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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Monday, 28 September 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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Now that they could resume, something feels off. This episode unpacks two questions: what a screenless household actually looks like (and why the data everyone…
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It turns out environmental psychology has been studying this since 1984, when Roger Ulrich matched gallbladder surgery patients with tree views against patients…
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Most coverage of crowd disasters leads with "panic," but the research says otherwise: victims of crushes almost never die running from anything. This episode digs…
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This episode digs into the clinical research on masking: why standard screeners like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 read well-masked patients as fine, why prefrontal…
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Why do people with ADHD reach for fish oil capsules before they'll try putting protein in their breakfast? The mechanism is real: protein supplies tyrosine, the…
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A listener with ADHD asks why he reaches for fish oil before he'll eat a decent breakfast — and whether an egg cooker is worth joining the bandwagon for. We dig…
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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation showed that twenty minutes of watching a baby greet a returning parent predicts how that child will read a stranger's face at…
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Most trauma recovery models assume the threat has ended: you heal after the harmful relationship is behind you. But what if one relationship has to continue — a…
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There's a diagnosis that describes something very real and officially does not exist. Chronic PTSD has never been accepted into the DSM, complex PTSD made it into…
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Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) is a collection of vascular, sensorineural, and musculoskeletal injuries caused by years of gripping vibrating power tools — and…
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Technology |
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A Brother label printer lights up for ten seconds, then goes dark. That single symptom turns out to be a masterclass in how modern devices protect themselves — and…
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If you magnetize a screwdriver over and over for years, does the tool eventually wear out? This episode covers the three categories of magnetizing tools on the…
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The answers turn out to come from different places — a wiring standard, an ampacity table, and in at least one case, an honest "no source says that." Along the way…
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Bezeq, Israel's main fiber provider, does allow customers to bring their own modem — but only approved models, and only after you submit the device's serial number…
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We trace image forensics from hand-examined negatives and spirit photography hoaxes like Cottingley and Mumler, through Photoshop-era techniques like error level…
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Architecture |
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Underneath a historic house near Mahane Yehuda market, engineers are digging seven stories down — without demolishing the building above. It's called top-down…
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A cantilever arm is a lever: load it and it fights back as bending moment, not compression. That single structural fact is why cantilever racks exist, why they're…
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Jerusalem is a city of cranes and light rail construction, so it's worth asking: what did it actually take to build the first underground railways in London, Paris…
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What does it take for infrastructure to survive two thousand years of continuous use? This episode examines ancient Roman systems that never became archaeological…
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AI |
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What happens when a voice agent understands you perfectly and still can't help? This episode unpacks a real ISP support call where a customer with a single…
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OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs on December 11, 2026, with a migration path to plugins built on Skills and MCP servers. This episode walks through the real timeline…
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This episode pulls apart the pipeline into its three real tasks — disfluency removal, mechanical typo correction, and semantic inference — and asks which of them a…
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History |
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Most retellings of the ancient symposium lead with the philosophy and treat the drinking as set dressing. It was the other way round. A guest chosen by lot — the…
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How did wine actually get from the vineyard to a Roman cup? No bottles, no corks, no personal cellars — instead, a three-tier vessel system that treated wine as a…
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In ancient Greece and Rome, wine was almost never drunk neat — and the person who decided how much water went in held surprising power over the evening. This…
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Judaism |
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The Torah mandates rest on the pilgrimage festivals — and mandates that every able Israelite male appear in Jerusalem. Those two commands collide the moment eighty…
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Everything Else |
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Eight percent of US households own no television, but most of them still watch — they just left the furniture behind. This episode starts with a listener's…
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Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come premiered at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre on September 28, 1964, and it put two actors inside one man. Public Gar faces the…
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A 1991 Roper poll produced the famous figure of nearly four million American abductees — but the same survey counted ghost-seers at eleven percent, and later…
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The Bering Sea crab fleet once had a fatality rate 80 times the American average — and seasons as short as four days. What do deckhands actually do with their…
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