126 = Temperature Levels and Special Vessels

🧊 Why doesn’t the coldest day fall on the shortest day? 🥂 If you don’t drink, what can you use fancy drinking glasses for? 🏊 And we take the plunge into some Any Other Brrrrrrrness.

If you’d like to read about defibrillator testing using a turkey, here’s the paper sent in by Hans: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12879378/

If you’d like to see Matt and Bec - alongside Steve Mould and Helen Arney and more - at An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail in London on Monday 26th January, you can get tickets here: https://www.universe.com/events/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-TFK426?ref=ticketmaster

If you’d like to see Bec at the Adelaide Fringe in March, you can get tickets here: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bec-hill-creates-the-perfect-show-work-in-progress-af2026

And if you’d like to see Matt on tour, all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here: http://standupmaths.com/shows

If you’d like to ask Matt and Bec anything for our special 2^7 episode in February go to the Problem Posing Page at aproblemsquared.com - select ‘Problem’ and start your message with AMA! Please get your AMA questions in by Friday 23rd January 2026!

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