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There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor ...  Show more

Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone’s imagination.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv ...  Show more

Chewing gum is everywhere today, but where does it come from? What did we chew before Bubblicious? How does gum affect us? Robert and Joe explore in this episode of Invention. (Originally published 7/8/2019) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com ...  Show more

Les professeurs n'aiment pas trop voir leurs élèves mâcher un chewing-gum.

Pourtant, une étude pourrait bien leur faire changer d'avis.

En effet, selon une enquête japonaise publiée dans le journal "Brain and Cognition", mâcher un chewing-gum aurait pour propriété ...

L'usage compulsif de l'iphone et, d'une manière générale, des téléphones connectés, a de nombreux effets. L'une de ses conséquences est la baisse des ventes de chewing-gum. Heureusement pour ses fabricants, cette célèbre gomme à mâcher ne manque pas d'atouts pour séduire les c ...

Do you want to strangle people for chewing gum? Does the crinkle of plastic fill you with inarticulate, homicidal fury? If so, you may suffer from the little-understood condition called 'misophonia'.