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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Infinity in a Used Prayer Book and Vampire-Like Sea Slugs
Description: Learn about the earliest use of infinity we’ve found; and vampire-like sea slugs that absorb other organisms’ attributes.
The earliest mathematical use of infinity was found in a reused prayer book by Briana Brownell
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