Did aliens spy on our nuclear tests? Study finds signs of UFOs near US sites in 1950s

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

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…

Auditory Anthology

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

Tales From the Blue Line - Cargo Shorts Bigfoot - 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.

Tales From the Blue Line - Cargo Shorts Bigfoot Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans

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.

The Shocking (But Not Surprising) Ryder Cup Fans John Howell / Rick Telander Episode

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Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County

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.

Inside Operation Greylord: The Undercover Mission That Shook Cook County John Dempsey Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• One long walk beats short strolls for a healthy heart, study says - 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 - 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 - They’re more impulsive. Imagine that

• Man Charged After Stabbing Two Teenagers with a Fork on a Flight From Chicago to Germany - 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 - Well underwater objects wouldn’t exactly be hanging out in Colorado, now would they?

• Infinite Sadness: Man Arrested For Smashing Pumpkins Worth About $500 - Billy Corgan was unavailable for comment

• 10-Year-old Girl Invited to Join Mensa After Dyslexia Test Revealed She Has Top 1% IQ - 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’ - Maybe they’re just enthusiastic for the World Series

• Truck hauling monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes and COVID overturns on highway - Who had “Disease-riddled monkey invasion” for October?

• Ancient Mayan Astronomers Perfected a 700-Year System for Eclipse Prediction, New Study Reveals - They weren’t so great at predicting the end of the world though