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2026
#65: Space toilets, Mythos, Sperm Whale, Artemis, Fluoride, Gassy AI, Microtrust, and more!
Sent on April 18, 2026
Sent on April 18, 2026
#64: Muddy Audiophiles, Barf Bags, Necroprinting, Venera, Carrots, Autoresearch, Local AI, and more!
Sent on March 21, 2026
Sent on March 21, 2026
#63: AI, Rats Play Doom, OpenClaw, Gemini and Siri, Mars, Moon, Route Planning, and more!
Sent on February 21, 2026
Sent on February 21, 2026
#62: Prime Hack, Replacing Developers, Biodome, Medical Evacuation, Artemis, Blockchain, and more!
Sent on January 24, 2026
Sent on January 24, 2026
2025
#61: Lasers, Goldfish, Burnout, Space Centers, AI Slop, CO2 Battery, Microplastics, and more!
Sent on December 27, 2025
Sent on December 27, 2025
#60: Spiders, Waymo Prank, Vapes, Programmable Plastic, Cookies, Gemini 3, Dying Brain Secrets, and more!
Sent on November 29, 2025
Sent on November 29, 2025
#59: Signal vs Noise, Bluey, Doom, Lock Shim, Design Museum, Neo Robot, Nvidia, Grok, and more!
Sent on November 1, 2025
Sent on November 1, 2025
#58: Figma kills, AI Has No Impact, McDonalds, Fridge Ads, Sputnik, AI Ransomware, New Nuclear Age, and more!
Sent on October 4, 2025
Sent on October 4, 2025
#57: Planning skills, Clouds, Enigma, Worms, Parenthood, UBI, AI Bubble, Space Customs, Batteries, and more!
Sent on September 6, 2025
Sent on September 6, 2025
#56: Horsepower, Lasers, Ashes in Space, Breakfast, Vaccines, Copper Shortage, and more!
Sent on July 12, 2025
Sent on July 12, 2025
#55: AI Music, Gulls, Decapitated Sperm, Salty Batteries, Airspace Ownership, and more!
Sent on June 14, 2025
Sent on June 14, 2025
#54: New Color Discovered, MP3, Planet 9, Soviets, Klarna Hires Again, AI Pollution, Thorium Reactor, Fluoride, and More!
Sent on May 17, 2025
Sent on May 17, 2025
#53: Urinal Designs, Minecraft, Crows, Dolphin AI, Electric Shocks, Spiked Coffee, Recycling Plastics, and more!
Sent on April 19, 2025
Sent on April 19, 2025
#52: E-taste, Einstein AI Model, Fanta, Rescued Astronauts, BYD's Supercharger, Nuclear Fusion, AI Takes Over Programming, and more!
Sent on March 22, 2025
Sent on March 22, 2025
#51: WikiTok, Play-Doh, DeepSeek, AI Adoption, State Hackers, Leap Seconds, Drilling Bots, and more!
Sent on February 22, 2025
Sent on February 22, 2025
#50: TikTok Brain rot, Disney Cures Kidney Stones, AI Pirated Content, SpaceX Records, Pollution Slows Runners, and more!
Sent on January 25, 2025
Sent on January 25, 2025
2024
#49: Spying TVs, MrBeast Pyramids, slow brains, Concorde, AI deception, o3, smol AI, and more!
Sent on December 28, 2024
Sent on December 28, 2024
#48: Polanyi's paradox, cookie banners, wine, Bitcoin, AI compute power, wandering satellite, rotting brains, and more!
Sent on November 30, 2024
Sent on November 30, 2024
#47: Bored Claude, Mechazilla, OceanGate, WordPress, Canine Memory, Asteroid Crime Scene, Jets as a Service, and more!
Sent on November 2, 2024
Sent on November 2, 2024
#46: MrBeast, Disney, Hacker News, Polaris Dawn, Cycling, o1, AI Music, Coughing AI, and more!
Sent on October 5, 2024
Sent on October 5, 2024
#45: Waffle Shoes, OpenCola, AI Murder Mystery, Pixar, Black Holes, Wow! Signal, New Ice Age, Floppy Disks, and more!
Sent on September 7, 2024
Sent on September 7, 2024
#44: LEGO from Space, Mars Mission, Water on Moon, Llama 3.1, New Reactor Tech, Google Monopoly, and more!
Sent on August 10, 2024
Sent on August 10, 2024
#43: Mt. Gox, AI Collapse, Laser Weapon, Google's Emissions, Heat Pumps, War-avoiding Eagles, and more!
Sent on July 13, 2024
Sent on July 13, 2024
#42: AI everywhere, Bio-processor, Starship, Dark Side of Moon, Google Leak, Bisons, Human Brain Map, and More!
Sent on June 15, 2024
Sent on June 15, 2024
#41: Ultrasonic Coffee, GPT-4o, H5N1 Milk, Dyson Spheres, Planet 9, VGER, Eneropa, Black Holes, and more!
Sent on May 18, 2024
Sent on May 18, 2024
#40: Prison Laptop, Sea Monsters, Baby Cries, Robots, Renewables, Space Debris Crash, Lunar Regolith, and more!
Sent on April 20, 2024
Sent on April 20, 2024
#39: AI Developer, Marsprojekt, Consciousness, Cheap Batteries, xAI, Sense of Time, Hubble, and more!
Sent on March 23, 2024
Sent on March 23, 2024
#38: Galactic Compass, Mini Museum, Tetris, Starlink Lasers, AI Job Loss, Snapdragon in Space, and more!
