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Podcast: Charlie Bit My Ticonderoga
After Things: Battle Drones
Podcast: To Serve Man
After Things: French Fry Blinders
After Things is the official after show of Weird Things Podcast. Tracing the lineage of Rick and Morty as an example of evolving creative ideas. Andrew’s experience writing outside of the home to remove distractions. How to hit your own...
Podcast: Mad Things
After Things: Age of Marvel?
Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Again After 125 Years – Continue Terrifying Everyone Who Hears Them
Thomas Edison once took a break from electrocuting animals to turn his attention to making dolls for little girls. Because he was the go-to guy at the time for recording voices, he thought it might be cool to make those dolls speak. And...
Podcast: Hotpants of Thanos
Worm Vomits Roots – Wait…Nope. That’s Its Hand
BEFORE you press play on that video (we’re sure some of you just went for it anyway) put down whatever it is you’re eating. This is a ribbon worm called a Gorgonorhynchus. When it senses nearby prey it launches what looks like a root out...
After Things: Table of Defeat
Weird Sounds Recorded in the Sky by Grad Student
On August 9th of 2014 graduate student Daniel Bowman sent infrasound microphones into the 19 miles into the sky above Earth just out of reach of planes but well below actually being in space. For 9 hours and for over 400 miles the...
Podcast: I’m Not Upset
After Things: Follow What You Love
Meet “Han” the Ultra-Realistic-Looking Robot Bust… And a reminder that we’re all doomed.
Hanson Robotics (no the “MmmBop” band hasn’t regrouped and out to destroy us with robots blaring their only memorable song as retribution) has been hard at work creating our future robot overlords in the form of…um…us. Recently on display...
Podcast: Flakka Flakka Flakka
After Things: Watched Projects Never Boil
Podcast: Star Wars Things
After Things: Basic Skills
Russian Man Volunteers for First – Probably Last – Head Transplant by Controverisal Neuroscientist
Ripped right out of hundreds of science fiction, comic book and horror stories comes news that a Russian man has decided to be a medical guinea pig or possibly a pioneer…. By having his head removed and attached to another body. Suffering...