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Episode 025: Accidents on Earth / In Space
Recorded on November 5th, 2014 This episode contains: Remember Remember the 5th of November, V for Vendetta on Cinema Sins, airplanes, fear of flying, Apollo 13 film, NASA Apollo mission recap, Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explosion, russian rocket engines, found footage, presidential promises, Virgin Galactic accident, SpaceShip2, $250,000 dollar tickets, wing feathering, Apollo 18 and…
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Episode 024: Sports Part 2: Dangerous/Official/Military
Recorded October 30th, 2014 This episode contains: Special guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the World Series, superstitions, riots, bucket lists, baseball field sizes, pitchers arms and resting, joint speed, the Most Dangerous Game, Surviving the Game, the Hunger Games, gambling and sports, the Running Man, game show host, 3 triad and…
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Episode 023: Sports Part 1: History/Physics/Injuries
Recorded October 23rd, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the sports that we played, the reasons that we have sports, how sports may have evolved, the Mesoamerican ballgame Ollamaliztli or ‘pitz’, sacrifice and competition, the physics of sports balls, throwing a baseball with the magnus effect, concussions and…
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Episode 022: Ebola / Recombinant Rage
Recorded October 15th, 2014 This episode contains: Plague Inc, where and when Ebola started, Outbreak and the Hot Zone, the latest news from Texas, five strains of Ebola, quarantine procedures, exponential infection rates, fruit bats as possible transmission, climate change, Captain Trips, Legacy Virus, Motaba, Rage, rebooted zombies, Bone-itis, Irumodic Syndrome and anti-time, Futurama quote,…
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Episode 021: Renewable Energy / Fictional Fuel
Recorded October 8th, 2014 This episode contains: how electricity works, potential to kinetic energy, solar panels to power the world, solar bale house, Germany and renewable energy, bird exploding solar farms, new solar battery technology, free energy, dilithium crystals, matter and anti-matter, saving the whales, hypermatter, tachyonic particals, more Death Star talk, Eureka and soft…
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Episode 020: Artificial Sweeteners / Capital Ships
Recorded September 24th, 2014 This episode contains: NASA contracts to Boeing and Space X, Cosmonaut Lance Bass, Orion module, non-caloric artificial sweeteners, aspartame, sucrose, saccharine, glucose intolerance, explaining the study, alcohol and ethanol, extremes, dig up stupid, rats and mice, gut microbiota, critical thinking with chain emails, sugar in soda cans, Star Destroyers, Star…
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Episode 019: Nano Car / Bad TV Science
Recorded September 17th, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Steve Maguire, chemist and nearly a doctor, molecular stuff, understanding chemistry for physicists, SNOLAB, nickel mine, neutrino explanation, scintillator medium and tellurium, neutrino reactions and detection, attempting to observe double beta decay, Nanocar, Bucky ball wheels, allotrope of carbon, chromophore crank, possible uses, Ant-man powers, additional…
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Episode 018: Icy Rocks / Mysteries
Recorded September 10th, 2014 This episode contains: The Postman movie recap, Death Valley moving rocks, frozen ground, pushing wind, Europa and frozen tectonic plates, water vapor geysers, the Himalayan mountains, more findings at Stonehenge, Super Henge, sucking out the mystical, pyramids, building in phases, mysteries of science, before the Big Bang, how we experience time,…
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Episode 017: Space Rescue / Trek Fanboys
Recorded on September 3rd, 2014 This episode contains: Super special guest Benjamin Lawless, aerospace engineering, contingency plan for the Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Atlantis launch prep, recapping Columbia disaster, the CO2 problem, the people problem, Enterprise and Gravity, the inclination problem, docking, crowd funding a space program, Star Trek talk, fantasy and fiction…
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Episode 016: Brain Wrinkles / Alien Abductions
Recorded August 27th, 2014 This episode contains: Self driving car update, California DMV rules, lawyers being lawyers, culture changing more quickly, grey matter and white matter in the brain, physical processes, right and left brain, remembering alien abductions with hypnosis, “Alien Abduction” on Netflix and a semi-review, Fire in the Sky, old special effects, Unsolved…
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