"By a strange twist of fate, the microwave was invented to meet a need to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s laboratories."
Seriously, that quote was the initial spark that lead Tom Scott down the rabbit hole to eventually create this video.
And I'm thrilled that it did, because the quote is kind of true.
It wasn't the need that eventually lead the first person to create a commercially viable microwave oven, but it certainly was a need that a British scientist had when he and his colleagues were experimenting on cryogenic freezing of mammals and then bringing them back to life.
The story - and the interview with James Lovelock himself - is brilliant and incredibly weird.
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