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Home, Phone E.T.
Episode 171
Stephen Hawking has teamed up with a Russian tycoon to start a new search for extraterrestrial life. The cost? $100 million... and maybe the safety o…
10 years, 7 months ago
You Shoes, You Lose (Live from Nerdtacular 2015!)
Episode 170
An article on the very scientifically-titled "Healthy, Wild and Free" blog explains why wearing shoes in the house is potentially KILLING YOU. Anthon…
10 years, 7 months ago
Fog of War (with Brock Wilbur)
Episode 169
Some newly declassified documents show that the US government knowingly sprayed all of San Francisco with a biological agent after World War II. How …
10 years, 7 months ago
See Weed, Taste Bacon
Episode 168
A research lab has apparently created a healthy seaweed superfood that tastes like bacon! ... Yeah, that sounds like total marketing speak to us, too…
10 years, 7 months ago
Hitches Get Stitches
Episode 167
We talk a lot about whether we can trust robots, but can robots trust us? HitchBOT was a robot on a goodwill tour of the world, depending on the kind…
10 years, 7 months ago
Vote Early, Vote Coffin
Episode 166
Presidential Candidate Zoltan Istvan is raising money to tour the country in a bus that looks like a coffin to promote the Transhumanism philosophy o…
10 years, 7 months ago
An Arm and a Leg (LIVE from the NerdMelt Showroom)
Episode 165
In this episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the NerdMelt Showroom in Los Angeles, Anthony and Jeff wrestle with their feelings after see…
10 years, 7 months ago
Mins Words
Episode 164
Sonja Lang has created the world's smallest functional language. Her creation, Toki Pona, contains only 123 total words, and holds simplicity as its…
10 years, 7 months ago
Repeat Yourself
Episode 163
For the last ten years, a man in the UK has been waking up every day thinking it is March 14th 2005, the day he was scheduled to receive a root canal…
10 years, 8 months ago
The Bots Motel
Episode 162
A hotel has opened in Japan that is staffed almost entirely by robots. While this does seem like a cheap gimmick to Anthony and Jeff, they are still…
10 years, 8 months ago