More Things We Don't Understand

Girlies I love you and these eps make me laugh but please please get you a stemtress friend 😭 I’d volunteer but I understand that this would never work because the friendship would be uneven seeing as there is a parasocial elephant in the room. But I sit here screaming the answers to these questions particularly because I got my masters in materials engineering with a focus on glass and ceramics, part because I also do a lot of fiber crafts and grew up sailing and part I love weird random facts so I read papers whenever I too have a silly question. All of this is to say I’d love a stemstress “interview” were you and the listeners can learn together. I think it would be so much fun to chat about because none of these need in depth research but would be fun to revisit with someone who knows enough about the subjects to give an answer. Anyways! Love the pod lots and I’ll catch yall in the next one - a stemstress <3

Kaleigh

For the where does the weight go when you lose weight question I might have an answer. This might be wrong but I remember in primary school when we were learning about healthy habits like eating and exercising etc. we were taught that we have same same number of fat cells our whole lives so when we gain or lose weight the fat cells get bigger or smaller instead of getting more or less fat cells. And I think the fat is expelled through stuff like sweating, breathing etc.

diannon

lmao hey queen i’ve unfortunately never been to wisconsin i am from upstate new york 😭 do i have a look alike in the midwest??

Abbey W

omg, are you abbey from wisconsin?! I just saw your pic and i was like waaaaaaait i know her!!

Madeline Strasburg

"Asking me what a nitrate is is like asking me to build the moon"

Mary Shandley

In elementary school, a girl ate the silica packet from my lunch and I was terrified she was going to die for like a week afterwards. Tdrl, she was completely fine.

isabella

eel reproduction / life cycle thing: https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/how-eels-reproduce pretty cool, thanks for making me curious about this!

Nora

omg my gf can't float either. why is that...

Victoria mantillan

“Mr Beyoncé’s husband” is iconic

Victoria

Okay, venues are in a place of vibe for their first concert. I saw Beyoncé’s husband perform at a N E W arena. He was the first performer ever to play there. Early in the show the entire sound system blew out. Mr. Beyoncé’s husband said “we broke the fucking sound system!”— it was 5+ minutes of panic for the arena staff with all lights on before he could get back on the mic. The concert went on without a hitch but it was noticeably very less loud than before.

Louise Duncan

You should do an episode on the effects of lead. Lead has been linked to neurological disorders, adhd and aggression (as always predominantly affects poc and low income individuals). Flint, MI is a good case study on this.

Abby Moss

MOMMIES WE’RE HUNGRY

avvsies

I've never reeeeally understood why some currencies, like the £ are "worth" a lot more than others; I'm an elder Millennial Venezuelan and definitely lived through several "currency devaluations" and I'm just like what *is* monetary policy and currencies? 🫠 thanks for a funny episode

Vanessa Carolina Marcano-Kelly

Plastic comes from oil, look up nurdles! and cancer alley on the gulf coast if you wanna get sad

Meredith Pelt

Brooke follows you guys on instagram!! That’s how we know she’s a binchy. Also shes a literal legend in the climbing world. My dad is a professional climber from Canada and he says that it’s a hugeee deal for her to medal at the Olympics because climbing is so dominated by European athletes. Big win for the USA 🇺🇸

Josie Jane

GastroPod has a good episode about food allergies. also Salt Fat Acid Heat Documentary seties on Netflix goes into salt preservatives!

Annika Lawson

It’s quiet in my car too!

yes

I missed the lack of fact-checking so badly

Meg Sorrells

thank u so much!! binchies work harder than any public health service fr

HM

D-Mannose ❤️❤️

Maleah

binchies please can u remind me what the uti preventation drug is 😭😭😭

HM

Y’all is my hearing fucked or is the eppie really quiet

Allison

I pay for this so I can respond when I hear such frustrating statements. Luv y’all

Jenna Kretschman

YES cats have baby teeth

Jenna Kretschman

i have my cats baby teeth saved 🥹🥹🥹

Georgia B

So sad.

Summer

So did my grandfather 🫠

Emma Paul

Omg I love you for explaining this ❤️‍🔥

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

Secondary sex characteristics I fear

Sequoia Dahlstrom

Fun fact: my bf plays football with the lawyer who represented the monkey in that hbo documentary

Lydia Schuchard

cats lose teeth!!!! they’re so small and easy to miss when they fall out. one of mine had two sets of canine teeth growing in at the same time!

Hannah Reed

As an American, agreed 🥲 we made it too easy for ppl to skip or easily pass science classes or something lol

Kate Tsourmas

Oh shit that’s awesome!! Yeah I’ve read they’ve been able to do it in labs it just hasn’t been commercially feasible

Mar z

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10160345/

Micaela

https://youtu.be/Hnowi4iS_Qs?si=YTaARVCorJaTtDI0 one of my friends developed a machine to crochet and did a thesis on it at Harvard!! Still very much in the works but check it out here 🥰

Micaela

https://youtu.be/Hnowi4iS_Qs?si=YTaARVCorJaTtDI0

Micaela

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10160345 one of my friends worked on making a crochet machine at Harvard!

