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The Tortoise and the Scare
Episode 333
A 100-year-old tortoise named Touche, owned by the same 60-year-old woman since she was five years old, went missing from his home for 10 days before…
9 years, 6 months ago
A Cave New World
Episode 332
The Movile Cave in Romania, just a few miles west from the Black Sea, has been sealed up for around 5.5 million years. Although the air in it is po…
9 years, 6 months ago
Bye Polar
Episode 331
Russian scientists have driven away polar bears that besieged their weather station on an island in the Arctic Ocean for two weeks. After five scient…
9 years, 6 months ago
Bringing Up Baby
Episode 330
Jeff is back! And he's an honest-to-goodness real life Dad! Anthony takes a moment to check in on the experience of bringing a new Cannata into the…
9 years, 6 months ago
Scan You Keep a Secret?
Episode 329
Security researchers Abdul Serwadda and Richard Matovu recently tested a pair of EEG authentication systems to see if it was possible to identify per…
9 years, 6 months ago
Not-a-Dog Person
Episode 328
A man who spent the last two years raising two beloved pet dogs has had a bit of a shock. The pair of 'puppies' Wang Kaiyu bought and raised at his …
9 years, 6 months ago
Up Sh%t Creek
Episode 327
Firefighters in Norway have pulled a man from the inside of a toilet after he lowered himself in to retrieve a friend's phone and became stuck in the…
9 years, 6 months ago
Host in the Shell
Episode 326
For Hermit crabs, suitable shells are hard to come by. So they have come up with an ingenious scheme. When a crab happens upon a shell, it scopes it…
9 years, 6 months ago
Live and Let Diet
Episode 325
A new study, published in Elementa, looks at the consequences of switching the U.S. to different kinds of diet, from full vegan to various kinds of e…
9 years, 6 months ago
A Knife Well Tasted
Episode 324
Surgeons in India extracted 40 knives from inside the body of a police officer during a rare, five-hour operation. Surjeet Singh suffers from an unc…
9 years, 6 months ago