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By Keith Conrad

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

Episode Date
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
Oct 19, 2026
Birth memories aren’t real — but your brain might still have them / Frequent napping is linked to higher dementia risk / Luna is home
Oct 16, 2026
Living to 200 is theoretically possible / Nearly half of Americans can’t afford basic necessities / Big dogs age faster because of jumping genes
Oct 15, 2026
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
Oct 14, 2026
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
Oct 13, 2026
$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
Oct 12, 2026
Remembering Margaret Hamilton / Halloween candy is up 71% / Your Keurig is doing something and nobody knows what
Oct 09, 2026
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
Oct 08, 2026
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
Oct 07, 2026
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
Oct 06, 2026
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
Oct 05, 2026
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
Oct 02, 2026
Tinder just reinvented the group hangout / 93% of household plastics contain hazardous chemicals / No more drugstore passport photos
Oct 01, 2026
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
Sep 30, 2026
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
Sep 29, 2026
Young Americans are dying at historic rates / The little thing that keeps you going / Why adults cut off their parents
Sep 28, 2026
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
Sep 25, 2026
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
Sep 24, 2026
54% of Americans are running on a full brain / Your brain is actually two organs squished together / America is losing a generation of scientists
Sep 23, 2026
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
Sep 22, 2026
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
Sep 21, 2026
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
Sep 18, 2026
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
Sep 17, 2026
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
Sep 16, 2026
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?
Sep 15, 2026
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
Sep 14, 2026
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
Sep 11, 2026
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
Sep 10, 2026
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
Sep 09, 2026
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
Sep 01, 2026
We can't afford to live or die / Illinois set a tornado record nobody wanted / The terrible movie you keep coming back to
Aug 31, 2026
Your ChatGPT confessions can end up in court / 82% of Americans are on autopilot / The marmots of Sequoia have declared war
Aug 28, 2026
Spending for joy and feeling guilty about it / You need a vacation and here's the science / 37% of Americans think UFOs are alien spacecraft
Aug 27, 2026
Kids' sports as investment vehicles / Healthcare anxiety and the money behind it / Do we need an app to stop texting us?
Aug 26, 2026
Your phone is affecting your kid's vocabulary — especially yours / Getting high has never been cheaper / Screenshots are making you forget things
Aug 25, 2026
Ice sales say we're not having a great time / Women win top jobs and earn less for doing it / A Chinese robot just outran Usain Bolt
Aug 24, 2026
Only 1% of lawmakers have ever had a working-class job / Ticks are winning and nobody has a good answer / The drone dropped it in the pool
Aug 21, 2026
LinkedIn is accidentally a dating app / Amazon drones are coming to 500 cities / Fewer people are gambling but you'd never know it from the ads
Aug 20, 2026
The job market is ghosting people / Nearly one in ten Gen Zers has no human contact / New music is killing people on the road
Aug 19, 2026
Memories survive even when the brain nearly shuts off / Doctors need sacred moments — and so do you / The woman who hired a flirting coach and found her husband in 90 days
Aug 18, 2026
86% of young people want to get married and almost none of them are dating / An AI just fired someone — sort of / 52% of Gen Z is betting their retirement savings
Aug 17, 2026
The Couple who walks together stays together / AI just took your whole course for you / There might be something inside psychopaths running the show
Aug 14, 2026
What are you cutting back on — and what won't you touch / Improv class is doing what therapy can't / 260 days at sea with no end date
Aug 13, 2026
Letting your kid play outside alone could get you investigated / Parents are now at the job interview, the performance review, and the layoff / Your dog knows exactly how you feel
Aug 12, 2026
College students are trying to outrun the AI job apocalypse / Having an unexplainable experience is probably fine / The daily routine is the intervention
Aug 11, 2026
The lies that still annoy you / New Orleans put AI on 911 / Your brain on Diet Coke
Aug 10, 2026
Betty Bromage is 97 and she just did something you probably couldn't / Hardship is what opens the door to conspiracy theories / A book shoplifted 40 years ago came back with an apology and $100
Aug 07, 2026
Less misinformation didn't change what anyone believed / Dating apps are training us to see love as optional / An "AI" chatbot is just one guy named Tucker
Aug 06, 2026
Work stress is destroying sleep / Pete Crow-Armstrong isn't sure Babe Ruth existed / It's temptation, not stress, that keeps you online
