Scientists are Planning for Life After Finding Aliens

I get the sense it wouldn’t actually change daily life for most of us at this point. When all of the UAP news was a thing, most people just kept going with their lives. The fact that there are aliens out there isn’t going to change the fact that all of us have bills to pay

People’s Brains Aged Faster During the COVID Pandemic — Even the Uninfected

There was certainly an abnormal amount of stress, but we also kind of shut off the part of our brains we use for interacting with people for a couple of months. Some of us never even turned it back on. That’s definitely going to have consequences.

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Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

Tales From the Blue Line: A nursing student encounters a quiet teenager in a psych ward who claims his reflection is learning, watching, and slowly preparing to take his place in the real world.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Little Man In The Mirror Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Andy Shaw on Trump, Media, and the Future of Politics

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY

This week on What Does It Mean?, John Dempsey reconnects with a longtime friend and Chicago media legend: political reporter, columnist, and former head of the Better Government Association, Andy Shaw.

Andy Shaw on Trump, Media, and the Future of Politics John Dempsey Episode

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Pete Rose, Perfectionism, and the Price of Redemption

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER

Long before Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was indicted or your cousin could bet on Little League from his phone, Pete Rose was baseball’s original gambling pariah. Now, posthumously reinstated and potentially Cooperstown-bound, Rose’s legacy—and the sport’s relationship with vice—is back in the spotlight.

Pete Rose, Perfectionism, and the Price of Redemption John Howell / Rick Telander Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• Workers Feel More Productive During 4-Day Workweek - That makes a lot of sense. You’d certainly be more busy cramming all of your work into four days instead of five

• Budget office says Trump’s tax law will add $3.4 trillion to deficits, leave 10 million uninsured - That seems less than ideal

• After fiancée is found dead, man researches time travel to "correct a horrible mistake" - But if he traveled back in time and prevented her from dying, why would he then invent a time machine if his girlfriend was still alive? And don’t get me started on what would happen if he and his grandfather got in a fight and he killed him

• Optimists' Brains Really Do Think Alike - I like the sound of that

• Feds Crack Down on Organ Removal After 'Horrifying' Finds - Well there’s a new thing I didn’t know I needed to be worried about

• Illinois firefighters rescue escaped snake on a train - Enough is enough. I’ve had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on these Monday to Friday trains

• ‘Chimp Crazy’ star arrested in ongoing saga over treatment of movie-star chimp Tonka - I see this ending well

• A Fortuneteller Claimed He Could Ward Off Evil Spirits. Then He Allegedly Scammed an Elderly Woman Out of Thousands of Dollars - He certainly didn’t predict his arrest…

• Delta flight to Detroit diverted after unruly passenger tries to open exit door, fights with attendant - Yeah, don’t do that

• Largest tagged great white shark in the Atlantic spotted 50 miles off coast of Nantucket - Mayor Vaughn wants you to know the beaches are still open

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