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Glass for a show that's all about reflections on reflection. It's Joe Lysett
Food of the nation, it's Zoe Lyons and next year's wreath lecturer
Reflecturer
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Reflecting off a rock face Joe goes
Joe
Goes Lisa
So he goes made this episode a mirror image of what you usually see which is to say that Alan we have put you
On the opposite side to usual
How many years in the other chair 18 does it feel weird does feel weird you look a little bit different from this side
Right here is a question why do mirrors flip you side to side and not upside down
That's very good. Yes. Yes. Why is it two eyes? So I must be yeah your eyes are level
Okay, let us imagine that we're looking at writing on a t-shirt
Yeah, and you can read it perfectly well and then you look in a mirror the writing on the t-shirt appears to be
Flipped that way. Yeah
Back to front. Yeah, why is that? Why does the mirror do that? And why does it not flip us upside down as well?
Why does it only flip as apparently left to right? Is it not what Alan said about your eyes being?
Left and right. I like your eyes are on the side of your head when you do that. Yeah
Is your eye seeing actually what it is does your brain?
Does your brain flip it? Have you had a stroke? Yeah
When it comes in your eye, it's already flipped right and your brain flips it around
What he said what I think everybody is making it much too complicated
So here's what we're going to do. We're going to try this and Joe is going to be my assistant Joe
I want you to take a piece of card that we have got here
Yes, right a large clear word in capital letters. Oh my god, are you gonna try and guess it?
No, I don't want to guess it
What's the point then? I want a magic trick
Any word any word darling, what about the word boss for example, which is you know
Looks like we're off to court
Right and can you write the same word on this piece of glass? Okay
so I am going to go over here and
Stand in front of the camera and the glass and you can see hopefully are the audience able to see this
Can you see it on the monitors everybody?
So you can see that it says boss now when I have it as it were on my t-shirt
And I look in the mirror. It is
Okay, yeah, so the question is why does it do that? Well the mirror hasn't done anything it was me who flipped it round
There is absolutely nothing happening in the mirror if you look at the card, I am flipping it around
Has not done anything and in fact if you should bring the glass darling bring the piece of glass over here
Have you written the same word on the piece of glass? Yeah. Okay, so come here my darling
Let's put the card behind it. Let us imagine there it is. Can you see that perfectly? Well, there it says boss
But if I don't flip it around now because it's written on glass when we look in the mirror
It is perfectly fine. The mirror has not done anything. It is me who did the flipping around
Thank you. My darling the most brilliant magicians assistant there
Try and imagine if you were a fish and you had your eyes on either side of your head and the fish
Have we got a picture of a fish swimming?
There we go
So a fish swimming alongside a mirror would see the eye exactly where it's supposed to be and the tail exactly where it's supposed
To be it. It would know that the mirror has done nothing. The flipping is done by us and not by the mirror
I don't think I've ever questioned that no and then actually once you do start thinking about it
It does slightly do your head in so hang on this. It's Alan over there because I've done it in my head. Yes
Everyone's done me in the red
You know I haven't but I am now
There is another thing that it curious about mirrors if you've got you should each have a mirror there
If you and you could try this when you have a mirror at home, hold it quite close to your face
Okay
Look at one or other of your eyes in the reflection just choose one if you then transfer your gaze to the other eye
You will not see your eyes move, although somebody watching would see the movement quite clearly. Oh, that's so weird
That is quite strange
It bulged forward as well your eye. No my whole the whole part of that part of my face
A medical condition
This is my fifth year hosting and I expect all trouble to come from my right and today it's from my left
It's a very strange thing. Here's a question for you. If I'm in a box with a mirrored in much taller
If I made a box with a mirrored
Interior and we shone a light into it and we closed it does the light keep bouncing around forever. Are you in the box?
I'm in the box with a small torch
Let's work it that way
And I on the box and go Sandy if I turn Andy, can you see a light?
If I turn the torch on and then I turn it off again, will it bounce around for no? No, why not? Well, I don't know
No, if you imagined your this was the giant box and you had two mirrors over there and you've shone a torch
It wouldn't if you then shone the took turn the torch off. It's not gonna bounce back and forth. But why not?
