Recent Posts
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Content with Content
Songwriter and youtube song-a-day artist Jonathan Mann has a new video online advocating for abolishing the term “Content Creator” for people who release things on the web. His position is that the term diminishes things designed to be distributed on …
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Under the Sea
A Japanese corporation wants to build the perfect underwater city of the future. That is both a real thing that’s happening and also something that sounds like the plot of a nightmarish disaster movie.
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Sit Stand Die (with Justin Robert Young)
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 joined by Justin Robert Young and to try the test for themselves.…
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Inception Made Easy
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 had done horrible things, including assault with a deadly weapon, even when they had …
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The Assassin Defense
NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is attempting to skirt allegations of domestic abuse by claiming that his girlfriend is a trained assassin. Jeff and Anthony proceed to mock any man who would physically assault his partner, and this man in particular …
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Leaf it Alone
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 with pain and tried to shoot off their own appendages with guns.
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This Has All Happened Before
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 has happened before? Powerful? Boring? Maddening? Powerful? Boring? Maddening? (see what I did there?)…
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Fertility Pro Grammar
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. Anthony is impressed that human “peacocking” extends into speech patterns, while Jeff is just …
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We’re Doomed.
Anthony found an article outlining the evidence that Earth is headed for its 6th great extinction event. Animals going extinct, global food tables imbalanced, resource scarcity, all lead up to a massive, worldwide catastrophe. He proceeds to use these facts …
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Two Birds With One Stoned
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 learn and produce sounds similar to humans – into two groups. One sipped …
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