clock, a tweet Bong two o'clock. It tweets pong ball.

gonna be doing that for years every hour, Randy's favorite does do that, and one that I do like, though, is do you guys have you guys scene can kick accommodation Kim what came cake, accommodation, it's a combination of Kim Kardashian and kick a god, and it says it's the philosophy of kick a God man with the twin For listening, if you would like again contact with any of us about the things we ve set over the course of this poor cast, you can get us all on our twitter accounts, I'm on at Schreiber Land James. I taped Andy Andrew Hunter. Anna. You can email podcast at you, I d come up and you can also get a no such thing as a fish. Okay, that's it! That's all of our facts! Thank you so much for listening. If you would like to get in contact with any of us about the things we've said over the course of this podcast, you can get us all on our twitter accounts. I'm on at Schreiber Land James at egg shaped Andy at Andrew Hunter M Anna. You can email podcast at Qr. Dot com

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