Tabel’s Ower

  • @ 00:55: Intro: "Jorkild Tjemterud", "Turo Garjem", "Oger Rantonsen", "Tabels Årn".
  • @ 15:25–22:00: About spoonerisms and scrambling words! "Stordokking!", "Kadle Pano!", Spooner, Shel Silverstein, permutations, learning through play, "appagrafifotorat", "kokoladesjake", "Nord og Trør-Søndelag", psycholinguistics.
  • @ 39:05–44:55: Crash course in calculating weekdays! Conway and Doomsday! May 17, 2009 – a Sunday! March 26, 1945 – a Monday! 2019 is a Thursday year!
  • @ 45:10–49:11: How many times Friday the 13th occurs.

Finally! We give you the recipe for the party trick of saying which day of the week someone was born on when you know the date! So listen to episode five times, and become immensely popular in social circles.

The full agenda:

  • Bouncing Rings Revisited
  • Why do old Viking ships lie so far underground?
  • Wordplay, or grand speaking, can it be used for anything?
  • Packed lunch in plastic or aluminum foil?
  • How can a chicken breathe inside an egg?
  • How far down will a bowling ball come before it stops sinking?
  • The trick to finding out what day of the week a date fell on
  • Why is it (slightly) more common to have Friday the 13th than Thursday the 13th?
  • Why does thinking make you hungry?

On the panel:

  • Zoologist Petter Bøckman
  • Logician Roger Antonsen
  • Materials Engineer Torunn Kjeldstad
Abel's Tower
Press and Media
May 10, 2019 at 10:03 AM
NRK P2
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