Strange Realm - Ep. 049 - Feb. 4th, 2024

Tonight we bring you a homespun and hopeful episode as we anticipate an early spring and discuss the strangest things of the week, including blood-powered batteries, glass transformed into semiconducting materials via laser light like out of some alchemical fable, a report that AI is busy decoding the language of the chickens, as well as news of a miraculous accidental discovery that turned regular seedlings into super-plants! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.

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Notes:
- Approaching the dream of the alchemists
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist-scientists-have-been-able-to-transform-transparent-glass-into-a-photovoltaic-surface-using-a-laser-similar-to-that-used-in-eye-surgeries/
- Batteries that are powered by blood
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/batteries-that-run-on-blood-are-now-a-thing/
- AI decodes the language of the chickens
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-fowl-language-ai-chicken-communications.html
https://theconversation.com/fowl-language-ai-is-learning-to-analyze-chicken-communications-to-help-us-understand-what-all-the-cluckings-about-220804
- Amazing accidental discovery in growing plants
https://scitechdaily.com/accidental-discovery-how-a-whiff-of-an-unusual-chemical-transforms-seedlings-into-super-plants/
https://www.theproducenerd.com/2018/02/what-is-ethylene-how-is-it-used/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/

Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)

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