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Rob Explains...

Rob Explains...

95 episodes

A daily Podcast discussing and explaining cool, random, and interesting things. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robexplains/support

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Throwing Good Money After Bad - The Fallacy of Sunk Costs - Episode 91 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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It'll take more than a tylenol to fix it - Exploding Head Syndrome - Episode 90 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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Anthropomorphism & Mental Illness - Episode 89 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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Rob Ruins Thanksgiving, Part 3: Black Friday - Episode 88 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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Rob Ruins Thanksgiving, Part 2: Thanksgiving Dinner - Episode 87 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 9:13 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds

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Rob Ruins Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Pilgrims - Episode 86 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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The wind howled in the night - Personification - Episode 85 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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That Tiger didn't go crazy, that tiger went Tiger! - Anthropomorphism - Episode 84 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 2 seconds

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Half Eagle. Half Lion. All Awesome. - Episode 83 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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Live. Burn. Repeat. The Life of a Phoenix - Episode 82 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Who do you believe? 1000 eyewitnesses or "science" - The Lock Ness Monster - Episode 81 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Don't try to take THIS bull by the horns - The Minotaur - Episode 80 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds

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If a bogeyman should come at night, now you'll be ready - The Bogey(Boogey/Boogie)man - Episode 79 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Don't think cute and cuddly; think big noses, ears, foreheads and jaws - Trolls - Episode 78 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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This really gives new meaning to 'Unleash the Kraken' - Episode 77 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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When is a dog more than a dog? El Chupacabra - Episode 76 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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Keep a close eye on your eggs! - Episode 75 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 4:43 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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Have you heard the one about being half-horse? - Centaurs - Episode 74 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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Grab your stovepipe leggings and whiskey snoots, we're hunting Jackalope - Episode 73 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Beeswax to Bullets - Some Random Idioms - Episode 72 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Punishment Idioms of all kinds... even matrimonial - Episode 71 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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Don't read into the fact that it was Episode sixty-nine! - Apophenia - Episode 70 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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You seein' what I'm seein'? - Pareidolia - Episode 69 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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Where does your favorite sports team name come from? - Episode 68 - Rob Explains (with a Special Guest)

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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The Gunpowder Treason & Plot - Episode 67 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Remember, Remember, the 5th of November - Episode 66 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds

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Does this show, by another name, sound as good? - Shakespeare Idioms - Episode 65 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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It's Election Day! The Executive Branch - Episode 64 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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All Saints/Souls Day & Halllowmas - Episode 63 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Dia de los Muertos - Episode 62 - Rob Explains

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds

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Halloween Special! - The Fantastic History of Halloween - Episode 61 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds

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What do YOU call today? - Episode 60 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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The Proof is in the Pudding - More English Idioms - Episode 59 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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English Idioms - Episode 58 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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A Country without the Electoral College - Episode 57 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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Why the Electoral College Exists - Episode 56 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Demystifying the Electoral College - Episode 55 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Is the United States a Democracy? - Episode 54 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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The Judiciary Branch - Episode 53 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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The Legislative Branch - Episode 52 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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The Separation of Powers - Episode 51 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds

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All American Idioms - Episode 50 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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Don't give this episode the cold shoulder - Celebratory Idioms - Episode 49 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds

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Careful - this could be a wolf in sheep's clothing - Biblical Idioms - Episode 48 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 1 second

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This episode? It's no spring chicken - Animal Idioms - Episode 47 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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Cat got your tongue?.. and other ancient Idioms - Episode 46 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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Idioms, just tiny metaphors. - Episode 45 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Was Russia Late to the 1908 Olympics? - Episode 44 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds

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Pop goes the... low density polyethylene? - Episode 43 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, noon
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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Paper or Plastic? How about neither? - Episode 42 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds

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The Tuskeegee Experiment - Episode 41 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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An American History of Fake Vaccine Programs - Episode 40 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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Prohibition's Secret Little War... Against Americans - Episode 39 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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What is going on in Armenia? - Episode 38 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, noon
Duration: 16 minutes 47 seconds

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Arrrr - PIRATES! - Episode 37 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds

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The West - Not so Wild, way less Stetsons - Episode 36 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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The Highest Court in the land - Here are your starting nine - Episode 35 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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The Highest Court in the Land...in more ways then one - Episode 34 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, noon
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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Making this Cave a Home - Ancient Human Sites (Part 2) - Episode 33 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 3, 2020, noon
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Making this Cave a Home - Ancient Human Sites (Part 1) - Episode 32 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, noon
Duration: 12 minutes 1 second

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See, Smell, Taste, Touch, Hear and ... ? - Episode 31 - Rob Explains

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, noon
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds

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When you saw only one set of footprints, IT WAS 125,000 YEARS AGO!- Episode 30 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds

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Potbelly Hill changes HISTORY - Episode 29 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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Three AMAZING pitching feats - Baseball Facts Part Duex - Episode 28 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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The TRUE History of Baseball - Episode 27 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 52 seconds

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The TRUTH about Christopher Columbus - Episode 26 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Wooden Teeth and Cherry Trees; the legends of George Washington - Episode 25 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, noon
Duration: 13 minutes

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The Historical Mystery of the identity of Agent 355 - Episode 24 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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The Downlow on B.O. - Episode 23 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, noon
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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Blushing - Episode 22 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, noon
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Sweet Chin Music - Episode 21 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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Brain Tricks - Episode 20 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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You are part lizard! - Episode 19 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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Why are babies so vulnerable? - Episode 18 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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**Awkward Laughter** - Episode 17 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

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Redhead Extinction - Episode 16 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Ouch! My Fabella! - Episode 15 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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The Myth of Race Science - Episode 14 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds

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Like a hurricane, but you can freeze to death; Blizzards! - Episode 13 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, noon
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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Weird Facts and Trivia from 9/11/01 - Episode 12 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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September 11th, 2001 - Episode 11 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, noon
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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The Truth about al Qaeda - Episode 10 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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More than a Mighty Wind, it's a Derecho - Episode 9 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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We're not in Kansas anymore, Tornadoes! - Episode 8 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds

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The Real History of Labor Day - Episode 7 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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The World's Luckiest Unlucky Man! - Episode 6 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 4 seconds

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Typhoid Mary! - Episode 5 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Brass doorknobs got your back! - Episode 4 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons, Oh My! - Episode 3 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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Fujiwhaaaaa! - Episode 2 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds

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What's the deal with Dogs and Squeaky toys?! - Release Day Bonus Episode 3 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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Sharks! - Release Day Bonus Episode 2 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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Trees; Evolutionary spring chickens! - Release Day Bonus Episode 1 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Galaxies Colliding: The future "end" of the Milky Way - Episode 1 - Rob Explains

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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An Introduction - Rob Explains - Episode 0

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds

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