Because because
It's because no mirror reflects a hundred percent of the light striking it. So some of it is absorbed and eventually
I mean actually unbelievably quickly. Yeah, because it's millions of times per second
It would be absorbed by the mirror and it would leave the interior completely dark
It's a miracle
miracle
That we can work out what's going on in a reflection at all
What can this fish do that a baby can't
Stay underwater. Yeah swim underwater is absolutely. Yes. There used to be a myth that babies could do that, but that is not believed
No, I learned that out the hard way. Yeah
Three nieces was too many
Yeah, anybody know what kind of fish this is
Stripey stripy fish. Cleaner fish. It's a cleaner fish. Yes, it is. It is it's a cleaner arras
Is it something to do with reflections because that is the yes
For paying attention can oh can it recognize itself in a mirror because babies can't
correct
It's one of the very few animals
In fact, it's the very first fish to pass what's called the mirror test to recognize its reflection of itself
How do you test that?
Well, so what you do is you mark the animal in a place where it can only see the mark in a mirror
So, for example
The forehead would be a good place and then see whether or not it observes it and whether or not it tries to scratch it
To remove it. We'll have a job though Sandy wanted to scratch that off with no hands
Cleaning off marks every is what it does for a living
They do actually have stations and clients as it were come to the station to be cleaned
They work for about four hours a day and they clean about
2,000 clients so it does seem like when you're looking at them as if it's a job, but that's what they do for a living
That's it inside the mouth of a rank-in-code. Look at that picture. I think it's so exciting
It's gonna be a lot of trust
a lot of trust except that all of the fish that are cleaned end up living longer and they tend to be
Smarter because they don't have the parasites. I mean there is a sort of a caveat with this
It's possible that what the brass is actually doing is signaling to the other brass in the mirror
If you see what I mean that it ought to clean itself. It's it actually doesn't see that it's itself
It's going to the other rash. You've got a little something. You've just got
Something here so it may not be aware that it's a mirror image on itself when babies
Start to recognize the age of two, right? I really think it'd be sooner than that
My daughter was she knew the way to the city farm when she was one and a half
She's trying to get away she was
And there's actually very few species that pass the test great apes mostly do but not gorillas
And what I love is that animals do exactly what humans do when they discover a mirror for the very first time
First of all an animal would look behind it to see if there's an animal behind it and then they'll do funny movements
Like we do in the fun fair to see what it is
And then they will indulge in the same behavior as an office worker left alone with a photocopier
Yeah
See parts of their body they've not been able to look at before
I know. Yeah, it's a miracle. We don't have more mirrored seating really isn't it?
I don't think it is really
Like a mirror chair
I think you get some very odd selfies then
That for a dick pic
Would you get a mirrored internal bowl of a toilet because that would that would be like a funfair mirror for your undercarriage wouldn't it
That would have a curve to it. You could definitely have a mirrored urinal. I can't see why you couldn't have that
Because honestly
You've actually got an aiming device that doesn't seem to work
No mine does
Mine does because there's a in one pub in london that I went to there's like a game
And it's got sensors in the urinal and I got the top score
And it asks you to put your name in but I didn't want to put my name in so I put adrian charles
There's a pub in central london where adrian charles has got a real reputation
Most animals either ignore their mirror image or they perceive it to be another animal
Sometimes they attack and this is really common in garden birds
Have you ever seen that when a garden bird has a go at a window?
There are reports of robins attacking as many as 15 windows in the same house
Because if you close the curtains and try and stop the reflection
It will think that the enemy is simply hiding and go and look for another window
I mean and another use of mirrors which depends on animals not recognizing their reflections is flamingos
So I don't know if you've ever seen this in the zoo
You sometimes see there's a mirror in the flamingo enclosure
That is because they will not breed until the colony has achieved a certain minimum size
And so they trick smaller groups into breeding but I think wow, there's loads of us. Let's breathe
That's sort of the flamingo equivalent of a sort of mirrored ceiling in a brothel
It's a turn-on. Yeah
I'm loving this. I've never given mirrors much thought really not like this. No, I know
Recognizing yourself in a mirror is a sign of exceptional intelligence. So well done to all our panel for getting through makeup tonight
Um
Right now i'm going to make you write like leonardo da vinci. How do you think i'm going to do that?
Did he teach us? Did he write?
