Category: Podcast
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Episode 069: Forced Climax
This episode contains: Devon’s decedents will take over the Earth, Pure BS Podcast guest hosts, engagement party, joint finances and the Domingues system, Nature Watch: Apes Know a Good Thriller When They See One, apes watching movies, long term memories of apes, can apes empathize with movie characters?, showing animals pictures and mirrors http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150917134634.htm This…
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Episode 068: Journey to The Force Awakens
This episode contains: Rain forest of Brazil, Devon’s Mom keeps calling, engagement party Nature Watch: Estrogen and frogs, life finds a way, too many female frogs, sampling from different ponds, prey-predator dynamics http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150907190643.htm Physical Challenge: Magnetic “Wormhole” Connecting to Regions of Space Created for First Time, three layer cylinder, magnetic lines invisible between two points,…
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Episode 067: After the Gold Rush
This episode contains: Nothing special, Shakespeare, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Ant Man (4 out of 5 according to Devon), Periscope, Captain America: Civil War, stingers Biological Imperative: Gene Leads to Nearsightedness When Kids Read, Steven’s childhood, goat eyes, stigmatism, Giants losing to the Dodgers, near v. far sightedness http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150831144103.htm Nature Watch: Another Cracked article, 6…
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Episode 066: Via Periscope
This episode contains: Mics, webcams, no pants deposition, crap on a potato Biological Imperative: Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete?, bacteria cells, the collective me, size of cells, eggs as cells, Star Trek amebas, “holobiont,” “hologenome,” evolution on micro-biome, holo = whole and entire, diseases and hologenome/holobiont http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150819120658.htm Nature Watch: UCSB, Something to Crow About,…
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Episode 065: Medicinal Metallica
This episode contains: Destiny, what’s the point of playing a video game?, DLC, the Ladies Night Podcast, this is not a videogame podcast!, why most videogames are sci-fi, Sims, farming simulator, “Lot Lizards” This Week in Space: Space elevators, ribbon to geosynchronous orbit, counter weight, alternative to using carbon nano-tubes, Thoth Technology, using pressurized gas, 12…
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Episode 064: Apocalyptic Gaming
Recorded August 12th, 2015 This episode contains: Horrible day at work, Blue Apron pizza, arugula on pizza? (Why?), gross olives, Devon is learning to cook, Thug Kitchen, tofu (is supposedly good according to Steven), the science and art of cooking (not really), Robot Overlords: Evolution to improve power of robots, mother robot and children robots, evaluating…
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Episode 063: Alien Crabs
Recorded August 6th, 2015 This episode contains: Steven’s back!, Las Vegas, Craps, Black Jack, Roulette, house money effect (Devon incorrectly calls this a fallacy), adult Cirque du Soleil, Star Trek Experience, M&M store, Eminem ride Pop Sci 1: Lexis has build a working hoverboard, Back to the Future quotes, super conductors, cool fog, skate park with…
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Episode 062: Technological Breakthroughs
This episode contains: Temporary new host, guest host, Reel Stupid Podcast, Twilight, target demo, creepiness of Twilight, Miles from Tomorrowland, sci-fi kids show, Star Wars for kids, Red Letter Media (Devon calls it Red Band), This Week in Space: New space plane, Stratolaunch, larges airplane ever, space ports, past SFP mistakes, Space X, Virgin Galactic,…
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Episode 061: Books and the Blind
Recorded July 22, 2015. This episode contains: closing the chapter, poorly administered test, confirmation bias, Jurassic Park, the Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey (SPOILERS), Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Spin trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson, the plight of Bruce Willis, Pinky and the Brain, pictures in audio books, TV for the blind, not…
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Episode 060: Space Madness
Recorded July 15th, 2015 This episode contains: Heart on Pluto, Pluto’s not a planet—deal with it Nano-Nano: Pentaquark, five quark particle, hadrons, protons and neutrons, quark flavors, spin, anti-quarks, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), bump hunting, regular hadrons have three quarks, Ghost Busters’ particle physics, 10^-6 seconds after the Big Bang, quark-gluon plasma http://www.nature.com/news/forsaken-pentaquark-particle-spotted-at-cern-1.17968 This Week…