The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
Hosted by Rachel Feltman and Jess Boddy and Rachel and Jess and Laura · Popular Science
4.6from 2,176 ratings
- 240
- Episodes
- 63
- Transcribed
- 2,176
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 13K
- YouTube views
About The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
- Publisher
- Popular Science
- Category
- education · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
63 of 240 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hold These Balls and Nap, Dickens’ Spontaneous Combustion, Men Don’t Know Themselves
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Underwater Songbirds, Tea Bagging for Science, Um Yes Hello it's Spooky Lake Month!
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
On The Origin of Smooching, Mausoleum Madness, Chubby Cheetahs
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Hold These Balls and Nap, Dickens’ Spontaneous Combustion, Men Don’t Know Themselves
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then you ignite it with an ember. Fire will burn slowly and persistently, but at a high enough temperature to do some serious damage. So there's been... a lot of experiments testing this. There was actually even one conducted on screen in a 1998 BBC science documentary using a pig carcass. […]
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- Amanda Reed
- Riley Black
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- 12,971
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- 4.6 / 5
- 2,176 ratings
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- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 100
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