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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Space Slingshot, Ancient Modern Pants, Lifesaving Silence

Hear about a slingshot launching payloads into space, the impressively modern-looking world’s oldest pants, and how moth wings are able to absorb sound to avoid detection from bats.

August 25, 2022

Episode show notes:

A different kind of slingshot.

Very very old pants.

Moth sound absorbers.

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