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Brains on Universe

You're listening to Brains on where we're serious about being curious.

Look around. You're probably surrounded by metal.

Maybe it's part of the car you're riding in, or it helps hold up the building you're listening in.

It's even part of the device playing our voices right now.

It took some serious breakthroughs for humans to figure out that this hard, heavy stuff can do so many things.

But once they did, the world was never the same.

You know, the more you can work metal, the more they figure out, oh, we can do almost anything

with this, and that stuff, it just lasts forever, right?

You can keep it around for an awful long time.

That's Dylan Thuris, co-founder of Atlas Obscura.

He's joining us for part two of our look at how metal built our worlds. Today we'll find out how exactly humans learn to make magic

with metal. Stay tuned. Hey friends, welcome to the new Brains on Headquarters. We're still unpacking and it's taking a while because this place is huge, right, Sandin?

So big, Molly. But check it out. I just finished setting up our gratitude room. Oh, cool. You know, scientists have studied gratitude, or saying thanks.

They found that focusing on what you're grateful for can actually make you happier overall.

Yeah, that's why we built this room full of stuff we're thankful for.

Look, we've got flowers in full bloom, fresh-baked croissants.

Oh, look, it's guitar solos that go squiggly, squiggly, squee!

So grateful for those. Over here we have the smell of clean laundry. And this is the feeling of warm

sun on your face. The best. Oh, and here are all my friends ever.

We love you, Molly.

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