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Intrigue on the high seas. I mean on land. 

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Jenny Phenix's legal complaint against Villa Vie

This week - Scammers have managed to copy Jordan's entire website and steal her business -- more than once. But how are they doing it? And why is it so hard to fight now? 

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StoreLock

ICANN

What is the GDPR

This week, An asks us perhaps the smallest question we've ever had to answer, and inadvertently sends us on a wild reporting journey. Also Alex yells and swears.

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This week - Keenan always had this question about his mom's past, and he turned to us for help. And then we turned to him for help. A very special episode of Hyperfixed.

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Jack has noticed something weird about some license plates. It could be a conspiracy. We investigate.

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The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association 

Joe Rhodes is a former journalist that is writing about his experiences on the Villa Vie Odyssey, a cruise ship that has just embarked on a 3 & 1/2 year voyage. It hasn't all been smooth sailing. We talk to him about his experience. This is part one of a multi-part series we are running on our premium feed -- part II comes out next week!

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Joe Rhodes' Substack 

We've had maybe a dozen submissions from people who reached out to us with questions about public restrooms. Specifically: why are they designed so poorly? And how gross are they actually? Alex and Hyperfixed Producer Amor Yates investigate.

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Toilet: The Public Restroom and the Politics of Sharing.

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The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)

This week, Kyle asks us whether a bit of folk wisdom, passed down through generations, is actually true, and once again we end up in a big philosophical discussion about the nature of knowledge and stuff.

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Adam Savage's YouTube Channel Tested

Adam Savage's own Savage Indusries tape measure 

The Lufkin Night Eye Tape Measure (again, this is not a sponsorship -- just what Adam recommends)

This week - Kristin asks us for help on one of the most difficult decisions she'll ever have to make. 

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Dylan Matthews: 23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better

Our World in Data 

Robert De Neufville's substack "Telling the Future"

How to become a Superforecaster

I've known Wendy, the host of Science Vs. for almost a decade at this point, and her show is spectacular! We are sharing an episode of her show on the feed this week, just because we love her and would like you all to hear it. You can find many more episodes of Science Vs. on Spotify

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Some people can control their dreams. While they're fast asleep: they fly, create new worlds, live other lives. But Wendy isn't one of them. So in today's episode, Wendy and the Science Vs team find a scientifically approved method to try to lucid dream. We test it out — and bizarre things start happening. We also explore how scientists are trying to harness the strange powers of lucid dreaming to help people, as well as to crack huge scientific mysteries, like: What is consciousness? And what exactly goes on in all of our heads when we're asleep? To do all this and more, we talk to psychologists Dr. Denholm Adventure-Heart and Dr. Brigitte Holzinger, as well as cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Başak Türker.

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