• Question: have you ever taken something that is working perfectly and taken it apart just to see how it works

    Asked by anon-234422 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 13 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Debbie Kinsey

      Debbie Kinsey answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      I remember when I was little opening up a tube of toothpaste to see how the three colours don’t get mixed up in the tube!

    • Photo: Jack Joyce

      Jack Joyce answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      I used to do this all the time! That helps me understand how things work… I once, with some fiends, dismantled a car engine to see how all the parts fit together.

      I guess that’s kind of what I do now as a researcher — I take a part language to see how individual parts work (like certain words, certain pauses, or gestures) and then from that I can see how society works and how it is shaped by language.

    • Photo: Liam Wignall

      Liam Wignall answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I’ve taken things apart to have a look at them, but I can never put them back together afterwards

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