Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. What a difference half a century makes (will we be as advanced in 50 years or will we have to revert to flint axes?). To our modern eyes, the technology was mind-blowing PRIMITIVE, their PROM had to be manually set by hand, bit by bit. What we should focus on is NOT how primitive this was by today's standards, but how brilliantly our mothers and fathers solved the complex tasks called for at the time, thus blazing the trail we are walking every day without thinking about it. What this drives home is the fact that the SIZE of your member matters a lot less than what you can actually DO with it!
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  2. A marvelous episode! Science meets intuition and art - and struggles to explain it. The interesting bit: In science, everything has to be repeatable by other scientists, but in this case artists show a scientist - repeatedly - how to do something, but the scientist will almost certainly be unable to replicate it without spending years learning the art as well. That is "the struggle" the scientist has to deal with.
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  3. Grown-up little boys! It is obviously great fun doing little-boy stuff when you are an adult and allowed to play with devices forbidden to genuine little boys.
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