The Upside-Down, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this series of episodes from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the concept of the topsy-turvy or the upside-down from the conceptual to the factual, from bat caves to the depths of the Inferno.

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0:43.3	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.
0:49.5	And I'm Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series on the theme of being upside down.
0:56.3	In the last episode, we started off talking about a very strange and interesting scene in the divine comedy of Dante,
1:04.5	in which Dante, the Pilgrim and Virgil, his guide, are in hell, and they are at the very bottom of hell.
1:11.3	They are crawling down the woolly haunch of Satan.
1:15.2	So they're on Satan's body, and the world suddenly appears to turn upside down.
1:21.2	We talked about what that scene meant within Dante's medieval worldview, and how subsequent changes in our understanding of physics
1:29.0	and cosmology affect how that scene reads.
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