This episode contains: Internet naming things, boat names, hand, foot and mouth disease, Web MD, chemical burn Nature Watch: Fungus that threatens chocolate forgoes sexual reproduction, frosty pod rot, several mating types, over 20,000 combinations, cloning when isolated from mating pair, cloning anyway https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322120406.htm Brain Matters: What makes us conscious?, humans, animals, computers, Integrated Information…

This episode contains: Marriage license, state issued pamphlet, mandatory blood tests, role of government, bonus episode Break a Leg: first prosthesis with connection to bone and muscle, titanium v. other materials, sockets, removable parts, The Borg, control of prosthesis, cricket  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314141412.htm Get Mental: smart phones reactions to mental health questions, conversational agents, asking Siri dumb…

This episode contains: Special guest host: Scott Manley! https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg Intro: Science fiction music, Flash Gordon, accents, academics, astronomy, internet radio, Asteroid Day (June 30th), saving the world Kerbal Space Program: space program simulation, video tutorials, video games and science, getting to space and orbiting Kerbin, new versions and mods, planet scale: 1/10th, Manley’s Mountain, development…

This episode contains: Commodore Craft and Demigod Domingues, Republican Presidential Primary, Star Wars analogies, Mitt Romney, Trump (the fun’s over), small hands…, Clinton v. Trump, presidential candidates and space, written questions This Week in Space: breaking the cosmic distance record, furthest galaxy, 13.4 billion years old, red-shifting, what if extra-terrestrial observers called but nobody heard?,…

This episode contains: Flying down mountains, snowboarding, steep learning curve, cost of entry, ski bus, maintenance of equipment, Straight Outta Compton, NWA, dropping knowledge Biological Imperative: alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects multiple generations, rats, drinking during pregnancy, wine, drunk on their back, back in their forepaws, alcohol sensitivity and alcohol preference, drinking and driving, alcohol…