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108: Quicksand and Other Childhood Worries & The Undying Game of PinballWe all thought quicksand would be a bigger deal than it is, but what is the science behind them and all the other worries I had as a kid? And how does pinball reflect the changing cultures of our time, and could now be the best era of pinball? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Things we Talk About: Bagatelle Redgrave's Pinball Humpty Dumpty Beat Time Lambeth & Sarceni's Amazing Pinball Talk at Magfest David Barber's Magfest Pinball Panel Technology Connection's Great Pinball Breakdown PinballMap.com Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:22) Quicksand and Other Childhood Worries (01:05:22) The Undying Game of Pinball (01:55:32) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Ella’s spoon collection is much more important than our live show, the never ending story, quicksand was in 3% of in the 1960s, the problem with gen z is they’re not afraid of quicksand, quicksand is reverse oobleck (sheer-thinning), the settled sand at the bottom requires the force of lifting a car, quicksand is unfortunate physics circumstances burying you, 11th century quicksand art in the Bayeux Tapestry (also Haley’s comet), we’re less dense than quicksand so you’d float at your waist, you could listen to this podcast twice while hanging out in quicksand, Ella cried so much she couldn’t cross the piranha plank, piranha fear is President Roosevelt’s fault, you know you’re making fun of a ten year old child right now, my main takeaway was what a cogent president he was, piranhas reloading their teeth, piranhas have 10x the relative bite force to size of a crocodile, piranhas aren’t carnivores - they’re opportunistic omnivores and a skittish prey species, the cow just walking out of the piranhas, it’s like two truths and a lie but all three are true, ARE WE DOING SPIDERS GEORG, spiders have acute mechanoceptors, tarantulas aren’t just hairy for fun, debunking the Lisa Birgit Holst debunking, a 50 spiders salute for georg, Beans Britain is a statistical outlier and should not be counted, spiders georg as a stats teaching tool, spiders georg was NOT an outlier, the moment Tom and pinball fell in love, we’ve been throwing balls at pins since ancient Egypt, indoor parlor games were for the aristocracy, fixing the pins to the table with bagatelle, the depression sparked the start of pinball’s craze, evolving their legs back, truly pinball is what caused the depression, pinball was the avocado toast of the time, pinballs were literally turned into billy clubs and bullets, pinball was banned for 34 years in new york city, the historic humpty dumpty machine first gave us flippers in 1947, pinball was cooler than porn, the bootles, it’s games sex and games AGAIN - but this time it’s bad, Suzanne Ciani’s digital design for Xenon, guess the pinball cabinet from the sound, the sopranos’ profanity filter, NBA fastbreak isn’t a basketball themed pinball - you are playing basketball, Dave demonstrating a Tap Pass, pinball is the most open it’s ever been, finding cabinets is a somehow even nerdier version of birdwatching, oh nooo don’t send me pictures of pinball cabinets. Sources: 2021 Fibromyalgia Acupuncture Review Wildland Trekking: Is Quicksand Real? EBSCO: Non Newtonian Fluid Wiki: Shear Thinning Slate: The Rise and Fall of Quicksand Getty: Bayeux Tapestry Quicksand Scene BBC Future: Can Quicksand Suck You to Your Death? Nature Comms: Liquefaction of Quicksand Under Stress Europhysics News: Quicksand! National Geographic: Quicksand Greater Cleveland Aquarium: How a President Propagated a Myth Zootaxa: Molecular Systematics of Serrasalmidae Nature Scientific Reports: Extreme Jaw Forces of Living and Extinct Piranhas University of Washington News: Piranha Fish Swap Old Teeth Evolution and Development: Heterodonty and Dental Replacement in Piranhas BBC: Piranha 'less deadly than feared' Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment: Attacks on Humans by the Piranha Serrasalmus rhombeus in Suriname The Harvard Gazette: Piranha Lab BBC: Do People Really Swallow Spiders in their Sleep Snopes: Do People Swallow Eight Spiders Per Year? Scientific American: Fact or Fiction? People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year While They Sleep | Springer Nature: The Vibrational Sense of Spiders Wiki: Fried Spider r/HelloInternet Reddit: Lisa Birgit Holst Doesn't Exist Snopes: Lisa Birgit Holst Tumblr: Spiders Georg Wiki: Spiders Georg Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics: View of How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat? Medium: The Spiders Georg Problem --- Lambeth & Sarceni's Amazing Pinball Talk at Magfest David Barber's Magfest Pinball Panel Clive Thompson for Smithsonian Mag on Pinball National Museum of American History on Pinball and Bagatelle Montague Redgrave's Pinball Patent Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Pinball and Gambling Technology Connection's Great Pinball Breakdown Suzanne Ciani's Audio Design for Xenon Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

