William's mom and dad voted in the flag referendum and noticed that you have no age limit on who can vote. Since William regularly listens to the podcast with his parents, it only seemed fair to give him a chance to vote.

William is nine months old.

The postcard his mom wrote and mailed off on his behalf has a disclosure and mentions that we took pictures and are emailing them (to Brady, of course).

Since he can't speak yet, mom printed off small copies of the short list and laminated them to present them to the little voter and let him select his favorite.

The flags were laid out on the carpet and William even did two runs with all flags laid out randomly and selected the same flag both times (a clear favorite that (spoilers) is shown in the pictures). His selection was done in the same manner, the remaining flags were laid out in a row and William was set down to crawl over and select his favorite.

The voting was quite a fun experience for him judging from his grin.

We hope our postcards arrive for the vote. Everyone in the family has a different favorite, so we eagerly await the results!

We love the podcast!

Nick, Elaine, and William

PS: This little guy also attended Random Acts of Intelligence! If you remember a lady with a beach ball under her sweater getting doodles/autographs from each of you after the event, that beach ball was William! Still love the random cat you doodled, Brady! The page hangs up in the studio.

Romantic Shapes (from a viewer)

November 26, 2015 by Brady Haran

Hey Brady,

Today is my girlfriend's and mine one-year anniversary. We went to dinner and to see a movie, and exchanged presents. Your 'Unexpected Shapes' video came just in time for me to use it today. I did the whole act during dinner. I started with the content of the extra video: the 'impossible' move of the paper flap from one side of her hand to the other side, with her eyes closed. I then did the rings/squares/möbius/hearts routine. She loved it! To finish it, I repeated the impossible flap move, only I also placed her present on the table while her eyes were closed.

We are both students of artificial intelligence and are fond of maths, so these tricks are very enjoyable to us.

I thought you might like to see how, indeed, this piece of mathematics can be applied in practise. I attached a photo showing the end result.

Cheers and keep up all the great work,

M
The Netherlands