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Couples Who Do This Together Have Stronger, Healthier Marriages

It’s exercise together. Misty and I go for a walk every day, weather permitting. It’s definitely nice to have that time together if nothing else. What’s your together time activity?

College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software

Unless the course in question is literally “How to use AI to create shortcuts for things,” I don’t think that’s a great idea

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

Pink Grass Planet by Sam Merwin Jr. - After five years stationed on the alien world of Lri-gTu-riANa, Ricardo Webb finally makes it home to Earth, his fiancée, and everything familiar he’s been dreaming about — only to discover that “home” doesn’t feel quite the way he remembers it.

Pink Grass Planet by Sam Merwin Jr. Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• Organisms Living Inside Psychopaths Could Be Driving Bad Behavior, Scientists Claim - If it turns out psychopaths are listening to tiny talking organisms, that’s literally the plot of one of the Futurama movies

• Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In - I’m not a parent, so I won’t judge too harshly. But I have a feeling that’s not going to result in a particularly well-adjust adult when he grows up

• Teens With More Unstructured Free Time More Likely To Have Broken The Law, 21-Country Study Finds - Left to their own devices, teenagers are up to no good. Tale as old as time. Maybe another argument for a “Third place”

• Scientists detect life-sustaining air deep underground, raising profound questions - We should add “Journey to the Center of the Earth” to the News Sidequest book club. What Jules Verne story do you think will come true next?

• How 10 minutes of drawing can reset your nervous system - I just drew a stick person and suddenly had an idea for how to solve the trolly problem

• Rapid-fire earthquakes strike ‘America’s most dangerous fault line’ in California - That's great. It starts with an earthquake. What’s next? Birds and snakes? An airplane? Meanwhile, Lenny Bruce is not afraid

• Person Fined After Polar Bear Woken by Ship’s Foghorn - I see no problem with this. As a matter of fact, I think anyone who wakes me up should be hit with a fine too

• Young wild octopuses may form a ‘fight club’ and slap territorial fish if they get too close - Imagine all of those arms coming at you. It would a suction cup-filled nightmare

• Escaped tortoise found after 2 weeks, over 12 miles from home - That’s about 0.04 MPH. Which is pretty on-brand for a tortoise. They must not have been looking very hard for him

• Tomb Raiders Breaking Into Cemeteries Across U.S. to Steal From the Dead, Florida Deputies Say - I’m not sure there’s ever a “good” time to steal from the dead, but can we not risk awakening any ancient curses with everything else going on in the world right now?