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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Dying People Can Probably Hear You, Mapmakers Catch Copycats with Paper Towns, and How Woodpeckers Shut Down a NASA Launch
Description: Learn about how mapmakers catch copycats with paper towns and trap streets; why people on their deathbed can probably hear their loved ones pay their last respects; and that time some woodpeckers shut down NASA’s plan to launch the space shuttle Discovery.
Paper Towns and Trap Streets Are How Mapmakers Catch Copycats by Reuben Westmaas
Goblu and Beatosu, Ohio. (2017). Weird Universe. http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/goblu_and_beatosu_ohioÂ
Jacobs, F. (2014, February 12). Agloe: How a Completely Made Up New York Town Became Real. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/643-agloe-the-paper-town-stronger-than-fictionÂ
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