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Happy #ReadAcrossAmericaDay! Why not celebrate by reading a mysterious 2,000-page spiritual tome supposedly bestowed upon humanity by celestial beings and that we don't know the author of? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For #ValentinesDay take your display of love to the next level and catheterize your own heart like Werner Forßmann. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Spoiler: Um, yeah.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Actually, that weird not-quite-banana flavor isn't fake! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Before Meghan Markle, Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz shook up the ultra-white House of Windsor.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

*Disqualifying the positive* is a kind of cognitive distortion where you explain away good things that happen because they don't fit into your *grand unified theory of negativity* — but it's a little more nuanced than that. (NOTE: This episode was originally recorded in 2018!) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"There was malice in the thrust," — NYT report c. 1906 on aggressive confetti throwing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Also, wtf is ALLSPICE?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Step 1. Listen to today's episode on the physics of figure skating. Step 2. Use @disneyplus to watch Ice Princess (2005) Step 3. GO FOR THE GOLD

When it was invented in the 1880s, ChapStick just wanted to soothe your chapped lips. How then, about a century later, did it find itself with a starring role in the Watergate scandal? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Imagine buying a balloon that costs more than a house.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Guest host Vieno from Trans Field Guide podcast is here to explain what gender is (and isn't) in celebration of #TransAwarenessWeek! You can learn more at transfieldguide.com. Follow them on Instagram @transfieldguide1 and www.facebook.com/TransFieldGuide/

The phenomenon of "angel's glow"—a centuries-old mystery—was solved by...a group of high schoolers.

Fed up with "monobosom," Caresse Crosby (aka Mary Phelps Jacobs/Polly Jacobs) received the first U.S. patent for the "brassiere" in early November of 1914. She also ghostwrote porn, founded the press that published Bukowski, & had a dog named "Clytoris." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Do you know the difference between horror & terror? Did you know there IS a difference between horror and terror?