Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing is a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from multiple undisclosed locations across the globe.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin, and once

again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in

a particular order here we go starting with fact number one that is Anna.

My fact this week is that in 1950 a ballet was performed at the Waldorf Hotel

where the main characters were protons electrons electrons neutrons and a Geiger counter.

Lovely.

I have a question.

I reckon it's hard to see an electron, even if you're on the front row,

you're going to struggle to see an electron doing a plier.

Have you seen those ballet sort of little helicopters sometimes get at the ballet where you like put a

coin in the slot and you get a thing out? It's like that but everyone gets a...

Electron microscop, 50 million times magnifying. Yeah. Yeah, everyone had that.

It was a very expensive place put on. No, this sits on of those things and they were

human-sized, played by humans and this was reported in Time

magazine and it was a story that the founder of the Atomic Energy Association of

Great Britain who was a woman called Muriel Howeth, was putting on isotopia, which was a ballet, and the article goes on to describe or review it, saying it was 13 bosomy women,

gyrating gracefully, an ample electron in black lace, wound her way around two matrons

labelled proton and neutron. I see because like an electron is like

2,000 times smaller than a neutron so they didn't get like a very small person or a

child to be the electron and it wasn't to scale.

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