what a weird week Fri Sept 20 2024: best bug to eat for personal nutrition

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff in the news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 38 first published on Friday Sept 20, 2024. Here are this week's stories... Scientists discover Doritos dye can make mice translucent... • Researchers at Stanford University found that a common food dye, Yellow No. 5, can make mice translucent. • Tartrazine (Yellow No. 5) is approved for use in the United States and Canada and is found in various foods and beauty products. • When applied to mice, Tartrazine makes the skin transparent, revealing organs, muscles, and blood vessels. • The researchers are working to improve the technique for human applications https://globalnews.ca/news/10739992/doritos-dye-mice-translucent-study-humans/ Mysterious radio signal travels 8 billion years to reach Earth... • The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains a mystery, challenging our understanding of the universe. • Might be something resulting after a star explodes. https://www.earth.com/news/deep-space-radio-signal-reaches-earth-after-8-billion-years-frb-20220610a/ Tuesday the world didn't get smacked by a giant space rock... hurray! NASA issued alert for stadium-sized asteroid approaching Earth... Potentially hazardous... passed within 1 million KM of Earth... it posed no risk to Earth on its current trajectory... this asteroid’s 99 per cent larger than any other near-Earth objects. Ohio Police and the missing 8-year-old... she's OK you guys... they found her shopping at Target... after she took a car and drove there by herself... they don't know the exact route she took to get to Target, but it was at least a 10 mile drive... she told the cops that she “struck a mailbox” en route. No injuries. No charges. MO/GO Hiking Pants make headlines as the world's first powered pants. • These pants feature built-in exoskeletons with AI-controlled motors that increase leg strength by 40% and reduce pressure on the knees... • The rechargeable battery pack lasts about three hours... • They cost around $5,000 https://www.odditycentral.com/technology/company-launches-motor-powered-pants-that-increase-leg-strength-by-40-percent.html Americans' Coffee Preferences include having it before having... other things... • Over half of Americans believe a good cup of coffee can improve their day... one outta five prefer coffee to sweet, sweet, loving, lovetimes... https://studyfinds.org/fresh-coffee-better-than-sex/ Grasshoppers: Some day we'll all be HOPPED UP on Grasshoppers... • Research into the health benefits of eating grasshoppers... right now is in the rat stage but it's doing good things to those rats... improved sleep, healthier hair, and increased libido. https://studyfinds.org/eating-grasshoppers-libido/ New "grumpy" fish species found in the Red Sea... • A new fish species called the grumpy dwarfgoby has been discovered in the Red Sea. • It has a resting fish face. (I'll show myself out.) https://news.sky.com/story/new-grumpy-fish-species-discovered-in-the-red-sea-13217205 Ken in California has been paying his neighbor's power bill for 18 Years... he wondered why his bill never decreased, despite trying to cut energy consumption... then the power company investigated and they all found out why... some sort of mix up had Ken paying the neighbor's bill... https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/09/18/PGE-power-bill-wrong-apartment-18-years/3531726677942/ Nickelodeon breaks pinata world record to celebrate Dora show... •1800 pinatas at the 78th Annual East Los Angeles Mexican Independence Day Parade set a new Guinness World Record... and hopefully got lots of attention for the Dora show. (character limit) for full shownotes see www.shownotes.page