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• Blue Food

  When you see food that is colored blue, what flavor do you expect it to be? As the rarest color in plants and animals, blue might be the strangest color to eat. Jeff and Anthony dig into the unusual …

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  October 21, 2024Episodes

• Lightning Milk

  Among rural communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was taken as fact that a thunderstorm would turn milk sour. Jeff and Anthony look at the journey of scientific discovery around such a strange myth, and what it …

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  October 14, 2024Episodes

• The Strangest Science of 2024

  It’s time to celebrate the strangest, silliest, and most weirdly useful science of the last year! The Ig Nobel Prizes are back, and we’re going to cover this year’s winners.

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  September 23, 2024Episodes

• Inventor of Doom

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  September 2, 2024Episodes

• Refreezing the Arctic

  Researchers in the Arctic are experimenting with drastic plans to geoengineer away the damaging effects of climate change. Jeff and Anthony look at one method, inspired by Dutch Ice Masters. Then, they discuss efforts from the Alameda city council …

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  August 26, 2024Episodes

• Bird Detectives

  When birds collide with airplanes, their remains are sent to a special lab in Washington, DC. There, an elite team of avian detectives works to identify the exact type of bird to help prevent future catastrophes. Jeff and Anthony …

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  August 19, 2024Episodes

• Wakeful Sleeping

  A new study shows that some insomniacs who claim to have been up through the night have actually been sleeping. What is going on in their brains? Anthony and Jeff take a look at the data and discuss how …

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  July 9, 2024Episodes

• Get to the Front of the Line

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  July 1, 2024Episodes

• Hacking Your Flow State

  By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have practical implications for anyone wanting to get ‘in the zone’ to generate creative ideas. Jeff and …

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  June 10, 2024Episodes

• Monsters in the Walls and in the Tank

  Two stories this week, both involving kids who get more than they bargained for. In the first, a toddler is certain she hears a monster in the walls of her family’s 100 year old North Carolina farmhouse. In a …

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  June 3, 2024Episodes