25 Greatest Science Ideas Countdown: Day 1

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We’re kicking off this series with a breakthrough for jetlagged hamsters, a hot tub that’ll take you on a journey, a better ketchup bottle, a solution for one of the world’s most common tech annoyances, and some very bad news: chickens are definitely judging you. Plus, we meet the man who brought the smell of outer space to earth.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Part-Time Genius, the production of kaleidoscope and IHeart Radio.
0:11.3	Guess what, Will. What's that, Mango? So, you know what's funny? We've been friends.
0:16.0	I do know what's funny. Your headband is funny. But sorry, I'd interrupt. Go ahead. Well, we've been friends for a little over 25 years now.
0:24.6	I think we've actually known each other for 27 years now, if I'm not mistaken.
0:28.5	Yeah, but I said friends.
0:30.3	Right.
0:30.9	Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
0:31.9	But think of all the fun things that have happened in the last 25 years, right?
0:36.2	Like, there's the launch of the iPod, thousands of songs in your pocket, social media
0:41.3	exploded with Facebook.
0:42.9	People started dancing Gungham style and were taught how to doggie.
0:47.6	For some reason, there was planking in photos that became a fad and Lady Gaga wore a meat
0:52.9	dress to the MTV Video Awards.
0:54.9	I think that summed it up.
0:55.8	I think you actually covered everything.
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:57.9	I mean, we also had a black president, our first black president, gay marriage became legal,
1:03.3	and people challenge each other with ice buckets.
1:06.2	But for me, everything really starts with that meat dress.
1:09.6	Yeah, and don't forget, we launched a little magazine from our Durham Room called Mental Flaws,
1:13.7	way back in the year 2000.
1:15.2	Yeah, I can't believe it's been almost 25 years since that first issue hit newsstands.
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