Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Walt Disney the Futurist
When you hear Walt Disney's name, chances are you think ...
When you hear Walt Disney's name, chances are you think of cartoons and theme parks. But do you know about Walt Disney the futurist? Join Robert and Julie as they examine Disney’s dreams for the future and his “conditional optimism” for the human race.
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Microdrone Soup
What's that buzzing around the room? A bird? A plane? ...
What's that buzzing around the room? A bird? A plane? Nope, it's just a robotic insect sent by some shadow government. Join Robert and Julie as they check in on drone technology, the rise of biomimetic bird-bots and just how the future may shake out.
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Funny or Die
We all know "funny" when we encounter it, but what's ...
We all know "funny" when we encounter it, but what's going on inside the human mind when we feel amused? Join Robert and Julie as they discuss long-standing -- and more recent -- theories about humor's evolutionary purpose.
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Gimme That Old Time Space Religion
Will humans leave religion behind when they become an interplanetary ...
Will humans leave religion behind when they become an interplanetary species? Not hardly. Join Robert and Julie as they discuss how belief systems may change as a result of space exploration, on off-world colonization or extraterrestrial contact.
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Math, Music and Mayhem
Whether it’s Art Garfunkel’s mathematics degree or the structure of ...
Whether it’s Art Garfunkel’s mathematics degree or the structure of the chromatic scale, it’s easy to correlate music and math. But why are so many musical minds also well suited for number crunching? Tune in to learn more about music and math.
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Poking Einstein's Brain
How did Albert Einstein's brain wind up on a road ...
How did Albert Einstein's brain wind up on a road trip to hang with the author of “Naked Lunch?” In this episode, Robert and Julie give Einstein’s head cheese a serious poking to discuss the secrets of all the brain matter inside that skull of yours.
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Welcome to the Memory Palace
Stroll into the memory palace, an imagined location that just ...
Stroll into the memory palace, an imagined location that just might expand your brain power. In this podcast, Robert and Julie discuss the Method of Loci, a mnemonic device that allows mental athletes to perform astounding acts of recall.
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Do-it-yourself Organs
We’d all like to replace our failing organs with spare ...
We’d all like to replace our failing organs with spare guts, but when will it be possible? Join Robert and Julie as they explain why the day is fast approaching. Tune in to learn how stem cells and organ scaffolding may change the future of medicine.
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Fathers of the Wild: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
What makes a dog a lousy father and a wolf ...
What makes a dog a lousy father and a wolf a stellar patriarch? Join Robert and Julie as they anthropomorphize the animal kingdom in an effort to find out why some species are more like Cliff Huxtable while some are more like Darth Vader.
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Are you ready for a neo-evolution?
Humans have spent ages evolving into the charming specimens we ...
Humans have spent ages evolving into the charming specimens we are today. But what if we could accelerate the pace of evolution, giving our future progeny super-human attributes? Join Julie and Robert as they discuss if evolution as we know it is over.
