Let Me Google That

Let Me Google That

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Let Me Google That episodes

  • Disqualifying the Positive

    Disqualifying the positive is a kind of cognitive distortion where you explain away good things that happen because they don't fit into your *grand unified theory of negativity* — but it's a little more nuanced than that.


    NOTE: This episode was originally recorded in 2018, but it felt like a fitting way to end this era of the show...for updates on our hiatus follow host @abbymnorman on Instagram!

    18 min
  • A Tiny History of Confetti

    "There was malice in the thrust," — NYT report c. 1906 on aggressive confetti throwing.

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    6 min
  • The Milwaukee Protocol
    Did an experimental treatment really save a teenage girl from rabies - or was it just a coincidence?
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    6 min
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    8 min
  • How Master Keys Work
    "Master keys" are actually part of a much larger hierarchal system of keying. Master keys can be "Grand" or "Great Grand" (like grandpas) depending on how many lower key systems they can unlock.
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    13 min
  • How ”Monobosom” Beget the Modern Bra

    Fed up with "monobosom," Caresse Crosby (aka Mary Phelps Jacobs/Polly Jacobs) received the first U.S. patent for the "brassiere" in early November of 1914. She also ghostwrote , founded the press that published Bukowski, & had a dog named "Clytoris."

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    7 min
  • Word Fossils

    "Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take?

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    5 min
  • Who Invented Silly String?

    Like many great inventions, Silly String was an accident: it was meant to be spray-on casts.

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    4 min

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