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Why are most people right handed?
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Is real-life storm chasing like the movies?
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How do airplane toilets work?
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411: You’ve Gotta’ Optimize
Can sharks get tuberculosis? Why create your own products rather than promote existing products? Where did I exist before I was born? How do I deal with fear of missing out on memes? Is this a sleep podcast or a workout podcast? How do bones heal? Why are envelopes the size they ... Show More
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What is love?
Can science help us predict whether a relationship will succeed? Or is it all just chaos?
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32m 42s
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Teeny Frogs With Tarantula Bodyguards, the Science of Hair Magic, an Everlasting Lightbulb
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! Click here to follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything! -- Follow our ... Show More
43m 16s
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The Great Debate: Could We Ever Travel through Time?
Our space and physics editors go head-to-head over a classic mind-bending question.
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Sep 2023
Does garlic break magnets?
What would an episode of Unexplainable have sounded like if it had been made in 100 CE?
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30m 40s
Jul 2024
Is good posture actually good?
Send this episode to the person who constantly hounds you not to slouch.
Guest: Beth Linker, author of “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America”
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21m 26s
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BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?
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13m 10s
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A Mid-Season Update
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2m 49s
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367: Sharkface Unicycle Boy
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It's summer and the days are just packed, as PopSci Editor Sarah Durn and Editor-in-Chief Annie Colbert dig deep through their memories to figure out why summers stretched seemingly forever as kids, but go by in a flash as adults.
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We're talking hands, and that's no jive, as PopSci Editor Sarah Durn and Editor-in-Chief Annie Colbert gesture wildly through a conversation about why roughly 90% of humans have right-hand dominance. Also a special c ... Show More
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