What Came Before the Big Bang, Diner Designs, and The Ancient Greek Crocodile Paradox
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why classic diners are shaped like train cars; what came before the Big Bang; and the crocodile paradox, an unsolvable dilemma dating back to ancient Greece.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Classic Diners Are Shaped Like Train Cars for a Very Good Reason
- What Came Before the Big Bang?
- The Crocodile Paradox Is an Unsolvable Dilemma That Dates Back to Ancient Greece
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:40.0 | Today you'll learn about an ancient unsolvable Greek paradox, what came before the Big Bang, |
| 0:45.5 | and why classic diners are shaped like train cars. |
| 0:48.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:49.7 | We'll start off today with a little brain teaser, and by brain teaser I mean self-contradictory or |
| 0:54.1 | logically impossible statement also known as a paradox specifically an ancient |
| 0:58.9 | Greek paradox actually do you have a favorite paradox yes Yes, I believe it's, this statement is a lie. |
| 1:05.0 | Is that the liar's paradox? |
| 1:07.0 | Yes. |
| 1:08.0 | I love the liar's paradox. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm actually going to, I have something to say about the liar's paradox, |
| 1:12.0 | but I'm going to save it |
| 1:12.6 | until after we talk about this Greek one. Ooh, all right. |
| 1:15.1 | There's a little tease for you. |
| 1:16.8 | Today we wrote about the crocodile paradox and this is a logic problem that came from ancient Greece. |
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