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Listen to this article: http://bookshelf.professorelliot.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/04/37-divine-and-destructive.mp3 It is a shape found in a lot of places. Its influence can be found throughout history and has had an impact on millions, if not billions of humans. The truncated icosahedron has 32 sides; made up of 20 hexagons and 12 pentag…
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Listen to this article: http://bookshelf.professorelliot.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/03/35-insects-in-urinals.mp3 Some time during the Victorian era, honey bees began appearing painted onto the tops of urinals. Why honey bees? Likely because of a pun from the insect’s Latin family name “apis“. Honey bees are not the only insect to be featur…
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Listen to this article: http://bookshelf.professorelliot.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/02/32-bathtub-cheese.mp3 If you find yourself in a convention hall filled with health inspectors or food safety professionals, bring up the topic of “bathtub cheese” for an entertaining time. It is as bad as it sounds: unpasteurized cheese made in a bathtub…
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Listen to this article: http://bookshelf.professorelliot.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/02/31-a-quiet-ocean.mp3 Leonardo da Vinci once wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop, and place the head of a long tube in the water, and place the other extremity to your ear you will hear ships at a great distance from you.” His description is quite accu…
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Listen to this article: http://bookshelf.professorelliot.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/01/29-flying-snakes.mp3 You read the title correctly. Flying snakes. Southeast Asia, southernmost China, India, and Sri Lanka are home to a few species of snake that can actually glide from tree to tree. This is the serpentine genus of Chrysopelea. Luckily,…
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