SoT 71: The Least Strange Thing About Christopher Walken

Published: Sept. 7, 2012, 2:13 a.m.

Hosts:\xa0Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Greg Wah, Dan Beeston.

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Could reality television partly fund a colony on Mars - by 2023? Does the shape of the glass affect how much beer you drink? Mapping the genome of a Denisovan (an ancient human cousin). Bacteria that makes insects destroy their own brains and genitals. And astronomers discover a star with a tasty ring of sugar.