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 Sarah Trudeauche.

I'm Chandra Prescott-Winestein.

Chandra, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, so listeners, as many of you follow us on Twitter and pay attention to the Twitter

Science VR probably aware, Chandra is a brilliant physicist, science communicator, and now newly

published author.

So why do you tell us about your new book before we get into the show?

Yeah, my book is called The Disordered Cosmers, a journey into dark matter space time and

dreams deferred.

And I think the best summary is probably that it's a holistic look at the doing of particle

physics and cosmology.

So everything from the standard model of particle physics to how race and gender and gender

identity and sexual orientation and all of these things shape how physics actually gets

done and what physics and astronomy should be in the future, what our relationship to

colonialism and liberation work should be.

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