150 Years of Moon Crabs, Blowing Things Up, and Asbestos Obsession
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
Popular Science
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. |
| 0:08.9 | And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find plenty |
| 0:13.1 | of weird facts that we just keep around the office. |
| 0:16.0 | So we figured, why not share those with you? |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Rachel Feldman. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Prbida Saha and I'm Corinnaozio. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the show for a very special bonus episode. |
| 0:30.4 | We are not back from our break yet listeners, but we will be soon. |
| 0:33.8 | We'll be back in your feeds for a regular season sometime during the summer. |
| 0:39.3 | But we just had to pop in to say hello for a very special occasion and Corinne. |
| 0:46.5 | Why don't you give our listeners the 4-1-1? |
| 0:50.6 | The big big secret. |
| 0:51.6 | The big secret is that Popular Science is 150 years old this month. |
| 0:58.6 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:59.6 | We look great. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah, we do. |
| 1:01.6 | We old. |
| 1:02.6 | We old. |
| 1:03.6 | But we're still kicking and it's been an amazing ride. |
| 1:08.6 | I think everybody on this call has been with Popsie at least three years at this point. |
| 1:14.5 | I've been with Popsie the majority of my professional life, which is just a wild, wild |
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