Episodes
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Carbo Loaded
A man in Britain has been diagnosed with “auto-brewery syndrome.” Due to an overgrowth of yeast in his stomach, every time he eats carbohydrates, his body turns them into alcohol and he gets drunk. Jeff and Anthony struggle to decide …
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Get Pissed
The residents of St. Pauli, a party district in Hamburg, Germany, were fed up with drunk revelers urinating on the sides of their buildings, so they turned to science to stop the behavior. Painting the most peed-upon areas with an …
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The Spike Lobby Makes Good Points
You’ve heard Anthony and Jeff warn you about the far-reaching influence of the dreaded Spike Lobby. Now it gets real. An article in The Guardian outlines the numerous locations in the UK installing spikes in public places to get rid …
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Blind Insight
With a headline like “Man Gets Bionic Eye, Sees Wife for the First Time in 20 Years”, you might expect a tearful moment of feel-good sentimentality. But the truth of the moment, as evidenced by the article’s embedded video, is …
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Welcome to the Jetpack Future
The New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Company, now listed on the Australian stock exchange, is taking orders for the “world’s first practical jetpack” and Jeff couldn’t be more excited. But at $200,000 and at its current size, Anthony wonders if practical …
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Zen and the Art of Suicidal Maintenance
The mummified remains of a Buddist monk have been discovered inside a statue that dates back over 1,000 years. Even more fascinating, studies reveal that the monk may have been self-mummified! Jeff and Anthony learn the excruciating, lengthy procedure once …
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Gross Income (LIVE Episode 100 from the NerdMelt Showroom)
A very special 100th episode of We Have Concerns, recorded in front of a live audience at the Nerdmelt Showroom in Los Angeles! Anthony and Jeff discuss the potential to sell your feces to science for use in treating patients …
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Why We Can’t Have Mice Things
A new article on i09 describes animal behaviorist John Calhoun’s quest to create the perfect mouse city, complete with abundant food, recreation, and even rodent apartments. Now referred to as the “Behavioral Sink”, the utopian underground mouse habitat quickly degraded …
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The No Deathbot Guarantee*
*not necessarily a guarantee
One robotics company, Clearpath Robotics, has promised never to make autonomous killing machines, and hopes all future tech companies will get on board with the no killer robot promise. Problem solved, right? Jeff and Anthony aren’t …
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Hale Hydra
The tiny organism known as the hydra is a half inch tube of jelly that inhabits fresh water all over the world, and it may well be functionally immortal. What does that mean? Anthony and Jeff try to make sense …
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