A Problem Squared

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🌈 How many colours are really in a rainbow?

🕰 How often is a broken clock is right? 

💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is open. Briefly. 

🏴‍ And we have a NEW POST CREDITS easter egg. 

To hear more about the brilliant and terrible Emily In Paris premier, listen to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/point-break-pt-1-season-04-episode-01/id1720149980?i=1000666164553

If you want to see where the Mattparker asteroid / minor planet is in the universe, you can locate it on this NASA database: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=314159&view=VOP

A full circle rainbow was captured by aerial photographer Colin Leonhardt while flying through a rain shower just above Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia: https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/cn_round_rainbow_australia_jc_141010_16x9_992.jpg?w=1600

And if you want to be even more wowed, you can see a reflective rainbow (or six!) in Norway: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/sixrainbows_nordvik_big.jpg

Finally, send your problems and solutions to our website: www.aproblemsquared.com.

If you’re on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on the ‘Sup ‘Zards’ pinned post! 

And if you like, leave us a review, pass the podcast onto a friend or give us a rating! Every little helps. 

If you want even more from A Problem Squared, you can find us onTwitter,Instagram, and on Discord

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