Let's Learn Everything!

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  • Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper learn about anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it's bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or fanfiction, there's so much out there, so let's learn everything! Join our Discord, email us, and follow us everywhere at www.LetsLearnEverything.com
    Tom Lum, Caroline Roper, and Ella Hubber
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  • 76: The HaLearnDays Spectacular 2024

    76: The HaLearnDays Spectacular 2024
    Dec 19 2024
    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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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • 75: Where are We? & Carrot Propaganda

    75: Where are We? & Carrot Propaganda
    Dec 5 2024
    Where are we in the universe? And what can we learn from all the hilariously wrong guesses and bad maps that got us there? And just how much carrot propaganda was there? Well, we'll see a lot of posters and a few myths to debunk!Images we Talk About:Dunn's Earth & Moon MapsHerschel's Milky Way MapWright's Island Universes DrawingThe Image of M31 from 1919First Full Image of EarthThe World Carrot MuseumCarrot Poster 1Carrot Poster 2Disney Carrot CharactersDr CarrotTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:44) Where are We?(00:45:11) Carrot Propaganda(01:24:04) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: we’re allowed to make up topics I guess, Samuel Dunn’s map of the Earth and moon, subtle thematic forshadowing, galactocentrism, the awkward teenage years of science, every human could see the milky way, the backbone of night, the milky origins of galaxy, Herschel’s heliocentric drawing of the milky way, Cosmic Pride, the zone of avoidance, island universes is multiverses for the middle ages, the great or not so great debate, can you debate something more interesting like moo deng, M31 the little cloud, the person whose telescope proceeds him: Edwin Hubble, “here is the letter that has destroyed my universe”, years of fighting over terminology, the World Carrot Museum, the moment this turned from a distraction into a topic, we do actually need vitamin A for night vision and eye health, you can only get vitamin A from meat… and vegetables… and fruits, the blackouts in WWII, carrots to help drivers be safer in the dark, incredible podcasts - they help you see in the blackout, Cat Eyes Cunningham, no official document shows intentionally hiding radar with carrot vision, the myth happened organically, “the war could be won on the kitchen front”, Walt Disney designed carrot mascots, if you don’t think food is political I have some posters to show you.Sources:Yale History of the Center of the UniverseLibrary of Congress: History of Discovering the Milky WayNASA Archive of The Great DebateHoskin's Amazing "The Great Debate: What Really Happened"Astronomy of Today Book with the Image of the M31 "Nebula"Hubble: The Realm of the NebulaeESA Bio on Edwin HubbleNYTimes Hubble BioScience Friday Article about Henrietta LeavittKragh's Fantastic "Nebulae or Galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology---NHS: Macular HealthAmerican Academy of Opthamology on Vitamin DeficiencyAmerican Optometric Society on Vitamin A Eye HealthHealthline: Are Carrots Good for Your Eyes?Smithsonian Magazine: A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the DarkWeb Archive: World Carrot MuseumNYT 1940: London Urges Carrot Diet For 'Blackout Blindness'NYT 1942: Blackout Hints -- From a Blackout VeteranNYT 1942: Disney FamilyBBC: How 'Cat's Eyes' helped change the worldBritannica: One Good Fact
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Submit Your Q&A Questions!

    Submit Your Q&A Questions!
    Nov 28 2024

    It's everyone's favorite holiday: the day we ask you to submit your Q&A questions!!

    Go to www.LetsLearnEverything.com/questions and submit your questions about truly anything at all from the science to the serious to the silly!
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    4 mins

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