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On today's episode, we've got details on the plan to refreeze the Arctic. Plus, could geo-thermal prove to be the renewable energy source we've all been waiting for? And on 'This Day in History', NASA's 1988 plan for a moon base and manned trips to Mars

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A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results. But scientists warn of big risks | CNN

The plan to refreeze Arctic ice | The Week

Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests | New Scientist

The deepest hole on Earth: Inside the race to harness unlimited power from our planet's core

TDIH: NASA Offers Plans For Manned Missions - The New York Times

TDIH: U.S., 11 Nations Sign Pact for Space Station - Los Angeles Times

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A vast reserve of geologic hydrogen was found. Plus, Weird Wednesday has fish getting busy after an earthquake, sculptures with googly eyes, the "Trekkie" license plate that was causing trouble, and a festive car. Also, on This Day in History, we look back at the Piltdown skull hoax.

Massive new energy source discovered hiding under Earth’s surface | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Northern California earthquake prompts an endangered Death Valley fish species to get busy | Phys.org

Stop sticking googly eyes on sculptures says US city - BBC Newsround

Woman ticketed thousands of dollars because license matched numbers on ‘Star Trek’ ship | WBAY - ABC 2

Look: Driver stopped in Wyoming for covering car in Christmas lights - UPI.com

How the Piltdown Man skull became the greatest hoax in anthropology - History Skills

Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science's most famous hoaxes | Science | AAAS

How to Solve Human Evolution’s Greatest Hoax | Smithsonian

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Getting your vaccine from a needle could be a thing of the past, as a cream-based vaccine is being developed. Also, how your mental health may have been altered by leaded gas, if you were born before 1996. Plus, on This Day in History, the prize offered for communicating with aliens, however it doesn’t include Martians - as that was thought to be too easy!

Stanford scientists transform ubiquitous skin bacterium into a topical vaccine | Stanford Medicine

Discovery and engineering of the antibody response to a prominent skin commensal | Nature

Born Before 1996? According to Scientists, Leaded Gas May Have Permanently Altered Your Personality | SciTechDaily

Lead in gasoline tied to millions of excess mental health disorders: study | NBC News

Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years - McFarland - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library

17 December 1900: The Guzman Prize is announced | MoneyWeek

December 17, 1900 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Historical Easter Eggs – Today in History

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Google claims its new quantum chip could prove the existence of parallel universes, new technological advances could aid the decade-long hunt for aviation’s biggest mystery, and on 'This Day in History', the last eruption of Mount Fuji.

Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist | TechCrunch

Google Says Its New Quantum Chip May Prove Parallel Universes Exist - Newsweek

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

The bold new science that could soon solve the greatest mystery in aviation

TDIH: It’s Been More Than 300 Years Since Japan’s Breathtaking Mount Fuji Last Erupted | Smithsonian

TDIH: Most Recent Eruption of Mount Fuji

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One extinct Great Lakes fish has been discovered alive again … but in the wrong lake. Staying in the animal kingdom, new research suggests animals’ ability to see color evolved BEFORE bright colors emerged in nature, but why? Plus, on This Day in History, the fashion world gets easier as the clip-on tie is invented.

'Extinct' Great Lakes Shortnose Cisco fish discovered in Lake Superior | USA Today

Animals Evolved Color Vision before Bright Colors Emerged | Scientific American

The Birth of The Clip-On Tie | Pop Culture Madness

Iowa History Daily: December 13 - Classy Clinton's Clip-On Tie

A Brief History of the Necktie – Center for Careers, Life, and Service | Grinnell College

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A new study says that caffeine can boost physical and mental performance, but it added it should be timed wisely to optimize benefits and avoid side effects. Also, new research says that exercise can boost your memory for a full day. Plus, on This Day in History, the first motel is opened.

Here's the best (and worst) time to drink your morning caffeine | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Short-term cognitive boost from exercise may last for 24 hours | ScienceDaily

The World’s First Motel Was a Luxury Establishment, Not a Dive | Smithsonian

Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, the world's first 'mo-tel' | San Luis Obispo Tribune

Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo - SoCal Landmarks

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New drones inspired by birds that jump for take-off. It’s Weird Wednesday and Reggie has orcas that are wearing salmon for hats, the Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, and the winner of the Spanish Scrabble Championship who doesn’t speak Spanish. Plus, on This Day in History, Dr. Horace Wells and the first use of anesthetic in dentistry.

Bird-inspired drone can jump for take-off | ScienceDaily

For Orcas, Dead Salmon Hats Are Back in Fashion | Scientific American

No, Orcas Probably Aren't Reviving the 'Dead Salmon Hat' Trend, Despite a Viral Photo, Experts Say. Here's Why | Smithsonian

There’s something fishy about a recent sighting of an orca in a salmon ‘hat’ | CNN

‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year | AP News

He won the Spanish Scrabble championships, yet he doesn’t speak Spanish | CNN

Horace Wells | Biography, Anesthesia, & Facts | Britannica

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How training your body to have good habits can change your life for the better and the revolutionary spray-on electronic tattoo that replaces traditional EEG setups, offering a more comfortable and reliable way to monitor brain activity while paving the way for advanced brain-computer interfaces. Plus, on This Day in History; Edmund Halley’s and Isaac Newton’s collaboration on the theory of gravity.

Good habits are life-changing: A psychologist's guide to hacking your brain's autopilot

Temporary scalp e-tattoos that scan brain could replace traditional EEGs forever

Sir Isaac Newton's Principia | American Physical Society

Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Edmond Halley and Newton’s Principia | Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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Researchers have developed a cost-effective solar-powered desalination method using clay minerals to enhance seawater evaporation, potentially providing clean water for billions worldwide and endangered wolves in Ethiopia may also be pollinators for one specific plant. Plus, on This Day in History, we look back at the Kecksburg UFO incident.

Billions of People Could Benefit from This Breakthrough in Desalination That Ensures Freshwater for the World

A wolf walks into a flower — and appears to pollinate it : NPR

These Endangered Wolves Have a Sweet Tooth—and It Might Make Them Rare Carnivorous Pollinators | Smithsonian

Wolves may be pollinators as well as predators, study suggests | CNN

Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa - Lai - 2024 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library

The Kecksburg UFO incident | History

Is case finally closed on 1965 UFO mystery? | NBC News

Kecksburg UFO Mystery: 8 Mind-Blowing Documentaries on Pennsylvania's Roswell

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1965 | Enigma Labs

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The restoration of an icon - Notre Dame shows off the new interior after the devastating fire five years ago, and the human-dog bond may be older than we thought. Plus, on This Day in History, the court case and book that helped change obscenity laws.

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire | AP News

How did humans and dogs become friends? Connections in the Americas began 12,000 years ago | University of Arizona News

Scientists discover exactly when man and dog became friends | Science Focus

Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid (Canis spp.) relationships in subarctic Alaska | Science Advances

Ulysses | The First Amendment Encyclopedia

Obscenity Case Files: United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses” – Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

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