Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

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We all get cuts and scrapes and we all know what happens you get a scab try not to pick at it

Then after a little while the cut heals and sometimes you have to have a cool looking scar

But what's really going on when you heal what superpowers does your skin have and what about other animals like salamanders that can do some pretty extreme healing

We're going under the skin for this one so keep listening

You're listening to brains on from American public media. I'm Molly Bloom and here with me today is 12-year-old

Maddie Sin from St. Paul. Hi Molly now Maddie you are interested in finding out more about healing and you even hope to help with that for a job one day

Is that right? Yeah, so I want to be a surgeon very cool look a specific kind of surgeon. Yeah, I like a sports medical orthopedic surgeon

Well, I'm what got you interested in that job

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