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Wed. 07/06 - Big Mouth Billy Bass


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We take a deep dive into the freshwater lake origins of Big Mouth Billy Bass, the singing fish, and his riptide success in the early 2000s. And, in other peak scientific innovation news, the Large Hadron Collider has been booted up once more and already discovered three new exotic particles.

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  • Links:

    An Oral History Of Big Mouth Billy Bass (MEL)
  • The Rise And Fall Of Big Mouth Billy Bass, The Kitschy Singing Wall-Fish That Ruled The Year 2000 (Ranker)
  • How a robotic singing fish made $100m in one year (The Hustle)
  • Singing Bird Clock commercial (Dakota Clark, YouTube)
  • Wellerman, performed by Bill Bass and friends (Kevin Heckart, TikTok)
  • LHCb discovers three new exotic particles (CERN)
  • CERN scientists observe three 'exotic' particles for first time (NBC News)
  • Large Hadron Collider Physicists Discover Three New Exotic Particles (Gizmodo)
  • We need another particle accelerator. Don’t let these 5 myths fool you (Big Think)
  • Large Hadron Collider scientists hail most powerful collisions (Space.com)
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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