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Do What You Scan
A review led by a brain scientist at MIT found growing evidence that brain scans can predict future behaviors. If, one day, we are able to simply scan our brains to determine what kinds of activities we are more inclined …
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Lay Around on Your Astronaut
NASA is conducting a study about the long-term effects of weightlessness by asking applicants to stay completely horizontal for 70 days. In exchange for staying in bed and never standing up up, even to use the restroom or shower, NASA …
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Trial of the Planet of the Apes
A court in Argentina just upheld an animal rights group’s request to have an orangutan appear in a court, saying it’s illegal to hold ‘non-human persons’ in cages. Whoops, apes are people now. So is this a good thing? How …
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The Bedbug Whisperer
In order to find a way to stop bedbugs, Regine Gries allowed herself to be bitten by them 180,000 times over a period of five years. Also, did you know that there’s billionaire dinosaur porn? That’s unrelated, but it doesn’t …
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Creeping Self Doubt
What makes you you? Is the self somewhere in the body or the brain? If you downloaded your brain into a new body, would it be you? ANSWER ME (whatever ‘me’ is)
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Here There Be Dragons
A woman has a condition that makes her see dragons wherever she goes. Anthony and Jeff discuss perception and reality, and if we know what we see is real.
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Laser Trains!
Every Autumn, falling leaves create hazards for the railways. Trains compress the debris by running over it, and the resulting surface becomes slick and unsafe. The solution? Lasers! One Dutch company has developed a way to blast the rails clean …
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Olfactory Produced
Adrian David Cheok, the founder and director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore, is attempting to record odors digitally, and recreate them without the use of chemicals. While a breakthrough in the area is still a long way off, …
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Dawn of the Planet of the Mice
Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York have successfully implanted human glial cells into the brains of mice to shocking result. Not only were the cells not rejected, but the human cells completely dominated the mouse …
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Past Word Passwords
A New Yorker article all about passwords has Jeff musing on what Anthony’s passwords mean about him. It is a secret people tell themselves every time they log on to something, so what are the most common topics that appear …
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