Brain Junk

On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six months to a year to get every letter and package sorted and delivered. The Six-Triple-Eight did the entire job in three months. We salute you, women of the 6888th. This episode is a small part of their story.

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Link to a great film footage of the 6888th. https://www.womenofthe6888th.org/

On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six months to a year to get every letter and package sorted and delivered. The Six-Triple-Eight did the entire job in three months. We salute you, women of the 6888th. This episode is a small part of their story.

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Link to a great film footage of the 6888th. https://www.womenofthe6888th.org/

Call them, donuts, or doughnuts, or olykoeks, or pete de souer, they are deep fried doughy goodness and we’re taking an entire episode to sing their praises and sling some facts about donuts.

Probably not the best choice for the month of January, but you’ve tossed all your resolutions to the side by now, so have a crispy fried, cinnamon sugar dusted ring of yumminess, and have a listen.

Voodoo Doughnut Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

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Show Notes:

https://grammarist.com/idiom/dollars-to-doughnuts/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71300/15-delicious-facts-about-doughnuts

https://www.factretriever.com/doughnut-facts

Call them, donuts, or doughnuts, or olykoeks, or pete de souer, they are deep fried doughy goodness and we’re taking an entire episode to sing their praises and sling some facts about donuts.

Probably not the best choice for the month of January, but you’ve tossed all your resolutions to the side by now, so have a crispy fried, cinnamon sugar dusted ring of yumminess, and have a listen.

Voodoo Doughnut Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

Show Notes:

https://grammarist.com/idiom/dollars-to-doughnuts/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71300/15-delicious-facts-about-doughnuts

https://www.factretriever.com/doughnut-facts

Can living in a more enriching environment increase your ability to learn and make you more relaxed? Dr. Kelly Lambert set out to answer this question with rats, tiny cars, and a handful of Froot Loops.

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Can living in a more enriching environment increase your ability to learn and make you more relaxed? Dr. Kelly Lambert set out to answer this question with rats, tiny cars, and a handful of Froot Loops.

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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it was seamstresses who sewed the super precise hardware together with copper wire.

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During the 1960s when we were racing to the moon, computing tech made a huge leap. Computers had to be small to fit in the Apollo capsules and it was seamstresses who sewed the super precise hardware together with copper wire.

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Happy New Year! Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn’t know about herring, and win an Ig Nobel. GO SCIENCE!

Show Notes:

The Guardian-Farting Herring

Huff Post Fish Fart to Communicate

School of Herring

Image courtesy Public Domain Pictures 

Creative Commons License

Happy New Year! Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn’t know about herring, and win an Ig Nobel. GO SCIENCE!

Show Notes:

The Guardian-Farting Herring

Huff Post Fish Fart to Communicate

School of Herring

Image courtesy Public Domain Pictures 

Creative Commons License