Episodes
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Screw Worms. And Birds. And Junk Journals, Too.
What’s the deal with birds… is a question Anthony and Jeff often ponder, but it’s also the title of a new study released in the Scientific Journal of Research and Reviews – which sounds like a legitimate journal, but is …
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Life, The Universe, and Dom Deluise
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The Cannonball Run is a simple, and highly illegal, record that despite having no governing body, is infamous within car culture. To set a Cannonball Run record, you must traditionally start …
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Beard Science
(Sorry about the slight buzz in Anthony’s audio this week. OUR BAD)
A team of researchers injected human stem cells into mouse embryos. Just over two weeks later, the team had more mature mouse embryos that contained up to 4% …
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Blame the Bats, Man
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick—research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to humans and other animals. Anthony and …
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Taking To Be Out of the Question
If we are all inaccurate perception machines, fallible even in our own ability to process and recall events we experienced, then surely our language should represent how unknowable all things are, right? Enter E-Prime, a version of the English language …
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Dovetailing Through Space
There are more than 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth. At the end of their useful lives, some will continue circling as “zombie” satellites — neither alive nor quite dead. Steve Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada, has a …
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Let’s Found a Science
Screens, social media, and the internet… it’s destroying the minds of young people, right? Well, a new study aims to answer that very question by comparing kid behavior from 2010 to kid behavior in 1998. Anthony and Jeff discuss the …
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Release the Icelandic Cut
Birds. No one likes them. But how can they balance like they do, perched on wires and branches? It turns out scientists have only recently discovered an avian lumbrosacral organ – literally a second balancing mechanism, in the lower spine …
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Birth of the Xenobots
Biologists at Tufts University, Douglas Blackiston and Michael Levin have created all programmable organisms called xenobots — golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh. The implications of their existence could spill from artificial-intelligence research to fundamental questions in …
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Magnets is Beards
An Australian astrophysicist and research fellow at a Melbourne university injured himself by attempting to invent a device that stops the coronavirus outbreak. Anthony and Jeff discuss the perils and pluck of attempting to help, even outside your own area …
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