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Keith Conrad

A collection of stories you might have missed while everyone was focused on the Red Team vs. Blue Team fight

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Episodis

208 episodis

  1. The 1960 doomsday prediction / Floodlighting on first dates / An 8-minute radio signal 11:54
  2. Brain stacking vs. doomscrolling / Gratitude and health / Sleep paralysis, explained 9:45
  3. Morning dread, bedtime worry / Did cavemen keep souvenirs? / When kindness is expected 10:36
  4. A $35 Roman bust at Goodwill / Money secrets we keep / Does revenge feel good? 10:06
  5. NASA wants moon astronauts / The happiness trap / Reading isn’t dead after all 9:47
  6. Bosses distrust AI users / Teens and online-only friends / The ozone hole’s big year 10:42
  7. Neanderthal bedrooms and trash day / Hackers heat up Europe’s fridges / A custodian gets a school 10:16
  8. Middle-age eyesight denial / AI versions of the dead / Fossilized dinosaur blood cells 11:35
  9. NASA’s Mars crew steps out / Lying to doctors for antibiotics / Speed limiters for repeat speeders 11:06
  10. Pilots dozing in the cockpit / Let kids eat all the candy / Voyager 1 nears one light-day 11:04
  11. Birdwatching and your brain / Permanent DST and dark mornings / Caught in a tornado on a bike 12:47
  12. The first ‘psycho boss’ / A giant ship becomes a reef / A new dwarf planet beyond Pluto 10:39
  13. Skipping meals over grocery prices / Robot-dog walkers wanted / More school, less dementia 11:11
  14. Paying to make friends / Betting apps limit winners / Preschool skills pay off at 21 11:09
  15. Gen Z skips the DMV / Would AI tell you when you’ll die? / Can you really pick up an accent? 10:00
  16. Why we love being scared / Social lives and sharp minds / Saving for a first home takes 16 years 10:54
  17. Reading and your brain / Your old Slack chats are for sale / Can married men have friends? 9:31
  18. Having a baby is too expensive, say 4 in 5 parents / A mom let her 5-year-old collect goose feathers and was charged with neglect / 160-million-year-old sea monster vomit found 9:39
  19. One soda a week changes kids’ brains / A whale carried a 19th-century harpoon for over 100 years / A radioactive jet is aimed at Earth 10:01
  20. Birth memories aren’t real — but your brain might still have them / Frequent napping is linked to higher dementia risk / Luna is home 10:43
  21. Living to 200 is theoretically possible / Nearly half of Americans can’t afford basic necessities / Big dogs age faster because of jumping genes 10:58
  22. The American Dream has a price tag: $5.3 million / Amazon built a profile on you and it’s very rude / Pringles will bury you in a can for 200 years of free chips 10:51
  23. Walking is still the best medicine and we have the brain scans to prove it / An AI chip can find cancer cells in blood without any dye / Los Angeles is having its worst mosquito year in a decade 10:00
  24. $100,000 doesn’t go as far as it used to / A substitute teacher was fired over her OnlyFans / You can’t tickle yourself and the reason is fascinating 10:12
  25. Remembering Margaret Hamilton / Halloween candy is up 71% / Your Keurig is doing something and nobody knows what 10:11
  26. Zoom calls at 30,000 feet are becoming a thing / Vegetables are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s / Two thirds of Gen Z have tried psychics or spells to find love 10:54
  27. Man turns 108 and has opinions about your diet / Parents are using AI to skip the school photo racket / Why we're hiding a skeleton in the Mackinac Island house 11:02
  28. Are babies conscious? Researchers think yes, and much earlier than we assumed / Breakfast is the new first date / What happens to your relationships when you stop drinking 11:09
  29. Being a reader is now a dating green flag / Artery plaque is showing up in people under 30 who feel perfectly healthy / The space station might win the Nobel Peace Prize 10:13
  30. Americans stopped believing in college / McDonald's AI decides how much your Big Mac costs — and you'd be surprised how much it varies / 1 in 8 cancers worldwide are caused by infections you can prevent 10:14
  31. Tinder just reinvented the group hangout / 93% of household plastics contain hazardous chemicals / No more drugstore passport photos 10:38
  32. Nobody's coming over anymore / The cost of hobbies is going up and people are spending anyway / Scientists heard a planet's magnetic field for the first time 10:23
  33. The midlife sabbatical sounds great — here's what actually gets in the way / Early retirement is quietly hurting your brain / The case for screaming until you feel better 10:13
  34. Young Americans are dying at historic rates / The little thing that keeps you going / Why adults cut off their parents 10:09
  35. One in five couples think they got it wrong / Mankeeping is burning out the women who do it / Weird Al Yankovic now has an asteroid 10:15
  36. Why time feels faster as you get older — and what you can do about it / Loneliness costs nearly six years of healthy life / Joachim Lanham 9:04
  37. 54% of Americans are running on a full brain / Your brain is actually two organs squished together / America is losing a generation of scientists 10:00
  38. Talking someone out of a conspiracy theory actually works / The US leads the world in serial killers by a long shot / A robot just got FDA approval to draw your blood 11:26
  39. Going out is getting too expensive and Americans are staying home / Toys R Us is back and Geoffrey is off the streets / Schools are now teaching kids to ride bikes 11:17
  40. College is coming apart at the seams / Three minutes with a mini donkey might be the answer / Your parents' longevity is a preview of yours 10:13
  41. The burger has become a luxury item / Singles want commitment more than ever — they just can't figure out how to get there / The dictionary just added looksmaxxing and cuffing season 11:49
  42. What Reading does for your brain / The housing market is about to meet 7% mortgages / Why your kid's wandering attention might be smarter than yours 10:04
  43. Nearly three quarters of Americans are exhausted / A startup is building robot soldiers and the CEO will arm them if asked / Phones at restaurants are the new cigarettes — or are they? 10:23
  44. Praising kids for being smart teaches them to cheat / Great white sharks have moved into Maine / The home feature you didn't know you needed 9:59
  45. Remembering September 11 / Bedroom light is quietly hurting your heart / The Ig Nobels crowned rich people for taking candy from children / Snoop Dogg found a $120,000 marketing budget that worked 10:00
  46. Teens are reading at a level one year behind where they should be / What makes an AI chatbot actually work for older adults / Pokémon cards as post-apocalypse currency 9:40
  47. You can meet people at the gate again / CDs are back and half the buyers don't own a player / Write it down and fall asleep faster 10:01
  48. Being single is actually good for you if you do it right / MapQuest is back and it made a statement / Men skipping showers to attract women and how that's going 11:22
  49. We can't afford to live or die / Illinois set a tornado record nobody wanted / The terrible movie you keep coming back to 10:43
  50. Your ChatGPT confessions can end up in court / 82% of Americans are on autopilot / The marmots of Sequoia have declared war 9:51