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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Saturday, 3 October 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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Health |
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This episode pulls apart what's actually happening: a chemical and motility problem downstream of losing an organ, plus a somatic one in how the diaphragm and…
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Productivity tops the priority list for roughly two-thirds of Brits, Americans, and Australians — ahead of health, money, and happiness. But the standard fix of…
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Most perseverance advice is inspirational noise. The actual research says grit is perseverance AND passion, that willpower isn't what keeps people going, and that…
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We unpack the science of communicative musicality, the oxytocin boost from group singing (even when you're bad at it), and the surprising gap in the research on…
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We treat boredom as a bug and busyness as a virtue, but the research points somewhere stranger. A listener's question about a life with no empty mornings sends us…
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This episode digs into the difference between flow and hyperfocus, why set shifting is genuinely more expensive for ADHD brains, and what the real science of habit…
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Geopolitics |
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East Jerusalem is home to over 300,000 Palestinians who hold permanent residency in Israel — a status that is not quite citizenship and not quite a permit. This…
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The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE — the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture anywhere in the world, dated by its own inscription. The Al-Aqsa…
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In June 1967, Moshe Dayan — the defense minister who hadn't wanted the Old City at all — walked into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and improvised an arrangement with the…
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Technology |
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A relative renovating a rural Connecticut house wants reflective road studs on a long, dark driveway — and wants to know what fasteners hold them into asphalt. The…
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Low-voltage DC barrel connectors need no soldering at all, but they hide a polarity landmine that has killed consoles. XLR is the flagship win for soldering skill…
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Wiring a UK plug looks like a fifteen-minute job, but the gap between "it works" and "it's safe" hides in details you can't see once the cover goes on. This episode…
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Audio & Speech |
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You press the volume button once and it's too quiet. Press it again and it's too loud. This episode separates level, volume, and loudness — three terms everyone…
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This episode digs into the audiology research on listening effort: why a podcast can be perfectly intelligible and still tiring, why the effort curve rises before…
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Israel |
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Ask what Arab Israelis think about their own identity and you'll get two completely different headlines from the same polling data. This episode digs into the…
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Every Sukkot, central Jerusalem fills with pilgrims — tens of thousands at the Western Wall, a record 8,690 Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, and locals who…
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Parenting |
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What if the strangest preschool show ever made was actually the most rigorously researched? Teletubbies turns out to be the work of Andrew Davenport — a trained…
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What if the strangest children's show ever broadcast was strange on purpose? This episode digs into the real origin story of Teletubbies: Anne Wood and Andrew…
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AI |
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This episode digs into the research on temperature fragility — why nearly half of tested open-weight models lose 17 to 38 accuracy points over a modest temperature…
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Finance |
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The feeling that the game is rigged isn't new, and it isn't just a vibe — it shows up in national life tables. Public-health research finds life-expectancy gains…
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Everything Else |
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What's really happening at a knife's edge, and why the professional's tool and the right tool for you aren't always the same thing. This episode works through the…
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