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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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Episode 015: Google Car / Fantasy
Recorded August 20th, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Patrick Spain, awkwardness, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, explaining names, Google cars, facial recognition, saving lives, repairing vehicles, driverless future, the difference between science fiction and fantasy, chat about The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence, the Stormlight Archive chat, Tolkien stereotypes, the Night’s Dawn trilogy…
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Episode 014: Black Holes / The Singularity
Recorded August 13th, 2014 This episode contains: Google maps, suggestive butts and click bait, terrible dad jokes, what is a Black Hole?, the event horizon, how Black Holes form, XKCD and mols, why we can’t see Black Holes, super massive black holes in the early universe, accretion disc radiation, extra galactic jets, Big Bang Theory…
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Episode 013: Junk DNA / Genetic Engineering
Recorded on August 6th, 2014 This episode contains: Snowpiercer mini-review, junk DNA, 8.2% of human DNA may be functional, ENCODE, genes expressing, sentence analogy, what percent do we actually use?, Star Wars, droids and Clone-troopers, Eureka!, Exosquad, evolution of Wolverine, Galaxy Quest and authority, genetically engineering ourselves and our children, DNA replication, Futurama quote, what…
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Episode 012: Nuclear Power / Post-Apocalypse
Recorded July 22, 2014 This episode contains: What would happen after a short nuclear war, climate changes, rainfall shortages, frost free crop times, ozone layer depletion, UV gene damage, starvation, orders of magnitude, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Fallout video game retro-futurism, Mad Max depletion of resources, peak oil, drinking milkshakes, Sunshine, asteroids and Armageddon, Rosetta…
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