Dude! Nature

If mars is the next stop on our journey through the stars how might we prepare the planet for human habitation? In The Martian, Matt Damon forges a livelihood out of a small enclosure built for several humans to live in, but can we do this on a civilization wide scale? We talk about giant alien squids living under Mars's icecaps, nuclear rockets releasing greenhouse gases and other fun theoretical concepts that may help us transform the red planet into the next earth.

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Abominable Snowman, Ego-Bogu, Yeti, Sasquatch! Cultures across the globe have the same monster lurking around in their forests, a giant hairy man! Part human and part ape, this hominid supposedly wanders the forest and steals, kills, and freaks people out. Why do so many cultures through time (medieval, and native american) have a myth of a hairy man haunting their societies? Is there any truth to the vast array of pseudoscience being presented as evidence? Put on your flannel and grab your axe as we go in search of The Hairy Man Myth!

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she loves me...she loves me not...she loves me? She loves me! Online dating officially started with 1995's kiss.com and has evolved into the modern apps that almost half of all on-the-dating-market Americans use today. So how did this revolution come about? Are these apps helping us or hurting us? Is there validity to the common complaints we hear from men and woman on these sites? This is a fascinating topic because it reveals so much about human nature and our relationship with technology. And of course the stakes couldn't be higher...we are talking about love and sex and romance after all!

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Festivus...a festival for the rest of us. Halloween and Thanksgiving are over and the new year is just around the corner. These are our usual get togethers and we wouldn't want to change them...instead, we want more days of feasting and partying! We looked around the world to see what celebrations we would love to attend and bring into our calendars and the results were even wilder then we could have imagined. Come join us in debauchery as we explore the world of festivals and celebrations.

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Imagine you were the architect of a virtual simulation as complicated as our universe, what would you create? Star Trek, The Matrix, Ready Player One...lots and lots of science fiction plays with the notion that our reality might actually be a glorified video game. From Elon Musk to Neil Tyson, many popular minds are pretty sure there's a non-zero chance we are living on The Holodeck. So what's the argument for this? MIght we be able to mathematically prove we are living in a simulation? Is there any way to see the "glitches in the matrix" to glimpse the fabric of our reality?

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According to the American Academy of Microbiology for every 1 human cell there are 3 bacterial cells living on your body. These cells form the foundation of our bodies health and balance and they are influenced by many outside factors. Really your body is like a giant petri dish, and cultivating all the different microbes with the right amount of TLC is the key to a healthy lifestyle. This is the story of ecology being played out in all its brutal glory in your own human tissue, enjoy this one, its a doozy!

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Dogs are more than man's best friend, They have been partners in our evolutionary journey since we first stepped foot in northern Europe. In this episode we go into some of the most fascinating questions regarding dog and human relationships like: does my dog know when I'm gone for a week vs a month? what does police dog training look like? and does my dog show emotions / does it love me back? Pet ownership is on the rise, so if you've been pondering taking the leap and getting a beautiful dog child to care for, this is the episode to listen to.

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We've all probably read, played, and watched more in the last year then we would care to admit...even though a potential vaccine may just be on the horizon, it's fair to say we've got a little bit longer to go in hibernation mode so we decided to do an episode on our favorite video games, board games (29:00), fiction books, non-fiction books, and extra special recommendations of the last year. (if you're not into video games just skip to minute 29:00 it won't hurt our feelings...we'll it might just a little). Check the facebook page for a list of our favorites, stay safe and captivated out there!

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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Truly, these awards celebrate the best and most brilliant studies we could ever conceive of, including how to make a knife out of human fecal matter. Hosted annually at Harvard, The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate the ridiculous studies that make us ponder the absurdity of reality more than normal, terse, boring scientific papers do. In this episode we go through some of our favorite awards of the last few years and discuss their wider implications.

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Every day billions of soldiers fight a merciless war on thousands of fronts, that has been going on for over one hundred million years: The world war of the ants. Each species of ant is highly adapted to conduct warfare on its own terms, and when two species go head to head, the battlefront can sometimes become a global event.

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