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Let's Learn Everything!

57: Don't Lose Your Head! and Constructed Languages

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8547 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Losing your head isn't good, but what actually happens, and what can it tell us about animals, ethics, and bad science? And what is a constructed language, when does it fail, and when can it be use to make great... art? As they say, Ni Lernu Ĉion!

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0:00.0

Someone I worked with was telling me about this, they had a Rubik's cube party. I was invited, but I didn't get to go. And it's basically you wear six, clothes and six different colors. And then by the end of the night, you have to be entirely in one color. Right. That's what we all thought that was. And definitely not anything else. I wouldn't be disappointed. I would not be disappointed. I would, that would be so. very disappointed because that's an amazing party premise.

0:23.6

So, yeah, what would that be?

0:24.6

Is it that... I would not be disappointed. I would be disappointed because that's an amazing party premise.

0:23.6

So yeah, what would that be?

0:24.6

Is it that no one is allowed to know how to solve a Rubik's the show where we learn anything and everything interesting.

0:48.9

My name's Tom, and today we're going to be learning about a science topic and a miscellaneous topic.

0:54.8

My name is Caroline, and this episode's science topic is going to be talking about heads.

1:00.7

Specifically, what happens when they're not attached to your body anymore?

1:04.8

What?

1:05.5

What?

1:08.8

What?

1:10.2

What?

1:11.6

Huh? Are we going to talk about head, like, brain transplants or head transplants?

1:15.6

We are going to talk a little bit about head transplant at the end.

1:18.6

Are we going to talk about animals that can just, like, do weird stuff like that?

1:23.6

We are. We're going to cover all of those things.

1:25.6

We're going to talk about animals who lose their heads. We're going to cover all of those things. We're going to talk about animals who lose

1:28.5

their heads. We're going to talk about some wacky studies that have been done throughout history

1:33.0

looking at human heads and human head transplants as well. Yeah, you guys like basically nailed

1:39.5

everything I was going to talk about. I partly envy the listeners because they know, right now I don't know

1:46.8

whether this podcast episode is going to be titled, Don't Lose Your Head or Decapitation.

1:53.6

And the listeners know the answer to that right now. I'm still figuring it out. So we'll see.

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