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Month: July 2016

  • Episode 111: Monkey Music

    Episode 111: Monkey Music

    This episode contains: Nice Guys, 5 out of 5, Ryan Gosling, Monkey Tools: different stones used for cashew processing, “hammer stones,” technological development, PBS video series, monkey’s hunting footage https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711150920.htm Symphony of Destruction: Why we like the music we do, cultural influence, western music theory, dissonance, consonance,  testing different populations, finger nails on a chalkboard,…

  • Episode 110: Orbital Obfuscation

    Episode 110: Orbital Obfuscation

    This episode contains: Independence Day, fireworks, buying guns and bongs, Blue Apron, Tinkle Bell Peppers, Kurzgesagt In a Nut Shell This Week in Space #1: Origin of Mars’ Moons, captured asteroids, impact with Mars, geological composition, inside gas giants, Juno Mission  http://gizmodo.com/a-badass-new-theory-on-the-origin-of-mars-moons-1783059254 This Week in Space #2: problems with space junk, testing satellite to collect…

  • Episode 109: Swiss Army Arm

    Episode 109: Swiss Army Arm

    This episode contains: Stephen King, How Did This Get Made?, Maximum Overdrive crazy trailer, Trucks (short story) This Week in Space: “I want to die on Mars but not impact” Elon Musk, growing plants in Moon/Martian soil, heavy metals in soil, amount of metal absorbed by plants, metric and imperial system songs https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160627095316.htm Let’s Get…