A Problem Squared

Matt Parker, Bec Hill
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Matt Parker and Bec Hill present: A Problem Squared. A podcast dedicated to solving problems of all kinds, such as, "What should I listen to right now?". A Podcast Squared. First one's free. You're welcome. Episodes released twokly on Mondays.

  1. 17 hr ago

    137 = Sound Advice and Electron Price

    👂Why do some people hate the sound of whispering? 💡 How much does an electron cost? 😎 And there’s some Any Other Bozoness On THIS episode of A Problem Squared - which comes with our special No Whisper Guarantee - we’re joined by a special guest! The clinical psychologist Dr Jane Gregory tells us all about Misophonia. You can find out about her fantastic (and very helpful) book Sounds Like Misophonia, and you can sign up to her research mailing list here: https://soundslikemisophonia.com/  And here is Ava’s EPIC Spreadsheet - A Problem Squared Episode Catalogue: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nXmEH9BrCr6hEBBhHkfuciPEKimDgZjrwhi2oeyErog/edit?usp=sharing If you’d like to see Bec’s Work In Progress shows, her upcoming gigs can be found here: https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs Matt is bringing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail to New York! The Bell House, Brooklyn on Sunday 12th July. Tickets can be found here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064B84CCCF567 And Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1hr 12min

  2. 8 Jun

    136 = How to Discuss The Number e and When to Disclose the "Real Me"

    #️⃣ What’s the best way to explain the number e to an 8-year-old? 💗 How early in a relationship should you reveal that you’re a bit weird? 🤧 And there’s some any other blow-your-nose-ness Head to our socials to see The Beautiful Old Calculator and The World’s Tallest Comedian. Matt is bringing An Evening of Unnecessary Detail to New York! The Bell House, Brooklyn on Sunday 12th July. Tickets can be found here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064B84CCCF567 Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1hr 1min

  3. 25 May

    135 = Pasta Water Solution and QR Code Substitution

    🍝 Why do we put salt in pasta water? 👾 Can you put bespoke characters in to a QR Code? 🌼And Spring Has Sprung (in the UK) so there’s some Any Other Bloomsness Head to our socials to see some frankly-very-silly-but-fully-operational QR Codes. Boiling and Freezing Points of Pure and Salty Water https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/1457 Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    52 min

  4. 11 May

    134 = Tooth and Rock Day 2026

    🤘To mark the May Birthday of Dwayne 'The' 'Tooth Fairy' 'Rock' Johnson, Episode 134 is a Tooth and Rock Special! 🪨 Matt answers your rock-based queries and shares a Salt of the Perth update 🦷 Bec and Dentist Sophie answer your tooth-based queries and shares an Adult Tooth Fairy update Head to our socials to look at some incredibly detailed Salt of the Perth imagery. And relatedly… Lead Explained: https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/-/media/ScottishWater/Document-Hub/Factsheets-and-Leaflets/Factsheets/100620SWFactSheet72020v5web.pdf Thallium in Salt Substitutes: A Possible Health Hazard: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0013935177900433 And here’s Matt’s Moving Mountains sources: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/eosc350/content/foundations/properties/density.htm Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1hr 21min

  5. 27 Apr

    133 = Oeuf-Bran Geometry and Huffman Decoder Tree

    🥣 What percentage of a box of Weet-Bix is wheat again? 🥚 What shape is an egg?  💬 What’s the most efficient way to write your name on a Pop-it Fidget Toy? 👎 And would you like some AOB? We won’t take no for an answer Head to our socials to see all the Weet-Bix Pix, lots of names efficiently spelt out on a Pop-It Fidget Toy, lots of Girl Scout cookies, and a sheep being sheared by a robot… The Sheep’s Back Museum, Naracoorte https://thesheepsbackmuseum.org.au/ Creation: Between Art and Mathematics Exhibition in Paris: https://www.ihp.fr/en/news-science-and-society/creation-between-art-and-mathematics Laura Taalman’s Granny Life Crochet: https://www.grannylifecrochet.com/  Get your own Egg-Shaped Spinning Top: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/phitop  Eve’s beautiful cross-stitch: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWY-_qzivz6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  And there is a Kickstarter to fund production of the filmed show, which you can get involved with here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/standupmaths/getting-triggy-with-it Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1hr 2min

  6. 13 Apr

    132 = Insistuvree and Bix of Weet

    🔠 Are there any English words containing four letters in alphabetical order? 🥣 What percentage of a box of weet-bix is wheat? 🎪 And there is some any other bah-bah-bahbahbahbah-buh-buh-business Head to our socials to see Bec’s post-show photos and videos from her Adelaide run including Morgan and Morgan's mum’s tooth, Scott and the 6-7 shirt and Karn and his incredible APS Flipchart.  You’ll also find Matt’s list of all the 4-letters-alphabetised words and one of the many bridges. Matt has extended his tour - and filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    52 min

  7. 30 Mar

    131 = Microwave Conventions and Pythagoral Dimensions

    👋 When microwaving food, should you place it in the centre, or off to the side? 📐 Does the longest diagonal in a 1m sided cube in 4D square equal root 4?  🐨 And there’s some Bonus Other Business. Head to our socials to see Bec’s Photographic Exhibition of Australian Wildlife, Cubie the Moon Rover, Bec’s Poppadom Experiment,  Matt’s Pythagorean Whiteboard Action, and the first glimpse of the most confusing game of Connect 4 ever to be played. A surprisingly visual audio podcast… so it’s all happening over on BlueSky / Twitter / Instagram Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    1hr 3min

  8. 16 Mar

    130 = Sly Skittles Claim and Why Sniffles Name?

    🌈 Is it true that "No Two Packs Of Skittles Are The Same?” 🤧 Why a cold called cold? 🤫 And there’s some ASMROB Head to our socials to see Matt’s Mission Patches, Matt’s Calculator, and the Skittles Combinatorics! The Liberation Laser Software by Seb Lee-Delisle https://liberationlaser.com/  The Skittle Maths by Clare Wallace https://www.clarewallace.co.uk/skittles And some Norfolk Punch, if you’re so inclined https://www.norfolkpunch.com/  If you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows  Join us on Patreon for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard! If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!   If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps.  Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on BlueSky, Twitter, Instagram, and on Discord.

    53 min
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Matt Parker and Bec Hill present: A Problem Squared. A podcast dedicated to solving problems of all kinds, such as, "What should I listen to right now?". A Podcast Squared. First one's free. You're welcome. Episodes released twokly on Mondays.

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  • Creator
    Matt Parker, Bec Hill
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Matt Parker, Bec Hill
  • Show Website
    A Problem Squared

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