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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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Episode 011: 1138 Part 2
Recorded July 20th, 2014 This episode contains: Super Star Wars special, with guest Ben Dorst of the Pure BS Podcast! We talk about corrections, lightyears, Parsecs and what they mean in the Star Wars and our Universe, the Kessel run, Strange Days and recorded memories, moving in with significant others, the Endor Holocaust, starship speeds,…
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Episode 010: Science Grab Bag / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
This episode contains: exciting news, LEGO mini figures, using solar sails for interstellar and interplanetary travel, Space X and NASA, study on friends reveals similar genetics, friendly pets, Vanta Black: material created with carbon nanotubes and absorbs 99.96% of light, magnetic ferrofluid, practical uses for black material, Simpsons references, Planet of the Apes talk, Rise…
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Episode 009: Rhythm & Brains / Future Sounds
Recorded July 9th, 2014 This episode contains: High school band, Canada, electroencephalography, testing the rhythm of bass notes and treble notes, brain activity while playing music, timber of sound, the feel of bass, ancient music, vocalizing emotion, auditory cheesecake, evolutionary bipedalism, Come Sail Away, theramin, future music, music and emotions, video games and movie soundtracks, Game of…
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Episode 008: Facebook Ethics / Totalitarian Governments
Recorded June 2nd, 2014 This episode contains: Reddit, ads and likes, advertising on Facebook, the Facebook study and how it worked, Tuskegee experiment, 1984, The Hunger Games and how it relates to government size, Firefly and decentralized government, Netflix and Arrested Development, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.
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