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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

An Innovative Erection, Secret Oyster Rules, Nuking Hurricanes

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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! Check out Laura Krantz's show, Wild Thing! -- Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ 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 heck 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 Sarah Kylie Watson.

0:25.0

And I'm Laura Karens.

0:26.0

Laura, welcome to the show.

0:27.6

I'm excited to be here.

0:30.3

So listeners, Laura is the host of a show called Wild Thing and is here to share some of her wildest facts with us.

0:40.8

Laura, would you like to tell our listeners a little bit about the show and where they can find it?

0:44.8

Yeah, so Wild Thing is a podcast about all the sort of strange and interesting things that capture our imaginations

0:52.4

and this place where science intersects with society and all those questions that we have that we might not be able to answer.

0:59.4

And you can find it pretty much anywhere you can find podcasts, apples, Spotify, Google, other places that I'm forgetting the names of.

1:08.6

But there are a lot.

1:10.2

And I think I'm pretty much on every platform.

1:12.0

If I'm not, let me know.

1:13.6

And I'll make sure that I get there.

1:15.0

Awesome.

1:16.0

Your first season was about Bigfoot, right?

1:18.6

Yes, it was about Bigfoot.

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