Episode description

Imagine there’s no war. Would we have cell phones? GPS? Shovels?! Would we still be able to pop open a tube of delicious mini-M&Ms? Will a future historian believe the Green M&M was some kind of Goddess of Love? (Yes).

This is a wild ride of an episode featuring TAPE friend Joe Scott of the YouTube show Answers with Joe! Double doses of history PLUS the psychology of food? Chew on that!

QUESTIONS

Julian: "How different would technology be if there was no war?" from Joe Scott

Joe Scott: "Which mundane technologies is likely to be misinterpreted by future historians?" from Cari

Trace: "Why are mini foods so much better than their normal-sized counterparts" from Reyna

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THE BOOK CARI MENTIONED

David Macaulay’s “Motel of Mysteries”

Find it from a local bookseller: https://bookshop.org/p/books/motel-of-the-mysteries-david-macaulay/11270539

Or at your local library!

https://www.overdrive.com/media/573893/motel-of-the-mysteries

THE M&M SQUARE CUBE CALCULUS

Shout out to DAN. Your math was instrumental to my answer.

Find it here: http://blog.recursiveprocess.com/2014/05/30/mms-mega/

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[[ JULIAN ]]

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[[ TRACE ]]

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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