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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...
Calling All Weirdos For A Very Important Announcement
Aug 21, 2019We're dropping in to tell you about a few special episodes coming up—and how you can participate! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and...
Feminist Butter Art, The First Celebrity Athletes, The Secret Lives of Algae
Jul 31, 2019The weirdest things we learned this week range from butter sculptures' feminist origins to the cutthroat world of competitive endurance walking. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned...
The Hungriest Boy, Eyeglasses for Cannibal Chickens, Champion Guppy Gulpers
Jul 24, 2019In the second half of our live show on June 14th, the weirdest things we learned this week range from the hungriest boy who ever lived to swallowing live goldfish for sport. Whose story will be voted ...
Victorian Sex Drugs, Milk in Your Veins, Radioactive Dishes
Jul 17, 2019The weirdest things we learned range from injecting cow's milk into a person's veins (don't worry, it's fresh!), to a modern gay sex drug with Victorian origins. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdes...