Blood Gourds, Tiny Taffeta Frog Pants, Dying for Weather Data
Episode Date: October 30, 2019The New York Times' Kendra Pierre-Louis—a former PopSci Editor!—joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from gourds...
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