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  • How Bribery in College Admissions Works
    Got a couple hundred thousand to drop? Pay for your kid to get into USC or Yale! Also, here's some Good to Know facts about affirmative action!
     
    Sources and Suggested Readings:
     
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html?action=click&module=inline&pgtype=Homepage
     
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html
     
    https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-college-admissions-scale-elite-schools-20190312-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    13 min
  • WTF is ASMR?
    If your scalp didn't tingle from my attempted ASMR, i've failed.
     
    Sources and Suggested readings:
    https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-designed-to-trigger-asmr-are-surging-in-popularity-2017-11
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzKv93nMd3c (Zumiez Cashier ASMR)
    https://youtu.be/GUUAu_aiaVw (Pickle ASMR)
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    7 min
  • How the Beanie Baby Bubble Burst
    Beware! Beware! Fake Beanie Babies!
     
    Sources and Suggested readings:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo (Bankrupt by Beanie Babies)
    http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Ty-Warner/
    https://nypost.com/2015/02/22/how-the-beanie-baby-craze-was-concocted-then-crashed/
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    11 min
  • Why DNA Testing Kits are Sketchy
    Protect ya neck and your DNA too.
     
    Sources and Suggested readings:
    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/dna-databases-can-send-police-or-hackers-your-door-study-n919236
    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/drug-giant-glaxo-teams-dna-testing-company-23andme-n894531
    https://www.abc4.com/news/at-home-dna-test-kits-medical-experts-warn-buyers-beware/1709924886
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    8 min
  • How Invisalign Works
    My teeth hurt like HECK! But pain is beauty. 
     
     
    Suggested readings:
    https://www.creating-smiles.com/how-does-invisalign-work/ 
    https://www.invisalign.com/how-invisalign-works/treatment-plan
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    8 min
  • Pyramid Schemes 101
    How to find out if you're in a pyramid scheme in under 10 minutes!
     
    FTC Article:
    https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2014/05/telltale-signs-pyramid-scheme
     
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    7 min
  • Why Mission Trips Suck
    Stop going to underdeveloped countries for your social media poverty porn. Thanks!
     
    Great articles about this topic:
    http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201705/if-heroism-driving-your-mission-trip-stay-home-30999
    http://almost.thedoctorschannel.com/14323-2/
    https://www.sharefaith.com/blog/2014/02/reasons-short-term-mission-trip-harm-good/
     
    Questions? Answers?: [email protected]
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    14 min
  • What's Up with this Government Shutdown?
    Nancy Pelosi said Thank U, Next to Donald Trump, the US government shutdown, 800,000 federal employees aren't getting paid, and all heck is breaking loose (kinda, but not really).
     
    Music:
    https://www.purple-planet.com/chilled
    6 min

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