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Let's Learn Everything!

63: Biomimicry & The Evolution of Chess

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8547 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

What can we learn by mimicking animals in nature, and more importantly, what can we learn about the nuance behind the buzzword of biomimicry? And just how many wild facts are hidden in a simple chess set?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's my biomimicry pitch, a bed, bat beds where you hang upside down, and maybe that gets more blood to your brain, and therefore you can think...

0:11.0

I'm entirely sure that that would kill you.

0:14.0

Let me Google how long...

0:17.0

Caroline, did you say work and LSA kill you?

0:20.0

Yeah.

0:21.6

Apparently a healthy young person could survive a few hours hanging upside down.

0:25.6

Okay.

0:26.6

Because our blood moves with gravity.

0:28.6

Fun.

0:29.6

I love that for us.

0:30.6

All right, so don't do that.

0:32.6

All right, back to the drawing board.

0:34.6

... All right, back to the drawing board.

0:49.8

Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything,

0:53.6

the show where we learn about anything and everything interesting.

0:58.1

This episode, we're going to be covering a science topic.

1:00.0

Science. Science.

1:01.2

And then we're also going to be covering a little miscellaneous topic as well.

1:05.8

Miscellaneous.

1:06.2

My name is Caroline, and I am a student for today. Lucky me. Welcome, Caroline. Thank you. My name is Ella

1:17.1

and today's science topic is biomimicry. Oh, shit. Oh my shit. I feel like This must have been on your list also, Caroline. I feel like this is like a classic. This was one that I'd like thought about so many times and had just like, you'd gone... I just did one of those sorts of topics. But again, Caroline, is this not the ultimate gift, a topic we want that we don't have to do?

1:44.8

Oh, my God.

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