Recent Posts
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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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Harvest Moon
Now that private companies are getting into space, the legalities of who can own celestial bodies comes into question. Specifically, a company called Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas wants to start selling inflatable habitats and property on the moon. Jeff …
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Spousal Recall
According to researchers at Macquarie University, couples in long-term relationships develop inter-connected memory systems. Each partner can remember only a few details, but together they piece together a more accurate whole, ostensibly off-loading parts of the job to the other. …
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Super Villain Face
A Venezuelan man had his face surgically altered to look like the Red Skull – Captain America’s arch-nemesis in Marvel Comics. His nose was removed, his brow was enlarged, his skin was reddened, and even his eyeballs were tattooed black. …
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Running is for Dicks
A new study shows that longer, fast-paced running sessions are just as bad for you as not running at all. How much exercise is genuinely good for you? And why do we always think more is better?
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Feels Like Forever
What’s more ethical: a life sentence in prison, or a drug that slows someone’s perception of time to make them feel like they’ve spent 10 life sentences in a day? The question was asked last year by an Oxford University …
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