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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:03.1

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0:23.2

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0:30.9

At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.

0:38.0

And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find plenty of

0:43.0

weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured why not share those with you?

0:48.1

Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.

0:52.4

I'm Rachel Fultman. I'm Chelsea Becoons. I'm Rachel E. Gross. Rachel, welcome to the show.

0:58.5

Oh my gosh. I'm so glad to finally be here with you.

1:01.2

I think this is the first time we've had a second Rachel on the show actually.

1:04.0

I don't recall another instance. So and I intend to be the last.

1:10.3

There can usually only be one, but listeners Rachel Gross is so fantastic that occasionally I say

1:17.2

let there be two. Rachel, why do you tell our listeners a little bit about the awesome work you do?

1:24.1

Yeah, sure. So I write mostly about gender and bias in science. And that often means

1:36.0

following around scientists who are kind of new voices in their field. So like women of color,

1:44.0

LGBTQ scientists, sometimes just the first woman scientists in their field. And the new ideas

1:50.5

and questions that they are bringing and how they're helping us still in all these knowledge gaps.

1:57.4

So my biggest project so far was I recently wrote a book called The Gina Obscura,

2:03.2

An Anatomical Voyage. And it's so good. Stop. That means a lot to me from you.

2:09.5

And it's like a journey to the center of the quote female body that kind of goes organ by organ

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