• 76: The HaLearnDays Spectacular 2024

  • Dec 19 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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76: The HaLearnDays Spectacular 2024

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  • It's the HaLearn Days!! We've gathered a whole bunch of fun facts from each other and from friends of the show to share the gift of laughter and learning!Images we Talk About:The Rat CarRat Car VideoSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:07:57) Part 1(00:59:11) Part 2(01:37:06) Outro We also learn about: The Christmas Brussel Sprout Tradition, put christ back in halearn days, Where the Dog Ran, eclipses are more of a “huh?” moment, you might hear a frog during an eclipse - or more likely a science communicator, the turkey helicopter truth is stranger than fiction, giraffes can’t walk up anything steeper than 20 degrees, topography is important for giraffe reserves, the emu wars, Anatidaephobia, gotta define intimate, I eat and talk with tongue, our most liked tweet was from a jetlag hat, there’s nothing in the rules that says a wormhole can’t exist and a dog can’t play basketball, we got a rejection on our preprint from St Nicholas, Michel Foucault’s Elf on a Shelf, the scale of believability, when we stopped believing in santa, “Santa knows I can’t speak german”, the child psychology of Santa, William Shatner’s Halloween mask, Sleierton’s Betty Boop ghost mask, Tom finds out he’s driving a rat experiment car, the yuletide tradition of rats, rats would rather drive longer route to get food, alright “Tom Lum”, rice crispies and taco sauce, bingo bingo prison industrial complex! it’s very human to want to have tasty food, the places I would least like to have taste receptors, taste receptors and buds are different, we just discovered them on our tongues first and called them taste receptors, really our tongue has testicle and urethra receptors, screen-based phones, electronic purgatory, we will all get old, and as we say on the podcast: every year another vagina, should all our fun facts be forgot and never brought to mind, we’ll raise a cup of kindness yet, for everything.Sources:Minute Physics video on Animals during EclipsesFrog Song During Eclipse StudyWikipedia: WKRP in Cincinnati “Turkeys Away”Why Can’t Domesticated Turkeys Fly?Eureka Alert: Giraffes Struggle with SlopesThe Emu WarScientific American: 80 million microbes in a KissMicrobiome Journal: Kiss studyNature News: Shared MicrobiomeAIP Wormhole Definition & PaperAstronomy Today on Wormholes2024 Paper: Children’s Belief in Santa Claus and Moral BehaviorSnopes on Michael Myers MaskSnopes on Scream MaskWilliam Shatner interview Entertainment WeeklyIndependant: Scientists Taught Rats to DriveBBC: Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars to Lower Their Stress Levels2020 Paper: Enriched environment exposure accelerates rodent driving skillsSpace Shuttle: The First 20 YearsNPR: Ramen Noodle Currency2013 Paper: Taste perception: From The Tongue To The TestisNIH In Brief: How Does Our Sense of Taste Work?1992 NYTimes Article about Cell PhonesCBC Article on the First Text Message
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