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Big Picture Science Radio Show: Extraordinary Ordinary Objects (ENCORE) “To live is to count and to count is to calculate.” But before we plugged in the computer to express this ethos, we pulled out the pocket calculator. It became a monarch of mathematics that sparked a computing revolution. But it’s not the only deceptively modest innovation that changed how we work and live. Find out how sewing a scrap of fabric into clothing helped define private life and how adding lines to paper helped build an Empire. Plus, does every invention entail irrevocable cultural loss? Listen here: https://buff.ly/4iLAWJJ #science #podcast

  • An aqua-colored Casio fs-92 calculator rests on top of an open and blank wide-ruled spiral notebook, which in turn is on top of an unspecified textbook. A mechanical pencil is behind the calculator on the right.

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