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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Science Meets Magic, High-Tech Murders, Bees?!

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Writer and game designer Jonathan Sims joins the show! The weirdest things we learned this week range from bees telling time to death by apple core. 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!  Click here to follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything!  -- Follow our team on Twitter! Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- 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

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0:04.1

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0:11.6

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0:13.8

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0:18.9

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0:21.1

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0:26.3

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0:32.0

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0:37.1

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0:46.6

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

0:51.2

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

0:54.7

we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.

0:58.3

So we figured, why not share those with you?

1:00.7

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

1:04.5

I'm Rachel Fultman.

1:05.7

I'm Sarah Trotash.

1:06.8

And I'm Jonathan Sims.

1:08.4

Johnny, welcome to the show.

1:10.2

Hello.

1:11.2

So for listeners who don't know, Jonathan Sims is the writer and one of the stars of one of my absolute favorite podcasts,

1:22.3

The Magnus Archives, which tragically just ended and ended tragically.

1:26.7

Well, I mean, okay, it ended tragically, but it didn't tragically end.

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