Hwat?! Weekly

A handfull of follow -ups before our long winter's hiatus!

Executioner Clown Frog:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40675238

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=t-11139538

Tungara Frog:

https://www.dinacon.org/2019/09/11/laser-tungara-frog-synth/

Cognitive Exhaustion:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mental-exhaustion-changes-the-choices-you-make/

Moon Boom:

Elon Musk SpaceX Rocket Is Set To Crash Into the Moon—What You Need To Know - Newsweek

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What's your sandwich?

https://cupofjo.com/2026/07/22/what-would-be-on-your-larry-david-sandwich/

Rich People Ice:

https://lamaterial.com/p/luxury-ice-imported-japan-la

Balloons:

https://flagcityballoonfest.com/balloons/

Earth goo:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-appears-to-be-leaking-up-and-out-of-earths-surface-20250804/

Writing is hard because you're a caveman:

https://lithub.com/why-writing-feels-so-hard-and-how-to-make-it-easier/

The music that Finlay made Joe listen to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMpMcmpfkI

https://open.spotify.com/track/4qrTZ6g19ut6C9SuKBneP9

https://open.spotify.com/track/3U0TqkoltIE7KqkZRwZ0J4

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New emojis!

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/why-do-some-new-emoji-look-familiar

The two sides of Chinese Innovation:

https://youtube.com/shorts/0FMipboN2qQ?si=h8Za238okBJA8qy_

https://youtu.be/vRjGVS1FIwk?si=yKt5uo7gMb2hcdr8

The Sky Mouse:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8347

AI Stupid and Bad:

https://www.404media.co/ai-fiction-is-easy-to-detect-because-its-stupid-and-bad-research-finds/?ref=the-abstract-newsletter

The Dude with the Books:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/style/too-many-books-new-york-city-apartment-scholar-landlord.html

Ginkgo Leaves Falling:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TW-OxyJALWw

250 American Books:

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/booklist/

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Goodbye Wally! Book culling! Cold plunge! Congrats, Dale! LARP U.S.A.! Roller Derby Facts! Spoon Report! Meat Shower??

Wally:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/wally-funk-trailblazing-pilot-and-astronaut-passes-away-at-87

Book Culling:

https://lithub.com/how-and-why-to-cull-your-book-collection/

Cold Plunge:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/magazine/cold-plunge-fix.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wFA.AHQn.AMSie9IN3Bkv

Meat Shower:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kentucky-meat-shower

Dale!

https://www.vulture.com/article/dale-dickey-widows-bay-interview-emmy-nominaton-breaking-bad.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nymag

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Malmesbury Batman! Fixed Egg Pool Begone! Ha Ha Ford. Ocean Plant Facts! Polish Knives! Mummy Bread! Smart fish! Leopard/Jaguar/Panther! let the Rubin drama commence!

Eilmer of Malmesbury: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-a-medieval-flying-monk-spot-halleys-comet-twice-its-complicated/

Eggs: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-biological-dogma-that-women-dont-make-new-eggs-after-birth-may-be-wrong/

Ford hates humans: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-humans-hiring-artificial-intelligence-b3004733.html

Sea Plant Facts: https://theconversation.com/seaweeds-are-not-plants-and-six-other-surprising-facts-about-aquatic-flora-284612?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Nuż w bżuhu: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%C5%BC_w_b%C5%BCuhu

Vera! Vera! Vera!: https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-immense-vera-c-rubin-sky-survey-has-begun?utm_source=badastronomy.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-immense-vera-c-rubin-sky-survey-has-begun&_bhlid=129416bcab80372b50b4a7f661177d1e9e36c90b

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Cursed by the podcast gods again!

We will be back next week.

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El Godzilla! El Aliens! El Fungus! Geeeeeese! Emuuuuuu! Tybalt the Mad. Colorado Colorado-ing. Mystery cat! Seahorse dance! Frauen auf Bäumen!

Godzilla:

https://www.science.org/content/article/el-nino-has-begun-it-may-become-strongest-century

New alien rules:

https://www.science.org/content/article/if-scientists-discover-aliens-they-have-plan-disclosure-day

Fungi Map:

https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map#2.33/43.2134/109.2247

Barnacle Goose:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgpMPoSLO/?igsh=MW5raHV0MWZ1ZmMzdQ==

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barnacle_Goose/lifehistory

Seahorse Dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpZ2vQmaIg

Frauen auf Bäumen:

https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/76647-frauen-auf-baeumen

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The Norwegians are coming! Satisficiers! De-enhance your games! Smarty bees! Artificial ears! Jack in the green! Moosup! Neuron speed! CERN update! Manhattants! Condors! Great big bunnies! Flying beavers! Poetry corner!

Norway world cup team:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333438/2026/06/04/norway-world-cup-viking-photo/

Maximizers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/decision-making-herbert-simon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.YIhI.v7aFNO1-K6RQ

Enhanced games:

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/clean-athletes-stole-show-enhanced-161747323.html

Bumblebees:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-use-tools-to-solve-complex-problems-despite-not-being-trained-to-do-so/

Edison killer:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/edison-may-not-have-been-the-first-to-record-the-human-voice-new-evidence-suggests/

Jack in the green:

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/in-pictures-hundreds-turn-out-at-dawn-for-hastings-may-day-tradition-of-dancing-the-sun-up-8452913?page=2

https://hastingstraditionaljackinthegreen.co.uk/

Moosup noise:

https://www.iflscience.com/mystery-of-the-moodus-noises-that-baffled-connecticut-for-centuries-73358

Animal rhythms:

https://www.earth.com/news/all-animals-communicate-using-the-same-universal-rhythm-according-to-scientists/

CERN:

https://home.cern/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter/

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Tyrants! Little blue guy! Undersea Muppets! That's not your dog, Tom. Acorn! Black frogs, blue dogs. Invisible book talk. Frog sounds? Poetry corner. Observatory antics! Colorado?! Caedmon's Hymn.

Unsustainable tyrants:

https://www.noemamag.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-petty-tyrants/

Little blue guy:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/

https://youtu.be/174YABPY238?si=zEmsxw41iHfkhy1U

S. Snuffleupagus:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-real-mr-snuffleupagus-meet-the-oceans-strangest-new-fish-species/

Acorn video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DD0pCtsqCBpbFSa5pimUYUN3TWBLiA_/view

Black frogs:

https://www.iflscience.com/chernobyl-frogs-have-changed-color-and-it-could-be-whats-helped-them-survive-73048

Caedmon's Hymn:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-copy-of-the-oldest-known-poem-in-the-english-language-leaves-researchers-speechless/

Frogs and their calls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Sc78-TOFs

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