How Many Holes Does a Human Have?

2020-02-17

[public] 9.9M views, 680K likes, 8.70K dislikes audio only

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Special thanks to @chubbyemu and Evelyn Lamb (https://twitter.com/evelynjlamb) for answering my questions about the body and holes, respectively.

wardrobe by: https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne

An article from Evelyn about holes: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-holes/

the philosophy of holes: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/holes/

Coffee mug + doughnut sculptures and video from @henryseg :

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NlqYr6-TpA

BUY: https://www.shapeways.com/product/6CJQ9GXWW/topology-joke?li=shareProduct&&

sun footage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12326

anatomy of the nasal cavity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJEenATGwg8

Supernumerary Puncta: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-5616-1_21