Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

The Mexico Medical Run (A Nonsense Mini-Update)

Surprise! It’s not Jeff, which means everything has gone terribly wrong. cj has taken the mic to deliver some sad truths: his respiratory system is on strike, Big Pharma

One Prompt Wonder: The Week the AI Race Hit Fast-Forward

(0:00) Open (2:09) Launch Week at the Frontier (9:50) One-Prompt Mario Kart (15:38) Let’s Play: Bumble Rally! (16:55) The Karts & The Bees (20:32) Let’s Play: Parcel

Ground Control to Scholar Tom: Science Oddities, Part 1

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:47) The Weird Fringes of Science (1:50) Dr. Barry Marshall’s Bacteria Shot (7:50) The Convergent Evolution of Caffeine (10:29) Donald Unger’s 60-Ye

The Biological Crime Scene on Your Dinner Plate: Food Safety & Microscopic Villains

(0:00) Open (1:04) The Toxic Truth About Food Safety (3:22) Food Borne Illness Background (5:05) Cyclospora: It’s a Parasite, Not a Bacterium (9:02) Global Supply Cha

HEADLINES: Open-Source AI Battles, Microscopic Taco Coups, and Unsafe Chinese Imports

(0:00) Pre-Show (00:55) Open (1:50) National Junk Food Day (2:40) cj's week: Legoland & Lounge Chairs (5:37) Jeff's Week: Exploding Transmission Trunks (9:16) Headli

The Dystopian Return of the Debtors' Prison

(0:00) Open (2:05) When Empty Pockets Become a Crime (4:02) Debtors' Prisons: A History (9:37) Famous People Who Went to Debtors' Prisons (18:17) Modern Day Debtors'

Task Failed Successfully: The Science of Happy Accidents - Part 2

(0:00) Open (1:01) The Glued-Shut Gun Sights (4:16) Alot About Aspirin (6:40) The Wrong Box of Resistors (9:29) The Spoiled Clover (12:03) The Exploding Hot Stove (

Task Failed Successfully: The Science of Happy Accidents - Part 1

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:20) Open (3:40) When Mr. Goodbar Went Soft (7:35) Here, Hold This Box of Smallpox… (11:11) The Great Pigeon Poop Epiphany (14:42) Attenuate The Ch

The Post-Authentic Era: Disinformation and the New Machinery of Lies

Is that video real, or is it just another LLM-generated nightmare designed to make you angry? Welcome to the post-authentic era, where the marginal cost of producing a co

HEADLINES: Anthropic’s Banned AI, Terminator Drones, & Google’s Legal Reality Check

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:46) Open (1:47) cj's week: Summer, Pool, BBQng! (3:22) Jeff's Week: Phat Spiders, FIFA Scanning (8:33) Headline: Why the US Government Just Pulled

History's Deadliest General: How Mosquitoes Shaped the World

(0:00) Open (0:48) The Unknown Side of Mosquitos (3:38) Good News: Mosquitos Don’t Bite (5:45) But They Are War Heroes (11:27) THAT Full Moon Fever (12:59) ¡Pie Ques

HEADLINES: The Trillion-Dollar Valuation Debate, Fancy Microfluid Tubes, and High-Fashion Lunar Long Johns

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:48) Open (1:55) National Forklift Safety Day (2:21) cj's week: Forklifts & Car Lifts (5:10) Jeff's Week: AGM Car Batteries and EV Sticks (6:41) He

The Cost of AI: Digital Dementia & The Death of Critical Thinking

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:11) Open (3:11) The Studies With The Data (9:45) Cognitive Offloading (12:54) Where Have All The Experts Gone? (17:29) The LLM Brain Rot Hypothesi

Cookware’s Forever Chemical Reckoning: The Toxic War In Your Kitchen

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:02) The Toxic Marketing War in Your Kitchen (3:53) DuPont: The Origin of Teflon and Everything Else (6:01) Why is This Undesirable Now? (8:50) PFAs

Data vs. Dairy: Uncovering the Secret Water Hogs of the Modern World

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:45) The Hidden Water Cost of the Things We Consume (3:00) The Kernels Are Thirsty (7:30) 40k Gallons of Joe (9:32) Pools of Evaporation (12:48) Th

The Insane Infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence

(0:00) Open (1:25) AI’s Insatiable Hunger (4:33) So Many Hyperscalars! (9:13) Batteries Not Included (14:29) H2NO! (18:29) Where’s The Payout? (22:17) cj’s recommen

The Death of the Bookie: Why Prediction Markets are Eating Sports Betting

(0:00) Open (1:46) The Price of "Probably" (6:11) The Wisdom of the Crowd (16:40) The Rise of the "Event Market" (22:47) Insider Trading (27:48) Performance of These

The Four-Square Shell Game: How Not to Get Robbed at the Stealership

(0:00) Open (2:01) Masters of the Shell Game (6:25) Don’t Buy What You Don’t Want (15:01) Then Comes The Math Gymnastics (25:00) Don’t Go In; Stay Home (29:40) The B

The "Postseason Problems" Placeholder

Oh poor Jeff, his sportsball teams just keep winning. Why is this important? Well, it means he can't be bothered to record a headlines episode for you dear listener. Why

Grand Pivots: From Shoes to GPUs

(0:00) Open (0:54) The Grand Pivot: Shoes to GPUs (10:35) B.F.G. (13:01) From The Corpse of Glitch (15:58) AmEx: USPSv1 (18:45) Candy Bar Phones (22:30) The Valley