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  • Episode 039: Mars & Ceres / Single Biome Planets

    Episode 039: Mars & Ceres / Single Biome Planets

    Recorded February 18th, 2015 This episode contains: One way trip to Mars, Dutch non-profit space mission, mystery plume on Mars, baffled scientists, Asteroid belt, Kyper belt Oort cloud, Devon makes first mistake of his life, Ceres white spot, Dark spots in the moon, Dawn mission, Europa, Life in our solar system, Origin of the Solar…

  • Episode 038: Apes / Books

    Episode 038: Apes / Books

    Recorded February 11th, 2015 This episode contains: Girl Scout cookies, the lottery and offices, loot drops, glass half full and marketing spin, 10% fat and 90% lean, fruits and nuts, designing studies, changing grunts for apples, grunts and vocal structures, drunk gorilla punching photographer, fermented bamboo stems, rugby playing apes, gut fermentation syndrome, tree beer,…

  • Episode 037: Plot Holes and Trivia

    Episode 037: Plot Holes and Trivia

    This episode contains: sick Steven and healthy family, movie plot holes, Star Trek (2009), Nero and his crew, deleted jail scene, Back to the Future, recognizing Marty, bad memory, old and young Doc Brown, future heist, Wraith of Chekov and Khan, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jehovah begins with an I, ancient traps, Jurassic…

  • Episode 036: Vaccinations

    Episode 036: Vaccinations

    Recorded January 28th, 2015 This episode contains: “John Edwards,” critical thinking, health secrets, counter-culture and anti-vaxxers, Shock-top and PBR, extra chromosomes, types of vaccinations, inactivated, attenuated, toxoid, subunit, conjugate, experimental, recombinant vector, DNA, t-cell receptor, valence, heterotypic, Andrew Wakefield, fraudulent research paper, MMR vaccines, autism and bowel disease, substitute vaccines, cake metaphor, detecting autism before…

  • Episode 035: Spinal Repair / Cybernetic Augmentation

    Episode 035: Spinal Repair / Cybernetic Augmentation

    Recorded January 18th, 2015 This episode contains: Ebola-AIDS, Star Wars trailer prediction comes true, Star Wars comic, kindle app on the pocket computer, paralyzed rats, bridging the gap between severed spines, Dura matter, connecting neurons, timing and atrophy, radiculopathy, brain plasticity, ancient nose replacement, six armed people, Darth Vader Xmas ornament, attaching robotic limbs, analyzing…

  • Episode 034: Egyptian Blue / Ancient Aliens

    Episode 034: Egyptian Blue / Ancient Aliens

    Recorded January 18th, 2015 This episode contains: Sick host, LEGO AT-AT and snow speeder, Egyptian museum, dyes, calcium copper silicate, complex firing techniques, traded throughout the world, visible red light reflects infrared, practical medical uses, pigment processes, lapis lazuli and Minecraft, 3D printing and LEGOs, how the pyramids were built, celestial objects, patterns and measurements,…

  • Episode 033: 2014 Science/2015 Sci-Fi

    Recorded January 8, 2015 This episode contains: Stevens back!, birth of Emily, baby poo, New Years, looking back at 2014, gravitation waves, universal expansion, practical cloaking technology, focusing light, Rosetta Comet, Lander, programming space probes, Ebola, death rates, health care workers for Ebola, Mr. Burns diseases, exo planets, goldilocks zone, age of the Sun, looking…

  • Episode 032: Venus and Mars Colonies/Star Trek Fan Content

    Recorded December 22, 2014 This episode contains: Ben lawless, Xmas, evil santa, NORAD, deceiving kids, Harry Potter, wonder as a kid, parenting, memories of Xmas, Quantum mechanics of Santa, Elf on the Shelf, spying on kids, secular guilt, lethargic FTL, cloud cities on Venus, temperatures on Venus, new ways to get to Mars, Hohmann transfer,…

  • Episode 031: Bleeping Origins

    Edited 12/17/2014 This episode contains: dirty dozen, William Devon Craft, Esq. jumping right in, pants gangsters, geekery of choice, FTL, Science Fiction and Science Fantasy, Star Trek breaking ground, winner of the non-contest: JB!, Swiss cheese pervert incarcerated, terrible puns, Wacko of the Week: Amou Haji, not bathing, smoking animal poo-poo, five cigarettes, eating rotten…

  • Episode 030 Best of First 20 Episodes

    Edited December 11, 2014 Total Recall, Devon’s ending to Total Recall, life’s a dream, Skynet evil?, robot voice, T2, evidence based science, cherry picking data, preliminary studies, Devon’s forehead and jaw, we were in a band, it’s all about that bass, tonal discrimination, electrical sensors, brain scans, Come Sail Away, friend genetics, Dorst corrects us,…