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Let's Learn Everything!

51: Carcinization, The Animal Algorithm Mystery, and The Many Lemming Lies w/ Ellen Weatherford

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8547 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Are we really all destined to turn into crabs? Why are there so many animal algorithms, and are they all legit? And just how many times have we been wrong about the lemming?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I will be getting my hat and my little cake.

0:03.4

Oh, wait, hold on, Ella's here.

0:05.0

Hi.

0:06.0

Yeah.

0:07.0

Oh, Ella, you sound a little, where's your accent, Ella?

0:10.0

Ella, are you good?

0:11.0

I'm gonna order some beige food.

0:14.0

Didn't it, bro.

0:15.0

Oh, that's harsh.

0:18.0

That's harsh.

0:19.0

Oh, I sure do love my free healthcare. Oh, that's harsh. Oh, I sure do love my free health care.

0:23.3

That was Australian.

0:24.4

Yeah.

0:24.9

What was that?

0:26.0

All the accents that have free healthcare, I just kind of blend together.

0:29.5

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything, the show where we learn about anything and everything interesting.

0:50.4

This episode, as always, we are going to be covering one big science topic.

0:55.4

We're going to be asking and answering a science question,

0:59.4

and we'll be dipping our toes into a little miscellaneous topic.

1:04.0

My name is Caroline, and this episode I'm talking about the carcinization

1:08.6

or the cradification of every living thing. Oh, amazing! I'm so ready for this. Yeah, I hope, I wonder if Ella will happen to have any anecdotes today for that. Oh, a classic. I feel like this one, like I've wanted to talk about this for a really long time, and this was just like, it felt right, it felt right. I want to say like it's an oldie but a goody, you know? It's like up there with the Voyager probe where it's like, it's like, listen, we probably know this, but like let's play in the space of this because it's, and also probably some people that might not, you know, that's always the case, right? I was talking to my partner about this, and he had absolutely no clue what any of this was. And I was so shocked. No, he doesn't know about the fact that he's going to grow little legs and little claws one day. And that's just horrifying to me. So I have to tell everybody about this. And that's what it is, right? That's what we're here to clarify. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My name's Tom, and today's question, I'm very excited, was one that friend of the show,

2:06.7

Ellen Weatherford brought to my attention.

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