Plastic Cookies
An international NASA contest has resulted in a technology that turn plastic compounds and agricultural waste into proteins. A team from Sou...
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We Have Concerns
Jeff Cannata and Anthony Carboni talk about the personal philosophical concerns they find lurking inside everyday things. It's fun?
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20 of 823 episodesWhat Are You Thinking About?
A new study aims to answer the question central to everyday existence: What dominates our thoughts? Anthony and Jeff break down the data, an...
The Laughter of Apes
Sound doesn’t leave a fossil record, making it difficult to trace the origins of song, speech and language – but researchers have found a wa...
The Chlorine Huckster
A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the...
Has All of Earth's Water been Peed?
As the world's water cycles through the water table, chances are it has been inside a dinosaur or a mammoth at some point. Does that mean al...
Bee Smart
A new study suggests that the average honeybee might be able to use tools in novel ways to solve problems. Anthony and Jeff discuss bee inte...
So vs Oh, with Brian Brushwood
Special Guest Brian Brushwood, from the Modern Rogue, stops by the Anxiety Chamber to discuss a recent study about language. As a magician a...
Are Attention Spans Really Shrinking?
In the age of social media and digital distraction, the pervailing sentiment is that attention spans are shrinking. But is that the truth? J...
I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost
Do you believe a house can be haunted? Scientists interested in finding alternative explanations for reported ghost sightings have found tha...
Cool?
You may be shocked to learn that water will freeze faster when it starts hot than when it starts cool. In fact, all of science was shockled...
Moon Poop
NASA is going back to the moon. Which means one of the biggest unsolved problems still looms large: what to do with all of the human waste w...
Do You Fall for Corporate Bullsh*t?
A researcher at Cornell has designed a Coporate Bullsh*t Receptivity Scale, noting that employees most impressed by corporate nonsense may b...
Time is Perception
A new study comparing the visual capacity of various animals indicates that the perception of time is linked to the pace of their lives. Ant...
Why We Retreat When We're Sick *FIXED*
Do you wanna crawl under the house and hide like a dog when you're sick? You're not alone. I mean, you're alone, you're under the house like...
A Horse is a Horse, of Course of Course
Two stories this week, both involving horses. In the first, a recent study of unearthed bones in Britan reveals that horses were much smalle...
The AI Social Network
A Reddit-style social network called Moltbook lets AI agents post, comment, upvote, and create subcommunities without human intervention. An...
Microplastics aren't a big deal
We've all spent the last couple years being worried about microplastics- but maybe we shouldn't be. More experts have reviewed the original...
You're selfish and you never think about sea urchins
It's about time you considered the lowly sea urchin. It's about time you considered their thoughts and feelings, especially since we have ju...
Discovering the Noperthedron
Can one six-sided cube seamlessly pass through another of equal size? The answer may surprise you. And the quest to discover convex polyhedr...
How Recent is Recently?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'recent' is defined as “having happened or started only a short time ago.” And yet, in...