Episode
421: No Such Thing As An Elephant On A Chessboard
Didn't the British Navy figure all this out in 1747? James Lind famously did this, the first ever randomized controlled trial people say, and discovered that you could prevent scurvy with lemons.
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These knights are made in a place called Amritsar, which is in India. A very specific factory makes them — they only make 250 per year, and one knight to kind of whittle it down takes two hours and five to six years to…
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The first proper account of the islanders was written in 1698 called A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, which I still don't know what he meant by late. I don't know if he meant to go 10 years earlier. He died about five years…
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