Reflectively he wrote he read what's called mirror writing
So we are going to see if we can do this without thinking about it underneath the table
You will feel a piece of paper and you should have a pen take the pen
Yeah
And I want you to write your names on the piece of paper as it is under the desk
So write your first name on the piece of paper
This looks so weird i've already got
Okay, so done, okay, let's take them out and have a look let's start with zoe let's have a look at yours
That's pretty good for me
Okay, but what is the thing about it that's interesting is it's it's back to front
Some of it is
Some of it isn't the o is not the o is exactly
Okay, how about you alan same for you
Oh, wow
Are you left-handed alan? Nope
That is i'm just a fucking genius
Oh, yes done mirror done mirror writing and what about you joe
Wow, the boys I am left-handed though. You are left-handed does that affect it?
Uh, yes, I think it does the brain is wired slightly differently. Um better
It's an unusual demand so it confuses our brain so it's not unusual to do it as mirror writing
It's common in children who are learning to write half and half then what does that because that one's back to front
But that one's the right way you're right to be disappointed. That's shit. It is a bit
Three letters one of them's the same either way
So what's all this got to do with leonardo da vinci?
Well, he wrote his personal notes in mirror writing and nobody really knows why possibly for privacy
That is a possible thing maybe just to amuse himself
But he was left-handed and my son is left-handed and I asked him and he said it's possible
He was just more comfortable when the pen goes away from the body as it does for a right-handed person when you're writing
It just feels better. Well, no also I
Found when I was at school, particularly when you're using a um fountain pen that you smudge it as you go for it
Yeah, so that's he was smart wasn't he leonardo? Yeah
I think we haven't given him enough credit
We have a generally poor memory for the configuration of objects
So we're going to do a couple of quick tests to demonstrate so the audience let's let's start with you
You've all seen the statue of liberty. I am sure you've seen a picture of it a thousand times
I want you to vote whether the statue holds the torch in the right or the left hand
So hands up for right
And hands up for left
Well, I think left pretty much had the edge there and the answer is it's in the right
Okay, let's try the panel. So we see fonts all the time now. That's the thing
Which of the four lowercase g's are written on the screen is correct?
number one
Three one three anymore one and two one and two
Let's have the audience vote for number one
hardly anybody number two
Quite a lot number three
Even more number four. Okay. Well, so none of us can really remember the answer is number two
Number two is the correct way
Yeah, but these are things we see all the time and we have an inability to correctly recall the configuration of things
Where do we routinely see mirror writing? We see it almost every day if you're driving ambulances. Yeah fire engines and ambulances
It's written so that you can read it in the rear view mirror. Um, can I just show you this?
I love this in 2015 the city of nang jing
Um, they actually made fire engines that were if you like mirror images of themselves
Um
So they have tunnels they have very crowded narrow streets and so on they didn't have the space to turn around so they just
Made it you can drive it from both ends
That's genius. I think it's fantastic. I want that as a car. Yeah
They also have really tiny little ones and again, it's for very very small streets
Just one fireman turns up tiny little fire engine
and
I got this
With three blokes who want to wee? Yeah
Adrian chiles is coming in
What's the difference between a one-way mirror and a two-way mirror?
Oh, so a two-way mirror, I would think yes is the one that the in the cop shows
Yes that you're looking through at the suspect being interviewed. Yeah and remaining
Anonymous and they can't see you. Yeah, so are you saying it's a different kind of mirror?
Well now i'm thinking that's actually got to be one way hasn't it so you're seeing yeah, they can't see it yet
So is that different too? I want to get
This is amazing, I've just not ever thought about mirrors is a two-way mirror just a window
It's a window with a light out yeah, they all sit in the dark didn't they molder and scully and then they sit in the dark
Yeah, that does matter that they're sitting in the other light. It's very very very brightly lit
Sweating do you want a cigarette? Well, you can't have one. Yeah, that's a one-way mirror
Yeah, the effect depends on what they call a half-silvered surface
So it reflects about half the life and it's penetrated by the rest
So it penetrates at an equal rate on both sides this mirror. It's not it's not does it only works one way
You know if you stand in a lit room, yeah
Okay, and uh, it is uh dark outside and there's somebody outside you can't see them
But they can see you perfectly well and it is the same effect
So that one way and two-way mirrors are exactly the same thing
There is nothing really special about one side of the mirror
Over the other if one side is brightly lit and the other side is left in darkness all the light
That reflects off the mirror on the bright side will swamp the much smaller amount of light that's passing through from the dark side
So ways in which you could tell actually that you're being observed by a mirror first of all
It'll be set into the wall rather than hanging on it if you wrap on it with your knuckles
You can hear that it's hollow
Uh, if you actually went up and pressed your eyes like that up to the mirror
You'll block out the light from the room that you are in if it's a reciprocal mirror
You should at least be able to see something
Through uh, and I think at last resort just chuck a chair through it
Anybody know about the trick called pepper's ghost pepper's ghost. It's one of my favorite things
So from two mirrors an angle or something like that it has to do with an angled mirror
It's a wonderful trick
It was made famous by a british chemist who was known as john pepper
And it was a way to make a ghost appear on the stage. I think we can show you with a diagram
There is an invisible piece of glass. Can you see the glass is this angled thing up on the stage?