Aug 05, 2026
HOAs can take your house and more are trying to / Small talk is medicine you hate taking / The State Department lost every country in Africa
Aug 04, 2026
America has run out of places to hang out / Love now costs $106,417 a year / School is wiring a generation for anxiety
Aug 03, 2026
Online scams cost $148 billion and almost nobody reported it / Your brain has a readiness mode for memories — and it's not always on / Marijuana just became America's most popular daily substance
Jul 30, 2026
Hot weather is stealing your sleep / Giving your kid a phone tanks their reading / Sperm whales have vowels and they might be using them on us
Jul 29, 2026
Dating by spreadsheet is where we are now / Most college students can't finish a book anymore / Man spent 33 days alone in the Pacific
Jul 28, 2026
What are you doing about high grocery prices? / The millennial split is real and it runs right through the middle / Not having a career plan might work better
Jul 27, 2026
Murder is at a 100-year low / Your boss wants you in the office for their ego, not your productivity / Japan invented a word for heat that didn't exist before
Jul 24, 2026
A date now costs $189 and here's how to fix that / Living longer but 14 of those years feel terrible / 23 million people are job-locked by health insurance
Jul 23, 2026
A delivery driver just won China's highest literary prize / The case for and against cutting off your parents / Yosemite is what happens when everything else costs too much
Jul 22, 2026
Five cups of coffee is actually fine / He bought a house and found three bodies / The robots are getting armed
Jul 21, 2026
Your parents' money is the new American Dream / Cut your daily choices or your brain will do it for you / China just deleted millions of AI relationships
Jul 20, 2026
Scientists found a nearby planet that might have an ocean / Gen Z is afraid of what they use most / What will the world look like in 2100?
Jul 17, 2026
Gen Z is picking up a wrench instead of a diploma / The pen that saved Apollo 11 just sold for $857,000 / Going to the movies might be keeping you younger
Jul 16, 2026
More people are dying in hospitals against their wishes / We're all micro-moving now / What should we feed our alien overlords?
Jul 15, 2026
Music influencers are secretly selling you songs / AI is quietly pushing out older workers / You can rent a barbecue companion in Russia
Jul 14, 2026
What would you give up for a year in space? / Gaslighting just beat out love / The mRNA verdict is in
Jul 13, 2026
Men's testosterone has halved in 50 years / Brown University's AI cheating scandal / $440,600 is now the median home price
Jul 10, 2026
Walmart is the most American thing at the World Cup / 95 year old is still water skiing / Cannibalism is bad for you, and science can explain why
Jul 09, 2026
Half of America can't afford groceries and gas / Gen X is quietly disappearing / Your brain speaks younger than you do
Jul 08, 2026
A 9-year-old's distress call finally arrived / The man trying to live forever has an incurable disease / Killer robots and who gets to stop them
Jul 07, 2026
Kelsey Pfendler rowed to Hawaii / America is getting lonelier by the numbers / Scientists just woke up sleeping cancer cells with light
Jul 06, 2026
In the future you won't own anything / Fast walkers have much better brains / Even "good" lies aren't good
Jul 03, 2026
Way to not murder people, America / Science says gossip is good for your gene pool / You can now rent a dog by the hour
Jul 02, 2026
Graduation is for high school and I will die on this hill / America lives twice as long as it did at its founding / Good news: not cancer. Bad news: worms
Jul 01, 2026
The gambling math nobody talks about / A cup of yogurt and a daily walk / Why losing hurts more than winning feels good
Jun 30, 2026
The empty nest is full again / Growing up gets less scary with time / Does moving abroad actually change you?
Jun 29, 2026
Negotiating with a woman gets you more, even if you don't know it / Humans might already be able to regenerate body parts / Your old phone is worth more than you think
Jun 26, 2026
Almost nobody trusts AI, but what does "trust" even mean / The 6-year-old who shopped alone in Tokyo / Five minutes of walking buys back your whole day
Jun 25, 2026
Anxious teens don't remember the good stuff / Five days of silence nearly broke a brain / Feeling poorer than your peers wrecks you, even if you're not
Jun 24, 2026
Empty-shell marriages are ending / Your brain wasn't built for this much bad news / The $1 million starter home
Jun 23, 2026
A quarter of "normal weight" people aren't / Trust in government just hit a new low / Your brain prefers paper
Jun 22, 2026
The American Dream is fading, but most still want it / A cure for cancer might actually be realistic / The bees have been judging us this whole time
Jun 19, 2026
What successful marriages have in common / Faking the shopping cart for the dopamine hit / Even with proof, you'd still have to pay rent
Jun 18, 2026
Showing up as a goblin on the first date / Your phone is a FOMO machine / Perfectionists are miserable and there are more of them than ever
Jun 17, 2026
Are you tracking your adult child / Dark humor means you're a genius, science says / You and your dog have more in common than you think
Jun 16, 2026
The cat is out of the bag on human gene editing / Gen X is borrowing from their parents at 60 / Why some people are always the giver
Jun 15, 2026
Living with nuns is a real option now / Solar just beat coal / Should you be able to design your child?
