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Hello, good people of the SYSK Nation. What a fun week here at HQ. Dr. Clark and I covered a couple of cool topics — propaganda and spontaneous human combustion.
Dr. Clark and I had a lovely time here at HSW HQ. We laid down a couple of groovy podcasts (if I do say so myself) about rigor mortis and buying local and/or organic food.
As far as the rigor mortis show goes, can I just say two words? RADIUS AND ULNA.
This week on Stuff You Should Know, Josh and I both taught you folks and learned a thing or two ourselves. I didn’t know much about either one of these two topics before our research and one of them continued to stymie me until we recorded the show.
We had a little fun with Tuesday’s show on High Fructose Corn Syrup by “acting” for a change. We mimicked the awful and popular HFCS TV commercial and I think we can all agree that there won’t be any Oscar awards coming our way anytime soon. The takeaway for this show was that HFCS isn’t the worst thing on Earth, but Americans are consuming far too much of it because it’s snuck into more products than you can shake a stick at. We got some KILLER listener mail about this episode, so listen up for it soon.
If you want to talk about some podcast goodness, look no further than this week my friends. Josh and I hit on two very cool subjects. Tuesday’s “Deja Vu” show taught us, among other things, that there are no less than 40 hypotheses about just what deja vu is. Also – apparently 20 to 30 percent of folks never experience it, which kind of surprised me. I thought it happened to everyone until we did our research.
Yesterday’s show on the number of dead bodies left on Mt. Everest was just as fascinating and macabre as I hoped it would be. Fact of the day – 120 dead bodies still lay at rest on Everest in varying states of decay. A gruesome sad reminder of just how extreme conditions are there.
Check these shows out if you haven’t already and allow me to now plug a very exciting new offering from the SYSK team…
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