The glass is angled at 45 degrees to point down into the orchestra pit and then we've got the actual actor
Can you see standing there with a light shining?
It is reflected in the glass and up onto the invisible glass there and he will appear as a hologram
It'll appear as a three-dimensional ghostly figure standing on the stage
I mean, it is an astonishing trick and it's been used by politicians people like narendra moody
The french presidential hopeful jean luc melanchon. Okay. This is him on the stage, except it isn't him
It is a hologram almost every hologram you'll ever see is a version of pepper's ghost
And I love that the victorians knew how to do this and we sort of don't use it very much
Right, who has the biggest ears in britain gchq
I'll go with that. It's size wise we're talking about. I think this guy's probably
Has that been photoshopped or is that a real ear
No, darling, it's pretend. Uh, what do we think we are talking about?
So you're not far off in terms of the protection security of the country one of those listening devices built before the invention of radar
It is you are exactly right and get an additional point. That is what it is
I should have half for that point. It's the concrete ears or acoustic mirrors. Yeah
You'll see three of them at dungeness. Aren't they amazing? So it's the precursor to radar
These are these huge concrete dishes
They're along the south coast and elsewhere at the beginning of world war two to detect approaching aircraft
And if you look at the middle, they had a microphone suspended in the focal point
And they had a range of up to 27 miles. They could hear planes coming. So here's the problem with it
If a plane comes from behind
Over there, but they might have thought i've got those either but a circle round and come in or if the same principle is an owl's head
Is this you being an owl? Are you being an owl? Be an owl for you now
They fly with their heads pointing down. Yeah, and the sound of little
Things trying to avoid being eaten at night rusting about that's me. It's amplified
Within the concave face so they can hear animals underground four feet underground
It's just a hover about waiting for them to come out. Yeah, they must fly into a lot of lampposts
I thought that was because the animals that they were chasing
Yeah, the urine has got a different sort of phosphorescence
That's hawks, but the amazing thing about these the harder the material the more that the sound will bounce off it
So concrete is absolutely ideal
But then radar came in that superseded it faster planes and so on. I love the whole story of british radar being discovered
It's a by-product of something unsuccessful. So they wanted to develop a death ray, obviously
Mid 1930s the british government they wanted to stay ahead of the nazis in the arms race
Uh, so they offered a thousand pound prize to anybody who could zap a sheep at a hundred bases
And they gave this a go and there was a man called robert watson watt of the there he is
Doesn't he look like uh, hello. I'm from the 1930s
Of the radio research station they asked him if he could work on this and uh, he realized it was impossible
It would require far too much power
But he suggested some alternative research
He looked into using radio waves to detect far off planes long before they could be seen by basically by sending out
Radio signals and then timing how long it took for it to echo back and that became the radar system
Which was obviously so hugely important in the war
Now which is better symmetrical knees or symmetrical nostrils?
I know who would have thought there was a choice
Which is better. Yeah, which is better. I'd say knees. Why would you say knees?
To have your face exactly the same on both sides is weird actually be really odd, wouldn't it?
Yeah, I thought the height of beauty was having a symmetrical face. Okay. Let's have a look at ourselves with symmetrical faces
This is the left side of your face is replicated it's had more impact on your head
I look terrified look like a chipmunk
So that's our left side. Let's have a look at our right sides and see if we think that's any better
Christ you're straight out of star trek. Yeah, this is the weirdest thing
Alan you don't look like yourself at all
Oh look at i feel really sad for him there. I don't know why
They say that um
Part of the attraction of a person is the symmetry of their face, but i'm not sure
Let's go back to knees and nostrils
So the answer is it depends what you want to do so knees for a sprinter and nostrils for a distance runner
There's a man called robert trivers and uh, lots of his colleagues and they looked into jamaican athletes in particular
And they found that symmetrical knees and ankles characterized sprinters and symmetrical nostrils do the same for distance runners
Why might that be?