Sent on February 24, 2024
Sent on February 24, 2024
#37: Mysterious Bitcoins, Miracle iPhone, Ingenuity, Stuxnet, Yellowstone Power, USB Chargers, AI Chips, and more!
Sent on January 27, 2024
Sent on January 27, 2024
2023
#36: Minitel, Space Tomato, DeepMind vs OpenAI, Nuclear Energy, Clean Ethylene, and more...
Sent on December 30, 2023
Sent on December 30, 2023
#35: Airships, Catapult to Space, CRISPR Cholesterol, Hammer in Space, Salty Batteries, Antibody Contraception, and more...
Sent on December 2, 2023
Sent on December 2, 2023
#34: Unfair coin flips, Wikenigma, Robots, NASAs stuck screws, Carl Sagan's Experiment, 23andMe Hacked, MRI Machine, Monkey with Pig Organs, and more...
Sent on November 4, 2023
Sent on November 4, 2023
#33: Tire hair, Wikiracing, Breakthrough battery, Asteroid sample, Tesla Optimus, Microplastics, and more...
Sent on October 7, 2023
Sent on October 7, 2023
#32: Doing Hard Things, Brain Worm, Self-Healing Leather, Carbon Offsets, Copyright Fails, Coffee + Concrete, Deep Fakes, and More...
Sent on September 9, 2023
Sent on September 9, 2023
#31: Primer on Superconductors, QR Art, Banknotes, Slime Mold, CRISPR, Radiopharmaceuticals, and more!
Sent on August 12, 2023
Sent on August 12, 2023
#30: Naps, Killing Life on Mars, Stuart Little, Space Factory, Tilting Earth, and more!
Sent on July 8, 2023
Sent on July 8, 2023
#29: Aliens and UFOs, Brain Implant, Pregnancy is Doping, Energy from thin air, ChatGPT caught lying (again), and more!
Sent on June 10, 2023
Sent on June 10, 2023
#28: SpaceX, AI Disruption, Ancient Virus, Clickbait, Ocean Fertilization, Home Runs, Voyager 2, and more!
Sent on May 13, 2023
Sent on May 13, 2023
#27: AI Brain, Space Cup, 3D-printed Rocket, GPT-4, Copilot, 4-day Workweek, Twitter Algorithm, and more!
Sent on April 8, 2023
Sent on April 8, 2023
#26: Pyramids, Cloud Kitchen, AI bankrupting Google, Floppy disks, Sustainable Fuel, Asteroids, Turbines Blades, and more!
Sent on March 11, 2023
Sent on March 11, 2023
#25: AI Everywhere, 3D Printed Organs, Tesla, Modular Reactors, Cryonics, and more!
Sent on February 11, 2023
Sent on February 11, 2023
#24: Toilets and Lasers, Energy from Potholes, Self-healing Concrete, ISS Leak, Fusion Energy, Niagara Falls, and more!
Sent on January 14, 2023
Sent on January 14, 2023
2022
#23: ChatGPT, Human Brain Cells in Mice, Chernobyl Fungi, Tidal Power, Semi Trucks, and more!
Sent on December 10, 2022
Sent on December 10, 2022
#22: Wim Hof, Mastodon, Brain in a Dish, Worm Saliva, Dull Razors, and more!
Sent on November 12, 2022
Sent on November 12, 2022
#21: AI Videos, Bruce Willis, Flying on Cooking Oil, Frogs, Mysteries and more!
Sent on October 8, 2022
Sent on October 8, 2022
#20: Brain Power, CPR in Space, Life on Venus, Long COVID, Cars are Insanely Expensive, and more!
Sent on September 10, 2022
Sent on September 10, 2022
#19: Roman Maps, Da Vinci, Jurassic Park, Ancient Computer, Aliens, Happy Birthday on Mars, and more!
Sent on August 13, 2022
Sent on August 13, 2022
#18: Planet Crasher, Floppy Drives, Gene-editing, Our Black Hole, Powerwalls, Data Breaches, and more!
Sent on July 9, 2022
Sent on July 9, 2022
#17: Sleep, Payphones, V'Ger, Solid State Battery, Cancer-killing Virus, Poo Transplants, and more!
Sent on June 11, 2022
Sent on June 11, 2022
#16: DIY Toaster, Dobby, Netflix Yarn Intro, Leaded Gasoline, Noise Pollution, Human Genome, Leaded Gasoline, and more!
Sent on May 7, 2022
Sent on May 7, 2022
#14: Simulating a human brain, Hubble, Largest Bacterium Ever, Fusion Energy, Windows 11 goes green, and more!
Sent on March 12, 2022
Sent on March 12, 2022
#13: Pixar, Stirling Engine, Hidden Blockchain Data, Crashing into the Moon, First Pig Heart Transplant, and more!
Sent on February 12, 2022
Sent on February 12, 2022
#12: Six Years on YouTube, Winnie The Pooh, Dinosaurs, Plastics, Nuclear energy, and more!
Sent on January 8, 2022
Sent on January 8, 2022
2021
#11: Motivation, Miss Excel, WD-40, Electricity, fungal infections, and more!
Sent on December 11, 2021
Sent on December 11, 2021
#9: CO2 sensor, Beethoven's new single, Facebook down, Microplastics, and more
Sent on October 16, 2021
Sent on October 16, 2021
#4: 5G, Bitcoin surveillance, YouTube transcoding chips, Signal's Ad Campaign, Pooplog
Sent on May 15, 2021
Sent on May 15, 2021
#3: Home Automation, Space, Slapping a chicken, viral website, source code of mRNA vaccines
Sent on April 14, 2021
Sent on April 14, 2021