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All You Breed is Love
Episode 463
People with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic condition, can’t stop hugging people, have no fear of strangers, and love everyone equally. And it may…
8 years, 8 months ago
Second Strife
Episode 462
According to an MIT study published in The Journal of Human Resources, second-born children are more likely to grow up to become criminals. Anthony …
8 years, 8 months ago
Neither Here Nor There
Episode 461
Researchers from China successfully teleported a photon from Earth to a satellite 500 km away. The work is an essential step towards establishing a g…
8 years, 8 months ago
Higher, Higher, Ants of Fire
Episode 460
After a flood, thousands of homeless fire ants pile on top of one another to build bizarro towers with their own bodies — probably as temporary shelt…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Old Guard
Episode 459
A new study may shed light on why teenagers sleep late while grandparents are often up at the crack of dawn. Fifty years ago, psychologist Frederick …
8 years, 8 months ago
Stringing Up Baby
Episode 458
Built in 1937 and distributed in London to members of the Chelsea Baby Club, the baby cage was meant for big-city apartments without yards, and woul…
8 years, 8 months ago
How to Kill a Gram
Episode 457
Scientists are about to change what a kilogram is. The weights and measures committee will establish a global value for Planck's constant and then w…
8 years, 8 months ago
Paternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (w/Vernon Shaw)
Episode 456
Scientists have taken another step toward being able to edit out bad memories while leaving good ones intact — something that could one day be used t…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Face That Feeds You
Episode 455
Would your dog eat you if you died? Such in the question posed by The National Geographic in a new article. Anthony, as a dog owner himself, has to…
8 years, 8 months ago
Tick Talk
Episode 454
A rare allergy that causes people to have a terrible reaction to eating red meat is being spread in North America by ticks. Anthony and his vegan ca…
8 years, 8 months ago