Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More

Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More

A scandal rocks Europe as an international group of nuns is exposed as a secret Russian spy ring. You can pay a million dollars for a hotel on the moon. Farts might save you from Alzheimer’s, and cows may be the newest confirmed non-human tool users. The Bank of England is worried about aliens. All this and more in this week’s strange news segment.

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Wells Fargo's Imaginary Customers

Wells Fargo's Imaginary Customers

Wells Fargo is one of the most popular retail banks in the United States, and its gigantic customer base uses it for everything from savings accounts to loans and more. However, a few years bank the b...

20 Mai 202057min

Operation Infektion: Russia's AIDS Conspiracy

Operation Infektion: Russia's AIDS Conspiracy

HIV and AIDS, the syndrome the infection causes, have become the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Over the decades people have proposed the infection was purposely designed to kill certain seg...

15 Mai 202050min

At What Price Safety: The Conundrum of Clearview AI

At What Price Safety: The Conundrum of Clearview AI

Clearview AI -- according to its champions, the software from this facial recognition company makes the world a safer place by allowing for more efficient recognition of criminals, terrorists and so o...

13 Mai 202057min

COVID IV: Too Soon or Too Late?

COVID IV: Too Soon or Too Late?

As governments work to fight COVID-19 and industries struggle to survive, more and more people are concerned society will never actually return to normal. World leaders have been disappearing (and rea...

8 Mai 20201h 5min

Forced Assimilation of Native People

Forced Assimilation of Native People

For centuries the U.S. government conspired to persecute, attack and marginalize the native population. When open warfare became too expensive, some factions of the government proposed a different app...

6 Mai 202055min

What Happened to Emanuela Orlandi?

What Happened to Emanuela Orlandi?

On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Vatican City resident Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson. Over the decades, numerous people claimed to have seen Orlandi, or reached out with l...

1 Mai 202050min

Betty and Barney Hill: The UFO Case that Changed Everything, with Toby Ball

Betty and Barney Hill: The UFO Case that Changed Everything, with Toby Ball

In September of 1961, on an empty country road in rural New Hampshire, Barney and Betty Hill experienced the most profound, bizarre night of their lives in what would become the first widely-publicize...

29 Apr 202056min

Your News Agency or the CIA: The Story of Operation Mockingbird

Your News Agency or the CIA: The Story of Operation Mockingbird

Propaganda has always been a powerful tool, and humanity's recent technological innovations have only amplified its reach. Long-standing laws in the US were meant to prevent US propaganda for foreign ...

24 Apr 202051min

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