Why are trainee chefs taught to touch their cheek, chin, nose and forehead in that order?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

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

Joining us today are three guests who are currently touching various parts of their face in various orders.

First, joining us for the first time on the show, we have storyteller, materials scientist and engineer, Anna Poshiski.

Hello, very, very happy to be here.

Welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. I have to ask a material scientist and storyteller connected here.

Is that part of what you do? Yeah, absolutely. So I started out my career as a material scientist.

I was researching hydrogen storage materials, which if anyone has seen the Glass Onion movie,

you will be well acquainted. And because I was researching

hydrogen, my friends and family basically thought that I was building hydrogen bombs. So I got

very interested in public engagement and science communication early on to try and dispel the myths that I

wasn't actually building bombs. I was trying to solve the energy crisis.

And then that led me on to everything from stand-up comedy to writing, and it's all pulled together by the idea of storytelling and telling a good old tale about science.

Also telling good old tales about science. And I think having a very different reason for hydrogen

storage, we are joined by

someone who asked me to describe him as internet rocket nerd, Scott Manley.

Hello!

You had to do the hello?

I had to do the hello.

Has that catchphrase gone a little bit old now? Are you still happy with doing that at the start

of every video? I'm still happy doing that at the start of every video. I noticed now that ChatGPT knows who I am, if you ask for the style. It does the hello and the fly safe.

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