At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.

And while most of the stuff we stumble across 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 Feldman.

I'm Claire Malderelli, and I'm Rose Eveliff.

Rose, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me, I'm excited.

I'm sure many of our listeners already know, but for folks who don't, Rose is the host

of an awesome show called Flash Forward.

Rose, do you want to tell our listeners a little bit about that before we get into it?

Sure, I would love to.

Flash Forward is a podcast about the future.

Every episode is a different future.

Some of them are likely, you know, we do things like facial recognition and antibiotic

resistance.

And some of the episodes are not likely, like what would happen if Space Pirates dragged

a second moon to Earth.

And each episode starts with sort of a war of the world style audio drama and then gets

into reporting where I talk to experts about that future, how likely it is, how unlikely

it is, what it would be like.

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