On the latest SciencePodcast🎙️, mhc205 talks with RoopeKaaronen about how and why cultures use body-based measurements, such as arm lengths and hand spans. 🎧 Listen to this segment and more:
This is The Science Podcast for June 2nd, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week we hear about the advantages of using your body to measure the world around you. Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with researcher Roope Kaaronen about how and why different cultures use body-based measurements like arm lengths and hand spans. Also on this week's show, news writer Paul Voosen joins me to discuss the Earth MRI project.
Right. So many cultures actually have a very elaborate system where they might have some conception that these body-based units might have a relation to each other as well. So there were several cultures that had a very complex, generalizable system of body-based measuring.0:03:50.5 RK: So by far, the most common ones were the fathom, which is the arm span. Imagine spreading your arms way out and measuring it from fingertip to fingertip. Then you have the cubit or L, which is the length of the forearm from elbow to fingertips, and then variations of the hand span, basically measuring your extended hand from thumb tip to each of the fingers.
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