Geekdays

This week’s episode starts with poops and ends with peeps. We couldn’t have planned it better even if we tried.

Show notes and links:

* Poop research might get a more polite name (theverge.com)

* People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds (theverge.com)

* Olay’s electromagnetic face wand turns skincare into a mobile game (engadget.com)

* Costco sells out of 27-lb. bucket of mac and cheese (usatoday.com)

* Peeps-flavored coffee creamer does, in fact, taste like Peeps (mashable.com)

Oh, hi. I’m Breki. You might remember me from the last time I made a joke like this.

Show notes and links:

* This link has no title (phys.org)

* Bizarre ‘dark fluid’ with negative mass could dominate the universe – what my research suggests (theconversation.com)

* The lies Comcast allegedly told customers to hide full cost of service (arstechnica.com)

* AI-equipped cameras will spot poachers in Africa before they can kill (theverge.com)

* Google’s Year in Search – Google Trends (g.co)

* Worst passwords of 2018 revealed, ‘123456’ retains top spot (techspot.com)

Sorry for the missing week, but here we go!

Show notes and links:

* This link has no title (adweek.com)

* Six people swallowed LEGOs and pored through their own poo for science (arstechnica.com)

* Scientists Have Found The Funniest Words in The English Language (sciencealert.com)

* This link has no title (news.com.au)

* Here’s the Truth Behind a NASA Document on Aliens Visiting Earth (livescience.com)

* 2 Milly files a lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games over dance move – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

It’s that time of year – things are slowing down as people begin to wind down before Christmas, but we’re not at the point where all of the major releases for the Christmas season are coming out… In other words, a perfect time for stories about wombat poop, global warming and scanning the human body … with technology!

Show notes and links:

* A Scanner That Can See Inside The Entire Human Body at Once Just Took Its First Images (sciencealert.com)

* We Finally Know How Wombats Produce Their Distinctly Cube-Shaped Poop (gizmodo.com)

* Surging Seas: Risk Zone Map (climatecentral.org)

* Greenhouse Gas Levels at Record High, UN Report Warns (vice.com)

* Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming (wivb.com)

* This link has no title (cnn.com)

* This tiny Oreo record player is the most delicious gift of the season (mashable.com)

How embarrassing. I’d recorded this episode and prepared the shownotes, but forgotten to publish it. It wasn’t until I realized that Geekdays wasn’t showing up in my own feed that I realized that I hadn’t actually published it… So here it is, better late than never!

Show notes and links:

* This link has no title (cnn.com)

* Former NASA administrator says Lunar Gateway is “a stupid architecture” (arstechnica.com)

* Police Think Amazon’s Alexa May Have Witnessed a Double Murder (people.com)

* PlayStation is skipping E3 2019 (theverge.com)

* Microsoft is said to be building an Xbox with no disc drive (cnet.com)

* Nintendo dashes hopes of an N64 Classic (theverge.com)

A bit late, but it’s worth it. I promise.

Show notes and links:

* Stan Lee – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* The Vast Majority of YouTube Users Hit the Site for How-to Videos (digitaltrends.com)

* Remnants of Earth’s Oldest Dirt May Have Been Found in Greenland (gizmodo.com)

* Threatin’s Fake Fanbase Fails To Show Up For European Tour (stereogum.com)

Another week, another Geekdays. Sometimes I wonder if we should rename the show now that we’re weekly. The old gimmick was that we publish on weekdays, hence Geekdays. But now that we publish weekly, maybe the show should be called Geekly instead? … Only, that sounds like a terrible “Web 2.0” name and I’m sure the domain name geek.ly is already taken…

Show notes and links:

* ‘Test tube trees’: An insurance policy against extinction? (bbc.com)

* Lime and Segway Can’t Agree Over Alleged Flaming Scooters (gizmodo.com)

* KFC Gives $11,000 to Parents Who Named Baby After Colonel Sanders (people.com)

* Mario Segale, Inspiration For Nintendo’s Hero Plumber, Has Died : NPR (npr.org)

While we do manage to start this show with a semblance of theme and topic, it rapidly devolves into … not that.

Show notes and links:

* Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES — RT World News (rt.com)

* Boba Fett spin-off Star Wars movie is no longer happening, apparently (mashable.com)

* We might be able to rate future films with a sniff test, study says (arstechnica.com)

* California strikes deal with FCC to delay state net neutrality law (theverge.com)

* ‘The Blowjob Paper:’ Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick (vice.com)

* A new Pokémon Go clone lets players collect Catholic saints instead of monsters (theverge.com)

We’re back with another episode, presenting you with the hard-hitting facts about NASA, Apple, Bloomberg, eBay, Amazon, and – of course – Taco Bell. Enjoy!

Show notes and links:

* NASA Unveils 21 New Constellations Invisible to The Naked Eye (sciencealert.com)

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We’re finally back from our hiatus! Sorry it took so long, but we’re going to make up for it! Twice the excitment! Twice the fluctuation in pitch in Breki’s voice! Twice the amount of unsuitable sexual references! Twice the amount of Tom!

… No, wait, sorry. Still just the one Tom.

Show notes and links:

* 4K upgrades could be coming soon to Google Play Movies, and they might be free (androidcentral.com)

* Is Your Orgasm Face The Same as Your Pain Face? Researchers Ask The Ultimate Question (sciencealert.com)

* Astronomers Wonder: Can Moons Have Moons? (gizmodo.com)

* This link has no title (knowyourmeme.com)

* A hospital made a Spotify playlist of hot jams to help you perform CPR (mashable.com)

* a.) Confirm additional reporting is coming

b.) Announce the articles are under review

c.) Retract the articles in entirety” (twitter.com)

* The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories (vice.com)

* ‘Be careful what you read’ (cnbc.com)

* What Businessweek got wrong about Apple (apple.com)

* Elon Musk plunges Tesla into Nevada’s housing problems (rgj.com)

* Elon Musk’s Tesla files for a trademark of ‘Teslaquila’ (cnbc.com)