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- Scientists having fun... https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/invertebrate-butts/ 4 comments science
- From Anal Teeth To Deadly Farts: The Wild World Of Invertebrate Butts https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/invertebrate-butts/ 2 comments nottheonion
- Wisconsin Oversteps in Wolf Hunt https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wisconsin-wolf-hunt/ 10 comments science
- Researchers have discovered that dogs have muscles around their eyes that help them make puppy dog eyes at you. They also found that wolves, the wild ancestor of the dog, don’t have these muscles. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/puppy-eyes-dogs-secret-people-manipulation-weapon/ 3 comments science
- The Color Of Music - researchers report that they’ve identified several regions of the genome that may be involved in synesthesia https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-color-of-music/ 4 comments science
- Science AMA Series: I'm Ira Flatow, the host of public radio's Science Friday. I anchor the show, bringing listeners world wide a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space and the environment. AMA! http://www.sciencefriday.com/ 455 comments science
- Zubrin comments on the ITS on NPR http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/planning-out-a-trip-to-mars/ 16 comments spacex
- Four Ways ‘Oryx and Crake’ Predicted the Future - Margaret Atwood’s book is fiction, but the cutting-edge research she writes about is real. http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/four-ways-oryx-and-crake-predicted-the-future/ 7 comments books
- 1960's NASA and Integration During the Civil Rights Movement http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/nasa-and-integration-during-the-civil-rights-movement/ 3 comments space
- Kurt Vonnegut in the ‘House of Magic’ - how Bernard Vonnegut's cloud-seeding invention made its way into Cat’s Cradle, and how Kurt’s questions about the ethics of the General Electric “House of Magic” inspired his fiction. http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kurt-vonnegut-in-the-house-of-magic/ 3 comments books
- TIL that MSG (the ingredient and not the movie), used popularly in noodles, is not bad as we think it is [NP] http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/10/02/2014/is-msg-bad-for-your-health.html?series=28#path/blogs/10/02/2014/is-msg-bad-for-your-health.html?series=28 52 comments india
- Language Creator David J. Peterson talks on Sci Fri about how he made Dothraki for Game of Thrones http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/10/02/2015/from-dothraki-to-valyrian-building-the-languages-of-game-of-thrones.html 6 comments linguistics
- Does Air Pollution Deflate Urban Bikers’ Health? http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/09/11/2015/does-air-pollution-deflate-urban-bikers-health.html 7 comments bicycling
- Planetary scientist Alan Stern gets comically offended when Ira Flatow calls Pluto a "former planet" (exchange starts at 7 minutes) http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/07/10/2015/new-horizons-prepares-for-pluto-close-up.html 10 comments space
- How Did the Beefsteak Tomato Get So Beefy? “When we looked closely under the microscope, we could see that the stem cell population was much larger than it should have been and this was a clue that there was something wrong in [the] genes that were controlling the stem cell production” http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/05/29/2015/how-did-the-beefsteak-tomato-get-so-beefy.html 4 comments science
- Robot learns to keep walking after getting damaged http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/05/29/2015/the-limits-of-artificial-intelligence.html 14 comments robotics
- What bilingual babies can teach us about language learning - fascinating new research http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/02/20/2015/what-bilingual-babies-can-teach-us-about-language-learning.html 3 comments linguistics
- Meet a real superhero: the water bear. Boil it, freeze it, send it to outer space or the bottom of the sea, it survives! http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/03/08/2013/behold-the-mighty-water-bear.html 3 comments science
- NPR's Science Friday wants you to "Ask a Quantum Mechanic" http://www.sciencefriday.com 82 comments askscience
- Boost Your Bike: Flywheel http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/12/2011/boost-your-bike.html 4 comments bicycling
- Danika McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years, if you care) takes an interesting approach to math education http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/08/16/2012/hot-guys-and-smelly-socks.html 5 comments math
- New technologies may allow computer simulations to eliminate animal testing. http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/07/27/2012/building-organs-on-one-microchip-at-a-time.html 20 comments science
- Spinning eggs can be used as fluid pump with no internal parts http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10455 8 comments science
- What effect is this unseasonably warm weather going to have on stocks? http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201203096 22 comments investing
- Today NPR's Science Friday had a segment with Andrew Weil, one of the biggest names in alternative medicine. Listen to te segment, then go email SciFri about how inappropriate it was to give a platform to this man who is the **antithesis** of science! http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201112022 472 comments science
- Bicycles stay upright due to magic http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10376 12 comments bicycling
- Save your braking energy in a flywheel. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201108126 8 comments bicycling
- Bicycle + Flywheel http://www.sciencefriday.com/embed/video/10400.swf 42 comments bicycling
- NYU engineering student creates a bike with a built in fly wheel to store lost energy while breaking. http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10400 74 comments technology
- Author of "The Case for Mars" (President of Mars Society) is interviewed on NPR Science Friday. Awesome and very knowledgeable guy. Why did we stop funding NASA again? (click the play button near the top left corner.) http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201107014 2 comments reddit.com
- Pervious concrete, a type of concrete without sand, can drain hundreds of inches of rain per hour, allowing water to filter into groundwater stores below, rather than run off into storm drains. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201106246 19 comments technology
- Physics Of The Riderless Bike http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10376 18 comments science
- How to Dress for Space Travel? Wear Playtex. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201103256 13 comments space
- They're no different from the rest of you organisms. Shooting DNA at each other to make babies. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201103186 7 comments science
- The 'Magic Mountain,' a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, imaged by Hubble's Wide Field Camera http://www.sciencefriday.com/images/shows/2010/042310/hs-2010-13-a-large_web.jpg 19 comments science
- A math video about the shape of the St. Louis Gateway Arch http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10215 4 comments reddit.com
- Science Friday on NPR is having a really interesting discussion on gene patenting right now. You guys should listen to it. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200912112 4 comments science
- New style of VTOL plane - unmanned and with a 500 mile range [VIDEO] http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10224 36 comments technology
- oversized rubberbands can make a 60-pound backpack feel 10 pounds lighter? http://www.sciencefriday.com/news/122206/news1222061.html 8 comments technology
Linking pages
- High quality audio makes you sound smarter https://tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter 502 comments
- NPR’s Science Friday goes after creationist mimic | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/nprs-science-friday-goes-after-creationist-mimic/ 93 comments
- The Craziest Thing You'll Ever Learn About Pi - Daniel Miessler http://dmiessler.com/blog/the-craziest-thing-youll-ever-learn-about-pi 61 comments
- Teaching evolution in the South: an educator on the “war for science literacy" - Vox http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/25/13344516/education-evolution-science-south-religion-controversy-creationism-culture 13 comments
- What killed Karl Patterson Schmidt? Combined venom gland transcriptomic, venomic and antivenomic analysis of the South African green tree snake (the boomslang), Dispholidus typus - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335903/ 12 comments
- The Craziest Thing You'll Ever Learn About Pi - Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-craziest-thing-youll-ever-learn-about-pi?sms_ss=hackernews 0 comments
- A shapeshifting fungus lives in the dust. It's infecting across the American West https://massivesci.com/articles/valley-fever-coccidioides-science-friday-covid19/ 0 comments
- How to Solve Captchas—and Why They've Gotten So Hard | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/im-not-a-robot-why-captchas-hard-to-solve/ 0 comments
- Exploring the Complexities of Nerdiness, for Laughs - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/science/27bang.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes 0 comments