In 2016 a Florida man attempted to run from Boca Raton, FL to Bermuda in a home-made, inflatable plastic bubble. Reza Baluchi had been warned by the Coast Guard that any efforts to attempt his journey would be futile and result in severe legal and financial retribution. This is the story of that fateful journey as told by the man who attempted it.
Read MoreChris Garth brought his girlfriend back to the Waikiki beach where they first met. He asked her to marry him just as the two surfers were catching a wave. He lost the ring …
Read MoreSnakebites are common, but anti-venom can be hard to get. One doctor is trying a new solution, with help from a former rock star.
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Zombies have become a global phenomenon — Which made us wonder, where did this fascination for the undead come from? This week, how one of our favorite monsters is a window into Haiti's history and the horrors of slavery.
Read MoreAn experiment funded by the U.S. military meant to sharpen soldiers' minds for the battlefield has found a way to improve memory: by zapping subjects' brains with tiny bursts of electricity during sleep.
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Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other.
An actual D.C. road, 16th Street NW, runs 6.5 miles from the White House up to the Maryland border. It's home to nearly 50 — 50! — houses of worship.
Read MoreThe air tingles with prose. Patrons perch atop bar stools, but they aren't drinking. Individuals congregate together as a group, but they aren't talking.
A French inventor has crossed the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard. Franky Zapata's hoverboard is powered by kerosene which he carries in a backpack. He took off from Sangatte near Calais and reached Dover in just over 20 minutes – but he had to stop for fuel.
Read MoreFrench inventor Franky Zapata successfully flew from France to England on an airborne flyboard, Sunday, August 4. The 40-year-old completed the 35 kilometer journey in under a half hour. This was Zapata’s second attempt to cross the English Channel, the first attempt was cut short after Zapata collided with the refueling boat minutes into the flight.
A 3D animation showing how a Glock 19 firearm works.
Read MoreWe went behind the scenes with former MythBusters star Adam Savage for his new series Savage Builds. In the first episode Adam builds a titanium Iron Man suit modeled directly from Marvel Studios, with the hopes of actually flying it.
The IKEA effect and Implicit Egotism both seem at first blush to be amusing, if not terribly significant. But … there are all kinds of more serious implications. We tend to feel more drawn to people who are like us — and perhaps more inclined to help them. We feel more committed to our own ideas, even when they aren't necessarily our greatest ones.
Read MoreKona Surf Co. is a surf shop in Wildwood, NJ. It's run by a father-son team trying to reinvent how surfboards are made by taking a craft that was once only done by hand and now using advanced machinery to do the shaping instead. We got a peek inside how they are revolutionizing how surfboards are made.
Communicating through your thoughts alone is possible — with a little technical assistance. Scientists at the University of Washington's Center for Neurotechnology have figured out how to network human minds together to collaborate to move Tetris-like shapes on a computer screen using only thoughts.
Read MoreOn Radiolab, travel from a voting booth in Brussels to the driver's seat of a runaway car in the Carolinas, exploring the massive effects tiny bits of stardust can have on us unwitting humans.
NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Noomi Rapace about her latest film, Stockholm, which covers the hostage situation that coined the term “Stockholm syndrome.”
In 1954, the menacing and humanesque monster in “Creature from the Black Lagoon” — the Gill-man — was a feat of design and function. But the person actually responsible for its design never got the credit she deserved — until now.
Read MoreLISTEN to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me’s introduction of Pete Schiavo into the american consciousness.
Read MoreSome stories just have to be heard to be believed … :)
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