Plastics, Microplastics and Conspiracy
Look around -- how many objects in your immediate vicinity contain plastic? This malleable, durable material has become ubiquitous -- you can find in the depths of the oceans, at the summits of the hi...
23 Sep 202050min
CLASSIC: Cicadas, Ciphers and Codes: The Weird World of Cryptography
For much of recorded history, humans beings have been trying to devise unbreakable codes (and break the codes of their rivals). But is there any truly unbreakable code? And what exactly is Cicada 3301...
22 Sep 202016min
Strange News: Orcas Attack, AI Writes Op-eds, and Portland Bans All Facial Recognition
A pod of Orcas is attacking ships. An 'artificial intelligence' writes an op-ed. Portland, Oregon, bans facial recognition. All this and more in this week's Strange News. Learn more about your ad-cho...
21 Sep 202055min
Auras
For millennia, people in civilizations across the planet have claimed to perceive intangible energy emanating from people, animals, plants -- and even inanimate objects. And, in recent centuries, scie...
18 Sep 202050min
Listener Mail: Reiki, Cruise Ships and Iron Mountain
What is life like for the actual staff of a cruise ship? Could Reiki function as physical healing? What exactly is Iron Mountain? All this and more in this week's edition of listener mail. Learn more...
17 Sep 202043min
The Flordelis Cult
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza is a politician and cultural icon in Brazil. For a time, she and her husband Anderson Do Carmo were an evangelical power couple - along with their more than 50 adopted an...
16 Sep 202052min
CLASSIC: Operation Snow White
What was the most widespread infiltration of the US government? According to some sources, it came from within. Tune in to learn more about the story of Operation Snow White -- and why the Church of S...
15 Sep 202020min
Strange News: Wildfires, Mysterious Mail Dumps, and How Plants Reveal the Dead
A 'gender reveal' party in California has created a massive wildfire. Someone dumped loads of mail in the parking lot of a beauty salon. Science reveals how plants grow differently around corpses -- a...
14 Sep 202052min
