In 1978, the people of Bell Island, off the coast of Canada, experienced a bright flash, and explosion, and an electrical surge that took down buildings, killed livestock, and was seen by nuclear weapon detectors in space. It was the loudest explosion in Canadian history. And what caused...
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There are places all around the world that experience mysterious lights. From Marfa, Texas to the Hessdalen valley in Norway to Thailand, some so regularly that entire festivals are held around them. So what is going on here? What’s behind the mysterious ghosts lights...
Human ingenuity knows no bounds. From a skeleton meant to elicit confessions from criminals to a butt-kicking machine to a baby delivery device that shoots the baby out with centrifugal force, these are some actual ideas that actual people have gotten actual patents for. God help us all...
Lately there’s been an explosion in news around AI, with some new groundbreaking revelation every other day. With chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E, the landscape, especially for content creation, has irrevocably changed. There’s a LOT of...
In this month’s Lightning Round video, I answer a couple of questions about life in the universe, both how close we are to finding traces of life outside of Earth, and the experiments regarding how life began on Earth, and possibly other places. Also questions about solar panels...