Trace Kerr

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  • Username: BrainJunkPodcast
  • PRX Member
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Trace Kerr

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227: Whatever...Mom (05:17)
From: Trace Kerr

Why won't your teenager listen to you? Their brain. For real. Insert teenage eye roll here.
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225: Bees vs Mirrors (05:05)
From: Trace Kerr

Fresh off the research presses in early 2022, a new study on how honey bees navigate the world while they fly. Turns out still water and mirrors are equally vexing for bees.
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224: Cat Nights (04:57)
From: Trace Kerr

We don't know about you, but 2022 has been a MOOD so we're starting Halloween a little early this year. Be prepared! Starting Aug 17th, we have a season of witches and cat ...
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221: Harriet the Tortoise (04:59)
From: Trace Kerr

Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.
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219: Wife Selling (04:48)
From: Trace Kerr

In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic, and patriarchal (basically ...
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218: Gladiatrices (05:08)
From: Trace Kerr

Seldom written about, female gladiators fought for glory and Rome from around 509 BCE to 200 AD. What little information we have about them was in a few historical writings ...
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216: Parachuting Beavers (05:06)
From: Trace Kerr

In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky compromise to save dwindling beaver ...
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215: James Madison & the 4 Letters (05:06)
From: Trace Kerr

It's 1789 and the beginning of bureaucracy in the United States. James Madison is writing letters to smooth the path of George Washington's disorganized congress. The way it ...
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214: Sky Puppies (04:59)
From: Trace Kerr

While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage. It's tough love that gets ...
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213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates (05:00)
From: Trace Kerr

The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party that ended not quite how he ...