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Go Pluck Yourself
Episode 131
A new study at USC shows evidence that men who are going bald may actually be able to stimulate their dormant follicles by violently plucking out the…
10 years, 10 months ago
Your Head a Splode
Episode 130
Anthony and Jeff learn about the affliction known as Exploding Head Syndrome, which, it turns out, is a really misleading name. It leads them to dis…
10 years, 10 months ago
Octopush
Episode 129
An octopus at the Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand has been trained to take photos. When visitors stand in front of his tank, Rambo the octopus reac…
10 years, 10 months ago
Detour a Head
Episode 128
A 30-year-old Russian man Valery Spiridonov has volunteered to become the world's first head transplant. His terrible, degenerative spinal disease h…
10 years, 10 months ago
You'll Put Your Eye Out (w/ Trisha Hershberger)
Episode 127
A new biotech startup aims to have synthetic, bioprinted eyeballs on the market by 2027. These could not only solve vision problems, but actually up…
10 years, 11 months ago
From a Galaxy Far a Weigh
Episode 126
Cosmologist Fergus Simpson published a new scientific paper in which he suggests that intelligent aliens, if they exist, are likely enormous, weighin…
10 years, 11 months ago
Speedy Spider Spasms
Episode 125
Researchers studying the movements of tarantulas in different climates have discovered that at higher temperatures spiders can actually move much fas…
10 years, 11 months ago
Medieval Solution
Episode 124
Historians uncovered an Old English book of Medieval remedies and decided to recreate and test them in modern conditions. Shockingly, one of the pot…
10 years, 11 months ago
Paint Your Poison
Episode 123
Seattle cancer researchers are hoping that they will be able to use scorpion venom to fight deadly brain cancer through a new product called "Tumor P…
10 years, 11 months ago
Blob Water
Episode 122
Plastic water bottles are a massive global pollution problem, but new biotech aims to replace traditional non-biodegradable containers with a thin al…
10 years, 11 months ago