It’s that time again for all those bits and pieces that aren’t quite long enough for their own episodes! We’ve mashed together etymology, space toilets, polar bears, an unusual festival where people attack each other with flour and eggs, and so much more into this almost 29 minute monstrosity of facts!
Show Notes (in no particular order):
Pug Nosed Tree Frog If you want to read the paper about the frogs.
Image from Viking burial under the kitchen from Norland County news
How to use a toilet in space Also?
Image from NASA
Super tough Diabolical Ironclad Beetle
Go look up the Carl Straat diving bell ship. It's insane to think that it's possible for people to walk on the bottom of...
Researcher Sridhar Ravi of UNSW Canberra looks to the humble bumblebee to answer questions about how to program a more nimble drone. The way...
Col. William H Jackson had a favorite tree. So, somewhere around 1832, Colonel Jackson gave the white oak tree to itself (and the city...