Month: October 2014
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Episode 024: Sports Part 2: Dangerous/Official/Military
Recorded October 30th, 2014 This episode contains: Special guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the World Series, superstitions, riots, bucket lists, baseball field sizes, pitchers arms and resting, joint speed, the Most Dangerous Game, Surviving the Game, the Hunger Games, gambling and sports, the Running Man, game show host, 3 triad and…
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Episode 023: Sports Part 1: History/Physics/Injuries
Recorded October 23rd, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the sports that we played, the reasons that we have sports, how sports may have evolved, the Mesoamerican ballgame Ollamaliztli or ‘pitz’, sacrifice and competition, the physics of sports balls, throwing a baseball with the magnus effect, concussions and…
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Episode 022: Ebola / Recombinant Rage
Recorded October 15th, 2014 This episode contains: Plague Inc, where and when Ebola started, Outbreak and the Hot Zone, the latest news from Texas, five strains of Ebola, quarantine procedures, exponential infection rates, fruit bats as possible transmission, climate change, Captain Trips, Legacy Virus, Motaba, Rage, rebooted zombies, Bone-itis, Irumodic Syndrome and anti-time, Futurama quote,…
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Episode 021: Renewable Energy / Fictional Fuel
Recorded October 8th, 2014 This episode contains: how electricity works, potential to kinetic energy, solar panels to power the world, solar bale house, Germany and renewable energy, bird exploding solar farms, new solar battery technology, free energy, dilithium crystals, matter and anti-matter, saving the whales, hypermatter, tachyonic particals, more Death Star talk, Eureka and soft…
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Episode 020: Artificial Sweeteners / Capital Ships
Recorded September 24th, 2014 This episode contains: NASA contracts to Boeing and Space X, Cosmonaut Lance Bass, Orion module, non-caloric artificial sweeteners, aspartame, sucrose, saccharine, glucose intolerance, explaining the study, alcohol and ethanol, extremes, dig up stupid, rats and mice, gut microbiota, critical thinking with chain emails, sugar in soda cans, Star Destroyers, Star…