If you happened to catch the #perseidmeteorshower this week you have a specific and vaguely terrifying comet to thank!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

If you happened to catch the #perseidmeteorshower this week you have a specific and vaguely terrifying comet to thank! --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Why Does the Perseid Meteor Shower Happen Every Year?

There's so much to love about Les Horribles Cernettes: 1. A doo-wop parody girl group of CERN scientists 2. Songs had titles like "Collider" and "Daddy's Lab" 3. In 1992 this promo photo became the first pic uploaded to the internet.   ---   Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

There's so much to love about Les Horribles Cernettes: 1. A doo-wop parody girl group of CERN scientists 2. Songs had titles like "Collider" and "Daddy's Lab" 3. In 1992 this promo photo became the first pic uploaded to the internet. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Internet's First Photo

You should know the difference between heat exhaustion versus heatstroke because heat-related illness kills! ☀️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

You should know the difference between heat exhaustion versus heatstroke because heat-related illness kills! ☀️--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Heat Exhaustion v. Heat Stroke

In the 1940s, researchers burned the hands of women in labor to try to come up with an objective way to measure pain. And yes, I did write a book and this was in it! (And yes, to answer your other question: I am ready to die because Gillian Anderson blurbed it)--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

In the 1940s, researchers burned the hands of women in labor to try to come up with an objective way to measure pain. And yes, I <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/books/review/abby-norman-ask-me-about-my-uterus.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">did write a book</a> and this was in it! (And yes, to answer your other question: I am ready to die because <a href="abbynormanwriter.com" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Gillian Anderson blurbed it</a>)--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Pain Scale 

Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has had many looks, jobs, and amassed quite an impressive collection of friends and extended family. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has had many looks, jobs, and amassed quite an impressive collection of friends and extended family. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Barbie's Huuuuge Family Tree

It’s not officially #sharkweek until we talk about the bajillion year old Greenland shark. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

It’s not officially #sharkweek until we talk about the bajillion year old Greenland shark. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

IMMORTAL SHARKS

Since it’s #4thofJulyweekend in the U.S., let’s talk about what makes fireworks so beautiful and loud. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Since it’s #4thofJulyweekend in the U.S., let’s talk about what makes fireworks so beautiful and loud. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Science of Fireworks

If you scorned a weatherman circa 1967 you probably got a hurricane named after you.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

If you scorned a weatherman circa 1967 you probably got a hurricane named after you.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

How Hurricanes Get Named

Why did we stop calling laundromats "washaterias?!"--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Why did we stop calling laundromats "washaterias?!"--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Laundromats

Who do we have to thank (or blame?) for the mouth-staining marvel that is BLUE RASPBERRY?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Who do we have to thank (or blame?) for the mouth-staining marvel that is BLUE RASPBERRY?--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Blue Raspberry

Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff] Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Eyelashes are in the growing phase of the hair cycle for about a month while head hair can be there for 6 years!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Eyelashes are in the growing phase of the hair cycle for about a month while head hair can be there for 6 years!--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Why Don't Eyelashes Grow Super Long?

From scripting to recording and editing, every part of this episode was made with AI. DEAR GOD WHAT HATH I WROUGHT?! Also, now you have to google Roko's Basilisk. Sorry.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

From scripting to recording and editing, every part of this episode was made with AI. DEAR GOD WHAT HATH I WROUGHT?! Also, now you have to google <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roko's Basilisk</a>. Sorry.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

AI MADE THIS EPISODE

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, sinking 2 days later. Over the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean — the economic &amp; environmental impact of which many are still reeling from today.   ---   Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, sinking 2 days later. Over the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean — the economic &amp; environmental impact of which many are still reeling from today. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Deepwater Horizon 

If you live in a country where access to the Internet is a part of your daily life, you might not have considered what it would mean to lose that access—or never have had it at all. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

If you live in a country where access to the Internet is a part of your daily life, you might not have considered what it would mean to lose that access—or never have had it at all. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Is Internet Access a Human Right?

Is #MercuryRetrograde a thing or do we just want to believe it's a thing? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MercuryRetrograde?src=hash" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#MercuryRetrograde</a> a thing or do we just want to believe it's a thing? --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Mercury Retrograde

#KentuckyDerby racehorses are majestic &amp; expensive beasts worthy of our admiration — and yet we give them names like "Tit'n Your Girdle." Here's how (not) to name your thoroughbred.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

#KentuckyDerby racehorses are majestic &amp; expensive beasts worthy of our admiration — and yet we give them names like "Tit'n Your Girdle." Here's how (not) to name your thoroughbred. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Naming Your Kentucky Derby Racehorse

Part 2 of this weekend's #Titanic episode is about one of the survivors: silent film star Dorothy Gibson who wrote (&amp; starred in) the *first* movie about the Titanic a century before James Cameron's epic — and just months after the disaster.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Part 2 of this weekend's #Titanic episode is about one of the survivors: silent film star Dorothy Gibson who wrote (&amp; starred in) the *first* movie about the Titanic a century before James Cameron's epic — and just months after the disaster. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Titanic Part II: The Tale of Dorothy Gibson

This weekend marks the 111th anniversary of the #Titanic sinking. The disaster launched a thousand ships (if unanswered questions &amp; conspiracy theories are ships) that still compel us over a century later.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

This weekend marks the 111th anniversary of the #Titanic sinking. The disaster launched a thousand ships (if unanswered questions &amp; conspiracy theories are ships) that still compel us over a century later.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Titanic: Part I 

Not mine lol --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Not mine lol --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

What's the Most Popular Birthday?

An artist named Howard Hallis has spent the last decade painting a massive picture of literally everything.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

An artist named Howard Hallis has spent the last decade painting a massive picture of literally everything.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Picture of Everything

I’ve been listening to LMGT for years. I love the bite sized, strange topics. Abby’s narrative structure is entertaining, informed, and accessible.

Unique stories, great POV/voice

You can tell due diligence is put in the research for each episode.

An Excellent Listen

Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff] Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Let Me Google That

Marinetti's #futurist manifesto was published more than 100 years ago. While it's an interesting read be warned: it's a lil' heavy on fascism &amp; museum-hating.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Marinetti's #futurist manifesto was published more than 100 years ago. While it's an interesting read be warned: it's a lil' heavy on fascism &amp; museum-hating. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Futurist Manifesto 

Everyone's favorite quantum mechanics thought experiment with cats and radioactivity was basically trolling Einstein. 🧠--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Everyone's favorite quantum mechanics thought experiment with cats and radioactivity was basically trolling Einstein. 🧠--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Schrödinger's Cat 

People sometimes make a wish if they happen to catch the exact moment a clock strikes 11:11. But why?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

People sometimes make a wish if they happen to catch the exact moment a clock strikes 11:11. But why? --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Why Do We Think Seeing "11:11" Means Something?

"Indelible pencils" or copying pencils were popular for a time in the 1870s because they made it possible to easily make copies of handwritten documents. Which would have been great — except they turned out to be poisonous. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

"Indelible pencils" or copying pencils were popular for a time in the 1870s because they made it possible to easily make copies of handwritten documents. Which would have been great — except they turned out to be poisonous. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

Indelible Pencils 

The summer of 1816 was known as the Year Without a Summer in the northeast U.S. because even though it would be ~95°F during the day, at night temperatures dropped so low that Maine got HALF A FOOT OF SNOW IN JUNE.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The summer of 1816 was known as the Year Without a Summer in the northeast U.S. because even though it would be ~95°F during the day, at night temperatures dropped so low that Maine got HALF A FOOT OF SNOW IN JUNE. --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support</a>

The Year Without a Summer

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