Thu. 11/12 - How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A simple question with a very, very complicated answer: how many holes does a straw have? Why the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could be significant beyond COVID-19. And yet another botched art restoration in Spain. Sponsor: Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Links: Q: What Is a Hole? A: We're Not Sure! (Kottke) How Many Holes Does a Human Have? (Vsauce, YouTube) What We Talk about When We Talk about Holes (Scientific American) GOING DEEP DISCUSSION TOPIC: "What is a hole?" (David Rees, YouTube) Why It’s a Big Deal If the First Covid Vaccine Is ‘Genetic’ (Wired) Why the Pfizer vaccine is a big deal (explained in simple terms) (The Literature Lady, Twitter) Seven big unknowns about the breakthrough coronavirus vaccine (Wired) Sculpture restoration work draws laughs, memories in Spain (AP) A Botched Restoration of a Painting in Spain Draws Outrage (NY Times) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for Thursday, November 12th, 2020.
0:40.7	I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.3	A simple question with a very, very complicated answer.
0:47.7	How many holes does a straw have?
0:51.9	Why the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine could be significant beyond COVID-19 and yet another
0:59.9	botched art restoration in Spain. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:08.5	All right, so this was a post on khaki.org yesterday, and I want to expand on it because
1:13.3	based on the unending debate about it among my friends, I don't think this is a topic that
1:18.4	will ever have a true end point, much like the topic itself. That is, what is a whole?
1:27.0	H-O-L-E- Whole. The dictionary definition of the noun version lists
1:31.9	among more niche definitions relating to golf and various slang, a hollowed-out place, but also
1:38.8	in opening through something, and an area where something is missing.
1:45.0	So to begin with, each of these three are slightly different.
1:48.0	Does something simply have to be missing?
1:51.0	Does it need to have been taken out of a thing?
1:54.0	Does it need to be an absence that goes all the way through that thing?
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