Micaela

Apparently u exhale it as carbon when u sleep isn’t that crazy

Jess

y’all should do an episode on how lead was discovered as toxic. it’s similar to the mercury girlies

Kristen

this episode is exposure therapy for me as someone who is a know it all

taliyah

“whales float” my brain immediately started screaming do the girlies know about WHALE FALL

Alyssa Patil-Steffl

Okay, glad it wasn't just me lol

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

And one day it will expand so much that everything will be too far apart for heat to exist and EVERYTHING will be just done.

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

yeah as a Scandinavian this hurt a bit to listen to hahah

Aura

Hear me out: if space is always expanding but also nothing exists outside of space, WHERE is it GOING

Caroline Mason

Please discuss the ballerina farm x Nara smith collab. I was not prepared

Dynasti deGouville

Screaming as a stem binch

Maya

binchies they recently discovered how eels reproduce! it finally happened in captivity

ace

them trying to explain biology is so funny to me

Rachel Dion

also the silica packets are there to absorb moisture, so you can find them in bags and pill bottles and stuff to prevent moisture from messing things up

Erin Thomas

also we can lift stuff that’s heavier than us because it’s not about density, it’s about compression strength. So even though the weight is heavier than you, the force from the weight isn’t more than the strength of your bones.

Erin Thomas

Horses are often killed after leg injuries because they would need to stop using that leg to let it heal and their quality of life is no good if they’re not allowed to run!

Erin Thomas

and blood is made in your bone marrow! then your bones (which are porous) are connected to your veins.

Erin Thomas

yes the blood cells retire after ~120 days and then they go to your spleen (the blood trash can)

Emily

well loooove that i can look forward to that 🤩

julie

sorry for typos i’m on a layover in Long Island City and i’m trynna walk fast enough for people not to shove past me while typing this all up lolol

Jay Ess

the other planets (further from the sun) have ice as its core because it didn’t have enough pressure to retain its heat. remember, the universe kept cooling down as it expanded. it’s technically still happening to this day, so eventually the earth might become too light (/not dense enough) to retain to heat. the cycle of life that the sun goes through will probably beat it to the punch though… it’ll explode and just take the earth with it. some of these parts were extremely simplified and i think i explained some stuff out of order but if you have any more questions feel free to ask!!!!! i was a major astrophysics nerd (to the point where i was on the board for the Undergraduate Astronomical Society at UCLA). i’m still interested but i don’t always keep up with all the news that comes out.

Jay Ess

1. CORE OF THE EARTH: so this has to do with how the universe started from the big bang. it’s a theory so not “proven” but mathematically this is the only thing that makes sense so far. so everything in the whole universe started as a really fuckin dense point. like a DOT. a dot you can draw with a pencil. and it was hotter than anything ever imaginable because of how densely packed all the atoms were. the big bang is basically the massive event where that little ass dot exploded and started to expand at an exponential rate from all sides, into all directions. there was basically a bunch of hot soup that developed from the expansion. the mixing and expanding of this shit from a DOT then went on to produce hydrogen, then helium, then lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluoride, etc. and all the other 100+ elements. the mixing of the atoms and resulting new elements were due to its electron and proton and neutron numbers (so this is happening at a MINUSCULE level while the whole universe—currently in the form of a boiling hot soup—is expanding from a dot). as the universe kept expanding, everything started to cool down. so now let’s think of the universe as a giant sheet, where there are more dense areas and less dense areas. think of when you pull on slime in those ASMR videos, as it expands, some parts are still opaque and thicccc while other parts get stretched thin to the point where you can start to see through it. those thicc parts are more dense and at a certain point all the atoms were like “fuck it let’s ball” so they literally formed balls at the extremely dense points since the more dense areas pulled things (atoms) toward it. the densest parts were like, physically attractive to the lesser dense parts. they literally got pulled innnnn just like my stupid ass in a situationship three years ago! that’s where stars come from. the big pimps drew in a bunch of henchmen and maximized their joint slay to keep pulling smaller (less dense) bitches. basically the smaller, less dense (yet still very dense) parts that are close enough to the stars got sucked into its gravitational pull. (the denser a point, the stronger its gravitational pull.) one of the stars that formed was our SUN. OUR SON!!!! then the planets (including our earth) formed from the less-dense-but-still-dense areas and got caught in the gravitational pull of the sun. the earth pulled together more bitches that were smaller/less dense than it and got big enough to have its own gravitational pull to attract a big ass clump of iron, nickel, magnesium, silicon, oxygen, calcium, aluminum, etc. which formed our MOON!!!! back to the CORE of the question: what the hell is the earth’s core???? it’s hot as fuck because it started off hot as fuck from that universe-soup. it remains hot because all of the pressure from all the other layers it has creates heat. this part is a lil confusing so it’s easier for me to think of how friction produces heat. you rub your hands together quickly and it gets hot, right? well all the atoms bouncing back and forth in an excited state keep running into each other and getting hot from the friction it creates. this friction is happening in the core. that, plus the outside pressure from all the other layers of earth makes it remain hot!!!

