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Oct 22, 2026 31 min

Proper Sandwich

from Why Would You Tell Me That?

A treatise on cutting deli rolls in half is Dave’s way of setting up the eye-opening tale of how a scientist firing experimental lasers at his Thanksgiving leftovers led to one of the most remarkable advances in modern medicine. (It also spares this episode from being titled “Ablative Photodecomposition”) https://slate.com/technology/2013/11/lasik-surgery-how-researchers-used-a-turkey-to-develop-the-procedure.html https://www.invent.org/inductees/rangaswamy-srinivasan New full episodes every Thursday. Bonus mini-eps on Sundays and Tuesdays. To see Neil on tour check out https://www.neildelamere.com/reinventing-the-neil-tour https://www.neildelamere.com/neils-on-wheels-tour To listen to Dave on the radio check out https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dave-moore-1499732 You can watch the podcast on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@WhyWouldYouTellMeThatpodcast Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore Edited by Diarmuid O'Brien Music by Dave Moore Artwork by Ray McDonnell

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