68: Phrenology & Lego

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It's an infamous pseudoscience, but what haven't we learned from the rise and fall of Phrenology? And Lego are ubiquitous, which means there's a lot to learn and a lot of nuance for our love of these stackable bricks.

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0:00.0	And in 2021, they started developing bricks from recycled polyethylene.
0:05.0	These words, man, are brutal.
0:09.2	Recycle polyethylene, terra.
0:12.2	No way.
0:13.9	No way.
0:15.0	Tell me how you think I should pronounce this.
0:18.2	I'm sorry, I'm saying this.
0:19.7	Terraphalate. Terrafthalate, like, like F?
0:22.6	Teraphthalate.
0:23.6	Tarrathalate?
0:24.6	Oh, no, sorry.
0:26.6	Yeah, it's pronounced Worcestershire.
0:28.6	Sauce. Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything, the show where we learn anything and everything
0:46.9	interesting. Today, we'll be learning about a science topic and a miscellaneous topic, too.
0:53.6	My name's Tom, and today I will be the student
0:56.8	of this episode. It's my turn to be the student. I promise I will be well behaved. I've got my
1:02.5	homework. I don't believe you. Yeah, I don't have my homework. But I'm here and that's... That's what
1:08.8	counts. My name is Caroline and this episode's science topic is actually a pseudoscience topic.
1:16.3	Today we're talking about phrenology.
1:20.2	Oh!
1:21.8	I finally did it.
1:23.1	I finally did it.
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