I'm Rachel Feldman, and I host a podcast from popular science called The Weirdest Thing I Learn

This Week. Every other week, I circle up with guests like Bill Nye, Josh Gomblman, Mary Roach,

and many more to prove that the lofty and noble pursuit of science can also be profoundly weird.

From flying Ford Pintoes to the world's most illegal cheese, the weirdest thing I learned this week is the ultimate source for all things interesting, informative, and, most importantly, freaking weird.

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Last weekend, we revisited the voodoo axe murders to gear up for our skeptoid adventure

to New Orleans this December.

That trip is just the opening act.

As soon as we wrap up in the Big Easy, we head straight into our next journey,

the Mysteries of the Maya adventure, with stops in Cozumel, the Roatan Bay Islands off Honduras,

and Harvest Key off the coast of Belize.

Join us for one adventure or join us for both.

On this leg, we'll dive into the Maya people themselves, what the real

archaeological and historical evidence tells us, and how that clashes with the pseudo-history

and pseudo-archology that have seeped into popular culture. I'm no expert on all this, so we're

bringing one, indigenous Chicano archaeologist and ethno-historian Curly Plapo-Yawa,

co-host of the podcast Tales from Aslantis, which explores Chicano, Mexican, and Mesoamerican

history, archaeology, and culture. To get ready, we're pulling another favorite from the

Skeptoid Archive, an episode

about an attempted rewrite of history based on nothing more than amateur interpretations

of the Olmec colossal heads.

That's what we do here at Skeptoid.

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