15: Dunbar's Number, Comic Sans, Froebel's Gifts, Scrabble

14/05/2025 28 min

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The number 150 is also known as Dunbar's Number. What is it and what's its relevance to your list of friends?📍 Comic Sans has been called the most hated font in history. Who hates it? For what reasons?📍 Many modernist architects and artists share a couple of things in common where they went to kindergarten and something called Froebels Gifts. What are they?📍 And finally in this episode, who doesn't love a game of Scrabble? Where did the game come from?About REMORANDOMREMORANDOM is a printed biannual book series that celebrates Everything Interesting.Browse and order REMORANDOM books and/or subscribe to the series via the REMORANDOM.com website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Subscribe to this companion “REMORANDOM” podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts … or watch in video format HERE on Spotify or ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠ on YouTube.About REMOREMO was founded as a General Store in Sydney in 1988, and was famous for its mail order catalogues. Those catalogues were the inspiration for REMORANDOM, but this new leg of the REMO journey is not so much about selling THINGS, as it is about telling STORIES … in celebration of what’s interesting. Inspiring curious minds.More about REMO Since 1988 ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠You can contact REMO via the website ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠CreditsREMORANDOM is produced and published by REMO Since 1988. Podcast co-hosts: Remo Giuffré & Claudia Chan ShawOriginal REMORANDOM theme usic by Tom Thum … using only his voice. Watch his 2013 TEDxSydney talk HERECopyright © EOLO Pty Limited. All rights reserved.

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