When Hope goes on a business trip abroad, she finds it convenient and time-saving to wear stud earrings.

Why?

The answer to that, at the end of the show, my name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

We have three fantastic guests on today's show.

One is a wine writer for The Guardian, and the other two are perhaps best known for looking at objects and thinking,

we need to put that in resin.

Or to put it another way, one appreciates things that change with age, and the others trap things in plastic to make sure they don't.

Let's meet them now.

First of all, let us start with the resin trappers. Evan and Caitlin, welcome back to the show.

Hi, good to hang out again. So what are you trapping in resin? Will there, as we record this,

the time has not approached, but will there be a pumpkin this year? There will be a pumpkin.

There will be a pumpkin.

This time we're going to try to burn it in an oxygen-free environment

and basically turn it into just straight carbon.

Carbonize it.

Wow.

Won't that make it really fragile?

That's why we're going to put it in resin. Sensible? Yeah. I mean, like, even for the resin, that won't... I was assuming it would crush it, but no, it's permeated, isn't it? It's throughout. That's my hand gesture for permeate for those people watching. Oh, yeah. Me too. Now, will it work? I don't know.

But either way, you got a video out of it.

Yes. for Permeate for those people watching. Oh, yeah, me too. Now, will it work? I don't know. But either way, you got a video out of it.

Yes.

Yep.

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