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Strange News: Spain's Porn Passport, the Paris Olympics, China's New Nuclear Reactor and a Bay of Piglets
Spain will roll out a new "porn passport" to track online visits to adult websites. The gang weighs in on the manufactured controversy around the Oly…
2 years ago
Carl-Erik Björkegren: The Disappearing Billionaire
It's often been said money doesn't buy happiness. In fact, it can lead to more problems, up to and including troubling, mysterious disappearances. In…
2 years ago
Listener Mail: The Most Dangerous Animal, Secret ESP Countermeasures, Spies and Psychics
Arborious prompts a conversation about ESP and the nature of intuition. Joe calls in to ask whether state-level actors have countermeasures against p…
2 years ago
The Mystery of the Dropa Stones
The story has all the makings of a science-fiction blockbuster: in 1937, an intrepid archaeologist discovers hundreds of perfectly-engraved stones, s…
2 years ago
CLASSIC: Orang Minyak: Mythical Monster or Monstrous Cover-up?
In Malay folklore, the Orang Minyak is an supernaturally agile, humanoid creature coated in an oily, slippery substance. It is primarily known for ab…
2 years ago
Strange News: Crowdstrike, Fake Picassos, Cocaine Sharks, the Looming Yellowstone Volcanic Supereruption
Fake Picassos launch a fascinating discourse about gender in Australia. The massive Crowdstrike outage exposes troubling vulnerabilities in software …
2 years ago
Angel Hair and Star Jelly: What the heck is this stuff?
For thousands of years, humans were convinced meteors and stars shed heavenly goo onto Earth's surface, or that shreds of the Virgin Mary's veil drif…
2 years ago
Listener Mail: Targeted Ads, Driving in Europe, a Word from King John
An astronaut writes a Tripadvisor review of life in space. King John calls in to prompt an excellent conversation about food as medicine... and how p…
2 years ago
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 …
2 years 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 …
2 years ago