At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech 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 Sarah Kylie Watson.

And I'm Brandy Skillachik.

Brandy, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Great to be here.

Listeners, you may be familiar with Brandy's work from a promo we ran recently for a project

of theirs called Peculiar Book Club.

But would you like to tell our listeners a little bit more about what you do and what's

so peculiar about it?

Oh, I so would.

So peculiarity is a specialty of mine.

And I'm a writer.

I'm a writer as well, a published author and I edited a journal.

I like absconded.

I'm a PhD, but I'm scondid from Akademe.

Like I ran away as well as a PhD.

Those are our favorite kind of PhDs.

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