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Sit Stand Die (with Justin Robert Young)
Episode 91
How easily you can sit down and stand back up without using your hands can supposedly tell you how long you'll have to live. Jeff and Anthony are joi…
11 years, 1 month ago
Inception Made Easy
Episode 90
A new article describes just how easy it is to induce false memories in subjects. In fact, researchers were able to to convice patients that they ha…
11 years, 1 month ago
The Assassin Defense
Episode 89
NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is attempting to skirt allegations of domestic abuse by claiming that his girlfriend is a trained assassin. Jeff and Anthon…
11 years, 2 months ago
Leaf it Alone
Episode 88
The Australian Gympie-Gympie plant is the one of the most painfully poisonous in the world. People who have just rubbed up against it have gone mad w…
11 years, 2 months ago
This Has All Happened Before
Episode 87
A 23 year-old man has been experiencing constant deja vu for seven years. What would it be like to have the feeling that everything you experienced h…
11 years, 2 months ago
Fertility Pro Grammar
Episode 86
A new study finds that men who interact with women during the fertile period of their menstrual cycle tend to be more creative with their grammar. An…
11 years, 2 months ago
We're Doomed.
Episode 85
Anthony found an article outlining the evidence that Earth is headed for its 6th great extinction event. Animals going extinct, global food tables i…
11 years, 2 months ago
Two Birds With One Stoned
Episode 84
A group of researchers studying the effects of alcohol on speech decided to get some birds drunk. They divided a group of zebra finches - birds that…
11 years, 2 months ago
Do What You Scan
Episode 83
A review led by a brain scientist at MIT found growing evidence that brain scans can predict future behaviors. If, one day, we are able to simply sc…
11 years, 2 months ago
Lay Around on Your Astronaut
Episode 82
NASA is conducting a study about the long-term effects of weightlessness by asking applicants to stay completely horizontal for 70 days. In exchange…
11 years, 2 months ago