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58: Cuteness Aggression58: Cuteness Aggression


May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

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

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57: Stagecoach Mary57: Stagecoach Mary


April 30, 2019April 30, 2019

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

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56: Not Your Mom’s Mythology56: Not Your Mom’s Mythology


April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

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

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55: Super Recognizers55: Super Recognizers


April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

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

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54: Exploding Ants54: Exploding Ants


April 9, 2019April 9, 2019

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

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53: Barbed Wire Phones53: Barbed Wire Phones


April 2, 2019April 2, 2019

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.

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52: Long Lives of Lobsters52: Long Lives of Lobsters


March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.   Long Lives of Lobsters Transcript:

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51: Jump out of an airplane with only a backpack?!?!51: Jump out of an airplane with only a backpack?!?!


March 19, 2019March 19, 2019

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.

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50: Medical Insurance Codes50: Medical Insurance Codes


March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

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

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49: Saturn’s Rings49: Saturn’s Rings


March 5, 2019March 5, 2019

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?

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