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 Perbita Saha, and I'm Karen Ayozia.

And welcome to the first episode of The Weirdest Scamler in this week, season six.

And of course, since Karen is here, that means this is a very special episode for reasons

other than being the season premiere.

Oh yeah.

What could go on?

What could go on?

We haven't set any pattern here whatsoever.

So the fall issue comes out next week, and it's a really, really fun one.

The theme is Daredevil.

And this was a particularly potent one for me because I'm genuinely a pretty risk-averse

person.

And what this issue asks is, what happens when you get up to the edge, when you get up to

a cliff, and you just say, eff it.

I'm going to jump.

And sometimes people find amazing things when they do, they learn stuff, and they make

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