Probably Science

Welcome to Probably Science.

My name's Andy Wood. I'm joined by Matt Kirshin.

Hey, Andy.

It's been a month, hasn't it?

Well, I guess it has. You've had episodes, but we have, we stopped past some episodes while I went off to New York and to be ill. Yeah, it's been a while since we did like a, back in the garden. We just had a brunch.

I feel like I should apologize right now for, I think two out of the last five episodes had some sort of technical difficulty. There's no good excuse for that.

It won't happen today of taking measures to make sure that, unless it does, in which case,

I'll find out afterwards. Yeah, sorry about that. Thanks for being cool, everyone who people messaged,

but not in a particularly dickish way, so thank you for that. Yeah, yeah, and I get that.

It's within, you're within your rights to complain about that.

Also, a cool thing that came about the last week's episode with Alice Wedderland was I mentioned

that we were talking about a story about someone in Ghana who had developed a technique

to navigate Ghana because it's a country without street addresses.

And I just did some quick calculation.

And I said, well, you know, we could also just try to move towards getting away with all

addresses and just codify like the entire planet.

And you could do that with not that many characters.

And then I said as like a toss off comment or, you know, make it even easier and don't

make it like 10 alpha numeric characters.

Make it like three actual words. And then two different listeners wrote in to tell me that there's a thing

called what three words.com that maps the entire planet into grids three meters by three meters

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