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Dad Yoke
Episode 261
A medical condition called Witzelsucht causes people to compulsively create puns and bad jokes all day long. Anthony thinks this might explain Jeff'…
10 years ago
Keeping Bankrupt with the Joneses
Episode 260
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that neighbors of lottery winners are unusually likely to go bankrupt, and the larger…
10 years ago
Hum Linger
Episode 259
Residents of Windsor, the industrial Canadian city that lies just across the river from Detroit, have been experiencing a monotonous type of noise po…
10 years ago
Horse Remorse
Episode 258
Psychologists at Sussex University published a new study that claims a horse can not only tell whether a human might be in a bad mood by simply looki…
10 years ago
Fire in the Hull!
Episode 257
Fire behaves very differently in zero gravity, and NASA wants to study it. The problem? It is very, very foolish to set fire to something inside a s…
10 years ago
Bob Lawbot
Episode 256
Nineteen-year old British programmer Joshua Browder has created a robotic appeal system for parking tickets. Since its inception in 2015, this robo-…
10 years ago
River Wok
Episode 255
For centuries, Peruvian locals talked about a river in the Amazon that burns so hot it can kill. Now, Peruvian geoscientist, Andrés Ruzo has actually…
10 years ago
A Bug in Your Ear (w/ Travis McElroy)
Episode 254
In an extremely strange case that can’t be found anywhere in medical history, a girl from Deesa, Gujarat in India has been unlucky enough to be chose…
10 years ago
Data Inplants
Episode 253
A scientist at the University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia has presented a way to encode data directly into the DNA of plants, which would conti…
10 years ago
Dr? No.
Episode 252
An 18-year old in Florida posed as a doctor for a year without, apparently, any qualifications whatsoever. Anthony can relate, and he and Jeff discu…
10 years ago