We Have Concerns
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Microplastics aren't a big deal
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We've all spent the last couple years being worried about microplastics- but maybe we shouldn't be. More experts have reviewed the original study that...
Microplastics aren't a big deal
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We've all spent the last couple years being worried about microplastics- but maybe we shouldn't be. More experts have reviewed the original study that...
How Much Microplastic is in You, Really?
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveri...
You're selfish and you never think about sea urchins
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's about time you considered the lowly sea urchin. It's about time you considered their thoughts and feelings, especially since we have just found o...
Discovering the Noperthedron
02 Feb 2026
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Can one six-sided cube seamlessly pass through another of equal size? The answer may surprise you. And the quest to discover convex polyhedrons that d...
How Recent is Recently?
19 Jan 2026
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'recent' is defined as “having happened or started only a short time ago.” And yet, in the wo...
AI Psychosis is a Cool Thing We Have to Think About Now
13 Jan 2026
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Quicksand is Making a Comeback
31 Dec 2025
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An experienced hiker had to be saved by National Parks Search and Rescue last month after getting stuck in quicksand. This made us go "Wait, quicksand...
Tooth-in-Eye
24 Dec 2025
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Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or “tooth-in-eye” surgery, is a real thing, returning vision to patients with severe corneal blindness. Jeff and An...
The Batman Effect
05 Dec 2025
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New research conducted by psychologists in Milan shows that if Batman show up, we immediately become more altruistic and considerate. Jeff and Anthony...
New Insights into ADHD
30 Nov 2025
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Anthony and Jeff take a look at two new breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.Support the show and get bonus episodes, videos, Discord ...
The Threat of Mirror Life
22 Nov 2025
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Researchers believe it will be possible in the near future to build organisms from molecules with reversed structures. But a recent multi-disciplinary...
Bird Poop in a Hurricane
14 Nov 2025
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The Streaked Shearwater Seagull is a remarkable bird. It intentionally flies into the eye of hurricanes. But when scientists strapped video cameras to...
Shocking Stats About Lightning
05 Sep 2025
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The World Meteorological Organization’s Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes recently certified a new record: the longest lightning strike ever...
The Mystery of Roanoke
29 Aug 2025
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The "Lost" Colony of Roanoke is one of the most enduring American mysteries, despite there being persuasive evidence to explain the disappearance of s...
Eating Ants
22 Aug 2025
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Findings published in the journal Evolution reveal that mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and term...
Cool vs Good
15 Aug 2025
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What are the characteristics that make someone cool? How about good? Is there overlap? Can someone be both cool and good? Anthony and Jeff look at a n...
The Science of Big Splashes
25 Jul 2025
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When it comes to making a splash, technique tops brute force. While you might think a cannonball will yield the biggest splash in the pool, science ha...
Hummingbirds, Penguins, and Cockatoos, oh my.
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three stories this week, all concerning birds! Pranksters, scamps, potential saviors of earth? In the first, cockatoos in Australia have learned how t...
Tales From the Crypt
11 Jul 2025
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For 60 years, between 1637 and 1697, people who died at the largest hospital in Milan were dropped into a brick-lined crypt. Now, 300 years later, the...
Silence is Golden
04 Jul 2025
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New research aims to quality the health effects of silence. It turns out, just a few hours of quiet time per week can have striking benefits. Anthony ...
Snakebites for Science
27 Jun 2025
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Tim Friede has allowed himself to be bitten by venomous snakes more then 200 times. As a result, his blood has helped scientists concoct a new antibod...
Virtual Nostalgia
20 Jun 2025
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Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced InteRecon, a program that enables users to reca...
Speaking Bonobo
13 Jun 2025
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A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that bonobos, our closest living relatives alongside chimpanze...
Batman's Cocktail Party Mystery
12 May 2025
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Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations...
The Walking Dead
06 May 2025
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A new study places the US at the top of the list of most fatal countries to be a pedestrian. Anthony and Jeff take a look at all the reasons it is so ...
Taste This Machine
28 Apr 2025
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Scientists have developed a device, called “e-Taste”, capable of recreating complex flavours of food and drink from five basic building blocks, an...
Move with the Crowd
07 Apr 2025
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Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinate...
Try to Imagine It
03 Apr 2025
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People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon images in their "mind's eye." But a new study suggests that the blueprints for those imaginary image...
Why Do We Itch?
17 Mar 2025
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have uncovered new insights into the dual nature of scratching an itch, indicating that while it can worse...
AI vs Critical Thinking
10 Mar 2025
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The rise of AI has directly resulted in diminishing levels of critical thinking, epseically among young people, a new study shows. Anthony and Jeff di...
Generation Lead
03 Mar 2025
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A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that one generation in particular has higher exposure to unsafe levels o...
Showers for Health: Hot or Cold?
24 Feb 2025
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Much has been made about taking a cold shower in the morning vs a hot one. A new study aims to measure the health benefit of these different temperatu...
Alpha Wolf Brain Parasite
17 Feb 2025
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A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with a parasite that can only...
Old at 44
31 Jan 2025
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A new study finds that the human body does not age at a constant rate throughout adulthood. Instead, it accelerates dramatically around ages 44 and 60...
