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Shane Madej and Matt Real join the show from The Quizard's Pit! There's discussion of sending Big Bird to space (thank GOODNESS we didn't), a suspicious skeleton, and one writer who loved coffee a little too much. Check out The Quizard's Pit: https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuizardsP ...  Show more

Author and food historian Priya Mani joins the show to talk about the neuroscience of spice. Plus, Laura explains why whales have teeth on their eyes (SERIOUSLY), and Rachel gets into why a tickle robot exists. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Scienc ...  Show more

This week, on a brand new episode of Baffled. Dan, Conor and Andrea bring new facts that you can use as pub ammo or simply chuck away into the bin of nonsense. This weeks facts consist of TV Dinners, something incredible about Armadillos, Men who don't wash their hands after goin ...  Show more

What's going on with microbes? What happens when an astronaut sneezes in space? Why do we have toes? Should I dress fancier? Why aren’t there drones on Mars? Do you get lighter every time you fart? What do I do about the poster I don’t understand? Why do animals live for differen ...  Show more

Luce and Squish are back on the mic to bring you… a lot of weird stories from the news cycle this week. A dude faked his own death to “teach his family a lesson,” University students dressed up as animals to let themselves be “pet,” a woman was put in a coffin still BREATHING, an ...  Show more

A dead man with a bitten penis and perplexing DNA, a terrifying syndrome where everything around you appears in miniature, and the big lie we all believe about lemmings: Wendy and Joel tell three science stories about times when things were not what they seemed, recorded live at ...  Show more