Jay Ess

Ooooo i for a non-profit that focuses on ethical sourcing of raw materials for textiles! Each materials has a very unique process to become fabric/clothing. Leather is often a “by-product” of the meat industry, but still is a very profitable market on its own and can drive increased meat production. Leather doesn’t just come from cows but also sheep, goats, etc. Lotsa negative effects, especially around deforestation. Fabrics from recycled plastic feedstocks are created by melting tiny pieces of plastic into a spinnable “pellet” that turns into a yarn. A SOLUTION is recycled materials from old clothing (textile to textile recycling) because it does not have to go through this crazy energy intensive process and uses resources we already have (:

Taylor Jones

i need to know

nellie

I have 2 baby teeth also!!!!!! My dentist told me they will prob fall out in my 40s and I’ll have to get fake teeth 🤡

nellie

Not me being a born and raised Washingtonian and not knowing how rain works💀

payt

Your mind 🤯

Maddy short

Ooh! Also cats do have baby teeth! So do dogs, they lose them after a few months and its why they get kind of bitey at that time, their little mouths are sore :,( usually they just swallow them i think, but i did find one of my kittens baby teeth once! It was gross lol

fennixyu

Something interesting: nitrates come up a lot in fish keeping, like aquariums! Its either nitrates or nitrites that you have to get to zero in your tank so the fish are healthy but the other one is fine to have (????) idk i have a tank but its largely self sufficient and i haven't had to test for those in a long time lol 🙏

fennixyu

When you lose weight your fat molecules are literally being turned into energy on a cellular level via various chemical processes and here’s the brain fuck it’s because literally everything is energy and don’t ask me why it’s quantum mechanics I’m not prepared to answer but trust me everything is energy, everything is a wave, I took a class on this, I’m just confused as you are

Isabelle Sauter

Not a single unique experience, I also went to the Little Island and had to leave bc it rained 😭

Koyote Meiners-Rios

No WAY Brooke Rabatou is a listener! She’s so badass 💪🏻💪🏻 I only watched the Olympics for her climb!

Adelaide Rava

this hurt to listen to

Emily

for real

Emily

i don't understand why humans have boobs when not breastfeeding but no other mammals do

lola bolado

I have been avoiding studying for my pathophysiokogy exam and you guys scared the fOCK out of me when you started talking about where blood comes from, who makes it, and how long it lasts bc unfortunately….. I am being tested on that and I am being held accountable for being the holder of that knowledge at this moment .. DAMN SHAME

maria

fashion girlie here re: mixed fabrics- they different fibers (imagine a bunch of strings of lint) are spun together to make a thread and the tension from its roughness is what holds it together, then it gets woven and knitted into fabric. the stretchiness of plastic fabrics (polyester, acrylic) is based on if it’s woven or knitted: woven has no stretch, but knitted allows for stretch. synthetic fibers like nylon or rayon/viscose (semi-synthetic, made of cellulose) really starts as a liquid and they shoot out of a tiny hole to create the tiny strands to then spin into thread. (i could talk about this forever, this was what half my major was about)

Alexa Gamo

famous amous slander

tj

Love this pod and I dunno of its Canadian education, numerous intersecting interests, autism, or a combo ation of all three- but like are you guys okay? I don't understand how you guys don't know so many of these things! Perhaps this is just me retaining so much of everything I have ever read or watched.

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

you probably don’t have an adult tooth under the baby tooth, and its roots are strong enough for it to not be a problem! it’s a minor genetic thing. I have one baby tooth still :)

lauren

raw chicken is eaten in other counties!! just not in the US because the sanitation measures are really bad

Christa

me and my man sharing a pair of bluetooth earbuds listening to this while cleaning the apartment....

Kaylee Pitman

My life has been changed by the boars head scandal

sophieslater

dont know if u guys read these but i just listened to the britt episode and need him back on the pod

Antonio Silva de Oliveira

“can you carbonate gasoline?” me as a gas station attendant: still or sparkling?

trish

My grandpa got a second pair of wisdom teeth like in his 60s I believe

Ellen Reynolds

Can we get an early 2000s fashion episode

avvsies

GET OPERATION NIKI ON THE POD

avvsies

also the teeth thing, we have our adult teeth right on top of our baby teeth the whole time 🥴 if you look up a picture of a child’s skull (sad) you’ll see all the teeth in there it’s fucked up lmao

Abbey W

suggestion: next time y’all do this kind of ep you could write down your own guesses but then look up the answers at the end and see how close you were?? i loved the ep however i was yelling at my phone several times 😭

Abbey W

yes graphite! i think they used to be made with lead but it’s been several decades since then

Abbey W

this episode made me feel so smart

Nancy

Pluto is NOT a planet 🥸

Jojo and her Parasites

Women’s periods CAN sync up! That is real science

Laura Gallagher

I don’t think it’s fair to say that Eliza and Julia are not curious about how the world works (pretty insulting thing to say tbh). They are just interested in exploring that through a social sciences lens (history, psychology, sociology, and culture) not physical sciences which is the umbrella under which many of these questions fall, hence the topics usually covered in the pod.

