Strange News: Amazon is Snitching, Heists in LA, and "Mutant" Soldiers in Ukraine?

Strange News: Amazon is Snitching, Heists in LA, and "Mutant" Soldiers in Ukraine?

Amazon has been giving Ring videos to law enforcement, without the consent of the owners. Someone in LA stole millions' dollars worth of jewelry from a Brinks armored truck. Over in Russia, two politicians are claiming the government of Ukraine, with the help of the US, is experimenting on soldiers. The West keeps calling these alleged supersoldiers 'mutants' -- problem is, that's not what the Russians said, at all. Tune in for all this and more in this week's Strange News.

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The Hazards of Standardized Testing

The Hazards of Standardized Testing

Each and every year, billions of children take some form of standardized tests. In theory these tests help measure how much a child has learned, allowing educators to gauge each kid's progress. Yet st...

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CLASSIC: Free Wifi: Gambling with Your Privacy

CLASSIC: Free Wifi: Gambling with Your Privacy

Public wifi can be an enormously convenient thing -- it helps people dodge data charges in coffee shops, airports and other places around the globe. But how safe is it? Tune in to learn more.They don'...

14 Jun 202251min

Strange News: Historic Cancer Breakthrough, and a Company Decides Not To Put Drones in Schools

Strange News: Historic Cancer Breakthrough, and a Company Decides Not To Put Drones in Schools

The CEO of Axon thought he had a solution to mass shootings in schools: putting taser-equipped drones in public facilities. Axon's ethics board resigned, but the story's not over yet. Researchers reve...

13 Jun 202249min

How To Citizen, with Baratunde Thurston

How To Citizen, with Baratunde Thurston

Most Americans can agree that society isn't perfect -- in fact, most people in other parts of the world can say the same about their own societies. But how can we attempt to address these issues? Is t...

10 Jun 20221h 19min

CLASSIC: Crime, Kidnapping and Organs: The Red Market

CLASSIC: Crime, Kidnapping and Organs: The Red Market

For the majority of human history, a failing vital organ was a death sentence. Yet hard-won lessons from countless tragic medical experiments have given modern humans the amazing ability to swap a fai...

9 Jun 202256min

The Dangers of Outsourcing

The Dangers of Outsourcing

For some, outsourcing is perfectly fine -- for others, it's dangerous. In today's episode, the guys dive into the ins and outs of outsourcing, from the advantages to the drawbacks... to the conspiraci...

8 Jun 20221h 4min

CLASSIC: Are there secret space programs?

CLASSIC: Are there secret space programs?

For millennia humankind has dreamed of reaching the heavens, and in recent decades several countries have begun turning these dreams into reality. Yet the path to the stars isn't all altruism and nobl...

7 Jun 20221h

Strange News: Uncle Sam's Top Secret Plans Exposed (Sort of), AI Cartoons, A Brutal Religious Heist

Strange News: Uncle Sam's Top Secret Plans Exposed (Sort of), AI Cartoons, A Brutal Religious Heist

Brazen thieves make off with priceless religious artifacts in Brooklyn. AI pushes the boundaries of art. Recent sleuthing reveals the US government has a collection of contingency plans for any imagin...

6 Jun 202250min

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