In the Afrikaans language, what is known as a Papia vampire?

The answer to that, at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

Welcome to today's episode, where the first question my six guests have to answer is whether I've had my eyes tested recently.

First of all, we have, from the corridor crew, I was going to introduce you as Ren Whiteman,

but you have put your name on the call we're all sharing here as just,

Wren, with an exclamation mark at the end. So please welcome from the corridor crew,

Wren!

That's me, what's up?

Welcome back to the show.

Since you were last on, you have made the ants video.

How did that go?

Because you visualised every ant in the world in one ball and then showed that to the researchers

who'd written the paper counting the ants.

Yeah.

How was that, like, actually working with scientists this time?

It was great.

I was, I realized with the types of videos that I want to do, the important things to make

the nerds happy.

And so that was like what I wanted to do for that video.

So I actually reached that before I even started and just to get some collaborative

information from them so I can actually like kind of do it accurately.

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