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

This is a curious from brains on where we're serious about being curious

brains on is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation

You're listening to brains on from American public media and as you just heard this is a brains on

Curio what is a Curio? Well since you asked it's when we make a short little more slow-mo podcast to keep hungry curious minds fed between

regular episodes and you are in luck

This is the very first Curio after you listen to this one you can say you've heard them all

I'm going to hand over this Curio to producer Mark Sanchez and a bit of a mystery sound

Thanks Molly this story is based on these two beeps you're hearing

From these two nearly identical tones we are given communication space exploration and

music

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