HTDE: Crickets and Clowns
3/18/202618 min
This week: How to tell the temperature outside without a thermometer. Plus, how clowns trademark their unique looks.
Featuring Marlene Zuk and Julie Proctor.
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Mike Danforth· Host0:43
[upbeat music] This is How To Do Everything. I'm Mike.
Ian Chillag· Host0:47
And I'm Ian. On today's show, some advice for the many of you who may be considering a career in clowning and trademark law.
Mike Danforth· Host0:55
But first, the first day of spring is this Friday. Temperatures are... It's getting warmer. Let's say you find yourself outside on a hot day, your phone is dead, and you don't have a thermometer.
Ian Chillag· Host1:07
Can you imagine going outside without a thermometer?
Mike Danforth· Host1:10
Who are we?
Ian Chillag· Host1:11
There is a trick to, without a thermometer, tell the exact temperature outside, uh, when it's warm enough. Biologist Marlene Zuk is online. Uh, Marlene, can you tell us about it?
Marlene Zuk· Guest1:21
Sure. Over a hundred years ago, someone named Dold Baer came up with a way to calculate mathematically