Month: June 2016
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Episode 108: Incompatible with Life
This episode contains: Detroit, 8 Mile, Heavy Rain, visiting baseball parks This Week in Space: Earth’s new moon, orbit, dimensions, recent discovery, traveling to asteroids, 2016 HR3 http://gizmodo.com/earths-new-quasi-moon-will-stick-around-for-centuries-1782082812 Cranio Baby: Baby with brain outside of skull, incompatible with life, normal development, surgery, the brain, credit for Jesus, trolling http://gizmodo.com/infant-with-brain-growing-outside-his-skull-saved-by-pi-1782348507 Sci-Fi: Fortune cookie, Detroit: Become Human,…
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Episode 107: Facilitated Self-Destruction
This episode contains: Deathgasm, Me Before You, assisted suicide The Gods Must Be Crazy: world’s oldest computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, Stuff You Should Know, telling the future, astronomy, gears and symbols, http://gizmodo.com/the-world-s-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predi-1781749625 This Week in Space: carbon nanotubes, space elevators, strength of carbon nantube lines, potential problems due to minor imperfections, http://gizmodo.com/scientists-found-a-possible-deal-breaker-in-the-quest-t-1781909000 Sci-Fi: Elite: Dangerous,…
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Episode 106: Thrawnesium
This episode contains: Awkward, nothing going on, sports, friends Fossilized Research: dog domesticated two separate times, genetic data from wolf populations, dog breeding, DNA time machine, convergent evolution analogy https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160602151723.htm Let’s Get Physical: naming new elements, three new elements, island of stability, analyzing proposed names, Thawnesium, Rob Roy, Devon’s dumb former stepbrother, study about sex…
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Episode 105: Naturally Entangled Systems
This episode contains: Swishing soda, cavities, dental things, X-wing Miniatures This Week in Space: quantum satellite, quantum entanglement, how are particles entangled, naturally entangled systems, communication, cryptography, faster than light communication, teleportation, transferring information http://www.popsci.com/chinas-quantum-satellite-could-change-cryptography-forever Robot Overlords: soft body robot actuators inspired by muscle, robot and humans working together, safety considerations, flexing muscles, vacuum, VAMPS,…
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Episode 104: GMO Extravaganza Pt.2
This episode contains: …and now the conclusion, Miles Greb, March Against Monsanto, interviewing protesters, cat milk, FDA, Bernie Sanders, Hillary, science and presidential politics, pseudoscience of the left and right, magical mother’s intuition, terminator seeds, size of protest, the rat study, scientific consensus, specifics of Monsanto, golden rice, paid shills we are not, our sad…