
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Another episode title Im jealous of becuase I didn't pick it, it's the work of Keith Houston a writer and software engineer who has made a habit of writing about things that are there in plain sight. He has written about the history of punctuation, a book about the book and last year a book about the history of the pocket calculator.
There's lots of interesting nuggets in this episode including how an ant counts, who counts with their genitals, the unlikely role a Tea company played in making calculators, what happens when there's an actual bug in your computer, and when it comes to calculators, what does Keith think is the fairest of them all.
5
22 ratings
Another episode title Im jealous of becuase I didn't pick it, it's the work of Keith Houston a writer and software engineer who has made a habit of writing about things that are there in plain sight. He has written about the history of punctuation, a book about the book and last year a book about the history of the pocket calculator.
There's lots of interesting nuggets in this episode including how an ant counts, who counts with their genitals, the unlikely role a Tea company played in making calculators, what happens when there's an actual bug in your computer, and when it comes to calculators, what does Keith think is the fairest of them all.
5,423 Listeners
188 Listeners
58 Listeners
144 Listeners
11 Listeners
477 Listeners
13 Listeners
979 Listeners
3 Listeners
397 Listeners
5 Listeners
362 Listeners
490 Listeners
71 Listeners
2 Listeners
143 Listeners
41 Listeners
1 Listeners
0 Listeners
146 Listeners
24 Listeners
7 Listeners
5 Listeners
7 Listeners
17 Listeners
6 Listeners
7 Listeners
0 Listeners
3 Listeners
3 Listeners
5 Listeners
1 Listeners
5 Listeners
2 Listeners