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What Rats are REALLY Saying, Cosmic Caffeine, Lamarck was RIGHT?!

5 Nov 2025 · 1 h 04 min

Tom Lum joins the show to reveal what rats are ACTUALLY saying to each other. Plus, Rachel talks about the color of the Universe, and Lauren explains one evolutionary exception.

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