Well a sprinter you are up and down and forward aren't you? Yeah, it's an efficiency of how are you sprinting like that?
This is why I didn't make team gb
But you are a runner yeah, I have a runner but a plotter
Symmetry is inherently efficient
Uh, so that's very useful for sprinting and breathing much more important at the longer distance that you run
So you're going to need better nostrils
Symmetry of feet apparently doesn't seem to matter to runners at all longer distance runners tend to have relatively asymmetric feet actually
I couldn't work out whether that's because they go around on the track all the time
But in all of the groups the left foot tends to be larger than the right in runners wow
My left foot's bigger than my right is it considerably about half a size
Good to know
Weirdly it's all on the back of the foot the front of the foot sustains what your heel
Got a big bulging heel
I've never noticed that i've got the effect of a kind of a rocking chair
At bus stop I can be quite alarming on one
Anyway, you might think that symmetrical knees are caused by sprinting
But in fact it can be used as a predictive measure
If you look at the relevant symmetry of a child at the age of age you can predict whether or not they're going to be
A good sprinter so it's not the training program that has changed their physiology. It's the fact that they already had
Uh symmetrical knees. It's made them good at sprinting. Uh back in the day
What was the problem with watching snooker in the mirror?
It was in black and white
Well, that is that is in a way, correct because you know within football they used to have a rule that
If it was an international game, you couldn't have teams even if they were in red and blue shirts one of them had to change
Because in many of the developing countries hadn't yet got color television and they wanted to expand football around the world
And if you're watching in black and white you couldn't tell the difference between one team
Yeah
So television sets in the early days were monochrome and so uh were the earliest mirrors the reflections that they gave were effectively monochrome
Yes, because strong bright colors were sort of dimly distinguishable
But subtle color distinctions were really difficult. So a game of snooker watched in an early mirror would have been practically impossible
Sorry the mirror. Whoa there the mirror made things black and white
So the earliest mirrors are made of volcanic glass
It's something called obsidian have a look in this telling and you will see
So you have to imagine this is before the invention of being able to put silver on glass
Before the invention of snooker surely
Well
I claim that the way snooker was viewed on television or obsidian would have been
A bit like looking in an early mirror. Okay, so here you are. This is a piece of volcanic glass
It's naturally occurring and that's a piece of obsidian glass
Up there and you can see some bright colors. You can see some shapes dimly, but you are not able to distinguish
Subtlety of color in any way that's the sort of mirror I want in my house
What do you look at before you go out and go I look cracking I look like a shadow
So this is the sort of early stuff and it's made when it's beautiful, isn't it?
Uh john d who was the astrologer to elizabeth the first
And his assistant edward keely used to use one for scrying
This is in fact is his piece of glass that he used for scrying
Does anybody know what scrying is when you look at it and you're telling the future?
So you'd scry with a crystal ball or you'd cry with a goblet with some water in it
It's a form of divination. Um, they called it a showstone and today you can do it in the glass of a smartphone
There was a fashion for viewing landscapes in something called a clawed glass in the late
18th century
So it was this is a rather beautiful thing and the idea was that views when you looked in it
Was seemed softer with the colors less pronounced and the idea was to try and recreate a style of painting by artists
Like clawed lorraine, that's why it's called a clawed glass and it reduces and simplifies color
So rather than look at views directly people used to use them
They turn their back on the view and they would admire it through the mirror and it would look more
So it's like this slightly mistier kind of quality
Members of the audience might try this if you can face away
And if you have a smartphone look in the screen of the smartphone and tell us the football score
Uh, it would be the same effect as looking in a clawed glass
And what you get is you get a sort of a subtler image. You don't get all the bright colors
I just took a selfie of all of you taking a set
You all look ridiculous
Uh, did it work? So it is a it is an extraordinary thing. I think it's just the prototype for the contact lens
So here's a picture of a church
Uh, just normal and then we look at it through the clawed glass and the idea is that it just gives you a sort of a softer
gentler thing
What a noise from the audience
Why can I see joe in it there this is something else that is reflected off. Oh no, it's zoe. Oh, it's
That's what I mean softer and gentler
The process for actually silvering mirrors the way that we know them today was not invented until 1835
Uh, so before then if you put hot metal on glass, it just basically broke
And that means that most people before mid 19th century had very little idea what they looked like
What a relief. I know
I mean that famous picture of narcissus looking in the water. It's very rare that you get that fantastically detailed
Picture of yourself. Where did she get that outfit from?
