Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Reboot the Biosphere
Sure Biosphere 2 was the laughingstock of the science community ...
Sure Biosphere 2 was the laughingstock of the science community when its mission came to a close in 1993. (Blame the Star Trek-like uniforms.) But scientific findings spiraled out of it long after the project was officially canceled. Some 150 papers and scads of new insights into the environment are due to the visionary wonderland that is Biosphere 2.
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Two Years and 20 Minutes Inside Biosphere 2
Enter Biosphere II with Robert and Julie and tour a ...
Enter Biosphere II with Robert and Julie and tour a technological wonder of the early 90s -- a 7,200,000 cubic foot Earth-in-miniature. Find out about this "Eden on top of an aircraft" and what went awry when eight people sealed themselves inside a biosphere for two years.
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The Spiral of Silence
Have you ever heard someone say something you disagreed with ...
Have you ever heard someone say something you disagreed with and kept your opinions to yourself? You, my friend, just fell into the spiral of silence. Find out why.
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Mass Hysteria and the Mad Gasser
Did a masked madman terrorize a sleepy Illinois town with ...
Did a masked madman terrorize a sleepy Illinois town with a paralyzing gas gun? Or did something equally bizarre transpire back in August of 1944? Lend an ear to this bone-chilling episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind and explore the topic of mass hysteria (AKA mass psychogenic disorder), from dancing plagues and witch trials of old to our modern age of bioterrorism.
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The Science of Uncanny Music
Why is scary music so scary? Why does an uncanny ...
Why is scary music so scary? Why does an uncanny tune creep us out so? Is it all context and culture or is there something deeper at work? In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie provide the answers and Christopher Gladwin of The Wyrding Module provides some unsettling tunes and a few answers of his own.
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What’s in a witches brew?
Gather round the cauldron with Robert and Julie as they ...
Gather round the cauldron with Robert and Julie as they ladle out hefty servings of magical thinking, medieval psychedelics, feminist history and the power of ritual. Just what was old-school witchery all about? This classic episode has some answers.
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The Dark
What about darkness is so unsettling? Find out about the ...
What about darkness is so unsettling? Find out about the most extreme instances of an absence of light and how it works on our bodies.
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Steven Johnson: How We Got to Now
Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time and Light. Just a random ...
Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time and Light. Just a random collection of items in the physical world, right? Not in the hands of science journalist Steven Johnson, who weaves a revelatory tale of technological wonders in his new book and PBS series, "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World." Join Julie and Robert for an interview with the man behind the book and series.
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Trypophobia: Fear of Holes
Phobias can arise from all sorts of lurking dangers, like ...
Phobias can arise from all sorts of lurking dangers, like venomous snakes. But holes? Is trypophobia really a thing? Find out why a person might fear an array of innocent holes and the role social contagion could play.
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The Zen of Pain
Can pain elevate us to a higher state of conscious? ...
Can pain elevate us to a higher state of conscious? Can we find peace and forgiveness with self-inflicted cuts and lashes? Join Robert and Julie as they raise the lantern of science to the humanity's longstanding quest for liberation through physical suffering.
