Month: July 2014
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Episode 010: Science Grab Bag / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
This episode contains: exciting news, LEGO mini figures, using solar sails for interstellar and interplanetary travel, Space X and NASA, study on friends reveals similar genetics, friendly pets, Vanta Black: material created with carbon nanotubes and absorbs 99.96% of light, magnetic ferrofluid, practical uses for black material, Simpsons references, Planet of the Apes talk, Rise…
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Episode 009: Rhythm & Brains / Future Sounds
Recorded July 9th, 2014 This episode contains: High school band, Canada, electroencephalography, testing the rhythm of bass notes and treble notes, brain activity while playing music, timber of sound, the feel of bass, ancient music, vocalizing emotion, auditory cheesecake, evolutionary bipedalism, Come Sail Away, theramin, future music, music and emotions, video games and movie soundtracks, Game of…
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Episode 008: Facebook Ethics / Totalitarian Governments
Recorded June 2nd, 2014 This episode contains: Reddit, ads and likes, advertising on Facebook, the Facebook study and how it worked, Tuskegee experiment, 1984, The Hunger Games and how it relates to government size, Firefly and decentralized government, Netflix and Arrested Development, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.
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Episode 007: Jaw Evolution / Evolution Listicle
Recorded June 25th, 2014 This episode contains: Christopher Nolan movies, brow ridges and jaw lines, fish gill bone structure, trilobites, current physiological structures as evidence, sexual selection within evolution, fighting, the Rules of Fight Club, next step, devolution, white ancestors and actors, Farscape, mutants, fast evolution, hot women, humanity is the pinnacle of human evolution,…
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Episode 006: Universal Expansion / Spacecraft Physics
Recorded June 19th, 2014 This episode contains: How to Train Your Dragon 2, science getting things wrong, digging deeper into scientific studies, defining Quasars, baryonic acoustic oscillations, Kerbal Space Program, x-wings and vipers, Reality Dysfunction, warp cores, Star Trek wiki hole, alien species, Futurama quote, what Steven learned. Scott Manley: The Physics of Flying ‘Space…