hazel.wav

my front two teeth grew in while i still had my baby teeth so I was kind of monstrous

annabelle chapman

Hedy Lamar wifi motherrrr

Tivoli Di Grazia

Cats have baby teeth! When my kitten lost his baby teeth I kept them just in case I needed them later for witchcraft activities (I’ve never dabbled but one day I might need to)

helenaxofficial

shouting "it's bone marrow" into an empty room

Mic Oregon

This episode stressed me OUT

Sabrina Lemus

I’m a dental student! so basically you do have “two rows of teeth” because your adult teeth grow right behind your baby teeth for the majority of teeth (some of your adult teeth don’t actually replace a baby tooth bc you have less baby teeth) and this is why some kids may have teeth grow in behind their teeth. It’s not an abnormality it’s just their baby teeth haven’t fallen out before the big teeth erupt. For the most part, baby teeth fall out bc the replacing tooth wear on the roots and loosens them until they eventually fall out

taylor rosen

someone pls help me I swear eliza quoted toni morrison about confidence/being secure in yourself a few weeks(?) ago but i cant find the quote anywhere does anyone know what the quote was? Pls help a binchie out xx

Cia Mangat

How can a cruise ship swim but a Stone cantttt THIS MAKES NO SENSE 😭😭😭

Jojo and her Parasites

Open the schools!!!

yes

Dogs have baby teeth! When my family had a puppy he would lose his teeth and we’d find them around the house

Lucy

Me screaming at my phone: ITS HOT BC PRESSURE

Amanda

As a seagoing binchy I can confirm it is displacement and buoyancy, the ships officers calculate the centre of gravity of the boat and look at the boats depth in the water and compare with the vessels weight to calculate how much water to take inside the bottom tanks as the bunkers, passengers, groceries, etc are loaded aboard.

Tasha

PLS do an episode on Taylor Frankie Paul and Momtok

Kait

Also you lose most weight through your breath - 86% of all weight lost is done via breathing out! Kinda crazy right? it’s a misconception that you lose most weight by going to the bathroom or sweating… you use the bathroom to expel toxins and waste and sweating is mainly to regulate body heat (you lose almost no weight by pooping but you lose 14% of any weight lost via peeing and sweating) but mostly you expel carbon dioxide molecules by breathing out and that equals bodyweight somehow. I’m not a scientist just a former anorexic with autism lol

Erica

I say this with love, did you guys go to elementary school

🌿 BKG

It’s a misnomer that there’s lead in pencils, it’s actually graphite :)

Erica

I think youre talking about the highline in the beginning!!!

Kelly Gilbert

as a girlie who has a Disease™ where my body doesn't have enough blood (I yap about it a fair amount I'm so sorry) you make more blood with more fluids and electrolytes – that's how I increase my blood volume is literally chugging more electrolyte water lmao

Lily Ana Verna

It’s so sick and twisted that I just ESCAPED New York and now y’all are there and talking about places I literally have the most insane memories at😭 craaazzzyyyy stuff has happened to me on a date walking across the Brooklyn bridge

Chance Al-Hajji

"I wasn't gonna eat it but now I'm scared, why shouldn't I eat it" SOOO TRUE

Lily Ana Verna

My cat literally got his tooth stuck in a toy which freaked me out.

Lily H

Julia correctly pronouncing Kirsten the American girl doll is EVERYTHING to me

Kirsten Drehobl

hey here’s another thing I don’t understand—who figured out how to make cheese? and how did they figure out how to make different kinds of cheese?

Kacie F

I’m @kristenwynne

Kristen Wynne

“they’re not using their lower back” GOT ME omg

eva

im pretty sure when you burn fat or lose weight it is exerted as energy and you just like breathe it out but i may have heard that from a tiktok so dont trust me

Emily Bruns

Ok I'm using my mom's patreon so disregard her profile picture slay, but I just HAVE TO SAY, the fiber optic cables in the ocean are REGULARLY chewed on by sharks!!!!! They just love gnawing on those lil thangs. You have to google it. the pictures are hilar

Janelle Bacino

But not Eliza singing that line “standing in front of my fridge eating deli ham” 😢

Maya Funk

as a person who has lived close to both: L’appartement 4F croissants are INFERIOR to Radio Bakery’s!!!!!!!

Connie

Binchie call out: anyone here in Edinburgh? I’m moving soon to do my masters and would love to link up :)

Rachel Coxon

Yes I said this too!! Love that show

Rachel Coxon

Honestly same

Rachel Coxon

Also as someone who sews and also has read extensively on fabric construction this episode was really difficult for me to listen to without like speaking back into the void with answers to all those questions.

Rachel Coxon

Guys u should watch the tv show ‘how it’s made’ u would love it I think

Rachel Coxon

one thing i don't understand: why do i still have baby teeth as a 20 year old?? they just never fell out idk and my dentists have never questioned it 💀

julie

silca gel: put in to absorb moisture like when u put your phone in rice BUT i think the idea of some people being good at singing is interesting bc the skill they possess is just being able to identify and mimic sound vibrations with their bodies. like some people just know how to vibe i guess

Liz D'Andrea

anybody else love when the theme song goes a little long at the end of an ep and you’re suddenly transported to india 💅🏻

Ali

We do, but it depends on what classes u take and what u study in college! Like u may hear ab some of this stuff surface level or forget it as time goes on if it’s not relevant

Aarya Ghonasgi

Also blood comes from hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow (that spongy stuff in bones), they can later differentiate into red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells! Also the body removes old blood cells, they last a lil over 100 days if I remember correctly.

