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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a beetle that can waltz through frog intestines unscathed, to the a man who thought he could capture sexual energy in a cage. 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! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Edited by Jessica 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 tech 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.
0:16.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:18.4	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:22.1	I'm Rachel Fultman.
0:23.1	I'm Claire Malterelli.
0:24.1	I'm Hannah Sue.
0:25.7	Hannah, welcome to the show.
0:27.9	Hannah is currently one of our interns at Popular Science and we are so thrilled to have
0:32.9	her on as a guest.
0:33.9	Yeah, I have you to be here.
0:35.4	Long time listener, long time weird fact collector.
0:37.8	Yeah, I'm excited.
0:39.3	Amazing.
0:40.3	All right, so on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we start by each offering up a
0:44.6	little tease about some kind of fact that we found in the course of reading, writing, reporting,
0:50.6	etc.
0:51.6	And decide which one we just absolutely have to hear more about first.
0:55.4	Then once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene and decide
0:59.8	what the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was.
1:02.7	Claire, when are you start with your tease?
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