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337: No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss advanced spatial mathematics, linguistic philosophy and a really really big cow Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for ne...

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week is that the modern door handle was invented by Ludwig Wittgenstein now this is my favourite fact ever I love it that's

and then he fixed it well that's kind of what happened so Wittgenstein philosopher mid 20th century very well-renowned pupil of

an article about door handles in Apollo art magazine and Wittgenstein was working as a school teacher and he'd hit one of the

were kind of influenced by this one that was invented by Wittgenstein in much the same way as all future philosophical thought

had the largest private fortune in Europe possibly neither Wittgenstein's really they were loaded yeah so but he was really trying

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474: No Such Thing As A Remote Controlled Cabbie

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

Dan, James, Andrew and Hannah Fry discuss navigation, colouration, lachrymation and an island nation. Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about li...

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by accident. So there was a researcher called Ava Wittgenstein, and she was looking into... There were some children who

at making it less smelly and less orange. So did Eva Wittgenstein, did she see this little bit of orange-ness and think, what

got. I spent ages, hours trying to find anything about Eva Wittgenstein. There is nothing that I could find. Were you trying to

searched the whole records. All he could find was an Eva Wittgenstein who died age 97 in North Carolina. We don't know if it's

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431: No Such Thing As A Vampire From Devon

Episode Date: June 17, 2022

Dan, James, Andrew and special guest Rachel Parris discuss piano prodigies, snow-struck skiiers, urine luck, and the Devon Dracula.  Visit nosuchthin...

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to a countess and traded up to princess Caroline von Sein Wittgenstein anyway She left her own marriage for him and there was this

sold them on eBay afterwards Yeah, and Caroline de Sein Wittgenstein She was a Catholic princess wasn't she and she got him into

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294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week

Episode Date: November 8, 2019

Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss hand-drawn stockings, raccoon-damaged temples, and the doomsday aircraft destroyed by a single bird. Visit nosucht...

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people. And one of the people he invited was Wittgenstein, the philosopher of Wittgenstein, who was not that much of a laugh to have a