Aarya Ghonasgi

WHOA wait you mentioning the stomach lining just reminded me that he also couldn’t drink coffee for a while post-chemo because it made him sick, and he’d always been a big coffee drinker before. Wild. And thank you so much! He’s been in remission for five years now and is doing great. It always feels ridiculous to say that “we’re so lucky” when he literally got cancer at 22, but we’re really really lucky :)

Emily

Yes it can change the hair follicles temporarily! Basically your body will reset again after going through chemotherapy and will return to its old hair texture. Hair texture is funky too bc there is a lot of genetic & hormonal things that can influence it changing over time too! And it is initially affected (as are skin cells and stomach lining cells ) bc those are naturally rapidly dividing cells in our body so they kinda catch a stray bc whilst targeting fast growing cancer cells they also get caught up. Hope your husband is doing well!!

Aarya Ghonasgi

Hi med school binch here: on allergies to make it short there are a bunch of signals and cascades that result from the body misinterpreting soemthing harmless as harmful so the body goes into overdrive trying to get rid of it. Long story long: at first u are exposed to something and it doesn’t cause a response but causes T cells (TH2) which are immune cells to be created. Then those TH2 cells give off cells signals to another kind of immune cell (B cell) to switch to IgE (an antibody). This antibody coats mast cells which are sensitized and will activate if they encounter an allergen. Mast cells r immune cells as well that contain a bunch of diff substances like histamine and cytokines that they’ll release to tell the body to mount an immune response when an “invader” such as an infection or in this case, an allergen is found.

Aarya Ghonasgi

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Bree Dempsey

Ah! A fellow weaver and a fellow binchie! I took weaving in art school and it was so magickal! Threads to fabric- amazing! 💖 I love the meditative methodical nature of weaving and fibre arts, I feel like it connects me to all the artisans and crafters that came before me ❤️‍🔥

The Immaculate Witch Kaitlin Reckord

I never needed something this bad in my life!!!!!!!

mel

I would love a stemstress beside them answering the questions!!

Emily

hi binchies, when i was in first grade the sensation of having home where a tooth was DISGUSTED me. so i refused to let my tooth fall out way past its time, and my adult tooth grew in fully behind my baby tooth 😔. i had to get a retainer push it forward for years, lst: ur teeth get loose bc ur adult teeth push them out to make room

Sara Funk

cats definitely have baby teeth lmao

Danielle

Because they’re modesttttttt

Molly Kerrigan

To all the smart binchies explaining things in the comments: no u didn’t

Chloe Sanger

Thank u for this ep

Chloe Sanger

More on the core of the earth: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_dnqNjOz36/?igsh=MXZsb3YydXFybzc3Nw==

Alex Nathan

New York public library has a thing where you can call and ask any question and they try and answer it! 917-275-6975

Louise Spadoni

did u guys not know they used salt before refrigeration

lola bolado

YES and horses are very emotional, and goal oriented. They find work with humans rewarding and have been shown to experience pride and shame based on their performance of tasks!

Claire

The Leidenfrost effect!

Imogen Squire

It was so frustrating bc I’d love a refresher on most of these things to think about and just bimbo’ing the whole episode made me frustratedddd. Let’s learn girlies!

Talia Rowan

I did…and I’m American….I’m honestly kinda shook I feel like most just don’t retain the information which is sad to me. How are they not so curious about how the world works!

Talia Rowan

“We can’t look up the answers” BUT YALL NEED TO KNOW THE ANSWERS. PLEASE LEARN THE ANSWERS.

Jordan Jones

Trust…we learned

Jordan Jones

wait binches i have a little smidge of information about blood! your bone marrow and kidneys regenerate blood. obviously it’s more complicated than that but basically your bone marrow creates stem cells and your kidneys send out a hormone that turns those stem cells into red blood cells. your body makes MILLIONS of red blood cells a day. they lives for around 115 days. there are also certain blood diseases that shorten the lifespan of your red blood cells and give you issues like jaundice and fatigue (shoutout to myself bc i’ve got spherocytosis 💔). i hope this made at least SOME sense.

Ella Fuller

the only thing i know about the sunscreen is that a mineral sunscreen reflects the sun rays, and i think is better for u idk. and a chemical sunscreen absorbs the sun rays but converts it into heat

clairevalley

Me too!!! Aus binchies rise up @georgiaaa.g is my ig

Georgia Gill

i don’t know if my mum is just a huge hippie or it’s the fact that i’m a millennial but the “what is plastic” convo is blowing my mind. petroleum!

Ruby Bissett

Tw: pee and bleach makes mustard gas, so don’t piss in the shower when ringing out ur hair dye

Lulu Wilson

wait binchs I own a cake shop called Saint Street Cakes… may I make you a cake 💓🌷

shrimp emoji official

as a weaver i literally need you to make an ep on the history of weaving so bad .. and how looms were the predecessor to the computer likeeeee..

Lilly Beards

as a horsegirl TRUST a horse will let you know if its tired/in pain…. there is a certain vibe being communicated via body language and such!

