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Forest for the Sprees
Episode 363
Yellowstone National Park contains a narrow corridor less than two miles wide where evildoers could do literally anything, including commit murder, a…
9 years, 3 months ago
Infinite Improbability Drive
Episode 362
After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published. And it shows that …
9 years, 3 months ago
Recycling Cent-er
Episode 361
A man in Cologne, Germany was recently tried and convicted to ten months in prison for modifying a bottle recycling machine and swindling tens of tho…
9 years, 3 months ago
Great American Fake Off
Episode 360
Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanfo…
9 years, 4 months ago
Never Thaw It Coming
Episode 359
Ancient viruses and bacteria that have been cryogenically frozen for millennia are waking up, due to global warming. Siberia's permafrost and Greenl…
9 years, 4 months ago
Charged Into Battle
Episode 358
US military scientists have used electrical brain stimulators to enhance mental skills of staff, in research that aims to boost the performance of ai…
9 years, 4 months ago
A Light Punishment
Episode 357
Police in southern China are punishing drivers who dazzle other road users with full-beam headlights by making them stare into the lights for a minut…
9 years, 4 months ago
Re-poo-able Energy
Episode 356
According to a report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers have converted human feces to oil using a process called hydrothermal l…
9 years, 4 months ago
Don't Worry, Bee Happy
Episode 355
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London who study bees suggest that insects have something like emotional states, and that a sweet treat can ch…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 354
Some info about this episode:
It was recorded right after the US Election We didn't intend it to be an entire episode, it just sort of happened. We …9 years, 4 months ago