Have you ever wondered where all those gloves that lost their mate end up?

They might have ended up at Oxo's headquarters.

Karen Schnauwar heads up branding for Oxo and her favorite part of the office is the wall of gloves.

I've never counted but there's probably a couple of hundred up there each with their own

story to tell individually but when you step back together and they're actually pinned up to the wall so beautifully,

it almost feels like an art piece. It's still this visually beautiful statement that just reminds us of our

origins and more importantly of all of the hands out there that we continue

to create tools to help and inspire and delight and make life a little bit easier.

For 30 years, Oxo has created better kitchen tools for all hands.

Learn more at Oxo.com.

That's OXO.com. Hey Proof listeners, it's Bridget here and I hope you enjoyed season four of

Proof. We're working away on season five, but in the meantime, we're going to be

releasing some short bonus episodes right here in our feed just for you. Today, I'm

joined by Johanna Mayer. I'm sure you know her, but she is the host of the new podcast Science Diction

that comes to us from Science Friday and it is an amazing podcast. Hey Johanna how

are you? Hey Bridget I'm well. So how about you tell us a little bit about science diction? What's that all about?

So science diction is a new very nerdy podcast and each episode looks at one specific word or phrase and with the help of historians

authors sometimes a scientist we talk a little about these surprising science stories behind these words that we use in our everyday life.

Basically, we're a Venn diagram of etymology, science and history, and it doesn't get much nerdier than that.

If I hear nerdy, I'm in.

Yeah, it's all sorts of fun, sciencey, deeply geeky stuff.

Do you have any examples of that? Like, what do you mean? Yeah, well, so you know the word meme, which we associate with

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