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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from literal brainwashing to the marshmallow test. 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 follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything! -- Follow our team on Twitter! Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Kiley Watson: www.twitter.com/SaraKileyWatson Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- 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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0:00.0	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.
0:08.9	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find
0:12.9	plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office, so we figured, why not share
0:17.3	those with you?
0:18.5	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, from the editors of Popular Science.
0:22.0	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:23.0	I'm Sarah Kylie Watson.
0:24.7	And I'm Sarah Trotosh.
0:26.1	So, before we get into the show today, I just want to make sure that all of our weirdos
0:31.0	got the chance to listen to the very special audio clip that dropped in our feed.
0:36.8	I believe yesterday, which is the first episode of Popular Science's brand new show, Ask Us Anything.
0:44.6	Woo!
0:45.6	Very exciting.
0:46.6	In mode.
0:47.6	I forget that I have to, like, vocally.
0:51.2	Yay!
0:52.2	So, definitely pop back into the weirdest thing feed, check out that first episode if you
1:00.1	haven't already.
1:01.4	And if you have and you are hungry for more, don't worry.
1:05.4	The second episode of Ask Us Anything is coming tomorrow, but you will not find it here.
1:09.9	You have to go subscribe to Ask Us Anything itself, and you will find a link to that in
1:15.7	the show notes.
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