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This Week I Learned
The Week
80 episodes
5 months ago
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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Social Sciences
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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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Social Sciences
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This Week I Learned
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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7 years ago
11 minutes 39 seconds

This Week I Learned
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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7 years ago
35 minutes 24 seconds

This Week I Learned
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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7 years ago
15 minutes 4 seconds

This Week I Learned
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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7 years ago
13 minutes 13 seconds

This Week I Learned
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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7 years ago
16 minutes 54 seconds

This Week I Learned
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
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7 years ago
11 minutes 40 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 73: This week I learned that dogs can smell happiness, and more
How you're hijacking your dog's emotions | Right-handed bees | Chopin's pickled heart | England's sin-eaters
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7 years ago
12 minutes 17 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 72: This week I learned plants can smell predators coming, and more
Plants can smell | Bacteria can feel | It snows sunscreen on a planet far, far away | The purpose of those silly little T. Rex arms
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7 years ago
13 minutes 24 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 71: This week I learned that salmon sex literally moves mountains, and more
Earth-shattering salmon love | The secret genius of daydreaming | Our innate arachnophobia | Diagnosed with a broken heart
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7 years ago
11 minutes 26 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 70: This week I learned worms can smell danger, and more
The olfactory defenses of the roundworm | Stress is ruining your diet | A fish's lament | The murderer behind the OED
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7 years ago
16 minutes 9 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 69: This week I learned how female dolphins are weaponizing their vaginas to fight the underwater patriarchy, and more
How dolphins fight 'the man' | Beware the nocebo effect | The mystery of the Amber Room | Europe's radioactive pigs problem
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7 years ago
27 minutes 41 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 68: This week I learned spoilers can actually make a story better, and more
Embrace the spoiler | Your parents' gender bias | Why clowns creep us out | How stress impairs
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7 years ago
14 minutes 42 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 67: This week I learned a good mood can make the flu vaccine more effective, and more
Happiness, the flu, and you | Which personality are you, cat? | The dinosaur-devouring frog | The bizarre aero-cure of the 1920s
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7 years ago
17 minutes 57 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 66: This week I learned you should absolutely beat yourself up a little the next time you fail, and more
The emotional trick to dealing with failure | Lightning-inducing cargo ships | The evolution of the giraffe's long neck | The Alaskan town overrun by bald eagles
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7 years ago
11 minutes 55 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 65: This week I learned the science behind out-of-body experiences, and more
The science of OBEs | The plastic inside us | All hail Viking warrior princesses! | Chocolate's dark medicinal history
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7 years ago
15 minutes 28 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 64: This week I learned your unfulfilled coffee craving is wreaking havoc with your memory, and more
The power of a coffee craving | Swordfish heat their eyeballs | Wild dogs' democratic sneezing fit | Haagen-Dazs’ New York origins
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7 years ago
31 minutes 45 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 63: This week I learned the beloved starfish is a surprisingly brutal killer, and more
The murderous starfish | The color of breakfast | Our drug-addicted fish | A musical medical miracle
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7 years ago
14 minutes 19 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 62: This week I learned our brains can predict the future, and more
Your clairvoyant brain | Live in the moment: take photos! | The quest for space bread | The venom that broke the mold
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7 years ago
14 minutes 5 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 61: This week I learned late-night snacking might make you more prone to sunburns, and more
Midnight snacking and sunburns | Why we hold babies on the left | Disney’s propaganda machine | The science of sound underwater
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7 years ago
15 minutes 11 seconds

This Week I Learned
Ep. 60: This week I learned it might be possible to learn while you sleep, and more
Finally, sleep-learning! | Your impeccably organized taste system | Brilliant bees | When athletes used cocaine to train
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7 years ago
32 minutes 20 seconds

This Week I Learned
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.