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AI vs. pro gambler’s $1 million March Madness bet coming down to Duke and Houston [ [link removed] ]
It’s a little like John Henry… except with gambling
I’m spending my kids’ inheritance to teach them the value of money [ [link removed] ]
Setting a good example for future generations or just a typical Boomer trying to rationalize what they were doing anyway?
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
This week’s story is Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton. On a desolate Martian plain, a discarded spacesuit stuffed with straw sways from a homing tower—left behind by a crew fleeing the silent guilt of having unknowingly ignited the slow, unstoppable destruction of an alien civilization hidden beneath the dust.
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AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
John Howell welcomes Colby Hall, founding editor of Mediaite.com and Peabody Award-winning TV producer, for a discussion that spanned Trump’s curious obsession with Canada and Greenland, media manipulation, and the Democratic Party’s struggles to define itself.
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Amateurs No More: College Sports, Cash, and the End of Illusions [ [link removed] ]
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander dive into the billion-dollar business of college athletics—and the increasingly blurry line between amateurism and professionalism.
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The Best Age to Get Married, Have a Kid, Retire [ [link removed] ] - Basically, if you don’t have your act together by your mid-20’s, you’re doomed
Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes [ [link removed] ] - That’s less than ideal
Maryland woman uses odometer numbers to win $100,000 lottery prize [ [link removed] ] - Seems like a fairly Rube Goldbergian random number generator, but it’s working for her
San Francisco park-naming contest goes hilariously wrong [ [link removed] ] - You’d think the naming contests would have ended after the Boaty McBoatface debacle, but here we are
A church in England opens its doors to pro wrestling in a bid to attract converts [ [link removed] ] - Why not? Jesus took a figurative steel chair to sin and death
Laughing gas appears to reduce depression, but researchers don't totally understand why [ [link removed] ] - Laughing is good for you
Giant Mars balloon escapes Kennedy Center plaza, rolls toward highway [ [link removed] ] - That had to make for some fun 911 calls
Man Keeps Getting Evicted from Rented Apartments Because of Pet Buffalo Calf [ [link removed] ] - There are probably people who have bigger dogs than that
Family of man who allegedly urinated on chip rack at gas station pays for damages [ [link removed] ] - When you gotta go, you gotta go
The scientist rewriting DNA, and the future of medicine [ [link removed] ] - It’s worked out great in every single sci-fi story
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