The Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Married, rings and watches, House of Cards, best-man scotch, rain on your wedding day, plan B, photographer, equipment issues on PBS, bus issues, Yelp reviews, negotiations, Aptos bars, crepes chat, groomsman gifts, Star Wars puzzles, married life, honeymoon, SF Giants, awesome seats, child neglect article postponed We’re Back! Back for the 100th…

This episode contains: Another clip show! We explain why in the episode. Enjoy tese two awesome interviews: Interview and Sci-fi: Interview with Miles Greb – author of After the Gold Rush,  (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919052445/after-the-gold-rush-a-science-comic) (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=756517&ty=h) Marvel, independent comic books, Kick Starter, skepticism and atheism, science as wonder, accurate idioms, 25 issue run, hard sci-fi, day job, Dune, commentary for…

Clip Show! This episode contains: Pocket Mortys, Poke Mon, Rock-Paper-Scissors, rookie mistakes, freemium games, rewards for watching commercials, Black Mirror, Clash of Clans, pay-to-win Brain Matters: wired for gaming, the brains of gamers, internet gaming disorder, the gaming chair, DSM-5, predisposition?, specific links in the brain, impulse control, addiction, phantom vibration syndrome  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151221194124.htm Biological Imperative:…

This episode contains: Waiting frantically, bachelor party, hand foot and mouth disease Robot Overlords: Touching robots elicits psychological arousal in humans, robot asked participants to touch different parts of body, measured humans response, more emotion for certain body parts, “arousal,” what about different types of robots, Animatrix, serial killer sweater, deaths in Vegas, moving dead…

This episode contains: Thin ice, San Jose Sharks, arctic sharks, dinosaurs, ST: VOY, ancient ruins, hockey Evolutionarily Speaking: new spider fossil, ancestor to spiders, 305,000,000 year-old rock, silk production, Charlotte’s Web, predators, megafauna, origins of spiders, is a scorpion an arachnid?, all life on Earth is connected http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/close-spider-relative-found-305-million-year-old-rocks Tree of life: http://www.united-academics.org/earth-environment/feeling-small-the-tree-of-life/ Brain Matters: mind…

This episode contains: Internet naming things, boat names, hand, foot and mouth disease, Web MD, chemical burn Nature Watch: Fungus that threatens chocolate forgoes sexual reproduction, frosty pod rot, several mating types, over 20,000 combinations, cloning when isolated from mating pair, cloning anyway https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322120406.htm Brain Matters: What makes us conscious?, humans, animals, computers, Integrated Information…

This episode contains: Marriage license, state issued pamphlet, mandatory blood tests, role of government, bonus episode Break a Leg: first prosthesis with connection to bone and muscle, titanium v. other materials, sockets, removable parts, The Borg, control of prosthesis, cricket  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314141412.htm Get Mental: smart phones reactions to mental health questions, conversational agents, asking Siri dumb…

This episode contains: Special guest host: Scott Manley! https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg Intro: Science fiction music, Flash Gordon, accents, academics, astronomy, internet radio, Asteroid Day (June 30th), saving the world Kerbal Space Program: space program simulation, video tutorials, video games and science, getting to space and orbiting Kerbin, new versions and mods, planet scale: 1/10th, Manley’s Mountain, development…

This episode contains: Commodore Craft and Demigod Domingues, Republican Presidential Primary, Star Wars analogies, Mitt Romney, Trump (the fun’s over), small hands…, Clinton v. Trump, presidential candidates and space, written questions This Week in Space: breaking the cosmic distance record, furthest galaxy, 13.4 billion years old, red-shifting, what if extra-terrestrial observers called but nobody heard?,…

This episode contains: Flying down mountains, snowboarding, steep learning curve, cost of entry, ski bus, maintenance of equipment, Straight Outta Compton, NWA, dropping knowledge Biological Imperative: alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects multiple generations, rats, drinking during pregnancy, wine, drunk on their back, back in their forepaws, alcohol sensitivity and alcohol preference, drinking and driving, alcohol…