From News Sidequest from Keith Conrad <[email protected]>
Subject Americans are too broke to have kids / How to avoid making mistakes / No one is controlling the weather
Date May 7, 2025 12:01 AM
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Americans are having fewer kids due to money concerns: LendingTree survey [ [link removed] ]
That doesn’t seem surprising. The fact that 77% of parents said parenthood is more expensive than they thought isn’t doing a great job to sell it. $5000 isn’t going to solve that, either.
Never Make a Bad Choice Again by Embracing Self-Nudging [ [link removed] ]
They say you can make better decisions by changing your environment. A lot of bad decisions could probably be avoided by moving your smart phone to another room
More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…
Auditory Anthology [ [link removed] ]
SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line: While adjusting to the night shift at a rural Mississippi hospital, a new nurse begins to suspect that reality itself is shifting around her—and that she may be the only one who notices.
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Matt Lewis: Trump's Tariffs Could Be His 'Afghanistan Moment' [ [link removed] ]
AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
Political commentator Matt Lewis joined John Howell to break down what he sees as a turning point in Donald Trump’s post-presidency: the new wave of tariffs that Lewis believes may be the former president’s political undoing
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Is There Life Beyond Earth? Astronaut Tom Jones Weighs In on Breakthrough Discovery [ [link removed] ]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY
John Dempsey speaks with retired NASA astronaut, planetary scientist, and author Tom Jones about one of the most exciting astronomical discoveries in recent memory: possible signs of life on an alien planet.
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Also Worth A Look…
A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them [ [link removed] ] - I wonder where they’d be getting ideas like this…
Women are more attracted to BALD men, study reveals [ [link removed] ] - The entire pharmaceutical industry is hardest hit
Runaway tortoise missing for 9 months found just one mile from home [ [link removed] ] - Clearly they weren’t looking for that little guy very hard
Pete Hegseth Had at Least 12 Signal Chats for Pentagon Business [ [link removed] ] - How did he even manage to keep 12 group chats straight?
Animatronic dinosaurs stolen from Thurrock hotel car park [ [link removed] ] - What would you even do with a stolen animatronic dinosaur? It’s not like you could turn around and sell it
Police find ‘Chewy’ the raccoon with a meth pipe in its mouth, leads to drug bust [ [link removed] ] - I’m sure police are constantly hearing “It’s the raccoon’s fault”
16-year-old becomes youngest to receive Ph.D. in the US, university claims [ [link removed] ] - Nobody likes a show off
Man arrested after sitting naked in St. Louis Airport terminal [ [link removed] ] - What’s with the sudden intersection of nudity and air travel?
Britain preparing for an attack by Russia and updating ‘secret war plans’ [ [link removed] ] - That’s less than ideal
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