What a Weird Week Worst Stories of 2024: What a Weird Year part 2!

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a lighthearted look at the odd/ interesting/ weird stories in the news. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 6, Ep 1 first published on Friday Jan 3 2025. Our "Worst Stories of 2024" episode! January... From Study Finds: "Magic mushrooms traced back to asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs" ... - icymi, magic mushrooms are called that because they look like tiny magicians wearing top hats... just kidding. Magic mushrooms are psychoactive and please consult ten physicians, 40 spiritual advisers and 9 lawyers before going any further on this journey. Especially foraging for them, because that can be extremely dangerous if you get it wrong!
The article is about how researchers have learned that the dinosaurs didn't have magic mushrooms but around the time the dinos went extinct, magic mushrooms showed up on planet earth... 65 million years ago, the same time that an asteroid hit earth and started the beginning of the end for dinosaurs... which was new information for researchers. https://studyfinds.org/magic-mushrooms-asteroid/ February... From NBC 9 News...  Two high school kids in Colorado have received scholarships to play Division One Cornhole for Winthrop University... The athletes are very jacked about it quoted as saying "It's groundbreaking... It's making history!" ... Congratulations to Jaxson and Gavin. At some point professional Cornhole became a thing? and now also opportunities for young athletes to get an education on that Cornhole scholarship... btw Winthrop University is in South Carolina, United States of America. They are the first Division 1 school to offer Cornhole scholarships... Here's another quote... This is from Jaxson talking to media about receiving that Cornhole scholarship... "It's super awesome to make history." I can't argue with that. How fantastic is this? There's a whole new college sport being thrown into the mix... Well, it's not new but new to Division 1 schools... btw, if they don't have Cornhole where you are, it's that lawn game where you throw a beanbag and try to get that bean bag in a hole... The most basic way to describe it. It's a game that at one time I bet people who played horseshoes would make fun of... that part is just speculation.  
https://www.9news.com/article/sports/local-sports/colorado-cornhole-scholarship/73-ba279aed-6721-4a17-8610-1f6c3fd583df March... The moon was back in the news this week. Russia has announced that they hope to team up with China and build a nuclear power plant on the moon. There's been a lot of moon action from different countries and different agencies... Many of them haven't gone well. Just recently one famously flipped over on its side... It's a little unnerving when you think they're going to be rocketing radioactive stuff to the lunar surface ... You don't want that nuclear power plant to be a failed mission... I just want to float this out here that before we dabble in what has potential to be catastrophic nuclear disaster... wouldn't it be nice, as a proof of concept, If we could put a donut shop on the moon first? Prove to me that you can remotely build a doughnut shop that nothing has gone wrong with, and then I'll be convinced/ I'll trust you with the nuclear thing. I'll trust you with nuclear reactors if first you give me donuts I guess is what I'm saying.https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/03/05/russia-china-planning-for-joint-nuclear-power-plant-on-the-moon-by-2035/?sh=5ecdec160e1c and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes April... The Grammy who made the news after receiving a speeding ticket. (actually 2 tickets!) The only thing was she wasn't driving her van. *(character limit) full shownotes at ⁠www.shownotes.page⁠.