Julia Domagalska

You have all of of STEMinists having a giggle

Hannah Mitchell

Not related to this episode but wondering if the assistant position is still being reviewed👀

Emma Addonisio

Cats do have baby teeth! But they’re so small I think we just clean them up with the vacuum or whatever and don’t notice

Madeline Cohen

Honestly you do. I think it just depends on your school

Lindsay Rae

This podcast was mostly chemistry questions. So itching to tell you all the answers

Lindsay Rae

SPF stands for sun protection factor and when you multiply it by 10 that’s the number of minutes you’re protected from dangerous rays. For example 40SPF = 400 minutes of protection (but that’s assuming you don’t sweat or go in water at all so you should definitely be reapplying)

Jellybean

I fear I lost brain cells listening

Jellybean

wait this would be the collab of all time

Tori D

About how they decide which chemicals are toxic to humans - the EPA looks at the cost of not using the chemical (or taking lead out of pipes, etc) and compares it to the cost of illnesses and deaths and then decides on a number based on that benefit-cost analysis 🫠 so people who have pre-existing illnesses (and women - who have more sensitive reproductive systems) should have even LESS then the “healthy limit” of pfas, arsenic, etc. filter your water ladies!!

Haven Barton-Knabe

and to answer the leather question: yes, cow farmers are notoriously wasteful. beef producers do not save the hyde

Tori D

guys i’m not gonna lie to you the how do they make plastic and synthetic fabrics convo almost made me cry

Tori D

please no more of this love you guys so much and i’ll listen to you do anything but these ones are boring af okay just my take thank you 🙏

Isadora Bursey

put some respect on mr. amos’ name ….

Anna Guyton

That’s what we thought initially, but like I said it’s going back to normal now. Could chemo just change it temporarily?

Emily

I think y’all just need to take a materials science class

Natasha K

omg my parents had mr yuk stickers on things when i was a kid i did not know that was his name

Annip

They eat raw chicken in Japan

VF

Its Crazy to me as a european that you dont learn all of this in School

Svea

worked at a vet and when kitties and puppies came in for dentals sometimes they would have baby teeth come out during the procedure so we’d save them for the owners in little cases 😻

Hannah Knauer

I think chemo changes the hair follicle shape, perhaps it changed his to just be the straight shaped follicle?

Irelyne McGee

Men’s thoughts when they do shrooms: “I’ve just discovered empathy” My thoughts when I do shrooms:

Junny

It’s by social security number. It’s really easy to freeze yours I did it via the website Eliza talked about a few eps back

Talia Rowan

So glad that yall enjoyed my blood query. My med school bestie tries to explain it to me all the time but we never get pass the uncontrollable giggles that such a conversation leads to

Gusty Westaway

This one was sooo difficult to listen to for another chronic know-it-all

Talia Rowan

I love y’all but this episode made me feel INSANE

Talia Rowan

Australian binchie also !! Do not understand AT ALL

Taylor Rayfield

Re sunscreen: there’s two types of sunscreen, chemical and mineral. Chemical sunscreens use a chemical reaction to protect you from the sun and u have to wait about 20 mins for it to kick in vs mineral sunscreens use zinc as a physical shield to protect ur skin and work immediately.

Poppy

We need Hank green

Emma Goodman

Girls what is airplane mode

Louise Spadoni

One time they gave me three instead of two in a single package 😭

Raegan Cleary

Onfg so real LOVEEE those cookies

Mar z

Binchies I hate to break the news there is literally no industrial way to crochet. Machine prototypes exist but it can’t be used as far as I know

Mar z

99% of leather is byproduct!! They do it’s just that unfortunately it’s cheaper to do plastic + it’s been marketed as “ethical” (though it’s even more harmful to the environment)

Mar z

i think every day about the ep where y’all talked about not knowing what glass is because i still don’t get it how is it clear if it is sand

Clio Cullison

Preheated my stainless steel pan bc of this😌 thank u Eliza

Katrina Rosenberg

This just in Eliza was actually a physics major. I’m cackling about the amount of times evaporating or oxygenating was said

Rache Andrews

Weirdly when my husband went through chemo his previously curly hair came back way straighter, and I couldn’t find any explanation online as to why the opposite of normal “chemo curls” happened. It’s been five years and it’s only started to go back to normal in the last year or so. (He also had insanely good skin the whole time—would not recommend getting cancer in order to get beautiful glowing skin, but it was a nice perk at the time.)

Emily

once again listening in the wrong setting bc at 18:32 when eliza imitated a new concert sound system i laughed SO loud and my roommate is asleep

Tori D

Are you on insta? 🩷

Kristen Wynne

girls please! when you burn a candle you are burning the wax! so it goes into the air as candle fumes 😛

Isaiah Kyremes-Parks

Source: I have a post grad in haematology and cancer nursing

Georgia Gill

I can answer the blood question! So inside your bone marrow is where haematopoesis occurs. All your blood cells start as stem cells inside the marrow and grow and mature into your various blood cells (red cells white cells etc). This could be stimulated by a drop in your haemoglobin/infections/cuts/menstruation/low iron (you need iron to make haemoglobin). Red blood cells can either be lost by bleeding or they die and your body metabolises and excretes them as waste. Leukaemia occurs when there's too many leukaemia cells (blasts) inside the bone marrow so stem cells don't have room to grow and mature and do their job in the body.

Georgia Gill

Aussie binchies rise!!!!

Bree Dempsey

Why can’t they put a bunch of tiny cameras on eels and wait until they procreate like idgi

Cassie

I’m Australian too!! A fellow Australian binchie!!

