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And, y'know: fireworks competitions.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

America’s public pools are full of bacteria and classism! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's still #CephalopodWeek! Today we're talking about the mighty nautilus: oldest damn things in the deep blue sea. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's #CephalopodWeek! Let's talk about ... BIG

 50 years of secret nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk (“the Polygon”) is still making people in Kazakhstan ill. The nuclear fallout Russia never wanted anyone to know about was worse than Chernobyl. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A historic journalistic endeavor that required an epic amount of Xeroxing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Can animals be allergic to other animals? More importantly, can your pet be allergic to YOU?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Before you hit that #MemorialDayWeekend BBQ, make sure you know what the legal definition of a sandwich is!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week in 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first single-wire telegraph message using the machine and code he invented in the wake of his wife's death. The message he sent?

"Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in

Is the character of Mother Goose based on a real person? (Or a real goose?) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On May 8th 1980 the WHO announced smallpox had been eradicated. Here's how we did it — and why we haven't managed to eradicate any other disease in the decades since. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's #DNADay! Let's talk about a DNA structure that's *not* the classic double helix: the i-motif! Which kind of looks like a uterus. . . --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy #NationalHighFiveDay! Here's a neat little history of the high five & its many variations. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why do humans have names & how long have we been naming each other? Also: dolphins have names, too! Researchers think baby dolphins actually name themselves. Today's #NationalNameYourselfDay so call in with the @anchor app & share what you'd name yourself! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app