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Did aliens spy on our nuclear tests? Study finds signs of UFOs near US sites in 1950s [ [link removed] ]
Or maybe the nukes caused some atmospheric shenanigans that were mistaken for UFO’s
More friends, more division: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization [ [link removed] ]
That’s interesting to me. You’d think having bigger friend groups would mean you’d be exposed to more perspectives, which would lead to less polarization. Of course if your friend group is all people you know from that political Discord channel, I guess that wouldn’t be the case
More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…
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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line - Cargo Shorts Bigfoot [ [link removed] ] - A small-town TV reporter’s quiet late shift is hilariously interrupted by a local family reporting a bizarre Bigfoot sighting near the highway, sparking a town-wide debate over whether the creature was eight feet tall or simply a six-foot-three basketball player in khaki cargo shorts.
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The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans [ [link removed] ]
THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL & RICK TELANDER
John Howell and Rick Telander take aim at what might seem like a niche topic — bad behavior at the Ryder Cup — but turns it into something much bigger: a diagnosis of America’s national mood.
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Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County [ [link removed] ]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY
John Dempsey sits down with Terry Hake, the man who became the federal government’s key undercover operative in Operation Greylord, one of the most significant judicial corruption investigations in American history.
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Also Worth A Look…
One long walk beats short strolls for a healthy heart, study says [ [link removed] ] - Get up and get moving. We need to keep you around for a while
How to Reset Your Internal Alarm Clock After Daylight Savings Time Ends [ [link removed] ] - The most helpful and productive thing you can do is complain about it to your co-workers on the Monday after the change
Scientists Discover a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People [ [link removed] ] - They’re more impulsive. Imagine that
Man Charged After Stabbing Two Teenagers with a Fork on a Flight From Chicago to Germany [ [link removed] ] - I’m most surprised by the fact that someone would even have a fork on an airplane
UFO tracker shows thousands of eerie underwater objects lurking along US coasts [ [link removed] ] - Well underwater objects wouldn’t exactly be hanging out in Colorado, now would they?
Infinite Sadness: Man Arrested For Smashing Pumpkins Worth About $500 [ [link removed] ] - Billy Corgan was unavailable for comment
10-Year-old Girl Invited to Join Mensa After Dyslexia Test Revealed She Has Top 1% IQ [ [link removed] ] - I’ll bet she doesn’t run around saying “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV” to everyone
Mystery as ‘blue dogs’ spotted roaming as experts are baffled - ‘weren’t blue last week’ [ [link removed] ] - Maybe they’re just enthusiastic for the World Series
Truck hauling monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes and COVID overturns on highway [ [link removed] ] - Who had “Disease-riddled monkey invasion” for October?
Ancient Mayan Astronomers Perfected a 700-Year System for Eclipse Prediction, New Study Reveals [ [link removed] ] - They weren’t so great at predicting the end of the world though
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