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

You're listening to brains on from NPR News and Southern California Public Radio

We're serious about being curious. I'm Molly Bloom

Allow me to introduce you to a few friends

Oh

That's the humpback whale beautiful song, right?

Oh, and that's the North Atlantic right whale in his up call here how it goes up the end

And

And this whistling squawking snapping is courtesy of the Orca also known as the killer whale

Most of us don't get to hear these sounds because we're not underwater

But thanks to scientists who record them we get to know these marine mammals in ways that would not be possible otherwise

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