The IG Nobel prize, which satirically honors some of the weirdest scientific studies from around the world. Honeries include: Studying chinese hitmen managerial skills, testing the validity of a frozen poop knife, investigating diplomats who prank each other, gathering evidence that entomologists are afraid of spiders, and examining the distress at hearing someone’s chewing sounds. Could there be life on Venus? Phosphine has been detected there, which is usually expelled by microbes that don’t breath oxygen. Florida or Australia is back: a condo is for sale and it’s covered floor to ceiling in Budweiser cans.  Looking into laser pointers is bad, like really bad. Don’t do it, it will blast away your rods and cones.  AirBnB has an offer to stay in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air mansion…supposedly for 30 a night? Evidently you shouldn’t live in former meth houses. Nintendo has been working on an animated Mario movie since 2017 and in two more years it will debut…supposedly.  The world’s oldest animal sperm has finally been found…thank god!   A special bacteria exists in some animals and it helps them navigate the globe. Scientists can grow gold nanoparticles inside cancer cells. Then they heat them up with lasers, and it kills tumors.

Sean – I could be completely off…but cigarette residue produces radiation.

Max – Make Sean pronounce more Japanese words!

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