Hosted By
Known locally as a valtoare, this bowl built into a river has been used to wash clothes for hundreds of years. Click the links, it's something to see! This week we start in a river washing clothes and dive into the history of washing machines. It's so much clean fun. (Get it? CLEAN 'cause its about washing clothes? Hehehe we'll see ourselves out).
Show Notes:
TikTok video of a Romanian Whirlpool in action
YouTube of ladies washing with a valtoare
WorldRecordAcademy.org article
Peasantartcraft.com about Romanian lifestyle
From Trace's weird word origin deep dive:
In a weird turn of events, it's ants performing surgery when one of them has a leg injury instead of scientists whacking the legs...
Welcome to a socially distanced Brain Junk Episode. Hopefully by the time this comes out, Amy and I are back to recording face to...
Happy New Year! Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring,...