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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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