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Skateboard Archeology, Dire Wolf Bones, The Great Fear

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week by Popular Science

Sep 24, 202554:44Science & Medicine

Annalee Newitz joins the show to talk all about how 18th century gossip spread like an actual infectious disease. Plus, Laura delves into how dire wolf bones could help our modern pups, and Rachel talks about the archaeo...

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Skateboard Archeology, Dire Wolf Bones, The Great Fear is an episode from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week by Popular Science. Annalee Newitz joins the show to talk all about how 18th century gossip spread like an actual infectious di...

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Published Sep 24, 2025, 54:44 long, audio available.

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