Weekly Signals

Communications from the Anthropocene

Woodpecker Concussions

Woodpecker Concussions

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about Moss Piglets, the cure for heart attacks, a long, never-ending plateau, COVID-19 for at least 471 straight days, Putin’s Best Ally, giant sequoias in the pyrocene, rewriting our weather history book, California gun laws, the first things to come out of the Big Bang, bananas, duct tape, and so on.

An Illegal Body Part Scheme

An Illegal Body Part Scheme

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about accidentally legalizing edibles, Hamptons Bladder, COVID boosters, COVIDIOTS, wildfires in Alaska, evaporative demand, involuntary relocation, a gun insurance mandate, Griffith Park Drive, the Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving, the modifiable risk factor movement, dinosaur feathers, the celebrity peanut vendor, Wax Boris, and so on.

Top Ten Reasons to Hate Fireworks

Top Ten Reasons to Hate Fireworks

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler, talk about Ketanji Brown Jackson, GanjaChicken, jumping genes in octopuses, waiting for the green man, the Golden State’s great drying, a major setback for the EPA, how to move to Canada from U.S., Snake Island, Mrs. Roy Bryant, Bruce’s Beach, psilocybin at the V.A., a missing flash drive, hearing dead relative’s voices, Killing in the Name, Burger King, and so on.

A Stroller Full of Ammunition

A Stroller Full of Ammunition

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about success, luck, unintended vasectomies, scammer personas, sucking up all the energy from the Sun, the Corvid Palace, the independent nation of Texas, Canadian plastics, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, origami robots, Herschel Walker, surfer scholarships, firewalking, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s arrest, and so on.

Talking Trash Cans

Talking Trash Cans

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the popcorn shortage, catnip, phylogenetic trees, the Mr. Trash Wheel Family, how a U.S. single-payer health care would have saved 338,000 lives from COVID-19, the Colorado River system, the Yellowstone National Park flood, a trans-continental aquifer system, microplastics in fresh Antarctic snow, PlookGanja, cow burps, and so on.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about the James Webb Space Telescope Micrometeoroid Collision, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, South Coast hydrologic region water-hogs,  hot schools, planet-warming carbon dioxide, Social Security success, rectal cancer, Covid-sniffing dogs, the vast international horse trafficking network, the Taser drone, protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays, the human meatball, and then some.