Debunking Hymen Myths, Moving Corpses, Birth Control to Please the Pope

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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OB-GYN and author Jen Gunter joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned range from the invention of the birth control pill to corpses that change position long after their time of death. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? 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 buy tickets for Weirdest Thing Live on October 31st! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy --- 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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1:27.5	I'm Dr. Jen Gunter.
1:29.2	Jen, welcome to the show.
1:30.5	Thank you so much for having me.
1:31.8	Yeah, of course we are big fans of yours.
1:34.8	Listeners, if you're not familiar, our guest this week is a famously brilliant OBGYN
1:42.0	with a real knack for explaining her field of expertise on Twitter.
1:46.8	And now, in a book, the vagina Bible.
1:49.2	Yes.
1:51.2	Do you want to talk a little bit about the book before we get into the episode?
1:54.0	Sure. Yeah, the vagina Bible.
1:55.7	It's the vulva and vagina separating the myth from the medicine.
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