Camden and Margaret discuss if household dust is mostly just your dead skin floating around (2:45) and whether our ears keep getting bigger our entire lives (16:05).

Camden's Misconception: Dust is mostly dead skin

Citations:

• "What If? 2" by Randall Munroe
• "Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?" by Veritasium
• "Making an epidermis" by Maranke Koster, University of Colorado Denver

Margaret's Misconception: Our ears keep getting bigger our entire lives

Citations:

• Cleveland Clinic - Cartilage
• "Do Your Nose and Ears Really Grow with Age?" by Justin Chupungco
• "Why do old men have big ears?" by James Heathcote
• "Ear size as a predictor of chronological age" by R Tan, V Osman, G Tan
• "Human ears grow throughout the entire lifetime" by Niemitz, Nibbrig, and Zacher
• Today I Found Out
• "Truth or Myth: Our Nose and our Ears Never Stop Growing" by Michael Hinck

What We're Consuming:

• Camden: "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
• Margaret: Books

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