Sailing Boulders, Mom-Eating Worms, the Most Humongous Fungus

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating with facts about worms that eat their moms' skin, the fungus bigger than a blue whale, and rocks that sail across deserts all by themselves. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 Jess Bodie.
0:24.0	And I'm Claire Maldirelli.
0:26.6	So on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we start by each offering up a little tease
0:31.7	about some kind of factor story that we found in the course of reading, writing, reporting,
0:37.1	social distancing, et cetera, and decide which one we just absolutely have to hear more about first.
0:43.8	Then once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene and decide what
0:48.9	the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was.
0:52.0	And this week, we are celebrating Earth Day.
0:56.3	Earth Day!
0:57.3	Day of the Earth.
0:58.3	Because it's today, the 22nd, Earth Day.
1:02.3	And unlike most Earth days of recent past, many of us are spending it inside.
1:08.5	Though I hope you can go for a socially distant walk at some point today to appreciate the
1:13.9	planet around you.
1:15.7	But even if you can't, we have some facts to help you think about this cool, weird, wonderful
1:21.2	planet we're on.
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