Category Archives: Austin
Study finds weed killer in 80% of people's (rhymes with flee).
There's a good chance that stuff that kills weeds is in your pee. The CDC did a study and found that about 80% of the people in the study had the chemical glyphosate in their urine. Glyphosate, used i...
Jul 19, 2022 Air Combat Command United States Air Force / CC
"The Munsters" not coming to any theaters now.
I heard Bic talking about the new "Munsters" trailer and how he hopes it's a joke that Rob Zombie is playing on people because the trailer is terrible. The acting, the dialogue, the sets, and the film...
Jul 19, 2022 Steven Miller / CC
FDA approves chips in human brains. But, it's not Elon's company.
You know how Elon Musk wanted to put computer chips in people's brains? Another company beat him to it. Synchron has apparently developed a chip that can help people send e-mail and text messages with...
Jul 19, 2022 GreenFlames09 / CC
Old Vampire Slaying Kit sells big at auction. Vid in blog.
A British auction house recently sold an antique vampire slaying kit. It looks sort of like one of those boxed shaving/ bad cologne kits that only come out around Christmas, except for the holy crosse...
Jul 18, 2022 Dinu J Nair / Unsplash
Study link vitamin D to lower dementia risk.
In today's health news, "D" is for dementia, avoiding dementia that is. Researchers in a recent study say that they've found that a low level of Vitamin D is associated with with increased risk of dem...
Jul 18, 2022 Colin Dunn / CC
Flag Football as an Olympic sport?
There's a push to get flag football put into the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. I wasn't aware that adults play flag football. When I was a kid, we had a YMCA league up through 6th grade. We started ta...
Jul 18, 2022 USAG- Humphreys / CC
Paper wine and beer bottles on the way.
A lot of people freaked out about paper straws a couple of years ago. I wonder how they'll feel if their favorite beers, wines, and liquor come in containers made out of paper. A company called Carlsb...
Jul 15, 2022 Jason Dean / CC
Guy finds antique bottle with hair and bible page in it. Internet freaks out about curse. See bottle and his reaction on vid in blog.
It's amazing how many people still believe in witch craft, curses, and other superstitions in today's world. A guy named Sergei was looking for buried stuff under an old bridge hoping to find old trea...
Jul 15, 2022 Dollar Gill / Unsplash
New York airs PSAs about surviving nuclear attack, freak people out. Odd video in blog.
If public service announcements started popping up on TV about what to do in a nuclear attack, I would start getting worried. For whatever reason, the City of New York started running PSA about nuclea...
Jul 14, 2022 JEFF VRBA / Unsplash
New Jane Goodall Barbie. Bonus, it comes with monkey! Video of Jane playing with her own doll in blog.
I've never owned a Barbie Doll, but if I were to ever get one, it'd be the new Jane Goodall version. Mostly because it comes with its own monkey who looks like he's holding a light saber. Also, the do...
Jul 14, 2022 Nick Step / CC