Can science help you find love?

After three days of chatting is actually the sweet spot of coordinating a date.

Should you throw out your black plastic utensils?

And how old are those apples at the grocery store?

If you're buying an apple in June or July, that apple is coming up on its first birthday.

I'm Mike and Scott. Every week,

the pulse digs into health and science issues that matter to you and your life. You can find us wherever you get your podcast. If you want to ensure your place in history, you could cure something terrible,

invent something indispensable, or perform something unforgettable.

Or you could earn yourself a spot in the Guinness World Records.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

Even if you don't have it in you to run the fastest ever barefoot 100 meters over a track

covered in Legos, or don't have the time to grow the longest hair or fingernails,

you might join a mass participation record attempt,

trying to be part of the largest ever gathering of people dressed as Superman,

or the largest group shower,

or, as my guest documented, the largest simultaneous kazoo performance.

If those events don't sound like much of an achievement, consider this.

When is the last time you saw hundreds or even thousands of people

physically in the same place

with nobody on their phones? Lauren Larson is senior staff writer at Texas Monthly Magazine.

Her article for the New York Times Magazine about Guinness World Record Attempts is titled,

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