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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:...
51: Jump out of an airplane with only a backpack?!?!
We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, backpacks are as safe as...
50: Medical Insurance Codes
Not the big yawn that you’d think. These 100,000 or so codes are used to determine your bill. Some of those codes are hilarious....