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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A Delicious Chocolate Debacle, IBS In Orbit, the Tuffy Saga

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This episode celebrates our latest digital issue going live! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories!  Click here to follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything!  -- Follow our team on Twitter! Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.

0:09.0

And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find plenty

0:13.2

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.

0:21.8

I'm Rachel Feldman.

0:22.8

I'm Perbita Saha, and I'm Karen Ayosio.

0:25.4

Karen, you're here, and I can only mean one thing.

0:29.9

It is digital addition, a clock.

0:32.8

Almost quite literally.

0:33.8

The spring issue went live this morning, mirror hours, minutes, seconds ago, depending on

0:40.1

when you're listening to this and when you might have gone to popside.com and been like,

0:43.3

oh, there's an issue.

0:45.1

It's called messy.

0:46.1

I'm messy.

0:47.1

My life's messy.

0:48.1

Maybe my desk is messy.

0:49.6

I wonder what this is all about.

0:52.3

And that's what we're here to talk about.

0:54.9

There's really fantastic stories in there about what I call problem tunities, what we can

1:02.3

learn by staring at the messes we make and the good things that we can make out of them.

1:07.8

Yes, listeners, for those of you who have forgotten or have not yet learned, the weirdest

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