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57: Stagecoach Mary
Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes...
56: Not Your Mom’s Mythology
Amaryllis and her bleeding heart, the origin of the Milky Way, Maori style, Thor and Loki crash a wedding and hippo poop. They didn’t...
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55: Super Recognizers
Two percent of the population has the almost uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces from chance meetings even years before. We talk about...
54: Exploding Ants
Meet C. explodens; where worker ants rupture their own abdomens–filled with toxic goo–to protect the colony from predators. Exploding Ants Transcript: Welcome to Brain...
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53: Barbed Wire Phones
One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence. Barbed Wire Phones: Welcome to Brain Junk, I’m Amy Barton....
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52: Long Lives of Lobsters
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea. Long Lives of Lobsters Transcript:...