Flightless Bird: Maths

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand why Americans say “math”, while New Zealand - and most of the rest of the world - says “maths”. He speaks to Dean Koorey about the mysteries of language, before stumbling into the depths of math/maths and the perils of the metric system. How many ounces in a pound? How many pounds are in a stone? And why is America stuck using the imperial system when the rest of the planet loves the sensible metric system? Farrier is shocked to find that NASA once lost a space probe thanks to a metric conversion disaster, and meets with aerospace engineer Omar Abed to get to the bottom of the mess.

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Created & Produced by: David Farrier, Dax Shepard, Monica Padman, & Rob Holysz
Hosted by: David Farrier
Edited by: Monica Padman, Billy Klein & Jake Anderson
Mixed & Mastered by: Billy Klein
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