Kristen Wynne

Last time the girls did one of these I was given the energy to clean my Roman blinds. A most tedious task. Thank you binchies 🫡

Kristen Wynne

I’m Australian and I don’t understand Boston moving day I’m currently in a tik tok wormhole

Bree Dempsey

blink twice if y’all are high 👀

Emma Kay

That sounds like a nightmare 😭

Kristen Wynne

I’m pretty sure blood comes from your bones… something to do with marrow idk

Sasha

my moms a good mom lol we were just severely hyperactive and impulsive children

e

Guys I am begging you to watch How It’s Made

Jean

When you burn fat, your body converts it to ATP (energy), which has water and CO2 as byproducts. So you pretty much breath/sweat out fat!

Jamielyn Kriebs

also between my brothers and i my mom had to call poison control SO often that she started having other ppl call for her lmaoooo we had mr. yuk stickers everywhere and i had nightmares abt him (look it up it’s from an insane poision prevention public health video from the 70s)

e

one time i ate a silica packet and my mom had to call poison control lol all i remember is my mom hauling my ass in the back seat, speeding to the gas station down the street, she goes in and comes back with a gallon of water and completely waterboards the fck outta me hahahahaha #survivor

e

Rayon is the Pringle to cotton’s kettle chip

Summer and Bethany <3

For the stainless steel pans, you can test if they’re hot enough (and thus non-stick) when you sprinkle water on the surface and is forms spheres that dance on top of the pan rather than bubbling and sizzling off

Claire

I’m always wondering why we don’t use leather from beef .. seems a shame to just throw it and use plastic instead??? If they dead they dead

akura

there’s water slides, wave pool, casino, a mall, a theater, and so much more on that boat that i can’t remember

roxy

Started listening to this ep as I was preparing to use my stainless steel pan for the first time literally cannot thank you enough for

Avery

my ex bfs family took me on the icon of the seas and it is disgustingly huge

roxy

i’m obsessed with this ep luv u

julia!

La binchies where is ur fave croissant from 😗

Bori Frankus

Omfg I was ready to not have heard of the olympic medalist but Brooke??? The only US athlete I care about??? 😵

Madeline Cohen

gasp! blood is made in your BONES! stem cell moment, you replenish ALL of your blood cells every liiiike 120 days

Olivia &amp; Jill

“You can put a lead ball into the ocean and it will float right to the floor” You guys crack me up 😂

Roni

Plastic is from oil…. Really makes you think…… big oil touches everything

Lillie Hooper

As a child I would save my packets of silica gels in case I ever needed to poison someone

Samantha

Yass climbing binchies unite! Brooke is amazing!

Eva Katcher

Idea… an episode like this but you each learn about each others questions and then explain it to each other and then we all learn TOGETHER

Soph

Bear spray is not supposed to be used in close proximity because it will only agitate the bear. It’s supposed to be used from a distance so only if the bear is a hundred feet away or so.

Aubree🪴

okay I actually learned this really recently but when you lose weight, you breathe most of it out! when you metabolize fat, one of the byproducts is CO2, which we then breathe out

Katie Jordan

cats lose their baby teeth but it’s allegedly uncommon to find them. i have all my kitties baby teeth in a cutie little box😻❤️

Mic

wait I'm so curious how this works and maybe this is a dumb question because I haven't gotten to that part of the episode yet, and know nothing about financial stuff but what if two people have the same name? or if you've legally changed your name. do they do it by social security number, or birthday or something?

Lily Ana Verna

My ex claimed that our periods had synched up bc she had “stronger hormones” and claimed it had happened with any menstruating person she’d ever been with or lived with 😭

Erin Healey

If any climbing binchies come to smith rock hmu :)

Wren Cilimburg

cats absolutely have baby teeth

Rachel Bernstein

Also secondhand animal textiles or animal textiles that are byproducts of the meat industry are so so much better for the environment than faux textiles! As a fashion industry girly that is my Roman Empire I will never stop thinking/ talking about it

Raegan Cleary

rethinking my engineering degree not knowing the answers to half of these

Hannah Carter

Can anyone explain microwaves

Jocelyn

My ex bought me a big thing of bleach when I first moved into my old place and then we broke up a week later and I never used it bc I was too scared 😭

Erin Healey

this has the vibe of isaac mizrahi on qvc and i love that

Drew H

Also they have a weak gag reflex which keeps them from throwing up and then they colic (essentially a blockage in their digestive system) which can be fatal but it's fairly common so it often isn't.

