In this episode of Cosmically Curious, host Patrick McNameeKing sits down with astronomer Dr. Nicole Gugliucci to unpack how a simple kitchen appliance fooled the scientific community at the Parkes Radio Observatory in Australia for years. Transcript:Dr. Nicole Gugliucci: In 2007, radio astronomers had started picking up these objects called "fast radio bursts." Dr. Nicole Gugliucci: A fictional mythological beast — a deer with wings that casts a human shadow. When they did finally put one in, it was placed inside a metal box to keep it from giving off too many radio waves. Dr. Nicole Gugliucci: I don't live in a radio observatory.