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The official podcast of Kottke.org. In just 15 minutes, the coolest stuff that happened in the world today. Science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art and hope. The antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
- 11 minutes 14 secondsGeminids Return - How and When You Can Get the Best View
How to catch the Geminid meteor shower in December | AP News
How to Watch the Geminid Meteor Shower, Which Peaks This Weekend | Smithsonian Magazine
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12 December 2025, 4:30 pm - 10 minutes 23 secondsYour Poop Type Could Impact Your Health
How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time | Gut
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11 December 2025, 4:30 pm - 11 minutes 58 secondsMassive Sunspot Pointed Towards Earth
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10 December 2025, 5:20 pm - 12 minutes 57 secondsRats Catching Bats in the Air & Could Genetically Engineered Pig Livers Be the Future of Human Organ Transplantation
Rats are snatching bats out of the air and eating them
Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver
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9 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 11 minutes 1 secondWhen the Lungs Don't Work, Could People Intake Air Through Their ... Butts?
‘Butt breathing’ could help people who can’t get oxygen the regular way
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8 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 12 minutes 40 secondsAnaconda - The Snake that Never Changed
Fossils Reveal the Green Anaconda Has Been a Giant For 12 Million Years | ZME Science
Fossils reveal anaconda snakes have been giants for millions of years - BBC Newsround
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5 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 10 minutes 44 seconds2025 Word of the Year
Rage bait takes the title as "2025 Word of the Year" for Oxford Dictionary.
‘Rage bait’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year | CNN
Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
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4 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 11 minutes 7 secondsA Robot That Swims Through Your Bloodstream To Deliver Medication & A Gene Responsible for Mental Illness
This magnet-powered micro-robot could soon swim through your bloodstream
Scientists discover first gene proven to directly cause mental illness
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3 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 11 minutes 5 secondsDogs STILL Share DNA with Wolves and It Has Quite the Influence
Scientists discover hidden wolf DNA in most dogs
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2 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 16 minutes 35 secondsHow Far Are We From Communicating with Animals?
Scientists have almost cracked the secret language of animals. Here's what they've learned.
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1 December 2025, 3:00 pm - 12 minutes 58 secondsThe First Kiss is Older Than Modern Man & Connection Between Gray Hairs and Cancer
First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists | BBC
Kissing started 20 million years ago, long before humans existed - UPI.com
A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing - ScienceDirect
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