Host Marco Werman tells the tale of French physicist Étienne Klein and how he fooled many of his Twitter followers by claiming a slice of chorizo sausage was really a photo of a star close to our own galaxy taken from the James Webb space telescope. It’s become an opportunity for us to ask listeners to send in photos of food that they think looks like places on Earth.
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