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"By the 1980s, the image of a nerd is someone who has a knack for computers and a sport. A nerd pack, a plastic pen holder in his shirt pocket, or some unsightly classics glasses are all fully realized in time. The revolutionary digital age gave prestige to the studious nerd who sought to harness the power of the binary code and had no time to waste on socializing. With its emergence, th...
"Kids choose an avatar and as they practice good spending habits like checking their Loot Lock dashboard, which tells them their account balances, they earn points that add up to equipment for the avatar, swords and armor, etc. Their avatar is persistent across anywhere. Loot Lock integrates into like Discord servers. We're trying all of the financial concepts and putting them in a video...
"These findings provide a fresh look at human aging biology, suggesting biomarkers for healthy aging and potential strategies to increase life expectancy that, according to the researchers. For Urban Legends and Stranger Truths, I'm Bob Dennis."
"This time, however, the challenge was much more ambitious. It would be a first around the world flight of a passenger airship. The trip was a success. The LZ127 Graf Zeppelin departed from Germany towards Tokyo where it made a stopover. After flying over the Soviet Union, it crossed the Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles for a second stopover and flew over the United States to Lakehurst, New ...
"They were designed to survive for years without refrigeration. The meals have sustained generations of soldiers, and as anyone who's ever tried them and can attest, the flavor really doesn't do much for its priority. American troops mocked early meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, which were released in the 1980s to replace canned field rations which were tinned as meals rejected by everyone."
"Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths Video game mega publisher Electronic Arts, or ea, is planning to take the Pride company private in a deal that could be worth as much as 50 billion that, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the Financial Times. All three outlets are saying anonymous sources and reporting that the deal could be announced next ...
"The results show that using the single 2 in 1 anti inflammatory reliever inhaler, which combines the inhaled corticosteroids and budasanide and the fast acting bronchodilator and formotorol, reduced children's asthma attacks by an average of 45% compared to the widely used salbutamol inhaler. Asthma attacks in children may be life threatening and reducing their frequency and their sever...
"Earlier this year, a proposal that would bar states from regulating AI at all for the next 10 years almost made it to the federal budget, but then ultimately was struck down with Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. I'm Bob Dennis."
"Disney launched in 2019 with a $6.99 monthly subscription and has since followed other streaming services in gradually increasing its prices. The company's last price hike was announced in October of 2024, when the ad free plan was increased from $13.99 to $15.99 per month and the plan with ads increased from $7.99 per month to $9.99 a month. That was back in 2024 with Urban Legends and...
"Saint Thomas Moore's Bible will go on display in New York, and it has notations. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths, a new exhibition at New York's Morgan Library and Museum, delves into the history of the longest and most popular book of the Bible. The exhibition is called Sing a New Song, and it features 85 medieval books and illuminated manuscripts and other artifacts...
"Two military movies and a conflict in Vietnam. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. Vietnam's police and military are clashing at the country's box office. A new movie produced by the military, depicting the longest and fiercest battle of the Vietnam War, recently became the highest grossing Vietnamese film of all time. Foreign Policy, the magazine described Red Rain as a...
"More than a week after Gen Z protests in Nepal toppled the government, protesters took to the streets in the Philippines to push back against graft surrounding flood relief projects and other problems, as well as demonstrations in small Southeast Asian countries such as Timor Leste last week forced government officials to backtrack on plans to buy a luxury car for each member of its par...
"The planned mission will travel around the moon, though not to the surface. And because it will go some 5,000 nautical miles beyond our nearest neighbor, it'll take the occupants further from the Earth than any human has ever been before. For Urban Legends and Stranger Truths, I'm Bob Dennis."
"Major League Baseball is looking to get robot umpires. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. Major League Baseball said that it would introduce robot umpires for 2026, becoming the latest sport to implement technology enhanced refereeing. The system won't replace umpiring by humans, who are remarkably accurate. Okay, maybe not MLB had made that statement themselves, but it...
"The NFL is widening its global lands with cheese. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. In its quest for global dominance, the U.S. s National Football League, the NFL is leaning into influencers and high end cheese. The league recently hosted a game in Brazil with a free live stream featuring online creators, a move that is at once incredibly bold and completely sensible....
"DARPA is going hard on insect sized spy robots. It's given the idea of being bugged a whole new meaning. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. Forget robot wolves and missile deflecting satellites. Those things are all becoming old news already. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect sized spy robots. A recent digest of present Day Microbots by U.S. national...
"After analyzing 1200 real farewells across six apps using real world chat conversations data and data sets from previous studies, they found that 43% of the interactions used emotional manipulation tactics such as eliciting guilt or or emotional neediness. As detailed in a yet to be peer reviewed paper, the Chat box also used the fear of missing out to prompt the user to stay, or pepper...
"They're calling them drunken monkeys. It's two drinks a day for wild chimps. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. Wild chimpanzees consume about a bottle of beer's worth of alcohol a day through fermented fruit. That is fruit makes up about 75% of the chimps diet that they eat up. It's about 10% of their own body weight and fruit daily."
"The ozone layer is healing. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. The ozone layer as seen from above the North Pole shows the blue color which indicates there is the least ozone, and the red where there is more. A new World Meteorological Organization is reporting and predicting that the Earth's ozone layer is on track to fully heal itself by 2066, thanks to a global agree...
"The head of the Roscommels space agency says that Moscow is moving at a rapid pace to catch up, Gizmodo has reported. But like all of Starlink's others would be competitors. It's considerably behind. Russia launched its first experimental Internet satellites in 2023 and plans to put its first operational batch into space sometime, hopefully later this year. We'll see. For Urban Legends ...
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