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Halve A Seat
Episode 523
At the University of Chicago in the early 1920s, psychology grad student William Blatz built a remote-controlled trick chair that would collapse when…
8 years, 2 months ago
Bottled Potter
Episode 522
A writing team at Botnik Studios used a ‘predictive keyboard’ – a text generator that tries to guess what the next word typed will most likely be - t…
8 years, 2 months ago
A Fish Shout of Water
Episode 521
A species of Mexican fish amasses in reproductive orgies so loud they can deafen other sea animals, awed scientists have said, calling for preservati…
8 years, 2 months ago
When Aliens a Tax
Episode 520
Since 2007, the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets included $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. T…
8 years, 3 months ago
Plantesthesia
Episode 519
Researchers from the journal Annals of Botany report that, just like humans, plants can succumb to the effects of general anesthetic drugs. The findi…
8 years, 3 months ago
Batman Doesn't Need Super Vision
Episode 518
Psychologists have reported in Child Development that when four- to six-year-olds pretended to be Batman while they were doing a boring but important…
8 years, 3 months ago
Sign on the Clotted Spine
Episode 517
It’s usually OK to be proud of your work and lend your name to it. But most people would draw the line at signing their initials into the flesh of in…
8 years, 3 months ago
The Nutty Processor
Episode 516
Squirrels can bury up to 10,000 nuts annually, many of which they do go back and find. A recent study on cognition in the journal Royal Society Open…
8 years, 3 months ago
Have a Tat Habitat
Episode 515
Engineers at MIT have developed a temporary tattoo that’s 3-D printed with living ink. The tattoo is made up of bacterial cells that are genetically …
8 years, 3 months ago
School Injection
Episode 514
Two neuroscientists at the University of Rochester say they have managed to introduce information directly into the premotor cortex of monkeys. Anth…
8 years, 3 months ago