where science meets fact meets fiction

Month: February 2017

  • Episode 140: Twitch Dreamer

    Episode 140: Twitch Dreamer

    This episode contains: We start off with Valentine’s Day and why Rotten Tomatoes’ reviews might be a little off. Steven then tells Devon he should watch Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 because he would relate to the brand of humor. Steven is losing it since his daughter is no longer napping. Fun with…

  • Episode 139: False Equivalency Conundrum

    Episode 139: False Equivalency Conundrum

    This episode contains: We recap our gaming weekend playing Star Wars: Armada, an awesome miniatures war game. Devon rationalizes the cost of the game. We also talk about X-Wing Miniatures and how the two games compare. Devon explains why he likes Armada more than X-Wing. Evolutionarily Speaking: There’s been some new discoveries regarding carnivorous plant…

  • Episode 138: Counterfactual Regret Minimization

    Episode 138: Counterfactual Regret Minimization

    This episode contains: We plan just how hard we’re going to nerd out this weekend when we hangout together! Specifically, we’re going to play Star Wars: Armada, a Fantasy Flight Game similar to the X-Wing Miniatures game. It’s complex but luckily there are YouTube tutorials, some good, some bad. Walking on Sunshine, Whoa-oh-oh: Steven tells…

  • Episode 137: Bugs of the New Order

    Episode 137: Bugs of the New Order

    This episode contains: Devon is sick of dumb studies a bad science reporting! He tells us how most headlines are just for clicks and the studies themselves are usually BS. So now we talk about some science studies based on second hand reports: Oceanographic: Someone has proposed a novel method of stopping tsunamis. Acoustic gravity…