This is the Guardian. if I'm a writer and broadcaster and I spend way too much time online.

But now those years of scrolling are finally paying off because I'm hosting the Guardian's

new pop culture podcast. In each episode I'm going to get under the skin of the week's biggest stories.

If you love pop culture, I want to get into how it's shaping and impacting our lives,

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Bye! Imagine yourself in medieval times, all the way up to the 15th century.

You might be picturing muddy streets filled with rickety carts,

dirty water chucked out of windows, people with bad teeth and sores on their skin,

and the presence of a very nasty smell.

But what was life really like?

Researchers in Cambridge are finding out by excavating bones from an ancient burial site

and using modern science to analyze them.

So far, they've discovered some interesting and disgusting things,

Bunions, parasites, and broken bones that could kill.

From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley, and this is a spooky science correspondent.

When you told me that there was a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge digging up old bones,

I think you knew I wouldn't be able to resist.

It is such a cool project and I have covered it over the years with all these new finds that

are coming out and they've excavated three or four different burial areas around

Cambridge and what's really interesting and what the key thing about this research is that these burial areas were used for different types of people so the

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