Butts: A Backstory, Parrot Social Media, Why We Eat Chickens

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Radiolab's Heather Radke joins the show to talk about butts! Plus, Rachel talks about the history of chickens as pets, and Chelsey divulges why parrots are video calling each other. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Links to Rachel's TikTok, Newsletter, Merch Store and More: https://linktr.ee/RachelFeltman Link to Jess' Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jesscapricorn -- Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Check out Weirdest Thing on YouTube: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeekYouTube If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: bit.ly/WeirdestThingILearnedThisWeek Thanks to our sponsors! Get 20% OFF @honeylove by going to https://www.honeylove.com/WEIRDEST! #honeylovepod If you’re looking for a simpler, effective investment for your health, try AG1, and get 5 free AG1 Travel Packs and a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase. Go to https://drinkAG1.com/WEIRDEST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.8	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.
0:47.8	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles,
0:51.5	we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:55.6	So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week
1:00.1	from the editors of Popular Science. I'm Rachel Feltman. I'm Chelsea Becoons. And I'm Heather Radke.
1:06.9	Heather, welcome to the show. Oh, thanks so much for having me.
1:10.6	Listeners, Heather is the author of a really awesome new book that I have very much enjoyed,
1:16.5	called But A Backstory. Would you like to tell listeners a little bit more about who you are and
1:23.4	how you came to be writing the book that everyone listening to the show wishes they could have written?
1:30.0	Well, I don't know if that's true, but yeah, so I, yeah, I'm a writer and I'm a radio maker.
1:36.8	Also, I work at Radio Lab. And I published this book in November of last year called But A Backstory.
1:43.9	And it's, it's basically a cultural history of women's butts, although there's also quite a bit
1:48.7	of science in it too, sort of history of science really more than straight up science, although there's
1:54.1	some of that too. And it's a look at, oh man, how do we summarize it? It's a look at basically what butts
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