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makes it into our articles, we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.

So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week

from the editors of Popular Science. I'm Rachel Feltman. I am Sandra Gutierrez, and I am Ali Hezalwood.

Ali, welcome to the show. We're so excited to have you. Thank you so much for having me. We see

so cool listeners. This is Sandra, our big fans of this writer. She is known for writing romance

with a scientific flair, an academic flair. Would you tell our listeners a little bit more about

your work, including a new book? Yes, yeah, of course. So, yeah, like I said, my name is Ali Hezalwood,

and I write like, rom-coms, set in Stamacademia so far. By training, I am a neuroscientist.

And yeah, and my next book, which is called Love Theoretically, is actually coming out in about a week,

and it's set in physics, which is not my field at all, but I tried.

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