Month: September 2015
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Episode 069: Forced Climax
This episode contains: Devon’s decedents will take over the Earth, Pure BS Podcast guest hosts, engagement party, joint finances and the Domingues system, Nature Watch: Apes Know a Good Thriller When They See One, apes watching movies, long term memories of apes, can apes empathize with movie characters?, showing animals pictures and mirrors http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150917134634.htm This…
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Episode 068: Journey to The Force Awakens
This episode contains: Rain forest of Brazil, Devon’s Mom keeps calling, engagement party Nature Watch: Estrogen and frogs, life finds a way, too many female frogs, sampling from different ponds, prey-predator dynamics http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150907190643.htm Physical Challenge: Magnetic “Wormhole” Connecting to Regions of Space Created for First Time, three layer cylinder, magnetic lines invisible between two points,…
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Episode 067: After the Gold Rush
This episode contains: Nothing special, Shakespeare, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Ant Man (4 out of 5 according to Devon), Periscope, Captain America: Civil War, stingers Biological Imperative: Gene Leads to Nearsightedness When Kids Read, Steven’s childhood, goat eyes, stigmatism, Giants losing to the Dodgers, near v. far sightedness http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150831144103.htm Nature Watch: Another Cracked article, 6…
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Episode 066: Via Periscope
This episode contains: Mics, webcams, no pants deposition, crap on a potato Biological Imperative: Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete?, bacteria cells, the collective me, size of cells, eggs as cells, Star Trek amebas, “holobiont,” “hologenome,” evolution on micro-biome, holo = whole and entire, diseases and hologenome/holobiont http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150819120658.htm Nature Watch: UCSB, Something to Crow About,…