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Back to Search54: The HaLearnDay Extravaganza! 2023
It's the HaLearnDays! The time of year when we share gifts of fun facts from us and friends of the show!
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2 years, 3 months ago
53: Making Superheavy Elements, and Celebrating Public Domain Day
What are the superheavy elements, and how did we make them? And what is public domain day, and why is next year's going to be so interesting?
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2 years, 4 months ago
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2 years, 4 months ago
52: Amy Westervelt, Carbon Capture, and the Cartoonishly Evil Atlas Network
Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt from Drilled asks us: what is carbon capture and is it good or bad or... complicated? What is the Atlas Net…
2 years, 4 months ago
51: Carcinization, The Animal Algorithm Mystery, and The Many Lemming Lies w/ Ellen Weatherford
Are we really all destined to turn into crabs? Why are there so many animal algorithms, and are they all legit? And just how many times have we bee…
2 years, 5 months ago
49: Goosebumps, (Not) Alien Pyramids, and Nessie & Cryptids
Why do we get goosebumps when we hear nails on a chalkboard? Obviously aliens didn't make the pyramids, but how were they made and what does that te…
2 years, 5 months ago
50: 🎂 The Ig Nobel Prize, The 2023 Ig Nobel Winners, and the Ig Nobel Peace Prize
For our 2nd anniversary and our 50th episode (which it definitely is, don't check) we cooperatively tackled a topic folks have been asking us to do f…
2 years, 6 months ago
48: Wikipedia w/ Annie Rauwerda, The First Boring Number, and Perpetual Stew
We all use Wikipedia, but how did it come to be? What's the first number to not have a Wikipedia page, and what does that say about math and humans? …
2 years, 6 months ago
47: The Abyssopelagic Zone, The Crystal Healing Boom, and Time Capsules
What lies below the depths of the sea... and why should we stop being so afraid of it? Okay we know crystals can't heal you, but could they actually…
2 years, 7 months ago
46: Lawn Loathing, Spelling Psammophile, and Guinness World Records
Why are lawns so bad, and what could we grow instead? How much can we learn from an esoteric word like Psammophile? And why is the Guinness Book of …
2 years, 7 months ago