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The Rest is Electric

Nicola and Michael Wanless

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In the year 2109 humans and robots work alongside each other as coworkers. Jordan Mede, a human employee of Somnotech, is transferred to the entirely robot run manufacturing department. While initially the transfer seems to be the result of a clerical error, Jordan soon begins to suspect that there’s something more sinister going on…
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The Odd News Minute podcast from United Press International is a weekday roundup of hilarious and awe-inspiring stories. New world records, critter misadventures, freaky discoveries, serendipitous lottery wins -- it's the best news you'll hear all day.
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a website offering to pay $1,000 to someone who has never seen a "Star Wars" movie, an alligator on an Air Force base, a lime green puppy born in Florida and a fam…
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Australian doctors urge snake bite victims to stop bringing the offending serpents with them to the hospital, a Nigerian chess master fights through food poisoning to break a world record and a dog is found 17 days after escaping at a Melbourne airport on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include farmers using Axe body spray to cub aggression in rams, a pair of vultures that got drunk off fermented fruit, a stowaway snake on a Japanese bullet train and an u…
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A hippopotamus escapes into a suburb of Cape Town in South Africa, a home repair project in Michigan leads to the discovery of a time capsule from 1915 and David Rush defies death with his latest Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include the finalists in Nationwide's "Wacky Pet Names" contest, Florida's Beer Can Island being put up for sale, a library book that was 105 years overdue and a very spec…
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A Kansas bakery owner asks customers to check their cookies for the $4,000 diamond from her ring, a two-story house floats across the San Francisco Bay and a cat is rescued after being trapped in his owner's London chimney for two days on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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Police called to a Scottish train station on a report of an armed man find a Star Wars Stormtrooper wielding a plastic blaster, an escaped mountain goat gets stranded on the ledge of an overpass bridge in Missouri and 309 suns keep shining during the eclipse in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visi…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a California man's discovery of three live grenades in his garage, a series of sculptures irking hikers at an Arkansas state park, a missing dog found more than 2,…
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Happy first birthday to the UPI Odd News Minute! Today's stories include the identification of mysterious streaks of light in the night sky over California, a missing snake being found on a rooftop one year later and a territorial turkey's run-in with an umbrella-wielding school principal. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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Today's UPI Odd News Minute is running down the top 10 April Fools' Day pranks by corporations in 2024, whether you like it or not. Get your groans ready as we run down faux-products including Sour Cream & Onion soda, Ikea's INVSBÅL collection and Fruity Pebbles-flavored mac & cheese. Sorry in advance! For this story and all of the day's REAL odd n…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a 'baby hedgehog' that wasn't, a raccoon jailbreak, a lamb with five legs and a furry fugitive at a North Carolina airport. For these stories and more, visit UPI.c…
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The piece of wood that saved Rose's life at the end of "Titanic" sells for over $700,000, a horse is hoisted out of a Georgia swimming pool and a Chinese man earns a world record for an impressive -- and very gross -- skill on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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A California police department agrees to stop using Lego heads to hide the faces of suspects in social media photos, a Maine baseball team's whoopie pie event breaks a world record and bears at an England zoo play in a swan boat on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a two-headed snake undergoing surgery in Missouri, a pair of Florida women traveling 500 miles of the state's coast in toy cars, a "long, strange trip" for a libra…
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An overturned truck releases thousands of bees onto a Mississippi highway, California graduate students make it to every Bay Area Rapid Transit station in record time and two escaped porcupines make a spiny scene in a Scottish town on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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A woman cleaning out her deceased father's home in Quebec finds a live grenade, an English couple renovating their home find letters dating back nearly 100 years behind the fireplace and a Pennsylvania deer dubbed "Jughead" by neighbors is rescued from a plastic jug on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include an unfortunate side-effect to the starling murmurations over an English town, a mysterious monolith on a Welsh hillside, a lost cat found a mile from home after se…
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The New Orleans Police Department complains of hungry rats stealing marijuana from the evidence room, the world's heaviest blueberry is grown in Australia and a post office in Antarctica is hiring three people to sort mail and count penguins on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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A Virginia wildlife rescuer disguises herself as a red fox to feed an orphaned kit, a dog is rescued from an old underground grain storage bin in Utah and bald eagle gets stuck butt-first in the front grille of a car in Maryland on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.…
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The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a Pennsylvania nudism group's "Balls Out Bowling" event, a dog rescue in England that took an unexpected turn, a Missouri museum's attempt at an underpants world r…
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A University of Cambridge post-doctoral student takes inspiration from "MacGyver" to escape from a locked bathroom in a medieval tower, a pair of police horses escape onto a downtown Cleveland highway and a Wisconsin man extends his world record by eating more than 700 McDonald's Big Macs in 2023 on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories an…
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