The BrainFood Show

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a the absolutely bizarre way bedbugs mate.

Next up, we jump into the main part of the show on who invented the Internet and how it works. We also look at who invented email and the web, and what Al Gore had to do with all this.

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In today's compilation, we're looking at a series of "What Happens When" topics including What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name? What Happens to the Bodies if a Cryogenic Company Goes Bankrupt? What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History? What Happens to Your Stuff When You Get Sent to Prison for Life? What Happens when You Ask a Surgeon For Your Amputated Limb Back? What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science and How Do You Do This? What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don’t Belong to Another Country When You Do It? What Happens if You Leave Your House to a Pet in Your Will? What Happens When You Freeze Water in a Container So Strong the Water Can’t Expand Into Ice? What Happens to Your Stuff When You're Declared Dead, Then Turn Up Alive like a Certain Shire Hobbit? And finally What Happens if You Commit a Crime in Space?

0:00 What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name?
15:29 What Happens to the Bodies if a Cryogenic Company Goes Bankrupt?
28:25 What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History?
38:38 What Happens to Your Stuff When You Get Sent to Prison for Life?
49:30 What Happens when You Ask a Surgeon For Your Amputated Limb Back?
1:00:16 What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science and How Do You Do This?
1:17:29 What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don’t Belong to Another Country When You Do It?
1:30:45 What Happens if You Leave Your House to a Pet in Your Will?
1:40:54 What Happens When You Freeze Water in a Container So Strong the Water Can’t Expand Into Ice?
1:45:44 What Happens to Your Stuff When You're Declared Dead, Then Turn Up Alive like a Certain Shire Hobbit?
2:01:13 What Happens if You Commit a Crime in Space?
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He is one of the most famous serial killers of all time, but who actually was Jack the Ripper and what actually happened during his reign of terror.

Just before 4 am on August 31, 1888, on London’s seedy Buck’s Row, a cart driver named Charles Cross saw the body of a woman lying on the ground. In the early morning gloom, it was initially impossible to tell if she was drunk or dead. Cross was soon joined by another carter, Robert Paul. The two men saw the woman’s skirts were pulled above her waist. They smoothed them back over her knees and went searching for a policeman.

What the two carters didn’t notice in the shifting shadows was the woman’s throat had been cut so brutally that her head had almost been decapitated. Beat officer John Neil discovered that gruesome fact on closer inspection of the body. (He later testified at the inquest that when he had passed that way just 30 minutes earlier, “there was not a soul about.”)

P.C. Neil sent another colleague to fetch a local medic and soon Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn arrived on the scene. He quickly examined the body and found that the arms and legs were still warm. Llewellyn believed the woman had been dead for less than 30 minutes. Her killer may have still been lurking nearby when Cross and Paul came upon the body....

Host: Simon Whistler
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Samuel Avila
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Everlong. Learn to Fly. Best of You. All My Life. The Pretender. These are but a few of the top-charting songs by American rock band The Foo Fighters, founded in 1994 by legendary former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. But what actually is a Foo Fighter? Well, it turns out the band’s name is not just merely a random string of nonsense words, but rather refers to strange phenomenon observed by pilots over Europe and the Pacific during the Second World War, one of a string of such weird occurrences throughout history through today that have caused some to point to the classic explanation when anything weird appears in the sky- aliens.

But what’s actually going on here? Well, today we’ll be looking at everything from tales of ancient aliens, to what actually were the Foo Fighters of WWII and where the name came from, to that time the U.S. Military finally buckled down to take a deep look into it all to see if the Earth was in any danger from extraterrestrials, and what they determined, as well as why we are all pronouncing UFO wrong, and how the coiner of the term explicitly stated it should be said.

Author: Gilles Messier
Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Daven Hiskey

0:00 Intro
2:37 Ancient Aliens?
10:44 The 19th Century UFO Craze
15:20 WWI UFO Encounters
16:57 WWII's Mysterious Foo Fighters
27:10 Why are They Called Foo Fighters?
30:30 What Were Foo Fighters?
40:14 The U.S. Military Gets Serious About the Search for Aliens
43:26 What the Military Discovered About UFOs
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Glenn Miller was on the top of his game in 1944. He led the most popular recording group in the world. His only rival for king of Big Band music was the great Benny Goodman. During World War II, 40-year-old Miller was serving as a major in the United States Army Air Force while performing for the troops.

On December 15, 1944, he boarded a small plane for the short flight across the English Channel to do a show in Paris for American troops that had just helped liberate France. Miller and the two other men on the aircraft never made it to their destination. No trace of the wreckage or any of the passengers was ever found, and Glenn Miller is still listed as missing in action.

Of course, as with any accidental celebrity death, speculation about the circumstances began almost immediately...

Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Samuel Avila
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