Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Your Body Odor,Your Destiny
Can body odor be destiny? Can it portend health or ...
Can body odor be destiny? Can it portend health or illness, who we’re attracted to and repulsed by? Find out in this pungently scientific episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
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Maneater
What happens when an animal turns maneater? Is it the ...
What happens when an animal turns maneater? Is it the irresistible taste of human flesh? Is it the ease of a human kill? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie look to the environmental, biological and bad-luck causes that land humans on a predator’s dinner menu.
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Listener Mail: Strange Sleep and Past Lives
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert ...
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie once again call forth the robot and take care of some accumulated listener mail on strange sleep, lucid dreaming, reincarnation and other topics.
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The Barry White Effect
What does voice quality tell us about sexual fitness in ...
What does voice quality tell us about sexual fitness in a potential mate? Do the deep, velvet tones of Barry White have a scientifically-proven effect on our libido? What about Marilyn Monroe’s high, breathy voice? All shall be revealed in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
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Empathic Elephants
Elephants are amazing, majestic creatures for a number of reasons ...
Elephants are amazing, majestic creatures for a number of reasons – including their startling capacity for empathy. Join Robert and Julie as they discuss these gentle giants and their highly intelligent, social qualities.
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The Illusion of Continuity
What is perceptual constancy and how does the illusion of ...
What is perceptual constancy and how does the illusion of continuity pull a fast one over our brains? Find out in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind with Robert and Julie.
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The Reincarnation Blues
The metaphysics of reincarnation are nothing short of enthralling, from ...
The metaphysics of reincarnation are nothing short of enthralling, from the notion of an immortal soul drifting through myriad life forms to the intimidating Wheel of Samsara with its heavenly and hellish realms. Why does this version of immortality appeal to us? And what, if anything, can science tell us about the survival of the soul? Join Robert and Julie for a rich discussion on the reincarnation.
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The Night Janitors of the Brain
Do you think other species ever look at humans and ...
Do you think other species ever look at humans and raise an eyebrow at the amount of sleep we need? Do cockroaches and eyelash mites leave messages on our foreheads in microscopic Sharpies? Perhaps “I just popped on an apex predator’s head.” We may be the most successful species in existence, but that doesn’t mean sleep is just another one of our “choices” as a human being. It is a necessity for survival, even though it requires immobility and vulnerability. Prepare to meet the night janitors of the human brain.
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My Slimey Valentine: Slug Sex Revisited
Whether you're a hopeless romantic or a Valentine's hater, Robert ...
Whether you're a hopeless romantic or a Valentine's hater, Robert and Julie have quite the episode for you. Prepare to have your mind blown as they expose the daring, disgusting, weaponized, cannibalistic and marathon lovemaking ways of slugs and snails. Originally published in 2013, the episode is now updated with a new page from the slug Kama Sutra that will leave you squirming.
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The Problem of Immortality
Humans are haunted by death. It awaits us all with ...
Humans are haunted by death. It awaits us all with open arms and all we can do is dream of its blissful antithesis: immortality. And so we've constructed a fortress of ideas to protect us against the terror of impermanence: astral bodies, reincarnation, bodily resurrection and the immaterial soul. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie discuss the Terror Management Theory, which holds that fear of death and the quest for immortality command every facet of our lives. Discover how reminders of mortality affect or personal ethics and decision making, from the cash register to the voting booth.
