The Science Faction Podcast

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 This Week in Space: a new ninth planet in our solar system, demotion of Pluto, @Plutokiller, Kiuper Belt objects, odd orbits, clustered orbits, new planet explains orbits, 10K to 20K year orbital period,…

This episode contains: Star Wars Battlefront, raid the arcade mix, Armada by Ernest Cline, time signatures, Devon’s reaction to heavy metal, ring tones, Green Day base lines, Crank, Steven playing less video games Brain Matters: Luminosity being fined by the FTC, brain games, study comparing Luminosity to Portal 2, Steve Novella, effectiveness of brain training,…

This episode contains: More awkwardness, weekend date, X-Wing Miniatures game, Steven’s project, what Steven has 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 “Sit Boo Boo, Sit. Good Dog”: dogs and jealousy, owners paying…

This episode contains: Drinking through a straw, throw it on the ground, last ep of 2015, distance traveled through the universe, travelling in time and space, Stuff You Should Know Podcast and the Philadelphia Experiment, secret naval technology, degaussing, Almost Educational Podcast ep. 62, Devon sent in a correction, analysis of geek culture and sports,…

This episode contains: The force awakens again, 2D v. 3D, why 3D at all?, 3D TV and video games, times seeing the force awaken, IMAX, The Dark Night, Happy Feet, quick Steven Star Wars story, listen to BS Podcast for a full review of The Force Awakens Brain Matters: How the Brain Wakes You Up,…

This episode contains: Return of the harmonica, Miles Greb and After the Gold Rush, getting sh*t wrong, grinding in RPGs, listening to podcasts while playing video games, Everquest, Fallout, science v. science fiction segments, Thor is a god, dice and ability mods Guest Item: Domesticating canids, 3,000 year difference, Bronze Age, genome evidence, genetic drift,…

This episode contains: Posh dinner party, spices, scuba diving classes, enriched air diving, oxygen in the atmosphere, breathing pure oxygen, Twister and Michael Crichton, J.J. Abrams early career, no interview/guest The Week in Space: Ceres bright spots identified, Nano-Mercury Terminators From Outer Space, Dawn spacecraft, salt deposits, briny solution, haze above spots,  briny sublimation, Ultima…

This episode contains: Jerky for dinner, Nick Offerman, videos to not drinking alone, science or drinking show, Batman v. Superman, if it is above 70% on RT then Devon will see it, out of words, lame corporate x-mas party, Batman becomes Ironman, powered by pain and justice, Batman should be dead Untitled: water bears have…

This episode contains: Devon is a certified open water diver, 60 ft, out of air, emergency ascent, all day in a swimming pool, wet suits, breathing under water, buoyancy control device, decompression sickness, dive tables, dive computers, first world problems, life-time certification, enriched air, diving the Titanic This Week in Space: certified astronaut, atmospheres of…

  This episode contains: Devon may be a little intoxicated, binge watching Rick and Morty, R2 squared and R2 ring bearer, http://www.r2d2.media-conversions.net/, Devon has a lot of free time apparently, Rick and Morty = Futurama + Archer + Back to the Future, scale and grading system issues, tease for interview Biomechanics: standing v. sitting, pro-standing…