Tag: humor

• Blue Food

  When you see food that is colored blue, what flavor do you expect it to be? As the rarest color in plants and animals, blue might be the strangest color to eat. Jeff and Anthony dig into the …

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  October 21, 2024Episodes

• The Strangest Science of 2024

  It’s time to celebrate the strangest, silliest, and most weirdly useful science of the last year! The Ig Nobel Prizes are back, and we’re going to cover this year’s winners.

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  September 23, 2024Episodes

• Inventor of Doom

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  Link to this week’s story: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html

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  September 2, 2024Episodes

• Wakeful Sleeping

  A new study shows that some insomniacs who claim to have been up through the night have actually been sleeping. What is going on in their brains? Anthony and Jeff take a look at the data and discuss how …

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  July 9, 2024Episodes

• Get to the Front of the Line

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  July 1, 2024Episodes

• Hacking Your Flow State

  By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have practical implications for anyone wanting to get ‘in the zone’ to generate creative ideas. Jeff and …

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  June 10, 2024Episodes

• AI Wants Your Fingerprints

  No two human fingerprints are alike. Even different fingers from the same person are unique. But new research from Columbia University using an applied neural network suggests there may be a new way to link intra-person fingerprints with a …

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  May 29, 2024Episodes

• Sugar Bones

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  Link to this week’s story: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243939166/lunchables-consumer-reports-school-lunch

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  May 13, 2024Episodes

• Lead for Lunch

  Consumer Reports released a new report on Lunchables in which it found lead and cadmium, and also observed the presence of phthalates, which can impact reproductive health and the human hormonal system. Anthony and Jeff discuss the findings, and …

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  April 15, 2024Episodes

• Animals on the Moon

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  April 8, 2024Episodes