Hey, folks! Very exciting news - we’re taking our live show to the high seas in partnership with Virgin Voyages. We set sail from Oct 2-7 from NYC to Bermuda aboard Valiant Lady. It’s an adults-only escape where you’ll enjoy live podcast recordings, interactive sessions, meet and greets and MORE! We’re super excited for this unique experience - head to Virginvoyages.com/stuff to secure your spot! #StuffAtSea
By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask.
In the 1970s, conservation groups around the world rose up to protect dwindling whale populations, some on the verge of extinction. They all worked under the same banner: Save the Whales! It turned out to be one of the most successful campaigns ever.
Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone’s imagination.
Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.
There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.
