Strange Realm - Ep. 148 - Jan. 18th, 2026

On this week's show we bring you a mysterious and magnetic episode taking a look at the strangest and most unusual news we could find. Including an update on the medical evacuation of the ISS, we also examine an informative article about the retraction of the 2023 Gunung Padang journal article, news that orcas who are part of the infamous boat-attacking pod have an entirely different language than other orcas, an 11-year-old study says the mysterious magnetic weak spot in our atmosphere is growing, and a robot has helped researchers discover a new metal-based compound that may work as an antibiotic medication. All of this and then, after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher continues with "The Cryptoterrestrials," by Mac Tonnies.

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Notes:
- Update on "sick" Astronaut
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-space-astronauts-crew-medical-spacex-d89651fb83a8eb32d8619052424a5cb8
- They retracted the Gunung Padang paper
https://phillippresswood.medium.com/the-rhetoric-of-erasure-how-academia-just-un-discovered-the-worlds-oldest-pyramid-c8651ee92672
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377851249_2023_Natawidjaja-etal-Geo-archaeologicalProspectingofGunungPadangSupl
- Boat-attacking Orcas have their own language
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/orcas-yacht-attacks-language-gibraltar-8920lrzrk
- Mysterious magnetic hole in our atmosphere is growing
https://scitechdaily.com/a-mysterious-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field-has-grown-nearly-half-the-size-of-europe/
https://scitechdaily.com/images/South-Atlantic-Anomaly-2025-Compared-to-2014.jpg
- Antibiotic metal compounds discovered by a robot
https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/metal-compounds-identified-as-potential-new-antibiotics-thanks-to-robots-doing-click-chemistry
- The Cryptoterrestrials
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoterrestrials-Meditation-Indigenous-Humanoids-Aliens/dp/1933665467
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cryptoterrestrials-mac-tonnies/1116293428

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