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Guaranteed Human.

It's Josh coming back at you hot with our 2018 joint on Occam's Razor,

one of the more semi-understood scientific principles.

But it's also probably the most widely used of them all, too.

Or misused, I guess I should say.

We have a medieval monk who became one of the early proto-scientists to thank for

Occam's razor, which makes him a hero to science.

And here's our episode on that hero.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's guest producer Tristan over there. So it's Stuff You Should Know. I don't know how these are going to release, but as you notice, Tristan weirdly grew out his mustache in the last hour again. He's quick. He is very fast. He can make it go in and out, in and out. Boop, poop, poop, boop. What is that? It's in, like, he's growing his mustache, and it's sucking it back in.

Oh, okay.

Growing it out. Sucking it back in.

You know, like, reverse Play-Doh.

Right.

Do you remember that Play-Doh set with the...

Like the little meat grinder?

No, there was one where, like, you could grow a mustache on a dude.

Oh, I think I remember that.

Yeah.

But imagine if you could reverse it, too.

It was called the Play-Doh nightmare set.

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