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106: The Polygraph & Dentistry HistoryYou may know the polygraph is junk science, but what is the real science of lying and what wild turns did the polygraph take to get to today? And how old is dentistry? If ancient cave men didn't brush why do I have to? Well it turns out for good reason, and some fascinating dental science. ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Images we Talk About: Mackenzie's First Polygraph Ancient Teeth Image Dentistry Tool 1 Dentistry Tool 2 Dentistry Tool 3 Dentistry Tool 4 Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:38) The Polygraph (01:00:33) Dentistry History (01:49:19) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Go to https://surfshark.com/learneverything or use code LEARNEVERYTHING at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! We also learn about: 2 truths and a lie, the jeremy kyle show, the first lie from the devil to eve (or when children first lie), the official stance of the podcast is lying is good and cool, deontic reasoning and theory of mind, flexible and explicit TOM, Ella aces the Sally-Anne test, discovering new advanced levels of lying, lying is normal for kids it’s not evil, lying is complex… but what if it wasn’t and we could just know, James Mackenzie’s original polygraph, the polygraph actually worked (just not for lying but for cardiology), sphygmomanometers, proto-feminist William Marston, back then just thinking women had a theory of mind made you a proto feminist, Tom falls down the rabbit hole of Marston’s feminism, what’s the difference between a lie you believe and the truth, Marston is the first to bring the polygraph to court in Frye vs the United States, the polygraphs turns into a one band band machine, Marston invented wonder woman and the lasso of truth, table the feminism of wonder woman another time, if corporations are people they should all go to therapy, polygraphs are still a 2 billion dollar industry, police firefighters and paramedics still take polygraphs, Caroline pre-empts the but, a polygraph is not a machine you need the interpreter, lying is useful, it’s fun to lie so who’s your favorite co-host, wow we can bond over private healthcare, dentistry asmr, tooth decay is from bacteria acid, stone age morocco acorn sweets, you can blame agriculture for cavities, fossilized plaque can give us an oral history, determining women did a job from paint in teeth, fuck I drank the paint water at least no one will know, did you say we were kissing the rats or was that my inner monologue, would you like to read the tooth worm poem? how could this possibly get to a tooth worm, most of recorded human history we believed in tooth worms, the earliest example of dentistry was a week ago, sorry it changed a week ago, an ancient beeswax filling, a 59,000 year old tooth hole, what’s a worse hyphenate than barber-surgeon, blacksmith barbers, traveling tooth pullers, so many jobs I’m glad don’t exist, a medieval dentist clown is literally someone’s worst nightmare, victorian job questionnaire, What The Eff is That, dental tools that look like weapons made in a dream, I didn’t realize until we got into this how much I hate teeth! the truth of my soul is private in Germany, Sources: The Emergence of Lying in Very Young Children Marjorie Rhodes NPR Social and Cognitive Correlates of Children's Lying Behavior Review of Theory of Mind in Chilren James Mackenzie's "The Study of the Pulse" Mark Harris' Great Wired Piece on Polygraphs Matthew Brown's Deep Dive into Marston's Feminism JAAPL Frye v. United States Cornell Law Frye Standard Harvard center for Law Brain and Behavior on the Polygraph Scientific American on Lying --- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Library of Medicine: Microbiology of Dental Decay and Periodontal Disease 2014 Paper: Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco SciAm: Oral Mystery: Are Agriculture and Rats Responsible for Tooth Decay? NHGRI: Digging into the past to uncover the cause of our cavities Wiki: Tooth Worm Smithsonian: 6,500-Year Old Beeswax May Be Oldest Known Dental Filling NewScientist: Oldest dental filling is found in a Stone Age tooth The Guardian: Neanderthals Used Stone Drills to Treat Cavities 59,000 Years Ago, Tooth Suggests Wiki: Barber Surgeon Bath Medical Museum: Teeth Pullers and Denture Makers 2007 Paper: The Tooth Puller 2025 Paper: Pierre Fauchard Science Museum: Dental Pelican Science Museum: Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling Science Museum: Dental Key BBC: When Blacksmiths Were Dentists Science Museum: Dental drill Science Museum: Syringe Spear: A Brief History of Dental Anesthesia Blog: The Gruesome History of Dental Implants BBC: The Dentures Made From the Teeth of Dead Soldiers at Waterloo Science Museum: Shade Guide Blog: What Are Dentures Made Of? Dentists Act 1878 Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

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