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Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our
Why do we want to crush-hug cute things like babies and young animals? It may have something to do with adorableness overload and how our
Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes belted
Amaryllis and her bleeding heart, the origin of the Milky Way, Maori style, Thor and Loki crash a wedding and hippo poop. They didn’t teach
Two percent of the population has the almost uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces from chance meetings even years before. We talk about how
Meet C. explodens; where worker ants rupture their own abdomens–filled with toxic goo–to protect the colony from predators. Exploding Ants Transcript: Welcome to Brain
One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence. Barbed Wire Phones: Welcome to Brain Junk, I’m Amy Barton.
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea. Long Lives of Lobsters Transcript:
We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, backpacks are as safe as parachutes.
Not the big yawn that you’d think. These 100,000 or so codes are used to determine your bill. Some of those codes are hilarious. Bit
The rings of icy dust around Saturn are so much younger than the planet. Where did they come from and why are they going away?