Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Beauty and the Beholder
Is beauty intrinsic or merely contextual? Is it in the ...
Is beauty intrinsic or merely contextual? Is it in the eye of the beholder or part-and-parcel to our evolution? And just why are a plate of spaghetti, an infant and a Georgia O’Keeffe painting all considered beautiful? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie consider the philosophy and evolutionary biology of beauty.
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Satellite Junkies and the Day of the Fall
Humanity has become addicted to satellite technology. In this episode ...
Humanity has become addicted to satellite technology. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie explore the sort of withdrawals we’d feel if the satellites all fell from the sky.
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Sideshow Secrets Revealed
What’s the real science behind beds of nails, sword swallowing ...
What’s the real science behind beds of nails, sword swallowing and headless women? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie strip away the carnie veneer and get right to the facts.
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The Science of Hell
Artists aren’t alone in their fascination with Hell. Scientists two ...
Artists aren’t alone in their fascination with Hell. Scientists two have long sought to breach the fiery gates and figure out just how it works. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie explore scientific ponderings over the Dante’s “Inferno” and Milton’s “Paradise Lost” from modern mathematicians, meteorologists and even Galileo.
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The Problem of Hell
Belief in Hell is problematic at best. How do we ...
Belief in Hell is problematic at best. How do we relate to our fellow human beings while sorting them into an imagined afterlife of torment? How do we relate to faiths and myths that heap such additional darkness on an already bleak world? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie discuss the origins of belief in Hell, the philosophical problems it entails and just what sociologists and economists think about its effects on the real world.
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Roller Derby Microbiome
Once upon a time, the word “outdoors” wasn’t a thing. ...
Once upon a time, the word “outdoors” wasn’t a thing. But then humans invented “indoors,” and with it an artificial environment containing an artificial environment of microorganisms. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie discuss the ways in which we might manage or even engineer the microbiology of these indoor worlds.
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Cubicle Doom
Can your office cubical kill you? Might an open-floor office ...
Can your office cubical kill you? Might an open-floor office plan save your life or drive you to madness? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie examine the science and psychology of our artificial work spaces.
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The Mystery of Human Consciousness
What is consciousness? Can we test for it? And how ...
What is consciousness? Can we test for it? And how to we rectify the seemingly disparate realities of physical brain and immaterial mind? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie consider the hard problem of human consciousness and the philosophic warnings of the New Mysterians.
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Insect Love Song
The night is alive with insects. To our human ears ...
The night is alive with insects. To our human ears their song is mere cacophony, but it’s actually a vast web of communication signals. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie decode the Insect Internet for the meanings behind insect songs.
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Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands
Resist the urge to clap at the next concert or ...
Resist the urge to clap at the next concert or play you attend – IF YOU DARE! Because as Robert and Julie explain in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, applause is viral. It’s hard-coded into our mental capacity for synchronicity and social adaptation.