Jun 12, 2026
A year of college now costs $100,000 / She said "that's the law" about noodles / Why fact-checking doesn't change minds
Jun 11, 2026
The restaurant that stopped charging / Why June is disappearing / Gen Z can't read a sentence
Jun 09, 2026
Remote work is making us lonelier than we realized / What it means to be a man in 2026 / Gen Z has gone quiet online
Jun 08, 2026
Jesus didn't turn water into Brawndo / Perfect randomness exists now / Nearly 1 in 5 seniors are still working
Jun 05, 2026
Gen X and Elder Millennials are dying faster / Art Ulene is climbing a mountain for his 90th birthday / What's your worst office story
Jun 04, 2026
Your worst trip ever / The solitude influencer / 55,000 cancers nobody caught
Jun 03, 2026
Remote work is why young people can't find jobs / What are you grateful for / The summer that isn't happening
Jun 02, 2026
You're more cynical than your friends think / We probably won't get alien visitors / Go take a nap — seriously
Jun 01, 2026
Gradually, then suddenly / How betting apps are recruiting your kids / Please stop poking the flight attendants
May 29, 2026
Gen Z is paying $300 to make friends at the gym / Time can go negative, apparently / The single parent happiness gap
May 28, 2026
The fun is gone and Dave and Busters knows it / Half of us regret our degree / What would Dublin say?
May 27, 2026
Six in ten Americans cut back on groceries / Put down the laptop, pick up the pencil / Trust your gut
May 26, 2026
Artemis II inspired a generation / Luis Salazar found $30,000 and did the right thing / 80% of how you age is your call
May 21, 2026
High school is rough and the data proves it / Your master's degree might not save you / The goodest of boys
May 20, 2026
Why you're right-handed / A free house with a catch / Are our brains shrinking?
May 19, 2026
Science says $111,000 is enough / Woman is becoming a doctor at 72 / Gen Z is at the mall
May 18, 2026
Someone paid off 200 kids' student loans / The guy who got his Bitcoin back / Tarot readers need help from AI too
May 15, 2026
Kids have stopped reading / Dads are finally showing up at home / 11 million kids with a parent in the system
May 14, 2026
What would you bring back from childhood / Give us some good news / There's a version of you doing better than this
May 13, 2026
Young people have never been this pessimistic about jobs / Everyone needs recess / Someone was living in their basement
May 12, 2026
Your early 50s might be the best it gets / Good news for anxious worriers / Don't do it, Hadzabe
May 11, 2026
What did you hide from your parents? / Sleep is more important than you know / Four people pretending to be on Mars
May 08, 2026
Politics cost us a third of our friendships / More afraid of going broke than dying / Your coffee is basically medicine
May 07, 2026
What would it cost to buy your peace of mind? / People are trying to buy Spirit Airlines / Finally, eggs are good for you again
May 06, 2026
Gen X is never retiring / Channel your rage into the gym / There are more men than the world needs right now
May 05, 2026
One in three Americans is having an existential crisis / Your brain is dreaming right now / Spirit Airlines is gone
May 04, 2026
Americans haven't felt this broke in 25 years / What are we doing to babies / The face from Pompeii
Apr 29, 2026
Your dreams are training you / He came back as a hologram / Nobody knows what an AI-proof major is
Apr 28, 2026
What time would you escape to? / The dating recession is real / Your summer trip just got more expensive
Apr 27, 2026
Grown-ups are pregaming again / Put down the phone for a month / Seeds can hear the rain
Apr 24, 2026
Two in five Americans cut someone off / The most expensive mistake at work / The family that lied with AI
Apr 23, 2026
Stuck and underpaid / Your water opinions are wrong / Life once existed on Mars, maybe
Apr 22, 2026
Being wrong is actually good for you / Touch grass, literally / Sometimes the voices are right
Apr 21, 2026
Middle-aged Americans are struggling / Feeling good isn't enough / The world is running out of people
Apr 20, 2026
Loneliness is already affecting your memory / The pilots who meowed on the radio / The cancer gap nobody talks about
Apr 17, 2026
A drug that could give your dog more time / Put the phone in the colander / She was trying to beat her record
Apr 16, 2026
What's in your nightmare / The airplane seat that might actually work / The world needs more Dan Simpsons
Apr 15, 2026
Parents spending $50K to land their kid a job / Loneliness linked to suicide risk / AI can predict your diseases 20 years out
Apr 14, 2026
They're home from the Moon / The pet debt crisis is real / Gen Z thinks AI is rotting their brain
Apr 13, 2026
Gen Z packed an anxiety bag / Put the phone down for a week / Workers are sabotaging AI
Apr 10, 2026
Depression costs more than you think / Marriage might save your life / Your $22 smoothie is actually rational
Apr 09, 2026
Your brain needs more than Netflix / The housing dream is fading / We say we give but we don't
Apr 08, 2026
Farther than any human in history / Should we ban kids from social media? / How do you know what's real?
