Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

You're listening to brains on where we're serious about being curious and sometimes we get curious about little off-handed remarks

We hear from scientists like recently when our co-host Destiny Rodriguez asked NASA volcano expert Carolyn Parcetta this simple question

Where is the biggest volcano?

Mount Aloa is our planet's biggest volcano

It's not the biggest in the solar system, but Mount Aloa is the biggest honor not the biggest in the solar system

It turns out there are much bigger volcanoes out there earth doesn't even have the most volcanoes in the solar system

So today we're going to explore this further get ready for

Volcanoes in space

Stay tuned

This is brains on from Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio. I'm Molly Bloom

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