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Look It Up Look It Up
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If you've ever wondered whether spiders get depressed, or what happens when you put a gun in a refrigerator, or what Presidents of the United States do after their terms end, this podcast will relieve you of the effort of having to look it up yourself.
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Bean pools, international dairy, Soviet Union trumpet solos
Timestamps:
00:55 - Filling a swimming pool with beans
06:16 - International dairy classification guide
13:20 - Shorts: how much is in a ton of money, when can you resume wearing white if you stop on Labor Day
14:15 - Trumpet solos in Soviet movie-musicals
31:30 - Outro: Ivan Vasilievich
Sources:
Alyans - Na Zare (80s Soviet synthpop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl-EyhXl0
Bean pools -
http://www.poolwizard.net/metric-pool-volume/
https://fina.org/sites/default/files/finafacilities_rules.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooting_Bec_Lido
Shorts -
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/coin-specifications
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Eliminating%2BHDNfinalXYZ.pdf
Trumpet solos -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYddUl-GItk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXDFaTFKsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZzG1XbDH_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJI09R-4ZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO6FMIrLaSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WUiJziSYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXMHsfUaFoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFfd8ZKKzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ie01PETGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMEfNhShh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UslGLtDARcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tun_ZYsnuAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7r8tRVoXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRAf2-9Zs8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzKDH2hWJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRmZ9KIBWhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUOBtR75u0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyXiiaEzjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko8P3rbDFFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVSm1i0fok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2yiIoEtXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzpQbxHhen4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBvOAOghu2E
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13: Microwaving clothes, ants and mountains, meringue safety
Look It Up is a podcast for the curious. On this episode: can you microwave clothes to dry them? Are humans to ants as mountains are to humans? And a brief discussion on meringue safety.
Sources: bit.ly/microclothes, bit.ly/duckmolt, bit.ly/meringues1, bit.ly/meringues2. Outro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqJQUYQphZM
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Fallow fields, Amtrak, otters
Look It Up is a podcast for the curious. On today's episode: are farmers given enough incentive to leave fields fallow? How does Amtrak stay in business? And otters.
Sources:
Farming subsidies (Grist): bit.ly/farmingsubsidie. USDA Conservation Reserve Program (AgWeb): bit.ly/crpsubsidies. Average expected crop yields: bit.ly/potatopounds.
History of Amtrak subsidies: bit.ly/amtraksubsidies. Amtrak budget starting 2015: bit.ly/amtrakbudget15. Supplementary amtrak data (Federal Railroad Administration): bit.ly/amtrakfra.
Baking yeasts: bit.ly/activedryyeast. Otters (Aquarium of the Bay): bit.ly/liuotters. -
11: Voronoi school districts, rhubarb pie, blankets
On this week's episode: do school district boundaries follow the lines suggested by a Voronoi diagram? What are the origins of the Prairie Home Companion song about rhubarb pie? Are some types of blankets warmer than others?
0:42 - Voronoi school districts
3:09 - Rhubarb pie
7:06 - Shorts
7:40 - Blankets
9:33 - Sources
10:05 - Lev Theremin playing the theremin
Sources: supplementary images for "Voronoi school districts," bit.ly/liuschools1. School district boundaries, bit.ly/liuschools2. Prairie Home Companion, prairiehome.org. A book about Lawrence Tibbett, bit.ly/liulawrence. -
10: Hammock heat loss, dangerous transport, weekday etymologies
Look It Up is a podcast for the indiscriminately curious. On this week's episode: why do I get so cold in a hammock? Which type of transport is safest per mile traveled? Where did the names for the days of the week come from?
Sources: transportation statistics from the NTSB and IIHS, bit.ly/liutransport1, bit.ly/liutransport2, and bit.ly/liutransport3. Weekday etymologies on Wikipedia, bit.ly/liuweekdays. -
9: Lunar gymnastics, data scraping, forfeitures
Look It Up is a podcast for the indiscriminately curious. On this episode:
0:43 - What would gymnastics look like in low gravity?
4:19 - What is data scaping?
5:52 - Shorts: does the third-party doctrine apply to iMessage? What happens if you drive over a road flare?
6:48 - Forfeitures, a segment about the weird stuff the US Government seizes
9:09 - Sources. NASA video about movement in space suits, bit.ly/liugravity. Scientific American article on lunar Olympic gymnastics, bit.ly/liugymnastics. SLU Law Journal article about iMessage and the third-party doctrine, bit.ly/liudoctrine. US Government forfeiture website, www.forfeiture.gov.
Today's episode featured a clip from Philippe Beer Gabel's "Cats in my mind" and "Mystical Picnic" by Nutmeg, all from the Free Music Archive, freemusicarchive.org
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