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Episode 045: Gender / Gay Star Wars

This episode contains: Devon working out, Devon’s physique vs the rest of BSPN, Alien Isolation, Ripley’s daughter, directors cut of Aliens, Blade Runner directors cut, game play for Alien Isolation, games tipins to the movies, where are all the Aliens in the game, Steven loves this game because it’s boring, Alien reproduction on societal structure,…
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Episode 044: Rice / Future Food

Recorded March 25th, 2015 This episode contains: Devon hasn’t had candy since October 15, 2013, La Fondue, fondue desserts, cheese and beer, homemade chicken pop pie (recipe below), quinoa kale salad, rice in Asia, rice for breakfast, reduce calories in rice by cooking with coconut oil and refrigerating for 12 hours, types of starches, 10%…
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Episode 043: 3D Printing / Replicators

Recorded March 18th, 2015 This episode contains: Sub-orbital asteroid, hanging out over the weekend, Munchkin: gateway game, serious board gaming, X-Wing game, Expanded Universe ships, Shadows of the Empire, YT-2400, pilot stats, total point squads, large ships, no one to play with, 3-D printers, cost of printers, quality of 3-D printed objects, new 3-D printer…
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Episode 042: Galactic Size / Fermi Paradox

Recorded March 11th, 2015 This episode contains: Black cats, Devon’s dog—Zoe, dog training, humane choke collars, life-sized fake dog, Milky Way Galaxy, Snickers Galaxy, Thee Musketeers Galaxy, Baby Rush Galaxy, Butterfinger Galaxy, our galaxy is 50% larger then previously thought, galactic north v. north of the galactic plane, hard to study our own galaxy because…
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Episode 041: Thought Flying / Alien 5

Recorded March 4th, 2015 This episode contains: Steven is hosting, PBS co-hosting, “The Big Chair,” Devon’s game show voice, what game shows we watched, Super Market Sweep, Chopped, game show education, Alex Trebek’s age, quadriplegic women flies F-35 with nothing but her thoughts, Flight simulator, thinking of flight, teaching our brains, the first future of…
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Episode 040: End of the World / Galactic Civilizations

Recorded February 25th, 2015 This episode contains: the great LEGO purge, office toys, Stephen Hawking’s recommendations, colonizing planets, earth sustainability, AI dangers, dangerous aliens, what the earth looks like from other planets, cops and murderers, asteroids, climate change, fixing our errors, the doomsday clock, nuclear war, nuclear war, mutually assured destruction, gamma ray bursts, super…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
