Reality Bytes – for the week of January 7th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Bollywood Snuff Movie by MumBai Mafia

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 Genetically Modified Silkworm Brings Spider-Man Web Closer to Reality

 Acrobatic Velociraptors May Inspire New Generation of Agile Droids

Breakthrough in Lab-Made Sperm Gives Hope to the Infertile

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Time Cloak Created

Hybrid Sharks Found in Australian Waters

Man Undergoes Surgery to Remove 200-Pound Tumor on Leg

U.S. Twin Births Have Doubled in 3 Decades, Study Finds

Cancer Rates in U.S. Continue to Fall, Report Says

Experimental vaccine helps protect monkeys against AIDS-like infection

Will Google, Facebook, others ‘nuke’ Internet over SOPA?

 Loch Ness tides used to track warping of the Earth

Ocean robots could sail seas and farm fuel from algae

Occupy Wall Street’s Livestream Operators Arrested

Missing Texas Teenager Was Accidentally Deported to Colombia

New Yeti Crabs; A Real Life Invisibility Cloak

US Supreme Court asked to ponder drug dog’s sniff

 Pro-Piracy Group Says It’s Now A Recognized Religion In Sweden

 Why you don’t really have free will

 Child-porn indictment against Churchill priest unsealed

Old, million-dollar violins don’t play better than the new models

Library computers can block porn—but Wicca? ACLU says no

Mayan Ruins in Georgia? Archaeologist Objects

Reality Bytes – for the week of December 31st 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Verne by Slothen and Loreandlaw

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Reality Bytes – for the week of December 24th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Ilundura by Stidiek

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Victory! Boycott forces GoDaddy to drop its support for SOPA

How cold is cold enough? Eliminating entropy picokelvins from absolute zero

What Is the Mysterious Nodding Disease Spreading Across Uganda?

That Space Ball In Namibia Is Not a Mysterious Alien Object

Scientists Invent Cloak of Silence, Still Working on Cone Version

A Gallon of Gas Can Power an iPhone for 20 Years

Model Tries to Smuggle Cocaine Inside Fake Breast and Butt Implants

In Santa Monica, battle over Christmas displays takes a new twist

Prunes are not a laxative, EU rules

Gun in carry-on accidentally fired

Precambrian fossils, once thought to be embryos, reinterpreted as… something else

US approves new nuclear reactor design

 Apple’s Siri Still Hates the British. And Southerners

Call of Duty Won’t Make You Smarter, Researchers Say

 People Can Learn New Skills While They Dream, Scientists Say

 Large Hadron Collider Discovers First New Particle

 Are Pigeons as Smart as Monkeys?

 Earth Has Other Moons, Astronomers Say

 Christmas Staple Frankincense ‘Doomed,’ Ecologists Warn

 Hubble Telescope Spots Complex Organic Molecules on Surface of Pluto

 Electronic Gadgets OK on Airplanes, Study Suggests

Who’s afraid of a 13-foot-tall walking robot?

Reality Bytes – for the week of December 17th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Cellule by Silence

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Google’s Siri-a-like to be named ‘Majel’ after Trek actress

Texas Model Has ‘Long Road to Recovery’ After Walking Into Plane Propeller

Jedi light-sabre beats Taser in Oregon parking-lot fracas

Neti pots linked to brain-eating amoeba deaths

Naked mole rats feel no pain due to acid

‘Rudy’ inspiration charged with securities fraud

‘Self-aware’ bank account robbing code unleashed by hacker

Stop Online Piracy Act vote delayed

Euro cops cuff 112 in paedophile network raids

Child abuse changes the brain, study finds

The NTSB wants you to shut up and drive

High rates of foster kids given antipsychotic meds, study finds

NASA detects ‘heartbeat’ of pint-sized star-sucker

NASA wants harpoon, and the point? To shoot comets

The Milky Way’s black hole may spring to life in 2013

World’s Biggest Aircraft Will Ferry Passengers to Space in Stratolaunch Vision

Physicists use lasers to entangle diamonds

Amateur Treasure Hunter Unearths Ancient Viking King

Christmas Island seamounts: Is the mystery finally solved?

 Before it became Lake Huron, there were hunters

Reality Bytes – for the week of December 10th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Hot Spares by Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill

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30 Dead in Final Toll From Melon Listeria Outbreak

Norway Ran Out of Butter Because the Entire Country Ate It All for Their Fad Diet

Sick’nd by Chik’n? Food police take the fun out of fungus meat

Why Sugar Makes You Tired (and What You Can Do About It)

Forget an essay — earn a scholarship with a tweet

Airplane Food Finally Kills Someone, Says Lawsuit

Bone Drug Boosts Breast Cancer Survival

Make a left turn here: scientists direct nerve cells with lasers

Quicker radiation therapy doubles mastectomy risk

Gypsum deposit on Mars provides definitive evidence of water

‘Greenhouse effect’ used to generate electricity

The Saddest Woman Ever to Fail to Cook Meth in a Walmart

 More Drivers Texting at Wheel Despite State Bans, Study Finds

 ICE admits year-long seizure of music blog was a mistake

 Dangling Eyes of Scary Ancient Sea Predator Discovered

 CDC: Castrating Lambs With Your Teeth May Make You Sick

 Facebook glitch reveals private photos — including Zuckerberg’s

 Blogger not eligible for media shield law, hit with $2.5M judgment

 Head butts and waggle dances: How honeybees make decisions

 Skeleton at London Dungeon found to be real

Reality Bytes – for the week of December 3rd 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Hear and now by Augenstilzchen

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New “sun worship” sites found at Stonehenge

Nurses Fight For Their Right To Refuse Women Care

Man Sues Playboy For Shocking Hot-Ladies-Get-In-Free Policy

Worst Gyno Ever Pressures Woman To Get Labiaplasty

Kyrgyzstan Will No Longer Tolerate Bride-Kidnapping

Is The Internet Killing Sperm?

