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Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff]
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Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff]
Language:
English
Episodes
Why Does Grapefruit Mess With Meds?
3/26/2023
The interaction was discovered in a study where the juice was used to mask the taste of alcohol.
Duration:00:05:33
Sexy Moths
3/19/2023
Put on some slow, sexy, saxophone riffs and leave your porch light on tonight to help Hot Single Poplar Hawk Moths in your area get it on. It's literally their reason for living. #TagUrMothPorn
Duration:00:08:48
The Americanization of St. Patrick's Day
3/12/2023
In Ireland, #StPatricksDay was just a minor religious holiday for centuries — and not one that involved drinking. Then Americans appropriated it in the 1960s and now we have the #shamrockshake.
Duration:00:05:05
The Kentucky Meat Shower
3/5/2023
So, meat pieces fell from the sky in Kentucky once.
Duration:00:06:42
Why Are Giraffes So Damn Long?
2/26/2023
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about giraffes: the even-toed ungulates formerly known as CAMELEOPARDS.
Duration:00:13:56
Indelible Pencils
2/19/2023
"Indelible pencils" or copying pencils were popular for a time in the 1870s because they made it possible to easily make copies of handwritten documents. Which would have been great — except they turned out to be poisonous.
Duration:00:08:25
Who Invented Conversation Heart Candies?
2/12/2023
We have a frustrated pharmacist to thank for the chalk-and-talk-tastic Valentine's Day candy.
Duration:00:08:13
The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster
2/5/2023
20 years ago, the Columbia space shuttle disaster resulted in the deaths of 7 human crew members, but there were survivors: small worms that had been involved in an onboard experiment somehow survived the impact & extreme heat.
Duration:00:09:50
The Doomsday Clock
1/29/2023
This year the Doomsday Clock is the closest to midnight it's ever been. 1991 was the best year: we were ~7 minutes away.
Duration:00:03:29
What Is Wind Chill?
1/24/2023
Y'know how your weather app gives you the temperature outside but then warns you that it'll *feel like* a much colder temp, thus upping your risk of FROSTBITE? We're debunking the ol' New England adage, "Don't fuck with the wind chill, fam."
Duration:00:04:53
Clumsy? Actually, You Might Have Dyspraxia.
1/22/2023
If you’ve always been told you’re “clumsy” but you just feel like your brain and hands don’t “talk,” you might actually have a neurodevelopment condition called dyspraxia.
Duration:00:16:19
"Cold Sunday"
1/15/2023
On January 17th, 1982 hundreds of U.S. cities broke records for low temperatures — many of which still stand today. Near Tower, Minnesota, temps dropped to -52 °F (-47 °C).
Duration:00:02:26
Mrs. Röntgen's Skeleton Hand
1/8/2023
In 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen became the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of X-rays. The famous image he captured was of his wife's hand. Upon seeing her skeletal fingers, she gasped: "I have seen my death."
Duration:00:09:52
2023 Predictions: Let’s Do Cannibalism!
1/1/2023
What’s in store for 2023? The Antichrist, war, space disasters, and cannibalism!
Duration:00:12:14
Santa's Evil Twin
12/25/2022
The Christmas devil! A yuletide bastard if there ever was on! It's KRAMPUS. Obviously, this episode is rated R.
Duration:00:05:39
How The Flu Kills You
12/18/2022
SPOILER: You don't technically die from the flu. ⚰️😷
Duration:00:14:26
Why Figure Skating Is All Physics
12/11/2022
Step 1: Listen to this week's episode on the physics of figure skating.
Step 2: Use Disney+ to watch Ice Princess (2005) (hashtagnotspons)
Duration:00:06:59
Do Other Planets Have Rainbows?
12/4/2022
This episode is for one of our young listeners, Elena, who asked about rainbows. We know the recipe for them here on Earth, but what about elsewhere in the universe?
Duration:00:04:27
Does Silver Disinfect Itself?
11/27/2022
This week we're revisiting an important infection-preventing question from Very Special Episodes of COVID Holidays past: Does your Nana's sterling silver really disinfect itself?
Duration:00:05:45
Black Friday's History of Violence
11/20/2022
Here's why cops in Philadelphia in the 1960s started calling the day after Thansksgiving "Black Friday."
Duration:00:10:35