Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Regurgitation Celebration
While humans generally try to avoid puking, an upchuck is ...
While humans generally try to avoid puking, an upchuck is just another biological function for other creatures. In this episode, Robert and Julie present a vomitory smorgasbord of cud-chewing monkeys, acid-puking spiders, corpse-hurling vultures and more.
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Ghost in the Genetic Machine: Humans
To what extent are we shackled to genes? How does ...
To what extent are we shackled to genes? How does our upbringing, environment and our grandfather’s life choices affect the expression of our genome? Join Julie and Robert as they discuss epigenetic research and ponder underlying questions of free will.
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Ghost in the Genetic Machine: Animals
Between the code and the creature lies the epigenome, where ...
Between the code and the creature lies the epigenome, where environmental impulses alter genetic expression. Join Robert and Julie as they introduce epigenetics and gene memory. Join them as they discuss Lamarckian Evolution, mice, rats and flat worms.
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The Memory of Slime
So you're telling me slime molds can solve mazes and ...
So you're telling me slime molds can solve mazes and recreate trade routes? Yes, indeed we are. In this episode, Julie and Robert explore the "intelligence" of slime molds and why they force us to re-think the evolution of intelligence.
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My Slimey Valentine: The Slug Life
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.
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Trilogy of Slime: Tales of Slimedom in the Animal Kingdom
We all love slime, but do we really respect it ...
We all love slime, but do we really respect it in all its glory? Join Julie and Robert for a mucus-coated journey through the slime of slugs, sea hags and fish. Learn how it provides locomotion, protection, communication and food.
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Multitasking Maniacs and the One Track Mind
Is multitasking a female super power, a learnable skill or ...
Is multitasking a female super power, a learnable skill or pure myth? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and Robert consider our multitasking world, our unitasking minds and the rare “super taskers” capable of doing it all.
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Interrupting Cow: Multitasking, Interruptions and Distractions
All joking aside, the Interrupting Cow takes a real toll ...
All joking aside, the Interrupting Cow takes a real toll on your brain and your work life. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie examine just how interruptions and distractions impact our cognitive functions.
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Pineal Optics: My Third Eye
Prepare to open that third eye, listeners, because Robert and ...
Prepare to open that third eye, listeners, because Robert and Julie are taking you on a journey from philosophical ponderings about human spirituality to scientific explorations of the human pineal gland and the extra parietal eye common to other animals.
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Undercover Actors and the Shadow Self
Whether you're an undercover cop, an actor or just playing ...
Whether you're an undercover cop, an actor or just playing nice at work, you've had experience pretending to be a someone else. But how does it affect the real you? Join Robert and Julie as they delve into the science of personality and the shadow self.
