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9 episodes summarised · 6.7h of listening, ~47 min of reading

No Such Thing As A Fish

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No Such Thing As The Otters Circling

⏱ 53 min listen · ~2 min read

Four unrelated facts end up linked by black-and-white animals, defence blunders and bedding, with sharp detail on every tangent.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Walkers lists 1.2g of salt per 100g for cheese and onion crisps against 0.6g for salt and vinegar, as Anna Ptaszynski found on the brand's pages.
  2. 02Alan Turing's last paper, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, explained animal stripes and spots as a contest between an activator and an inhibitor chemical.
  3. 03Splash, a two-year-old Asian river otter working with the US Army, was deployed on 33 searches for missing people in a year and found 11 bodies.
  4. 04Spotted zebra foals have been seen several times, yet only one photo shows such a zebra reaching adolescence, because lions catch them so easily.
Chapters
1:04 · Walkers salt figures turn crisp flavours upside down4:54 · Prison-only crisps and a secretive seasoning house9:09 · A Guardian critic ranks 100 crisp flavours11:59 · Posh salts, iodine and one-handed crisps from Tokyo16:00 · Skunk Baxter goes from the Doobie Brothers to defence20:24 · Cold War missile warnings via AA phone boxes+8 more
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