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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.
0:08.9	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find
0:12.9	plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:16.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:18.4	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:22.0	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:23.0	I'm Pripyatissa.
0:24.0	And I'm Karin Iosio.
0:26.6	Everyone, welcome Karin.
0:28.9	Lovely to have you here.
0:30.0	It's been a minute.
0:31.2	It's been probably around about three months?
0:34.0	Yes, exactly.
0:35.3	And that leads us to the question of why you're here, not that we're not always happy to have you.
0:40.7	But you're here because it is a very special occasion here at Popular Science.
0:45.6	Would you like to tell our listeners why?
0:47.5	Yes.
0:47.9	So I'm here because our new issue went live.
0:51.6	And you notice that I say went live as opposed to went on sale on new stands.
0:56.4	And that's because this is the first issue of Popular Science that is available fully and
1:00.9	exclusively as a digital magazine.
1:03.5	And this is going to be how we bring magazines to our subscribers going forward.
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