Your Car is Full of Spiders, the Cloud Whisperer, She Who Invented N95 Masks and Bugles

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Welcome to Season 4! For this first episode, Kendra Pierre-Louis, former Popsci editor and current reporter for the Gimlet podcast How To Save a Planet, joins the weirdos as a guest host. The weirdest things we learned this week range from thousands of cars being recalled due to spider infestations, to the story of a woman who invented N95 masks from bras. 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 Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jessica Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- 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.
0:08.9	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find
0:12.9	plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:16.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:18.4	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:22.1	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:23.1	I'm Sarah Trotosh.
0:24.1	I'm Kendra Peer Lewis.
0:26.1	Kendra, thank you so much for joining us.
0:28.5	Thanks so much for having me.
0:30.1	It is a very special day.
0:32.2	We're dissing listeners because in addition to having one of our favorite pop-sci alums,
0:37.8	Kendra on, we are back for season four.
0:42.8	We have...
0:43.8	Thank you.
0:44.8	That's what I was looking for.
0:46.8	But yeah, we really missed you all and we will be back for it nightly for the foreseeable
0:52.1	future.
0:53.1	We have some really fun, timely bonus episodes planned.
0:57.1	So thanks so much for sticking with us and coming back.
1:02.4	And we're really psyched to get season four rolling.
1:06.6	As I said, Kendra is one of our favorite former pop-sci staffers, but she is also a reporter
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