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Tue. 03/30 - Zombie Brain Cells Keep Going After We Die

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The medieval version of the millennial avocado craze––if avocados were only eaten when rotten and commonly referred to with a sexual nickname, anyways. Turns out that after we die, certain “zombie cells” go into overdrive. And the super popular Twitch stream of… a stop sign. Just thousands of people watching a live feed of stop sign that cars never seem to pay attention to. Sponsors: Ladder, ladderlife.com/kottke Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Links: The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (BBC) There are zombie cells in your brain that go into overdrive after death (Syfy Wire) 'Zombie' genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death: Post-mortem changes may shed light on important brain studies (Science Daily) Twitch's hottest new stream is just a stop sign nobody stops at (A/V Club) Twitch Stop Sign Stream Temporarily Stops After Address Leaks, Neighbors Receive Pizzas (Kotaku) stopsigncam (Twitch) 11 foot 8 bridge (yovo68, YouTube) That Gibberish Tweet From US Strategic Command Came From A Child (The Daily Dot) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.6

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0:56.6

The medieval version of the millennial avocado craze, if avocados were only eaten when rotten,

1:05.0

and commonly referred to with a sexual nickname anyways,

1:08.5

turns out that after we die, certain zombie cells go into overdrive

1:15.2

and the super popular Twitch stream of a stop sign. Just thousands of people watching a live feed

1:24.6

of a stop sign that cars never seem to pay attention to.

1:28.6

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:34.4

What if the only way that we ate apples was after they'd rotted to the core?

1:40.0

What if everyone so accepted the phallic appearance of the banana that we commonly referred to it with a rude nickname?

1:48.6

What if one day our avocado craze ends so completely that our grandchildren won't even know what an avocado is?

1:57.1

These are all truths about a medieval fruit called the meddler. or at least that's what we currently call it, quoting the BBC.

2:05.4

For the best part of 900 years, the fruit was called the Open Arse, thought to be a reference to the appearance of its own large calyx or bottom.

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