How Social Media Attacks Your Attention Span

How Social Media Attacks Your Attention Span

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Listener Mail: Raccoon Penis Toothpicks, FNU LNU, Rigid Airships

In this week's listener mail segment: Xevious Wrecks hips Ben and Noel to 'hillbilly toothpicks', a euphemism for raccoon penises, inspiring the guys to never see the internet again. Uncle Bosco explores how you can hack encounters with police by using the alias 'FNU LNU' (spoile ...  Show more

Did Lead Exposure Create Serial Killers?

Nowadays, everyone knows lead is toxic. Yet for thousands of years, it was treated as a miracle substance. Ancient Romans used it in everything from water pipes to wine sweetener -- an ubiquity that may well have contributed to the fall of the Empire as the civilization's collect ...  Show more

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