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Strange Food

Check out Hanttula.com's unique online exhibition The Museum of Food Anomalies, which depicts "common food items that have distorted into something more sinister than words can describe."

Blind Game Player

At the start of the 2nd hour, Brice Mellen, a blind teenager who excels at video games was briefly interviewed. He said he uses sound cues to help him make game moves. For more, see this Associated Press article.

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Strange Karma

Open Lines featured a special "strange karma" line, where callers shared stories of unusual circumstances that had befallen them recently. Other calls included a man who said he purchased an inexpensive radio from Walgreens, and when he turned it on, he would hear an odd sounding voice that seemed to say the name of Bob, in a high-pitched drone. He played the radio live on the air, and it did produce an eerie sounding voice. The "Goddess of Oddness" also called in to tell how she raised a possum in her home-- it used a litter box and never bit her.

Space News

During the first hour, astronomer Phil Plait discussed the discoveries of two new "planets" in our outer solar system. One, he said, is believed to be larger than Pluto, the other, though smaller, has its own moon. For more on this, see this special page that he's prepared.

Then, Richard C. Hoagland joined the show, commenting that the recent planetary discoveries were fostered by a competition between two scientific teams, Caltech and a group in Spain. He also shared an update on the Shuttle, suggesting that the problem with the foam/tiles dates back to missions from 1997.

The 10th Planet

Pictured is an artist rendering (credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech) of the newly discovered 10th planet, which is larger than Pluto, and three times further from the sun than it. The breaking news comes on the heels of the discovery of another object in the outer solar system that is said to be 70% the size of Pluto. Read more at Space.com.

Friday July 29th, 2005

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