Eric Weinstein

The icosahedron, 20 faces, 12 vertices.

Now, all these pairs have the same number of sides because the number of vertices plus the number of faces minus the number of edges has to equal 2 for anything that is spherical in nature.

They do and they don't.

Holy shit.

Legalize Schedule 1.

Yeah.

Can I finish my, may I finish my riff on those toys before we get to these toys?

Sure.

My point was that.

I call bullshit on the idea that because Terrence is playing with stuff that people have been playing with since antiquity, that you can't come up, that there's nothing new under the sun.

Because if there's nothing new under the sun, first of all, how did Charles Haberman come up with something so cool?

Second of all...

That means that there's an object that hasn't been invented.

I give this to high school kids.

You should be able to throw one of these up as a cube and have it come back as an octahedron.

You should come up with a gearing mechanism.

And you should be able to throw up a dodecahedron and have it come back in your hand as a differently colored icosahedron.

And I've never seen those toys.

Just the way the Rubik's Cube came out of nowhere, or Hungary, and that thing took over the world by storm.

So to claim that a guy can't do engineering on platonic solids and come up with something new, the Rubik's Cube, the Habermas switch pitch, these things prove that that's not true.