Audrey Chamberlin

Horses are not suffering haha they can comfortably carry around 20% of their body weight. They are extremely domesticated animals, in North America there are no truly "wild" horses because they were domesticated before being brought over. It causes a lot of controversy because "wild" American horses are technically feral and an invasive species which is why they get rounded up to be sold and trained as working horses. Horses also only work for around an hour a day if even that, and we put special boots on them to keep them from getting injuries and don't ride them if they show any signs of an injury. Most horses are extremely spoiled! My horse has a chiropractor and saddle fitter, gets his feet trimmed and shod every 6 weeks, regular vet appointments, a pile of supplements, and eats 3x a day. Their domesticity (especially in the US where they are not native) has caused them to be extremely reliant on humans. It's only extreme PETA people that are against equestrian sport and its mostly because they don't know anything lol

Audrey Chamberlin

cats definitely have baby teeth my friend saved her cats teeth when they fell out

blue 🐇

As a chronic know-it-all, these episodes are so good for me!! I know my place and that place is “shut up and listen, the girls are cooking”

Iris

before they were hard launched she called him redacted to protect his identity

Olivia Haynes

me having a mental breakdown thinking about having a permanent tiny row of teeth in front of my large teeth

tansy

Milk bar cookies are the best prepackaged cookies btw

Raegan Cleary

idk what ammonia is however it is what the anatomy lab I work in uses to clean the cadaver tanks ☠️

Olivia &amp; Jill

Listening to this on the way home from Aldi with 4 packs of deli meat in my passengers seat…

Andrés Colón

can confirm baby teeth get pushed out bc my big teeth came in behind them so i did have 2 rows of teeth at times

Lauren Patel

Rayon is made out of wood fiber. It’s considered “semi synthetic”.

Sashi

-bub

sis and bub

omg i made mustard gas on accident last week!

sis and bub

there was a social security number leak of basically all americans as well which is why it’s so imperative now bc your information is more sensitive

Kara

god same😭

Gina Brown

Please help why is Max called Redacted

lexi caruso

binchies, look into green pan!! it’s non-stick without all the parabens, plastic, etc — there are always sales and stuff and I loveeeeee mine

maddie

I work right by l'apartment 4f! Their raspberry pistachio croissant is amazing!

Julia

lead isn’t in pencils anymore! it’s graphite now

Mads

not sun protective film

Phoebe

GUYS this is my PSA to stop buying home stuff new. Join your local Buy Nothing Facebook page. Better for your wallet, your community and the planet. We’ve saved thousands and cleared out so much shit

avvsies

you should look into looms…

mahalia reina

rayon/spandex/synthetic textile is all PLASTIQUE melted and spun into fibers!!!!

Ella Nelson

Silica packets are a desiccant which dries things which prevents bacteria from growing/things from smelling musty which is why it'll be in things you buy. Similarly salt dries things which is why it can preserve things, it keeps bacteria from growing (all living things need water you know). You can't eat raw chicken because of something with the structure of the proteins and bacteria. Listening on my way to work as a science teacher to pregame explaining things

Shayna

I’m in veterinary school and cats definitely do have baby teeth

Emily Love

we know the matter state of the inside of the earth bc of seismic waves! certain waves only pass through certain states of matter

tarynn and katelyn

i have clinically low blood volume! i gotta have extra salt and water to make that shit pump effectively.

kvz

Go to Mel bakery in Hudson for the best croissant! 😵 YOU NEED

Maria Boccia

new blood comes from bone marrow 😅

Catherine

Perfect timing for my daily mental health walk w my almost 1 year old baby boy 🥲🥲🥲

avvsies

wondering if the binchies will ever do a pop culture roundup again? i know you talked about not wanting to date the pod but i miss hearing your more nuanced takes on zeitgeist-y moments!!❤️

Isabella

yall i definitely ate two whole silica bead packets when i was like 3, my mom called poison control and they said it was FINE lmao. I’m still here 23 years later 🤷🏼‍♀️

syd

so no one can open a line of credit in your name. if you’re ready to open another credit card you can unfreeze it

Annip

Only Famous Amous truther here...

Donia Shirazi

These episodes make me feel so good about myself

Your Mum

fun fact i never wanted to pull my teeth so my adult teeth grew in behind my loose baby teeth and my brother would call me shark mouth and i would cry so the dentist had to pull a lot of them 💅

maggie w

Shoutout to Brooke bc all of us bouldering girlies look up to her🤩

April

never pee in the shower if you’re also rinsing out an at-home hair bleaching/coloring ( =mustard gas)

sophie jensen

omg climbing mentioned

Dori

To make it crazier the eels reproduce at the Bermuda triangle!

LB

I think you guys will be deeply saddened to learn that plastics are made from fossil fuels

Patrice A

On the clothing making thread yall should look up how they make distressed jeans

Addy Delean

here to report cats DO have baby teeth! since they are so small, they usually just lose them while they’re eating

Sarah Billings

Wait why are we freezing credit?

MK

this WILL get me thru FDOC

hero

is this ep insanely quiet to anyone else? said with love ofc

catherine

Wowww brooke is a binchie ! Thats so awsome, i was also in tears when she won silver !!

Niamh

as a niche (or not so niche) fact lover, i'll join you on the pod

Haven Patrick

I wish I could come on the pod and explain science to you guys ❤️

Maddy

Have you tried not listening to podcasts while in the shower? (Friendly, non-judgmental)

Veronica

Jackamo Bailey

here to speak on the faux-crochet debate! currently there is no technology or machinery to replicate crochet exactly. there has been a knit/stitch style that looks enough like crochet to someone who doesn’t know better that they’re doing that now and calling it crochet to sell at target when they aren’t just using crochet slave labor. it’s because of dexterity and the complexity of a crochet stitch vs a knit stitch. a knit stitch is just one loop where even the simplest crochet stitches are a combination of multiple “loops and pulls”

Kara

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Jasmine