Paula Poundstone's new show launches July 8

Live from the Poundstone Institute

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🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Paula Poundstone is on a quest to gather all of the world's knowledge. Or at least to get less stupid, one topic at a time. Follow her search as she looks to scientists, researchers, and experts for evidence about everything from what music cats like to the fluid dynamics of spilling coffee. Subscribe now.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's just me Paula Poundstone here with a little sample of my upcoming new
0:05.5	podcast called Live from the Poundstone Institute.
0:09.1	Along with my research assistant Adam, every week I'll explore studies that it's hard to believe
0:14.5	anyone would study.
0:15.9	Everything from the musical preferences of dogs
0:18.5	to the coefficient of friction of banana peals.
0:21.6	From the professional wrestling strategies employed by the President to, in
0:25.7	this sample, the physics of coffee spillage. In this little clip, I'm chatting with a scientist
0:31.0	named Hans Mayer, who bless his heart,
0:33.7	used his lifetime of experience in fluid dynamics
0:37.2	to analyze why we can't walk with a cup of coffee
0:39.9	without spilling it.
0:42.4	So what we did was we had a cup made from a beaker so it was transparent we could
0:47.0	see it.
0:48.0	A glass shop on the campus of UCSB made us a mug out of a beaker so just a piece of glassware.
0:55.0	Hans, it's not my place to criticize but you could buy a coffee mug.
1:00.0	Are you an NPR listener? Yeah, I am.
1:04.0	You can get a coffee mug just for signing up.
1:08.0	We chose another premium.
1:11.0	Have you never called in for anything? I've worked for
1:15.1	MPR for years. I can't get rid of my coffee mugs. I'm paid in tots and coffee mugs, huh?
1:21.0	But you felt the need to go to a section of the college
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