Tweeting Teen Completes Total Victory over Crybaby Kansas Governor

Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in donated suit

New restaurant aims to be the “Hooters for women”

Arizona gun club lets children hold high-powered guns while posing for Christmas pictures

Fire Burns Differently in Space, Space Station Experiment Shows

Woman “imprisoned” on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years

Horses Could Soon Be Slaughtered for Meat in U.S.

Strange Pits at Stonehenge Reveal New Clues to Ancient Worship

FDA Appeals Cigarette Warning Ruling

How Does Laptop Wi-Fi Affect Male Fertility?

Drug helps monkeys lose weight, are humans next?

Tiny cyborg beetles could recharge just by flying

Reality Bytes – for the week of November 26th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Autumn is a season to eat! by e+on

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Cyborg-style contact lenses take step closer to reality

Bad Timing: Robert Wagner Plays Murder Suspect on ‘NCIS’ Episode

Four-winged dinosaur fossilized after swallowing a bird

Boy, 6, caught playing doctor, is accused of sex assault

Controversial “anti-Semitic” vodka billboard taken down in NYC

Robertson: Is mac ‘n’ cheese ‘a black thing?’

O Christmas tree, how costly are your branches

Iowa’s Hamburglar surrenders to police

Three plead guilty in Florida toilet paper fraud

Gynecologist faces charge for secret photos

Man leaves $1.28 million dollars at Sydney restaurant

Epic fail for Qantas Twitter competition

Erotica 2011 stands firm against rise of the sex machines

Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey dies

New find sheds light on ancient site in Jerusalem

Sticky goo on Pa. turnpike disables over 100 cars

Face of pain? Man’s image seen in ultrasound

Alcohol may thwart breast cancer’s spread

Extra brain cells may be key to autism

Trolling a ‘patent troll’ with … trolls

Reality Bytes – for the week of November 19th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Swing Of Love by CAUTIVA

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Court upholds fine against nude hiker

Darth Vader claims land plot in Ukraine

Mysterious, triangle-shaped ‘alien skull’ found in Peru

Vatican takes legal action over Benetton pope kiss ad

Texting mistake lands would-be drug buyer in jail

Bottoms up for paint-spattered church-goers

Scientists create lightweight champ

Brewer to turn spent grains into energy

Energy storage breakthroughs on the horizon

 Ant-like robots poised to invade the marketplace

Report: Sony wants to cut your cable TV cord

What? Yeti nests found in Russia?! Not so fast…

Judge says feds need warrant for cellphone info

New bee or not new bee?

Report: More kids ‘cyberbaiting’ teachers

Bid to program new life forms with ‘operating system’ for cells

“Occupy Flash” campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Flash plugin

Anonymous “dimnet” tries to create hedge against DNS censorship

Skyrim sells a reported 3.5 million units in 2 days, shows demand for single-player gaming

Self-help guru gets 6 years in sweat lodge deaths

Lakes found on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Mother lets 9-year-old boy drive car to school

Reality Bytes – for the week of November 12th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Ma petite histoire by Lo

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Antibodies and light combine for a cancer-killing therapy

Facebook settlement will make all future privacy changes “opt-in”

ARM touts PlayStation 3 power in a mobile GPU

Remember the “borderless” Internet? It’s officially dead

Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw, didn’t own copyright to

Four-wheeling on the nanoscale: single-molecule vehicles go for a spin

Adobe Admits: Apple Won, Flash For Mobile is Done, HTML5 is the Future

During World War I, France built a fake Paris to fool Germany

Boozed-up ball-biting mum spared jail

‘Atlas Shrugged’ film producers replacing 100,000 DVD’s after mischaracterizing Ayn Rand’s novel

First man ‘functionally cured’ of HIV

Porn Industry Gets Green Light for Red-Light .XXX District

Super Strong ‘Mighty Mouse’ Created by Swiss Scientists

Why Are California Birds Getting Bigger?

Magic Viking Sunstone? Crystal’s Secret Revealed by Scientist

Lost Civilization Discovered in Sahara Desert

Cold Fusion Experiment: Major Success or Complex Hoax?

Mystery of Moon’s Lost Magnetism Solved?

Reality Bytes – for the week of November 5th 2011: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Space Cactus Valley by Tom Drexl

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Gravitational lens lets Hubble zoom in on matter swirling into black hole

Ginormous sunspot spews solar guts towards Earth

Rover spots the ‘new thing’ on Mars

Quarter-mile-wide asteroid coming close to Earth

 Your body is psyched to ‘fall back’

 Oregon veteran faces eviction if he hangs US flag

 “Saber-toothed squirrel” bridges 150 million year gap in fossil record

A million-dollar mistake in German museum

Company claims it can zap brown eyes blue. Really?

Snickering encouraged at NY caricature exhibit

Chickenpox lollipops? Some moms may be sending in mail

Teen in recovery from accidental haunted house hanging

You gotta have friends? Most have just 2 true pals

HACKERS TO KILL FACEBOOK ON NOV. 5th, 2011

Anonymous won’t expose ‘servants’ of Mexico’s Zetas cartel

Sculpture of Ai WeiWei corpse spooks German town

Robbed trick-or-treaters get candy via Craigslist

Owner of car dealership labelled “Taliban Toyota” wins millions

8 killed in shooting at Mexican volleyball game

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