Uh, is that a zara number? Yeah
That's half a zara number
That is echo looking at it's going i've got my boob out look at me
Here's a very right out fully out
How do these scientists know how far away?
the moon is
We we measure how long it takes the light to get to us using a mirror
Thing yes
But where's the mirror they put a mirror on the moon five they put five mirrors on the moon
Yep, three american two russian were left behind by the various
There's one uh, various manned apollo missions the unmanned soviet missions
The very first one neil armstrong and buzz aldrin the first men on the moon planted. It looks like a bit of flight
Isn't it?
Yeah on the way and get rid of fridge. Yeah, is that there that'll be gone in the morning. Yeah
There'd be a mattress further on
Yeah
Looks like somebody's left a ziplock bag doesn't if armstrong's wife was anything like my wife is you'd probably have to keep his passport
In that when he went to the moon
Why do you keep it in a bag?
You know like one of you in the relationships always keep documents in a foldy thing, don't they?
Yeah, and whenever we go on holidays
My wife has about three or four foldy things a going foldy thing a being there foldy thing and a coming back foldy thing
And what he's done is he's got rid of his going there foldy thing
I'll tell you what there are there are lots of bags of poo on the moon. Oh
Hull up in trees. Uh, yes
When you say lots of what we're talking one a day from from takeoff and let's be honest takeoff might
Necessitate at least four
I think i'd struggle to get it into a bag
Uh, there are 96 bags of human waste
Uh these retro reflectors astronomers used them for 40 years to precisely measure the distance between here and the moon
Uh, so what they did was they fired laser beams from equipment in texas
And they timed how long it took to get there and bounce back again
And what they worked out is that the moon is moving away from us by about 3.8 centimeters per year
It'll be back
It's like the children. Yeah, when it sees what it's like out there
If it was coming towards us 3.8 centimeters
They'd be there
It's the accuracy that you need from texas to hit this mirror with a laser
It's comparable to using a rifle to hit a moving penny two miles away
It's the equivalent of measuring the distance between new york and los angeles to the nearest point two five millimeters
Now for the part of the show which reflects poorly on everybody general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please
What's the best way to pull the pin out of a grenade?
Joe
Joe, I know they're gonna go
But I would love if I ever throw a grenade, which i'm hoping I won't have to but if I do i'd love to go
out with my teeth and throw it
Okay, so the classic design is that you you hold the lever like that you pull the pin out
And that is going to release the lever and then you chuck it
It springs open it triggers a time fuse and boom if you pull it out with your teeth
Which they do in the movies don't they? Yeah, because they're busy firing a gun with the other hands. They're busy
Yeah, god i'm so busy firing this gun
You'd be terrible in the army wouldn't you no not now i'm busy
You've got such a lot on
Bang bang bang. Oh loud. Um, the pin is bent so that you can't pull it out accidentally
So it isn't straight. Ah the amount of force that you would need which is hang on will you yeah?
It's between three and five kilograms at least the amount of force could very well break your teeth
Yeah, so it is a complete misconception that you could at any time do this adrian charles
If a grenade is thrown at you, what should you do? Should you try and throw it back? Yeah, why?
Because it'll blow up over there
There isn't time i'd run if I was you, uh, you've got three to five seconds
Three to five seconds from lobbing it from the person has thrown it as I said
I'm not much of a spring to more of a plodder. So you just wonder
Yeah from the moment the person is throwing it you've got
Don't throw it back, that's the thing that's right back that's rude leave it leave it walk away. Yeah
That's your last thought yes, i've got time for this i'm busy actually
Uh, what happens when you have a bump on your head and you wake up with foreign language syndrome, okay
This
You don't speak a foreign language you speak in a foreign accent is correct. That's exactly right
You could just feel the trap door
Because if you could speak another language and all i'd have done at school is just bash my head off the desk and go
No, it's just you to speak in the accent, why do you do that face? I don't know
I'm imagining smoking a cold water cigarette as well. That's very awesome.
