238: Gerard Dean Peters on Millions of Black Holes, Marathon Microbes and Mobile Jewelry

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Gerard Dean Peters returns to talk to us about the recent discovery that there's way more Black Holes than we thought, the fact that marathon runners have a special runners' biome and what's the deal with roving jewelry. Plus we look into what Neil Armstrong or Buzz would have done if they had gotten stuck on the moon.

THERE'S SO MANY BLACK HOLES

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/we-share-milky-way-100-million-black-holes

CAN BACTERIA TURN YOU INTO AN ULTRAMARATHONER?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170820075017.htm

LIVING JEWELRY IS LIKE BEING COVERED IN BUGS

https://curiosity.com/topics/project-kino-is-living-jewelry-that-moves-around-your-body-like-an-insect-curiosity?utm_source=iosapp

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