Alex and Dani serve up a platter of little topics, including: Alex’s new microphone, the reputation of different countries for their food, more on Facebook’s business model, the recent WPA2 KRACK exploit, movies and science fiction, last week’s neutron star collision, and the repercussions of astronomical events through history.

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Show Notes

• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Heil PR 30 B
• McVitie’s biscuits in France
• McVitie’s TV advert in France
• Vegemite
• Marmite
• Bovril
• Ovaltine
• Charlie’s reddit comment about tracking in shops
• KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2
• Ars Technica on the WPA2 flaw
• The Guardian’s bad article about WhatsApp
• The Guardian’s article about how that other article was bad
• Terminator 2 anniversary
• Blade Runner: 2049
• Loving Vincent
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2001 floating pen scene
• Interstellar
• The Martian
• Neutron star collision
• SN 185 supernova