Weekly Signals

Communications from the Anthropocene

Dark Fleets

Dark Fleets

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, effective altruism, our growing country, feral peacocks, bad dogs, a whale Fibonacci, orange rivers, bottled water nanoplastics, internal displacements, the sacredness of the Moon, lightless craters, replacing lithium, beat perception, OCD mouse, Alabama diving, and so on.

Coral on the Moon

Coral on the Moon

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about the state bat, field pansies, aloe vera, powder power, marine mass extinction, wastewater heating in False Creek, Chief Justice John Roberts year-end report, a virtual sexual assault, TOI-1853 b, Mickey Ears, the Russian Federal Security Service 2024 calendar, and so on.

Cadmium Cocoa

Cadmium Cocoa

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about Tigger, Call of Cthulhu, venomous snakebites, raiding aquifers, wooden wind turbines, euthanasia, ChatGPT plagiarism, covert space missions, overmassive black hole galaxies, AI insider training, baseball rule changes, an “item of concern,” and so on.

Fleecing the Holy See

Fleecing the Holy See

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler the Deep Fake News Dog talk about an Orca Update, tears, the air travel tax, hurricane microplastics, a repugnant ruling, a plutonium pit, the measles, money well spent, the Vatican’s plan for ending homelessness, pretextual stops, prescription meth, the emerging Coronal Mass Ejection, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, getting doored, Wilma Mankiller, the reverse cowgirl, and so on.

Morning People

Morning People

On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the Word of the Year Part 2, pure carnivores, Canadian tropical fish, the wet-bulb global temperature, COP28, La Posada at the U.S./Mexico Border, Pompeii’s bakery prison, Mississippi’s religious vaccination exemption, Americans’ prescription records, direct-sound printing, willful ignorance, emoji biodiversity, hurling a burrito, the importance of voting, and so on.

Buried in Space

Buried in Space

On this week’s episode, special guest co-host Claudia Shambaugh, Nathan, and Mahler the Fake News Dog talk about the word of the year, chinstrap penguin microsleeping, better coffee, methane digesters, net metering 3.0, rescuing the Marshall Islands, Cop28, nuclear energy, hydrogen from plastic waste, the LA to Vegas bullet train, old organs, anthrobots, wine fraud, 23and Me, Junior Walker and The All Stars, and so on.