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How Corn Took Over America
The US is a corn superpower. Over the past few decades, corn has infiltrated all sorts of things, from soda pop and snacks to your own gas tank. But …
2 years, 9 months ago
CLASSIC: What is Predictive Programming?
What if everything you encounter in your day-to-day interactions is somehow prescient? Are the games you play and the films you watch meant to normal…
2 years, 9 months ago
Strange News: Flannery Associates Revealed, A Hunt for Nessie, and Worms Move Into Brains
The mysterious group buying thousands of acres around Travis Air Force Base turns out to be a group of tech luminaries and investors -- and they plan…
2 years, 9 months ago
How To Build An Urban Legend
From ghostly hitchhikers to tales of insidious alien conspiracies, everyone loves a good spooky campfire story. But where do modern legends come from…
2 years, 9 months ago
Listener Mail: Divine Intervention, Smoking Wet, Billionaire Names and Deadly Mushrooms
Nightshift calls in with a stunning tale of a harrowing brush with death. Anon wants to become a billionaire named Poo-poo-pee-pee Hands (and there's…
2 years, 9 months ago
Is Reality a Computer Simulation?
What if the world we experience isn't ...well... real? The question has haunted countless human civilizations since antiquity, and we continue to wre…
2 years, 9 months ago
CLASSIC: DNA and Crime: The Original Night Stalker
It’s official -- after decades of dead ends, tantalizing theories and frustrating leads, justice has finally caught up with The Golden State Killer, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Strange News: Wagner Leaders in Plane Crash, Fyre Festival, and Modern Moon Missions
Leaders of the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner are believed to have died in a plane crash north of Moscow just a few months after what appea…
2 years, 9 months ago
A War For Chips: The Semiconductor Episode
The modern world runs on microchips and semiconductors. There's no way around it -- and the semiconductor business is perhaps one of the most importa…
2 years, 9 months ago
CLASSIC: The Murky World of Serial Killer Memorabilia
Whether in fiction or in real life, the concept of the serial killer occupies a unique space in the American zeitgeist. Audiences across the planet f…
2 years, 9 months ago