Bird Pinkerton
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1,078 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Bird Pinkerton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello, it is Bird.
As you might have heard, we are busily working away on a big project over here at Unexplainable.
And I'm very jazzed to finally show you all what we have been doing soon.
But for now, as we work on that, we are bringing you a few of our favorite episodes.
So today's comes from 2024.
It is hosted by the amazing Meredith Hodnot.
And I wanted to share it now because we are at the start of hurricane and wildfire season.
It seems that every year we get these devastating natural disasters that kill dozens of people, cause tens of billions of dollars in damages.
And this episode focuses on the ways that we protect ourselves from disasters, which is to say insurance.
It asks, when risks become less predictable, what do we do next?
Here's Mara.
Let's say you fall off your bike and you hurt yourself.
So the skin cells on your arm or your leg, for example, have been scraped off or torn apart, and you're bleeding because the blood vessels underneath them are torn.
How does your body heal itself?
Well, first of all, the blood clots and forms a scab.
And then once the scab forms, the very top layer of skin cells gets busy.
The cells come in, they multiply, and they basically quilt together underneath the scab to form a new top layer of skin.
All of this over the course of about two to three weeks.
And this trick that our skin can pull off, it seems pretty impressive.
Until you compare it to a different part of the human body.
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