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Can you hack the emergency alert system?
If you live in the US, you've heard the tone before: a staccato series of beeps followed by an oddly neutral voice disclosing any number of warnings …
1 year, 7 months ago
CLASSIC: What will humanity be like in 1,000 years?
If you met a person from the year 1019, they would be, in many ways, much like you. But what if you met a person from 3019? How different will human …
1 year, 7 months ago
Strange News: Horrifying Discovery of a Kenyan Serial Killer, Oceangate Cofounder Pitches Lunar Colony, Fentanyl Robbery Gang
33 year-old Collins Jumaici Khalusha has been arrested in connection to multiple murders in Kenya -- he himself has testified to killing 42 women in …
1 year, 7 months ago
Do fish ever really rain from the sky?
It's a weird -- and weirdly common -- story throughout history: a storm that carries not just rain and thunder, but any number of strange animals dro…
1 year, 7 months ago
Listener Mail: The Good Fork, Microgeneration, FedEx Teams Up with the Cops, Nazi Drugs and UAP Sightings
Do you anthropormorphize inanimated objects? Ben has a pantheon of them. Side Pocket Kid writes in about the concept of alternative power and microge…
1 year, 7 months ago
STDWYTK: Breaking: Someone Tried To Kill A President
On 13 July, 2024, a person later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former US President and current Republican Presidential…
1 year, 7 months ago
CLASSIC: The death of Panama Papers journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Panama Papers are a collection of over 11 million leaked documents exposing shady financial dealings from more than 200,000 offshore entities, so…
1 year, 7 months ago
Strange News: History's Biggest Password Hack, Mandatory Speed Limiters, and the First Robot Suicide.
A massive password hack compromises 10 BILLION passwords -- and no one's sure what will happen next. As of July 7th, all new cars sold in the EU and …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Pentagon's Anti-Vax Program, Part Two: The Conspiracy Goes Global
So why would the US government push so hard for people to get vaccinated domestically, then turn around and wage an anti-vaccination propaganda war o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Listener Mail: The Targeted Pricing Conspiracy, Living Underground, Google is Getting Worse
Geist writes in from Germany, with a fascinating and conspiratorial first-hand look at the potentially insidious end goal of 'surge' and 'flex' prici…
1 year, 8 months ago