The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's worst dairy-related disaster to a Sardinian cheese that is illegal to sell. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing I Learned This W

Sucked into a Bottle, the Ultimate Exercise Hack, the Statue of Liberty’s Big Secret

Sep 12th, 2018 39m 48s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from turning the Statue of Liberty into a battery to a man whose penis was sucked into a bottle with an explosion. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?Buy tickets t

Bears in Ejector Seats, Nobel Prize for Giving Patients Malaria, The Secret Origins of Beer Yeast

Jul 25th, 2018 41m 20s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from the Air Force testing ejector seats with black bears to a doctor winning the Nobel Prize for infecting his patients with syphilis. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This

Le Pétomane (The Fartiste), Tesla Loved a Pigeon, Meat Lozenges

Jul 18th, 2018 41m 6s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from a flatulist who became the highest-paid performer in France to meat lozenges. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a p

Ketchup Consistency Standards, Implanting Memories, People Inside of Sperm

Jun 13th, 2018 41m 12s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from the standards and grading of ketchup to the idea that people were fully-formed inside of sperm before being born. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Wei

Medical Cannibalism, Hildegard of Bingen, Predicting the Weather

May 30th, 2018 41m 27s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from nuns, the origin of the cosmos, and the female orgasm to the number of calories in an average human man. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thi

Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse

May 16th, 2018 41m 19s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from trying to revive dead (or unconscious) people by literally blowing smoke up their butts to the secret testing your favorite products go through to sound expensive. Whose story will be voted "T

Giant Sloths, Caged Babies, Spicy Horse Butts

May 2nd, 2018 39m 5s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from Thomas Jefferson and giant sloths to Eleanor Roosevelt and suspending babies above Park Avenue in NYC. Who will win our to-the-death* competition and have their story voted "The Weirdest Thing

A Delicious Chocolate Debacle, IBS In Orbit, the Tuffy Saga

Feb 23rd, 2022 1h 4m

This episode celebrates our latest digital issue going live! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us!Click here to learn more ab

Human Refrigerators, Poop Knives, Whacky Tongues

Feb 9th, 2022 57m 48s

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Teeny Frogs With Tarantula Bodyguards, the Science of Hair Magic, an Everlasting Lightbulb

Jan 19th, 2022 43m 16s

Snake Island, Controversial Chimps, Brussels Sprout Vindication

Jan 5th, 2022 1h 3m

Arielle Duhaime-Ross—host of Vice's A Show About Animals and Vice News Reports—joins the show this week! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group

Superheated Falcon Poo, Banana Babies, Gross (But Delicious) Bug Goop

Dec 22nd, 2021 50m 3s

Judging Meat, Vampire Fish Invasion, the Rise of White Castle

Dec 8th, 2021 1h 2m

This episode celebrates our latest digital issue going live! Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with

Mary Roach talks Moose Crash Test Dummies, Famous Ferrets, and Deadly Planets

Nov 24th, 2021 58m 32s

Mary Roach—author of incredible books like Gulp, Bonk, Spook, and most recently, Fuzz—joins the show this week! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Faceboo

Ancient Brain Surgeons, the Crows Have Eyes, Why Radiators are so Annoying

Nov 10th, 2021 54m 57s

Actor and famous Schitt's Creek impersonator Michael Judson Berry joins the show this week! The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at

Haunted Vaginas, Fairy Floss, Books Made of Human Skin

Oct 27th, 2021 1h 1m

SEASON 5 IS HERE! The weirdest things we learned this week range from REAL ectoplasm to how many licks it (allegedly) takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share y

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Ask Us Anything: Can you boost your immune system?

Mar 16th, 2021 12m 57s

Check out the first episode of Ask Us Anything, a brand new podcast from the editors of Popular Science! Claire and Jess dive into whether you can boost your immune system, giving it ninja-like capabilities to vanquish any infectious critter th

Evasive Genital Maneuvers, A Nazi Carrot Hoax, Eternal Daytime

1 May 6th, 2020 42m 59s

Rose Eveleth, host of the hit podcast Flash Forward, joins the weirdos as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned this week range from a Russian experiment that tried to make daytime last forever to moths jamming bat radar with their genit

Taxidermy's Dark Secret, Woman "Births" Rabbits, The Parthenon's Optical Illusion

Oct 17th, 2018 34m 41s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from a piece of taxidermy with a dark secret to a woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing I Learned This

Vanishing Twins, The Poison Squad, Levitating Frogs

Oct 10th, 2018 40m 36s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from levitating a frog with electromagnets to the idea that absorbing a twin in utero gives you superpowers. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing

Fatal Insomnia, Astounding Poops, NYPD Bees

Sep 5th, 2018 40m 15s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from a plan to bring George Washington back from the dead to a solar storm that powered telegraphs with no batteries. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?Buy ticket

Skin-Peeling Soup, Chlorinating the Ocean, Secret Drug Toilets

Aug 8th, 2018 38m 38s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from a soup that makes your skin peel off to secret drug-finding toilets in airports. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is

The First Underwater Video, Ballooning Over the North Pole, The Call of the Void

Jun 6th, 2018 41m 29s

The weirdest things we learned this week range from finding lost footage of the first-ever underwater video to a daring attempt to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"

The First Celebrity Diet, Animals Adopting Animals, Believing You Are Dead

May 9th, 2018 32m

The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's first celebrity dieter, Lord Byron, to Cotard Syndrome, a mental illness where a person believes they are already dead or do not exist. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thin