Gut Health Among Friends
22 Jan 2025
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More and more research points to the fact that the microbiome in our gut contributes sigificantly to both our phsyical and mental health. But what def...
Bat-Powers Can Be Yours
10 Jan 2025
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Contrary to previous assumption, a new study shows that bat-like echolocation is a skill that can be learned by both blind and sighted practitioners i...
Spicy Expectations
01 Jan 2025
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A new study used varying levels of hot sauce to test whether the expectation of spice and discomfort impacted the actual experience. Jeff and Anthony ...
History's Greatest Con Man
13 Dec 2024
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In the 19th century, Scottish scammer Gregor MacGregor made a fortune selling land in Poyais. The only problem? Poyais never existed. Jeff and Anthony...
Not-So-Happy Slappy
28 Oct 2024
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The sport of Slap Fighting has taken the Internet by storm over the last year. But would you believe: it is stupid and dangerous? I KNOW. Jeff and Ant...
Blue Food
21 Oct 2024
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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 col...
Lightning Milk
14 Oct 2024
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Among rural communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was taken as fact that a thunderstorm would turn milk sour. Jeff and Anthony look at the jo...
The Strangest Science of 2024
23 Sep 2024
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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 cov...
Inventor of Doom
02 Sep 2024
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Refreezing the Arctic
26 Aug 2024
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Researchers in the Arctic are experimenting with drastic plans to geoengineer away the damaging effects of climate change. Jeff and Anthony look at on...
Bird Detectives
19 Aug 2024
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When birds collide with airplanes, their remains are sent to a special lab in Washington, DC. There, an elite team of avian detectives works to identi...
Wakeful Sleeping
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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? Anth...
Get to the Front of the Line
01 Jul 2024
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Hacking Your Flow State
10 Jun 2024
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By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have...
Monsters in the Walls and in the Tank
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories this week, both involving kids who get more than they bargained for. In the first, a toddler is certain she hears a monster in the walls o...
AI Wants Your Fingerprints
29 May 2024
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No two human fingerprints are alike. Even different fingers from the same person are unique. But new research from Columbia University using an applie...
Sugar Bones
13 May 2024
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Lead for Lunch
15 Apr 2024
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Consumer Reports released a new report on Lunchables in which it found lead and cadmium, and also observed the presence of phthalates, which can impac...
Animals on the Moon
08 Apr 2024
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Dinosaur Anniversary
01 Apr 2024
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It is the 200th anniversary of the first dinosaur discovery, so Jeff and Anthony dig into the story of finding fossils and naming them. It leads them ...
Handwriting Your Memories
27 Mar 2024
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A pair of recent studies suggest that the act of putting pen or pencil to paper increases brain activity and retention when compared to typing words i...
Here's When You're Going To Die
18 Mar 2024
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Statistics are amazing things. This week, Anthony and Jeff dig into the data around death to determine the most likely month and day that people all a...
Citizen Saboteur
04 Mar 2024
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Healing with Your Mind
19 Feb 2024
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The Catpocalypse
12 Feb 2024
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What Your Humor Says About You
22 Jan 2024
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RSVP Anxiety
15 Jan 2024
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Put a Shirt On
09 Jan 2024
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Processing the Process of Processed Food Study
11 Dec 2023
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I Need a Hero
04 Dec 2023
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Peak Fear
27 Nov 2023
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Pave the Moon
13 Nov 2023
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Man the Hunter Debunked
06 Nov 2023
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Rat Ticklers
27 Oct 2023
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Do Opposites Attract (feat. DJ Skat Cat)
16 Oct 2023
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Salty
29 Sep 2023
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Don't Get Hangry
22 Sep 2023
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Leaf of Three, Let it Be
12 Sep 2023
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Howdy Neighbor!
01 Sep 2023
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Intelligence and Personality
25 Aug 2023
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Kitesurfing Cargo
18 Aug 2023
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Beaver Drop
11 Aug 2023
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Zombie Worms from the Permafrost
05 Aug 2023
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Is Dunning-Kruger Wrong?
21 Jul 2023
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Take a Nap
14 Jul 2023
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Your DNA is Everywhere
07 Jul 2023
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Mind Spine Control
30 Jun 2023
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Electricity Out of Thin Air
21 Jun 2023
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Little Brown Pill
09 Jun 2023
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The Chimps are Talking
29 May 2023
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AI Mind Reader
19 May 2023
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500 Days in a Cave
23 Apr 2023
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Mammoth Meatball
14 Apr 2023
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Future Oriented People
07 Apr 2023
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Mister Potato Home
31 Mar 2023
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Floating the Idea of Solar
28 Mar 2023
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Another Brick in the Mall
17 Mar 2023
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The Weight of it All
10 Mar 2023
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Another One Fermi
03 Mar 2023
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Let the Bugs Eat Your Plastic
18 Feb 2023
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18 Again
10 Feb 2023
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Crisis at Earth's Core!
03 Feb 2023
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How Many People Have Ever Lived?
27 Jan 2023
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Work Less, Have More Kids, and Be Kind
20 Jan 2023
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The Quietest Room on Earth
12 Jan 2023
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