Strange News: Uncle Sam's Top Secret Plans Ex...

In this week's listener mail segment: Colin inspires a conversation about the nature of understanding the news -- and why 'triangulating' conflicting news sources remains crucial. Newly-hired to Illumination Global, Unlimited, Calamatiy Chris weighs in with some work notes. Dory ...  Show more

Here's the story: In October of 1943, hundreds of people watched a top secret experiment go horribly wrong. The US Navy, attempting to create a kind of invisibility cloak for ships, accidentally transported the USS Eldridge through time and space, with disastrous consequences for ...  Show more

Plus, a brazen heist at the Louvre. 

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Clashes in Gaza Reveal Cease-Fire’s Fragility, With Rougher Road Ahead by David M. H ...

Residents of a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, rioted and attempted to dismantle a coronavirus testing center, fearing it would only spread the disease. A dog led a high-speed car chase in Washington. And forget toilet paper -- people are hoarding Nintendo Switches (and sex ...  Show more

Journalist Carl Stern stumbles upon a single, curious codeword in the burglarized documents: COINTELPRO. As shocking revelations about the FBI come to fruition, Congress forms the Church Committee to investigate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

A mysterious data transfer lights up NSA monitors at 3 AM. Within hours, hospital records flash across Times Square billboards. Dating app messages spill onto every screen in the city. Bank accounts vanish. Traffic lights freeze. Autonomous vehicles crash through shopping malls. ...  Show more