Fingernails, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How fast do human fingernails and toenails grow? Are they claws and, if not, what are they? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind exploration, Robert and Joe dive into the anatomy, evolution culture and mythology of the “nail as old as time.”

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alec Baldwin.
0:02.0	This past season on my podcast, Here's the Thing.
0:06.0	I spoke with more actors, musicians,
0:09.0	policymakers, and so many other fascinating people,
0:12.0	like actress and director Cheryl Hines.
0:15.0	They were looking for an unknown actress.
0:18.0	To play Larry David's wife, I said,
0:21.0	well, how old is that guy?
0:23.0	Isn't he old?
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing,
0:31.0	on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts,
0:34.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.0	Hey there, I'm Ed Helms, the host of Snaffoo,
0:39.0	a podcast about history's greatest screw-ups.
0:42.0	Recently, I spoke to Rachel Maddo
0:44.0	about her riveting podcast Ultra.
0:46.0	It's about a 1940s Nazi plot to overthrow our government.
0:50.0	Like Snaffoo, Ultra left me with an eerie feeling
0:53.0	about how much important history gets forgotten,
0:55.0	and as a result, repeats itself.
0:57.0	His history is told by the winners,
	...

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