Apr 07, 2026
Training your robot replacement / Seniors can't afford to live alone / Kids or financial freedom
Apr 06, 2026
The girl who remembers everything / We've stopped talking / Humans have always gambled
Apr 03, 2026
Three months from broke / Gas hits four dollars / Is your degree worth it?
Apr 02, 2026
Kids won't fix your happiness / Work feels like a funeral / Gen Z is napping through lunch
Apr 01, 2026
Kids just want to be free / Social media is making college lonely / Your seat could save your life
Mar 31, 2026
Your AI is lying to you / Reproducing in space is complicated / Egypt just got weirder
Mar 30, 2026
Can school houses build belonging? / When connections beat merit / One incredible career journey
Mar 27, 2026
How colleges are adapting to AI / Why everything feels more expensive / What we get better at with age
Mar 26, 2026
Is this a dating green flag? / The tough reality for new grads / How people actually change their minds
Mar 25, 2026
Why we love finding Easter eggs / Why we give our side a pass / The real cost of owning a pet
Mar 24, 2026
Doctors may prescribe nature / Why HOAs feel like a second mortgage / When does wealth feel like too much?
Mar 23, 2026
AI brings actors back to life / The meaning of 867-5309 changes / Proof people have always been sarcastic
Mar 20, 2026
Why bad behavior sticks around in Congress / How common dark thoughts really are / A robot goes berserk
Mar 19, 2026
Gen Z discovers the benefits of being bored / AI is changing our opinions about things / Do you close your eyes to hear better?
Mar 18, 2026
Reading the reviews can re-wire your brain / Bad news for fans of corporate synergy / Flying might become more of an ordeal
Mar 17, 2026
More young people are having memory issues / Scientists learned nothing from Jurassic Park / Your annoying relatives might be killing you
Mar 16, 2026
People just aren't going to movie theaters anymore / The Tooth Fairy is super expensive / Scientists make a Google Map for the body
Mar 13, 2026
1/3 of Americans believe they'll see the end of the world / Get ready for flying cars / Hot weather doesn't bother you as much as you think
Mar 12, 2026
Teens are spending most of the school day on their phones / Why you can't remember where the remote is / Why haven't we heard from aliens?
Mar 11, 2026
Young people are taking up "Old People" hobbies / Open offices might cause bullying / Certain people are more drawn to conspiracy theories
Mar 10, 2026
Dealing with jerks might be shortening your life / It's important to be able to laugh at yourself / Forgiveness might be overrated
Mar 09, 2026
No one hates Americans more than... other Americans / United Airlines wants you to use headphones. Or else / One third of Gen Z men kind of suck
Mar 06, 2026
More evidence you're probably never going to be able to retire / People are seeing aliens on drugs / Betting on nuclear detonations
Mar 05, 2026
What does a good life at 95 look like to you? / What completely unreasonable fear do you have? / Civilization is probably doomed
Mar 04, 2026
Is having two jobs just the normal thing now? / Blood test could tell you how long you have left / Get ready for deepfake spam calls
Mar 03, 2026
It's not just houses, no one can afford anything / People feel good about their lives but bad about everyone else's / They're taking bets on aliens
Mar 02, 2026
What should be in America's time capsule? / Feel free to wear pajamas at the airport / You probably have a little Neanderthal in you
Feb 27, 2026
Does having children make you happier? / Dating in 2026 is basically a minefield / Get ready for adult gym class
Feb 26, 2026
More than half of teens are using chatbots for schoolwork / Grandpa probably should hold office / Get ready for a big announcement from Bigfoot?
