This Week I Learned
This weekly podcast series is your audio guide to the most fascinating and fun revelations, reports, and studies on the internet. Quick, concise, and infectiously entertaining, This Week I Learned promises to make learning fun again. New episodes: every Friday.
- Website
- http://theweek.com/audio?page=2
- Description
- This weekly podcast series is your audio guide to the most fascinating and fun revelations, reports, and studies on the internet. Quick, concise, and infectiously entertaining, This Week I Learned promises to make learning fun again. New episodes: every Friday.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-03-20 00:45
- last episode published
- 2017-12-22 05:53
- publication frequency
- 6.93 days
- Contributors
- Lauren Hansen
- Author Owner
- Ben Frumin
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 80
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Social Sciences News Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-22 |
Ep. 79: This week I learned that crows make up after fights, and more Considerate crows | The Vatican's milky walls | When Iceland's women went on strike | Mountain-climbing madness |
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| 2017-12-15 |
Ep. 78: The week I learned your ice is teeming with bacteria, and more Your gross ice | Play Super Mario with Grandma | The Eiffel Tower at night | Our forcefield atmosphere |
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| 2017-12-08 |
Ep. 77: This week I learned dogs really are smarter than cats, and more Dogs are nerds | The trick to learning new skills | The great Halifax explosion | Pumice stones for whales |
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| 2017-12-01 |
Ep. 76: This week I learned that prehistoric women were ridiculously strong, and more Prehistoric girl power | Turtles' butt-breathing power | How cuddling changes genetics | The negative power of perception |
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| 2017-11-24 |
Ep. 75: This week I learned America really struggled to pin down a date for Thanksgiving, and more America's Thanksgiving indecision | The long history of the wishbone | Your gluten-less gluten sensitivity | A primer on naming countries |
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| 2017-11-17 | How the dinosaurs could have survived | The healing powers of daytime | The room in your house that bugs prefer | The incredible efficiency of the penguin waddle |
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| 2017-11-10 |
Ep. 73: This week I learned that dogs can smell happiness, and more How you're hijacking your dog's emotions | Right-handed bees | Chopin's pickled heart | England's sin-eaters |
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| 2017-11-03 |
Ep. 72: This week I learned plants can smell predators coming, and more Plants can smell | Bacteria can feel | It snows sunscreen on a planet far, far away | The purpose of those silly little T. Rex arms |
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| 2017-10-27 |
Ep. 71: This week I learned that salmon sex literally moves mountains, and more Earth-shattering salmon love | The secret genius of daydreaming | Our innate arachnophobia | Diagnosed with a broken heart |
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| 2017-10-20 |
Ep. 70: This week I learned worms can smell danger, and more The olfactory defenses of the roundworm | Stress is ruining your diet | A fish's lament | The murderer behind the OED |
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