Episode

423: No Such Thing As A Seminole Sorting Hat

2022-04-22 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

1. MarlboroughOne-offUnited Kingdom

   Lord's is the most famous cricket ground, but this is actually the third Lord's — it was in two other venues beforehand. The original Lord's, which was opened up by a guy called Thomas Lord, was in Marlborough Road in…

   mentioned at 00:11:32 · See it on the map →

2. Hard Rock CafeOne-offUnited States

   There's another waitress from the Hard Rock Cafe called Delia Lees, who worked there for 48 years. She got a job two weeks after it opened, and she's 80 now and she still does two days a week.

   mentioned at 00:34:46 · See it on the map →

3. University of RostockOne-offGermany

   There was an experiment on the whiskers by the University of Rostock. It was about how harbor seals find flatfish. Flatfish hide under the sand — they're not very visible, but there are these tiny movements of their…

   mentioned at 00:44:37 · See it on the map →

4. University of Southern DenmarkOne-offDenmark

   This is a study by Simeon Smeal at the University of Southern Denmark. Basically, they asked them to do one thing and then they asked them to do it again after 18 seconds, but they could still do the thing. They said,…

   mentioned at 00:52:00 · See it on the map →

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