It's so weird how you turn into a cartoon
You're absolutely right
They simply have an impairment a speech impairment and the notion that they speak a foreign language
It's it's in the ear of the listener rather than in the mouth of the speaker
Sufferers have included george michael. I don't remember this in 2012
He had pneumonia and he was briefly in a coma and he woke up with what sound
You gotta have a faith
Oh
This is a terrible story
There was a norwegian woman called astrid l and she was hit in the head
By shrapnel during world war two in an air raid and it left her with a german accent
But it was a speech impairment and it resulted in her being ostracized by other norwegians because they thought that she had somehow
Been associating with the germans. I heard someone someone on this morning went on they'd had a
Some organ transplant and when they woke up, they're really into vacuuming
Not as weird as it sounds
The answer may be that some memory exists in cells where we didn't know they resided before
Wow that you would pass on vacuuming is really annoying
Yeah
Uh, there are exceptional stories of people having a head trauma and somehow acquiring some kind of skill and that is weird
Uh derrick amato was a man who hit his head in a swimming pool
He was aged 40 and after that he was a brilliant pianist despite having never played before that's quite good luck
Isn't it? Yeah, you have to hit it right on the right exactly the right place
So he can't read music or imitate tunes, but the music he improvises is completely extraordinary and nobody knows why
That is weird that is about the brain that's just better than vacuuming
That's this morning
That is the booking policy of this morning
We're not interested
If someone starts speaking french after a knock on the head it probably means they're french
Lastly a question about reflexes what happens if you dream that you are sneezing
Lisa yes lisa you wake up sneezing
I was distracted by that picture
You wake up as a dog. Yeah, um, it's impossible to sneeze at the same time as dreaming
So during rem sleep, which is the time when uh you dream your muscles including all your reflex muscles are completely paralyzed
It's quite unlikely in fact that you'll sneeze even in non rem
Phases because the nerve cells in the brain which trigger a sneeze are normally
Suppressed if you did sneeze while you were asleep, it would wake you up
I used to suffer from sleep paralysis where your body is paralyzed, but you're awake, but you can't actually move
How long did that how long it like could last for 1982 to 1985?
Victorians used to depict it with a with an evil spirit coming into the room to take away your soul because often when it
Happens to you you see a dark shadow moving through the room. It's a really horrible thing
It's like being trapped in sleep, but you are awake and then we move flat and it never happened again
It's really weird the new owners
Is it like a part of um like night terrors because my similar my friend got all sorts of visions
So he had horrible night terrors my favorite
He got um one of those apps on his phone so he could record
What noises he made in the night and he had night terror that the room was full of bees
And he listened to the recording the next morning and it's just him going
fuck all bees
It's about sneezing underwater possible. Can you sneeze underwater? You can when you've done it
Yeah, yeah, you're attractive. Yeah, it's not attractive to you. Yeah, you get all the snot on your face mask
It's not pleasant
I've once vomited while diving
Yeah, it wasn't pleasant. Well, um
I uh, I discovered last year what it what it is to be hit by food poisoning at 18 meters underwater
Wow
Was it both ends? No, it wasn't it was very very dramatically from one end
Yeah, but I managed to get back to shore, but just not out of my wetsuit
So
I am going to imagine you went back and had a bath. Uh, yeah, I had to burn the island we were on
If you were in the bath and you fell asleep, could you drown?
Oh, I worry about this. I have a lot of baths. I'm hoping the answer is no, but your reflexes would wake you up
In fact, they do experiments into sleep deprivation
Then they use cats and the technique is they put them on a small support floating in
Water and if they fall asleep they fall into the water and then they immediately wake up
Are all these the same people as are putting mirrors on the moon and then discovering?
I mean you think they've got something good and sensible like sorting out traffic lights. Yeah
That brings us to the grim matter of the scores which naturally are in reverse order
Uh in last place, he should take a long hard look at himself with minus 13. It's alan
Third place with minus seven. It's lisa
Second place with minus three. It's joe
This place it's an absolute miracle
I mean, it's astonishing with eight points
Eight actual points. It's zoe
Thanks to lisa and joe zoe and alan and I leave you with this from us comedian rodney dangerfield
I went to see my doctor doctor every morning when I get up and look in the mirror
I feel like throwing up what's wrong with me. He said I don't know said the doctor but your eyesight is perfect
Thank you and good night