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WT: Hunt and Peck VR

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset is now a real reality. How could VR impact...

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WT: Wood Nails and a Dream

Space camp came to a school in China! Venus shows signs of life with phosphine gas. Got...

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WT: Flying Through The Sky

Did we always need to fiddle? LAX has an unexpected visitor and we think we have a suspect....

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WT: Babe: Pig in the Synapse

Elon Musk showed off Neuralink, the brain-to-computer interface and he showed it...

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WT: Mitochondria is the Hulk of the Cell (re-fixed)

Oumuamua, the mysterious sausage-shaped comet, is leaving us with a lot of questions. Is it...

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WT: I Could Really Go For A Po Boy

A weird dream about Jimmy Carter kicks off a discussion of dreams. Orbiting a sun? Not...

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WT: Flying Grain Silo

The Rubik’s Cube as a cultural symbol of smartness. College: what’s the value? Drones spent...

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WT: Sorry For Party Boating

Florida shows up to celebrate the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashdown. Mars is having...

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WT: Live Hot Hominids

A new neuroscience start-up wants to untangle the black box that is the human brain....

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WT: OCD Bot

Who needs a stylist anymore? Shane of Stuff Made Here has a horrifying new contraption that...

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WT: F-U Hadron Collider (fixed)

Man, Space Is Weird! How scared of weird radio waves should we be? A larger hadron collider...

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WT: Why Hulk Smash?

Sea danger from above! Higher education is moving online, even if you live on campus. The...

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WT: Brian’s Cyberpunk Novel

Twitter’s new audio posts show potential for short-form audio. What are the avenues for...

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WT: No Need For Feet

It was just the anniversary of SpaceShipOne. SpaceX offers ridesharing–what would we do with...

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WT: Not-Hercules

We’ve had early access to OpenAI’s new GPT-3 generative text model. How have we used it and...

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WT: Suction Punch

A shark pic tells a thousand words on fisticuffs. New dating pinpoints the earliest-known...

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WT: The C Stands for Hypnosis

SpaceX and NASA have done something that hasn’t been done in a long time: take a bedazzled...

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WT: Your Year In Serotonin

Going to the ISS and sharply dressed to boot! 40 years of Pac-Man up-ended by a danged AI....

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WT: Headless Cheese Pizza

A glimpse into the future of manned space flights comes in less than two weeks. Hold on...

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WT: Murky Pond Water

NASA picks three companies to send us back to the moon by 2024. What are the difficulties...

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