Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

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You're listening to brains on from American public media. I'm Molly Bloom

One of the best parts of working on this show is reading the many emails and letters we receive from our listeners every day

They're brimming with curiosity and fun and emojis lots of emojis a

Few weeks ago we got two emails that were so similar and so intriguing

We had no choice but to investigate the first one was from Uma

Hi, my name is Uma. I'm nine years old and I live in Harbour, Massachusetts

A few the other day I was writing the bus to school and there's a fly flying around

I was wondering that if the fly was just hovering there in the middle of the bus shouldn't it crash?

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