Charles Bergquist
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Charles Bergquist
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Director and senior producer at Science Friday, a public radio science program. Ask your doctor if SciFri might be right for you. Restrictions apply.
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Perhaps this image of Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the just-concluded Osaka Expo 2025, will help
A cartoon image of a bipedal creature. It is bright blue, with stumpy legs and strangely drippy-looking arms? Hands? It has 5 eyes spaced irregularly around a bright red mane. It is smiling.
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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ERROR 444 - BINGUS NOT FOUND
Google search AI mode result for the query 'how can I honk my bingus'
October 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Dear Google News, thank you for this timely selection of stories in the field of Robotics
As screenshot of a Google News panel labeled 'robotics.' Stories include a woman stripping to a bikini in a school board meeting, a baseball score, and a story about Scott Bessent's phone.
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"Try our great new thing to help you make that Big Important Presentation! It is correct slightly over half the time!!!!"

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word www.theverge.com/news/787076/...
Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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It is September 7
A store display of Christmas decorations, including hybrid garden gnome+Advent calendars. The date is Sept 7.
September 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Clasped hands meme, text "US DOT SECRETARY <> TEAM OF FEDERAL AGENTS Frightened by Subway"
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Did I mention A Lot of Figs
Two dishes piled high with freshly picked figs
August 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Not as great as eating rocks, but you'd think it could get a math conversion right
April 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Oh is that what it means google ai overview thing
A screenshot of a google AI overview result, reading "A 40 pound bag of topsoil typically contains around 0.75 cubic feet. This means that one cubic foot of topsoil typically weighs approximately 40 pounds."
April 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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And so I started to ask myself... Was I cutting tariffs, or were tariffs cutting me?
Sarah Jessica Parker at a laptop in the evening, from Sex and the City
April 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Getting set for @scifri.bsky.social live with @kuer.org in Salt Lake City!!
A stage containing 3 empty chairs, a band getting set up, and 2 dinosaur head casts
March 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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TFW you definitely totally certainly do NOT have an AI bot writing captions for your news site
A picture of Trump in front of the White House with a red Tesla. With an embedded caption 'person in a suit exits a red electric car in front of a grand building with columns and stairs.'
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I am not sure I want to use this power adapter now
Poorly translated instructions for a laptop power adapter. Highlighted: "when using the product fever is normal"
February 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Almost missed observing Gibbon Tuesday
A siamang gibbon, arms raised, hooting. (Smithsonian National Zoo image)
December 4, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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entirely possible
Screenshot of the top of a phone screen, showing an X logo next to a red alarm clock image and the words 'expiring soon'
December 1, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Current mood
Hand holding a white card (credit card size). It is entirely white except for the boring black text "INTENTIONALLY BLANK"
November 8, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Tag yourself, I'm Mr 43
Research journal image of a grid of 6 images of different sorghum grains, labeled: bazley, tiger, cracker, mr43, liberty, buster
October 29, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Arm (formerly face)
A list of school fair ticket prices including Arm (formerly face) painting
October 19, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Boulder Colorado we are in you!!! Setting up for @scifri.bsky.social at Colorado Chautauqua with KUNC radio. See you soon!
Stage and empty theater inside Colorado Chautauqua, Boulder Colorado
July 27, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Um google news and/or cbs news I am not sure that this is the correct image pairing for your alert
A CBS News headline sent via google news. 'feds take down one of the world's largest botnets and arrest its administrator.' accompanying image is a courtroom sketch of Trump
May 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Other flags seen at the Alito beach house
Nautical flag chart, including flag Zulu: I require a tug
May 22, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Sarah were u aware that your campus contains a transdimensional portal
May 9, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Important scientific discovery at the local drugstore
Can with label: "Oxygen is weightless, full can is very light"
April 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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All this AI technology is getting out of hand. Apparently this shirt can make appointments
Clothing tag in mangled English:"Designed for you to wear in your life. Nice clothes that can make appointments for dinner after get off work. It has the elegant taste. It both has charm and agile element..."
March 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Oh did you say superb owl I am sorry I thought you said supercilious owl
Engraved image of the 'supercilious owl'. Text:This curious horned-owl is a native of Guiana, in South America, and its habits agree with those of the rest of its tribe. The owls seek their prey during …" Written on border: "Aug. 10, 1833."
February 10, 2024 at 7:37 PM