We Have Concerns
by Jeff Cannata/Anthony Carboni
Latest episode
Plastic Cookies
Plastic Cookies
About this podcast
Jeff Cannata and Anthony Carboni talk about the personal philosophical concerns they find lurking inside everyday things. It's fun?
Episodes
The newest 50 of 823 episodes
- Plastic Cookies · 39 min · Episode 826An international NASA contest has resulted in a technology that turn plastic compounds and agricultural waste into proteins. A team from Southern Illinois University has turned…
- What Are You Thinking About? · 1 h 2 min · Episode 825A new study aims to answer the question central to everyday existence: What dominates our thoughts? Anthony and Jeff break down the data, and the four types of thinkers to…
- The Laughter of Apes · 35 min · Episode 824Sound doesn’t leave a fossil record, making it difficult to trace the origins of song, speech and language – but researchers have found a way. And it's laughter! Jeff and Anthony…
- The Chlorine Huckster · 53 min · Episode 823A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the neck down and gassing them with…
- Has All of Earth's Water been Peed? · 48 min · Episode 822As the world's water cycles through the water table, chances are it has been inside a dinosaur or a mammoth at some point. Does that mean all the water on Earth has, been peed ?…
- Bee Smart · 48 min · Episode 821A new study suggests that the average honeybee might be able to use tools in novel ways to solve problems. Anthony and Jeff discuss bee intelligence and how it relates to Jerry…
- So vs Oh, with Brian Brushwood · 1 h 2 min · Episode 820Special Guest Brian Brushwood, from the Modern Rogue, stops by the Anxiety Chamber to discuss a recent study about language. As a magician and Scam School professor, Brian is…
- Are Attention Spans Really Shrinking? · 55 min · Episode 819In the age of social media and digital distraction, the pervailing sentiment is that attention spans are shrinking. But is that the truth? Jeff and Anthony dig into the…
- I Ain't 'Fraid of No Ghost · 42 min · Episode 818Do you believe a house can be haunted? Scientists interested in finding alternative explanations for reported ghost sightings have found that infrasound, particularly at a…
- Cool? · 43 min · Episode 817You may be shocked to learn that water will freeze faster when it starts hot than when it starts cool. In fact, all of science was shockled to learn this in 1963 when 13 year-old…
- Moon Poop · 56 min · Episode 816NASA is going back to the moon. Which means one of the biggest unsolved problems still looms large: what to do with all of the human waste we leave behind? Anthony and Jeff…
- Do You Fall for Corporate Bullsh*t? · 45 min · Episode 815A researcher at Cornell has designed a Coporate Bullsh*t Receptivity Scale, noting that employees most impressed by corporate nonsense may be least equipped to make effective…
- Time is Perception · 48 min · Episode 814A new study comparing the visual capacity of various animals indicates that the perception of time is linked to the pace of their lives. Anthony and Jeff discuss the…
- Why We Retreat When We're Sick *FIXED* · 48 min · Episode 813Do you wanna crawl under the house and hide like a dog when you're sick? You're not alone. I mean, you're alone, you're under the house like a dog. But you're not alone in the…
- A Horse is a Horse, of Course of Course · 51 min · Episode 812Two stories this week, both involving horses. In the first, a recent study of unearthed bones in Britan reveals that horses were much smaller in medieval times than they are…
- The AI Social Network · 1 h 8 min · Episode 811A Reddit-style social network called Moltbook lets AI agents post, comment, upvote, and create subcommunities without human intervention. Anthony and Jeff take a look at this…
- Microplastics aren't a big deal · 49 min · Episode 810We've all spent the last couple years being worried about microplastics- but maybe we shouldn't be. More experts have reviewed the original study that freaked us all out, and…
- You're selfish and you never think about sea urchins · 44 min · Episode 809It's about time you considered the lowly sea urchin. It's about time you considered their thoughts and feelings, especially since we have just found out they've got thoughts and…
- Discovering the Noperthedron · 51 min · Episode 808Can one six-sided cube seamlessly pass through another of equal size? The answer may surprise you. And the quest to discover convex polyhedrons that don't behave that way is even…
- How Recent is Recently? · 53 min · Episode 807According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'recent' is defined as “having happened or started only a short time ago.” And yet, in the world of scientific publishing, it…
- AI Psychosis is a Cool Thing We Have to Think About Now · 1 h 9 min · Episode 806While the research is still early, it looks like AI chatbots can push people who are already at risk into psychotic and delusional episodes. Jeff and Anthony delve into this…
- Quicksand is Making a Comeback · 1 h 11 min · Episode 805An experienced hiker had to be saved by National Parks Search and Rescue last month after getting stuck in quicksand. This made us go "Wait, quicksand? Like, quicksand is a…
- Tooth-in-Eye · 47 min · Episode 804Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or “tooth-in-eye” surgery, is a real thing, returning vision to patients with severe corneal blindness. Jeff and Anthony explain the astounding…
- The Batman Effect · 49 min · Episode 803New research conducted by psychologists in Milan shows that if Batman show up, we immediately become more altruistic and considerate. Jeff and Anthony dig into this heroic study…
- New Insights into ADHD · 53 min · Episode 802Anthony and Jeff take a look at two new breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.
