Let me know what they say.

Science is just applied math and math is just applied sex magic.

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

And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles,

there are lots of other 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 Elinor Cummins.

I'm Mary Beth Griggs.

So on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we start by each teasing a factoid that we learned

either while reporting, editing, reading other great science journalism, answering angry emails,

you know, just being a journalist.

And we decide which one we absolutely have to learn more about first.

And then once we've all spun our little science yarns, we reconvene and tried to decide

what the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was.

And as always, if you agree or disagree with us, you should let us know on Twitter

at weirdest underscore thing or hashtag weirdest thing pod.

So Elinor, since you're the birthday girl.

Oh boy.

All right.

I'll just say about the scariest thing you can say to a room full of journalists.

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