Weekly Signals

Communications from the Anthropocene

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.

Crazy Snake Worms

Crazy Snake Worms

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about crab discos, mangroves, elephant eating habits, the rattlesnake boom, hanging Mike Pence, backdoor Baptists, the Supreme Court death panel, mandatory vasectomies, Foxy Biden, shoes for diabetics, app-based driver’s licenses, Vishnu, and then some.

The Vatican Metaverse

The Vatican Metaverse

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about grilled cheese sandwiches, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a downcast, straight-faced man brightened only by the yellow $34.99 price tag on his cheek, rejuvenating aging rodents, the Hurricane Gun, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens, blank-check companies, meme stocks, California’s two largest reservoirs, nontoxic plywood glue, bats imitating hornets, Republican first-degree murderers, and so on.