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Does Blowing on Food Make It Cooler? Plus: How to Acquire Tastes, and Carnivore Adaptation
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2019-08-25
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Inside the Human Eye (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger), Dating-App Addiction, and Old-Timey Bicycles
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2019-08-23
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Your Eye Microbiome (w/ Dr. Anthony St. Leger) and What Children’s Drawings Say About Gender
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2019-08-22
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Canned Laughter Makes Dad Jokes Funnier, Animals Use Economics, and AI on Rubik’s Cubes
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2019-08-21
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Is Internet Language Bad? (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and How to Remember More Dreams
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2019-08-20
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Is Bee Venom Therapy Safe? Plus: Teeth Cleaning History and How to Change Bad Habits
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2019-08-19
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How Food Nutrients Are Calculated, Why Wrappers Are So Loud, and How to Make Small Talk
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2019-08-18
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Getting Rid of Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard), the Sargasso Sea, and Leonid Rogozov
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2019-08-16
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History-Changing Mosquitoes (w/ Timothy Winegard) and Stimulating Neurons to Produce Images
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2019-08-15
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Big Five Personality Traits Are WEIRD, Why Mouth Wounds Heal So Quickly, and Snake Island
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2019-08-14
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Improve Your Self-Control, Replace Your Kitchen Sponge, and Naming Our Sun and Moon
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2019-08-13
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Bystanders Help More Often Than You Thought, Avoiding Failure, and Cause and Effect Crows
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2019-08-12
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Achieve Your Goals Faster, Why We Eat 3 Meals a Day, and the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
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2019-08-11
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Cultivate Green Space in Your Home (w/ Summer Rayne Oakes) and Brains of Octopus Arms
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2019-08-09
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Prevent Pit Stains, Medieval Rap Battles, and Why Airplane Boarding Takes So Long
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2019-08-08
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Melt Glass at Home (w/ Nick Uhas), How Matches Make Fire, and Odd Animal Sizes on Islands
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2019-08-07
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Wireless Charging May Be Bad for Your Battery, “Alpha Dog” Myths, and Penicillin’s Full Origins
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2019-08-06
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Future of Cell-Sized Robots (w/ Cornell University) and Transferring Data Through Music
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2019-08-05
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Respecting Others with Hanlon’s Razor, What If the World Went Vegan, and Dancing Cockatoos
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2019-08-04
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Bioprinting (w/ Zach Weinersmith), Giant Underground Cities, and Miniature Pigeon Cameras
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2019-08-02
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