- The Threat of Mirror Life · 55 min · Episode 801Researchers believe it will be possible in the near future to build organisms from molecules with reversed structures. But a recent multi-disciplinary report suggest that…
- Bird Poop in a Hurricane · 47 min · Episode 800The Streaked Shearwater Seagull is a remarkable bird. It intentionally flies into the eye of hurricanes. But when scientists strapped video cameras to the gulls to study the…
- Shocking Stats About Lightning · 55 min · Episode 799The World Meteorological Organization’s Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes recently certified a new record: the longest lightning strike ever measured. Jeff and Anthony…
- The Mystery of Roanoke · 44 min · Episode 798The "Lost" Colony of Roanoke is one of the most enduring American mysteries, despite there being persuasive evidence to explain the disappearance of so many early settlers…
- Eating Ants · 50 min · Episode 797Findings published in the journal Evolution reveal that mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and termites at least 12 times since…
- Cool vs Good · 60 min · Episode 796What are the characteristics that make someone cool? How about good? Is there overlap? Can someone be both cool and good? Anthony and Jeff look at a new study that aims to…
- The Science of Big Splashes · 48 min · Episode 795While you might think a cannonball will yield the biggest splash in the pool, science has confirmed that a new technique from New Zealand, called Manu jumping, reigns supreme…
- Hummingbirds, Penguins, and Cockatoos, oh my. · 57 min · Episode 794Three stories this week, all concerning birds! Pranksters, scamps, potential saviors of earth? In the first, cockatoos in Australia have learned how to drink from public water…
- Tales From the Crypt · 49 min · Episode 793For 60 years, between 1637 and 1697, people who died at the largest hospital in Milan were dropped into a brick-lined crypt. Now, 300 years later, their unearthed remains reveal…
- Silence is Golden · 49 min · Episode 792New research aims to quality the health effects of silence. It turns out, just a few hours of quiet time per week can have striking benefits. Anthony and Jeff discuss their own…
- Snakebites for Science · 49 min · Episode 791Tim Friede has allowed himself to be bitten by venomous snakes more then 200 times. As a result, his blood has helped scientists concoct a new antibody cocktail that could save…
- Virtual Nostalgia · 42 min · Episode 790Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced InteRecon, a program that enables users to recapture real-world objects in…
- Speaking Bonobo · 34 min · Episode 789A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that bonobos, our closest living relatives alongside chimpanzees, use the equivalent of…
- Batman's Cocktail Party Mystery · 42 min · Episode 788Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats…
- The Walking Dead · 48 min · Episode 787A new study places the US at the top of the list of most fatal countries to be a pedestrian. Anthony and Jeff take a look at all the reasons it is so dangerous to walk in…
- Taste This Machine · 54 min · Episode 786Scientists have developed a device, called “e-Taste”, capable of recreating complex flavours of food and drink from five basic building blocks, and plan to use it to enhance…
- Move with the Crowd · 58 min · Episode 785Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinated, swirling patterns. How…
- Try to Imagine It · 54 min · Episode 784People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon images in their "mind's eye." But a new study suggests that the blueprints for those imaginary images might still be nestled in…
- Why Do We Itch? · 44 min · Episode 783Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have uncovered new insights into the dual nature of scratching an itch, indicating that while it can worsen skin inflammation, it can…
- AI vs Critical Thinking · 1 h 7 min · Episode 782The rise of AI has directly resulted in diminishing levels of critical thinking, epseically among young people, a new study shows. Anthony and Jeff discuss how relying on…
- Generation Lead · 60 min · Episode 781A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that one generation in particular has higher exposure to unsafe levels of lead than all others. It…
- Showers for Health: Hot or Cold? · 44 min · Episode 780Much has been made about taking a cold shower in the morning vs a hot one. A new study aims to measure the health benefit of these different temperature extremes for daily…
- Alpha Wolf Brain Parasite · 49 min · Episode 779A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with a parasite that can only reproduce in cats makes…
- Old at 44 · 55 min · Episode 778A new study finds that the human body does not age at a constant rate throughout adulthood. Instead, it accelerates dramatically around ages 44 and 60. Jeff and Anthony discuss…
- Gut Health Among Friends · 53 min · Episode 777More and more research points to the fact that the microbiome in our gut contributes sigificantly to both our phsyical and mental health. But what defines this microbiome? New…
