Category Archives: Austin
New, dolphin saving Coke packaging.
Coca-Cola six packs are getting more eco-friendly. A bottler in Philadelphia is dropping the plastic rings and replacing them with a fiber based paper package. It's basically a rectangular piece of ca...
Sep 27, 2022 Joy / CC
Austin is giving away Dave Matthews Band concert tickets!
You can win tickets to see Dave Matthews Band at the CHI Health Center on November 12th! Get qualified by answering the Nightly 90s Trivia question at the B107.3 Facebook page. I'm posting special Dav...
Sep 27, 2022 Julio Enriquez / CC
Big Bang Theory had real uranium on set and no one knew.
Holy smokes! The cast of "The Big Bang Theory", where they talked a lot about things like uranium, were close to getting killed by actual uranium once. Apparently a famous physicist stopped by the set...
Sep 27, 2022 Brad P. / CC
Cyber cockroaches to the rescue! Also, how to make your own, living, remote control cockroach. Not a joke.
Elon Musk wants to put computer chips in human brains. Meanwhile, over at North Carolina State University, researchers are creating cybernetic cockroaches. They've creating little electronic backpacks...
Sep 26, 2022 Anoka County Library / CC
Futuristic floating home falls over into ocean at unveiling.... becomes floating failure.
Last month I talked about those new floating homes being built on the ocean. You might want to hold off on buying one. They were unveiling the first one off the coast of Panama last Thursday. In front...
Sep 26, 2022 Jo Naylor / CC
Video games prescribed for long term covid. No mask required.
A good treatment for long term Covid might be video games. One of the common long term effects is brain fog with memory loss, problems focusing, or paying attention. A doctor in Philadelphia is having...
Sep 26, 2022 Antonio Rubio / CC
Dead body sat 4 days in department store bathroom.
A woman was dead inside a department store's bathroom for FOUR days before she was found. This happened at a Belk store in South Carolina. First off, what does this say about how often they clean thei...
Sep 22, 2022 Junior League of Knoxville / CC
Woman can smell Parkinson's.
A woman in Scotland can smell Parkinson's disease on people. She first noticed it when he husband developed Parkinson's. There was a change in his natural odor that no one else caught. When he was dia...
Sep 22, 2022 Online Marketing / Unsplash
80 sq ft apartment in NY is $650/ month. Video tour in blog.
A woman is living in an 80 square foot apartment in New York City for $650 a month. I don't know what makes my brain hurt more here; that it's legal to rent 80 square feet as an apartment or that they...
Sep 22, 2022 Sharon Mollerus / CC
Dangerous recipe for chicken cooked in NyQuil trending on Tik Tok.
Do not cook chicken in NyQuil! I can't believe that has to be said. The FDA has put out a message, warning people not to. It's turned into a really dumb challenge on Tik Tok of people showing themselv...
Sep 21, 2022 Steven Schwartz / CC