In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

• Music Lessons Will Improve Your Language Skills
• Thousands of People Have Mysteriously Disappeared in "Alaska's Bermuda Triangle"

Notes from the story about 10th-century Vikings and the Muslim world:

• The Strangely Revealing Debate Over Viking Couture | The Atlantic
• The Rise and Fall of the Viking “Allah” Textile | Hyperallergic

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