October 30, 2016 - Hour 1




THE BIGGER PICTURE with Timothy Spangler show

Summary: Making headlines around the world this week: * A New Zealand professor successfully submitted a paper on nuclear physics written only using auto correct to a scientific conference. * A team of robots designed by Texas researchers defeated a squad of Australian bots in soccer for the RoboCup Challenge championship in China. * Police in Spain rescued a man from a garbage bin after he became trapped while searching for old clothes. * A feud between an apartment resident in China and his property management office escalated to the point where a bulldozer was summoned to smash the man's van. * A Vietnamese animal lover has been dubbed "the cat lord" after a viral video showed him riding a motorcycle with four feline passengers. * A trip to a drive-through eatery in the Philippines went viral for an unusual reason -- the vehicle was a cart pulled by a water buffalo.