Strange News: Russian Oligarchs are Endangered, Musk Buys Twitter and a Man Threatens Merriam-Webster

Strange News: Russian Oligarchs are Endangered, Musk Buys Twitter and a Man Threatens Merriam-Webster

Deaths of 2 Russian oligarchs within 48 hours add to wave of executives found dead in ‘suspicious’ circumstances. Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter prompts a discussion about the nature of a privately-owned public sphere. A definition of 'girl' prompts one man to send internet death threats to the staff of Merriam-Webster. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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Strange News: Breathe Through Your Butt, Steal Chairs, Watch the Skies and Oh, Tight: a Foreign Base in the US?

Strange News: Breathe Through Your Butt, Steal Chairs, Watch the Skies and Oh, Tight: a Foreign Base in the US?

A team of crack scientists may save lives by helping humans breathe through their butts. Europe busts an international chair heist ring. The AI war against humanity escalates (also, no one's sure exac...

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CLASSIC: The Lost City of Ubar: The True Story of "The Atlantis of the Sands"

CLASSIC: The Lost City of Ubar: The True Story of "The Atlantis of the Sands"

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Protests against systemic injustice and police brutality are sweeping the United States and the world at large. In the US, protesting isn't just a tactic -- it is a right, explicitly described in the ...

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CLASSIC: Stratospheric Aerosol Injections: Saving the World with Chemtrails

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CLASSIC: The Santa Susana Field Experiment Coverup

Most US residents are vaguely familiar with the nuclear disaster known as Three Mile Island -- but that's only one of several similar stories. Join the guys as they explore the strange events of July ...

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CLASSIC: The 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks: Who was actually responsible?

CLASSIC: The 2001 Anthrax Letter Attacks: Who was actually responsible?

Mere days after the horrific events of 9/11, someone began sending letters laced with anthrax spores to senators and the offices of major media outfits -- by the time the attacks ended, seventeen peop...

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The Strava Leaks

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The modern world is full of apps -- and we don't mean appetizers. Apps are tiny programs that can do countless neat, convenient things... often with a catch. As Ben, Matt and Noel discover in tonight'...

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CLASSIC: Whatever happened to Julian Assange?

CLASSIC: Whatever happened to Julian Assange?

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