80 episodes
This Week I Learned The Week
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Your audio guide to the most fascinating and fun revelations, reports, and studies on the internet. Quick, concise, and infectiously entertaining, This Week I Learned promises to make learning fun again.
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Ep. 79: This week I learned that crows make up after fights, and more
Considerate crows | The Vatican's milky walls | When Iceland's women went on strike | Mountain-climbing madness
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Ep. 78: The week I learned your ice is teeming with bacteria, and more
Your gross ice | Play Super Mario with Grandma | The Eiffel Tower at night | Our forcefield atmosphere
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Ep. 77: This week I learned dogs really are smarter than cats, and more
Dogs are nerds | The trick to learning new skills | The great Halifax explosion | Pumice stones for whales
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Ep. 76: This week I learned that prehistoric women were ridiculously strong, and more
Prehistoric girl power | Turtles' butt-breathing power | How cuddling changes genetics | The negative power of perception
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Ep. 75: This week I learned America really struggled to pin down a date for Thanksgiving, and more
America's Thanksgiving indecision | The long history of the wishbone | Your gluten-less gluten sensitivity | A primer on naming countries
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Ep. 74: This week I learned the dinosaurs could still be alive today if the asteroid had hit pretty much anywhere else, and more
How the dinosaurs could have survived | The healing powers of daytime | The room in your house that bugs prefer | The incredible efficiency of the penguin waddle