Month: January 2016
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Episode 087: Reasserting Planetary Dominance
This episode contains: Pocket Mortys, Poke Mon, Rock-Paper-Scissors, rookie mistakes, freemium games, rewards for watching commercials, Black Mirror, Clash of Clans, pay-to-win This Week in Space: a new ninth planet in our solar system, demotion of Pluto, @Plutokiller, Kiuper Belt objects, odd orbits, clustered orbits, new planet explains orbits, 10K to 20K year orbital period,…
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Episode 086: Raid the Arcade
This episode contains: Star Wars Battlefront, raid the arcade mix, Armada by Ernest Cline, time signatures, Devon’s reaction to heavy metal, ring tones, Green Day base lines, Crank, Steven playing less video games Brain Matters: Luminosity being fined by the FTC, brain games, study comparing Luminosity to Portal 2, Steve Novella, effectiveness of brain training,…
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Episode 085: Black Mirror, White Christmas
This episode contains: More awkwardness, weekend date, X-Wing Miniatures game, Steven’s project, what Steven has Brain Matters: wired for gaming, the brains of gamers, internet gaming disorder, the gaming chair, DSM-5, predisposition?, specific links in the brain, impulse control, addiction, phantom vibration syndrome http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151221194124.htm “Sit Boo Boo, Sit. Good Dog”: dogs and jealousy, owners paying…
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Episode 084: What Kind of Year Has It Been
This episode contains: Drinking through a straw, throw it on the ground, last ep of 2015, distance traveled through the universe, travelling in time and space, Stuff You Should Know Podcast and the Philadelphia Experiment, secret naval technology, degaussing, Almost Educational Podcast ep. 62, Devon sent in a correction, analysis of geek culture and sports,…