Damn Interesting Week

Vibrating couture, With love from the Philippines, Abandoned ouroboros, Rock-munching bacteria, Aussie ATM glitches, Hypoallergenic kitties, Sniffing strangers, Webcalls with garden eels.

Jennifer an…

A sheep seven years unshorn, Posing as the Beatles, Volcanic motivation, Ancient Roman recycling, IVF toads, Always bet on scissors, Thomas Jefferson the gardener, Digital dating in the 60s.

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Turkish sanitizer, Ubiquity of the George Foreman grill, Converting thoughts into written text, Mice brain lasers, Amateur fighter jet flights, Digging up Asia for science, Spider venom painkillers, …

[Struggling with lockdown tech issues this week; apologies for the audio quality!] Mythologizing Newton's productivity, Music for plants, Stomping on flowers for science, Weird Al the genius, Tardigr…

Self-isolating in the Mariana Trench, Smart toilets, Monetizing the moon, Moral ecology of lawns, A nanowire forest of bacteria, Fossilized frat parties.

Jennifer, Angela, and Curtis discuss the cura…

Contentious sanitation, Hotel theft, Exotic podcasting, Anthropology of a prepper community.

Jennifer, Curtis, and Angela discuss the curated links from the week of 4/3/2020.

A history of gag gifts, Humble origins of pizza, Patents by Plato, Axions are not the thing, Timepiece tyranny, Conmen in the art world.

Jennifer, Curtis, and Angela discuss the curated links for the…

Fruit that smells like butt, Snails in court, A cat named Socks, 19th century corpse acquisition, Benefits of sun exposure, The limits of caffeine, Unique anatomy of the swamp wallaby.

Jennifer and A…

The perils of living in Boca Chica, Oceanic exoplanets, Flag-planting at the North Pole, Warp drive theory, At-home nose jobs, Smelting ore from plants.

Jennifer, Curtis, and Angela discuss the curat…

Telecommuting for the future, The end of Moore's Law, Making humans more like jellyfish, Insect snacking, Right-sizing body parts, Building with ice.

Jennifer, Curtis, and Angela discuss the Damn Int…

Digital tracking on the job, 17th-century fanfic, Luck be a moral quandary, Reduce-reuse-reallocate, Geothermal wells.

Jennifer and Curtis discuss the Damn Interesting links from the week of 2/21/202…

Chevron destroys the little guy, Feral hogs go viral again, Virtual colonialism, Tor takes a hit, The economics of potty training.

Jennifer and Curtis discuss the Damn Interesting curated links from …

Zen stillness on the microscopic level, Unique immune system of bats, Pablo Escobar's hippos, How to develop smart AI, Cancer patients high on shrooms, Cryptographic failures of the CIA.

Jennifer, Cu…

Pepsi point shenanigans, Hegemony of archives, Interplanetary vocalization, Behind the scenes at Rotten Tomatoes, Economics of fake meat, Cat spats in Britain.

Jennifer, Curtis, and Angela discuss th…

Dueling with your spouse, Modern leeching, Pigeons as makeup, Alligators for lunch, X-rated cat animation, Hidden secrets of Notre Dame, Beetle jewelry, The mysterious Order of the Oddfellows.

Jennif…

Precariously balanced geology, Garlic prejudice, Unionization of the bagel industry, Weight loss of the tongue, The most powerful word in the English language, Yet another tech utopia.

Jennifer and C…

Edible confetti, Copyright extension trickery, Y2K20 parking apocalypse, Coots are bad parents, Buddy Holly feat. Tupac, Seaplane circumnavigation in WWII, Grandpa's salacious bucket list, Love in th…

Nintendo breaks Sweden, Disney's dismal opening day, The Redemption of MSG, Japanese KFC for Christmas, Clean equals pretty, Minestrone treats malaria, 3D printing with metal, NHL dentists, Jokes tha…

Bee stings for Lyme disease, Dating on dopamine, An American city in Canada, Illegal ancient bread, Rules for time capsules, Stowaway DNA, Radioactive photography, CRISPR has some issues, 34 is the n…