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Coffee or Death, Radioactive Slippers, Literally Blinding Beauty
Nov 20, 2019This week, No Such Thing As A Fish's James Harkin joins Rachel and Jess as a guest-host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from painting glowing, radioactive messages on your teeth to how Queen Ne...
Harry Styles’ Nipple Count, Frankenstein’s Mom-ster, Madame Tussaud’s Macabre Origins
Nov 13, 2019This week, we've got the first half of our extra spooky Halloween live show! The weirdest things we learned ranged from a ship filled with a collection of wax heads to Harry Styles' surprising number ...
A special Q&A with Rachel and Jess
Nov 06, 2019In lieu of a regular episode this week—which we were too swamped with live show prep to record!—enjoy this chatty Q&A with Jess and Rachel. They talk about getting into science journalism and podcasti...
Blood Gourds, Tiny Taffeta Frog Pants, Dying for Weather Data
Oct 30, 2019The New York Times' Kendra Pierre-Louis—a former PopSci Editor!—joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from gourds full of royal blood to frogs wearing tiny taffeta ...
Bisexual Situations, Limey Sailors With Scurvy, Origin of Morons
Oct 23, 2019Helen Zaltzman, host of The Allusionist podcast, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from bisexual space stations to guinea pigs with scurvy. Whose story will be ...
Death By Rainbow, Face Blindness, Watermelon Snow
Oct 16, 2019PopSci contributor Kat Eschner joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from how snow banks turn millennial pink to a dazzling yet dangerous chemistry demonstration. W...
Pooping Magic Rocks, How We Ruined Bison, Common Cold Lies
Oct 09, 2019Arielle Duhaime-Ross, host of Reset from Vox, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from dunking chickens in ice baths to magical stones from porcupine bellies. Who...
Debunking Hymen Myths, Moving Corpses, Birth Control to Please the Pope
Oct 02, 2019OB-GYN and author Jen Gunter joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned range from the invention of the birth control pill to corpses that change position long after their time...
10k Steps is a Lie, a Secret Poop Factory, Eleanor Roosevelt's Mysterious Death
Sep 25, 2019The weirdest things we learned this week range from robots wiping your butt to a Cheeto-shaped bacteria killing Eleanor Roosevelt. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? ...
Spiny Female Penises, Goth Girl Summer, Hardcore Flamingoes
Sep 13, 2019This week, we've got another voice messages edition of Weirdest Thing! We listen and react to extra weird, listener-provided facts that range from how a volcanic eruption led to the invention of the b...