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 where we're serious about being curious

Molly, do you hear that? I don't hear anything. All right

That's probably because I've been doing intensive ear training ever since I found out I'd be co-hosting this episode

I wanted to be ready. What kind of your training did you do? Well, I started with some light ear jumping jacks

Oh, yeah, I see your ears wiggling ever so slightly

Then I moved on to sprints

You know you cover your ears to block all sounds then you uncover your ears and listen really intently like this

Wow, that is some intense listening. Yeah

Then my favorite fire hose fire hose. Yeah, that's when you listen to a bunch of sounds at once and try to identify them

So then when you go back to a one sound at a time, it's super easy. I wonder what that sounds like like this

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