Feb 25, 2026
You need to make how much to afford kids? / Police are on the look out for suspicious Googling / Reading will help you in old age
Feb 24, 2026
Gen Z is delaying everything in life / Single men might need to re-think their lives / How to know if a chimp is flirting with you
Feb 23, 2026
Would you vote for family in the "other" political party? / Fighter jets can be 'jailbroken' like an iPhone / Trump vs Obama on aliens
Feb 20, 2026
Too much time on social media might make you lonely / Would you retire to a cruise ship? / Get ready for the global coffee shortage
Feb 19, 2026
Adults need to make time to play / You're still never going to get to retire / Start planning your next Sleepcation, which is apparently a thing
Feb 18, 2026
We might be causing AI to hallucinate / Is it a good idea to "Protect" kids from technology? / How would you react to aliens?
Feb 17, 2026
75% of us are suffering from burnout / Worrying about aging makes you age faster / Pres. Obama says aliens are real
Feb 16, 2026
Scientists find the secret to happiness / Is the American Dream dead / Social media exec has shocking stance on social media addiction
Feb 13, 2026
Facebook wants you to keep posting after you're dead / Get ready for AI therapists / You really can bet on everything
Feb 12, 2026
American optimism hits a new low / What should people know how to do when they leave high school? / Don't use ChatGPT as a doctor
Feb 11, 2026
Paying people to navigate the hellish job market / Get ready for "Polyworking" / Gen Z doesn't know how to meet people
Feb 10, 2026
Gird your loins for the affordability crisis / The national debt is less than ideal / Age really does beat beauty
Feb 09, 2026
Are we undergoing a process of generational dumbening? / Can money buy happiness? / Attack of the baseball player chatbots
Feb 06, 2026
There's a giant freaking red flag for the economy waving around right now / No one wants to be alone on Valentine's Day / Attack of the brain-eating amoebas
Feb 05, 2026
Blame your dad for your bad health / Should we ban kids from using social media? / You might be ruining your sleep
Feb 04, 2026
Is AI Making Us Lonely or Are We Using AI Because We're Lonely? / How Much Control Does Your Employer Have Over Your Daily Life? / Enough with the Remakes
Feb 03, 2026
Would you lock yourself away for a whole year? / You're not going to live forever / It might be a good idea to take your passport everywhere
Feb 02, 2026
Life expectancy hits a new high / Get ready for robot teachers / Astronomers might have found a new neighbor
Jan 30, 2026
Men are feigning interest in things to get dates... shocking / How about getting rid of property taxes? / They have prediction markets for everything
Jan 29, 2026
What antiquated technology should we bring back? / Embarrassing childhood memories / Slightly closer to doomsday
Jan 28, 2026
What's your exhibit in the Museum of Personal Failure? / Getting paid to make friends / Would you want to live to be 150?
Jan 27, 2026
How are you using AI at work? / The airport behavior that makes everybody mad / How to be kind at work
Jan 26, 2026
Is your cell phone killing you? (Probably not) / Remember that you're always on camera / Watch out for exploding trees
Jan 23, 2026
Should there be an age limit for politicians? / How much of your life do you lose to your commute? / PETA tries to ruin Groundhog Day
Jan 22, 2026
Education doesn't make you immune to conspiracy theories / How much money is 23 years of your life worth? / Get ready for the era of cheap weddings
Jan 21, 2026
Short attention span theater / Learn the age your body starts falling apart / Cows have learned how to use tools
Jan 20, 2026
What's your mundane bucket list item? / Letter writing is making a comeback / Aliens might have an impact on your back account
Jan 19, 2026
Gemini AI is going to remember everything you do / Horses can smell your fear / Some scientists haven't seen Jurassic Park and it shows
Jan 16, 2026
Young Americans are unplugging / Is it a good idea to ban cell phones in schools? / You need to get up and do some jumping jacks right now
Jan 15, 2026
Flying in space really messes with your brain / You can book a hotel stay on the Moon / Let's ban politicians from lying
Jan 14, 2026
What helps you get through the workday slog? / Would you rather have a better job title or more money? / App does a wellness check on remote workers
Jan 13, 2026
What do you refuse to spend money on? / Learning about your spouse before you get married / Sending a Rubik's cube to space
Jan 12, 2026