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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from tumbleweeds that terrorize entire towns to a tantalizing obstetrical secret. 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 Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jessica 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 heck stories every week.
0:11.4	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find plenty
0:15.6	of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:18.4	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:20.8	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:24.5	I'm Rachel Fultman.
0:25.5	I'm Claire Melderelli.
0:26.5	And I'm Sarah Trotosh.
0:28.2	So on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we start by each offering up a little tease
0:32.7	about some kind of fact or story that we found in the course of reading, writing, reporting,
0:38.3	editing, training for marathons across death Valley or whatever it is Claire's up to these
0:43.9	days.
0:45.0	And decide which one we just absolutely have to hear about first.
0:49.3	Then once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene and decide
0:53.7	what the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was.
0:57.2	Sarah, would you like to share your teeth?
0:59.2	I would.
1:00.2	I am going to talk about why the USDA has been waging a war against tumbleweeds for the past
1:07.0	130 years.
1:08.0	It's a vicious war.
1:11.0	It's a very vicious war.
1:12.0	Yes.
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