This is the time of year where millions of people pretend to own a football team, and spend the next 5 months obsessing over it.  Wouldn’t it be more fun to manage your own superhero team?  We think so!  For our Season 7 premiere, each member of The Brain Trust drafted their own super-powered faction, […]

The Joker from the 1989 film Batman said it best:  “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”  This is a question that is quintessential to Batman, as no matter the iteration, he has an amazing array of gadgets and gizmos to help him fight crime in Gotham City.  The latest movie version, The Batman, is […]

We have done a LOT about the science of time travel, but what about the ramifications of time travel? We all know about the grandfather paradox, but what about the puberty paradox? That states that you shouldn’t go back and visit yourself as a kid for fear of altering your life course forever. Well in […]

Inspired by the latest Spider-Man movie No Way Home, this week we discuss how you could make the world forget that you exist.  This is no easy task, but believe it or not, it can be done.  We are going to go over how you can disappear from public view, much like spies or people […]

The bow and arrow is one of man’s very first technologically advanced projectile weapons. Throwing a rock was probably first, but archery was leaps and bounds ahead of that. Gunpowder made the bow basically obsolete by replacing it with the significantly more accurate and deadly boomstick. Or did it? As it turns out, archery is […]

The land of Hyrule is like no other:  It is filled with monsters that both can kill our main character Link, but they also hold key items that ensure his survival such as hearts and rupies.  Guiding from behind the scenes is the powerful Princess Zelda who seems to know a lot about the inner […]

Every superhero has an origin story, and Mario is no exception.  Back in 1981 he was just a carpenter minding his own business until a large gorilla saw King Kong one too many times and stole his girlfriend Pauline.  Thrust into the spotlight, Mario was forced to use his carpentry skills to destroy barrels being […]

The goal of nature is always to reach equilibrium, whether it is the ratio of predator to prey, or the proper amount of salt in the ocean.  Three seems to be the magical number of balance, and nowhere is that more apparent than the classic game Rock-Paper-Scissors.  The key is that no one choice is […]

Let’s say you find yourself on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean, and your entire life has been spent playing Minecraft and watching Gilligan’s Island reruns.  Will you survive?  After listening to this episode, of course you will!  This week, you will learn the importance of following (not planting) a tech tree, […]

Steampunk is a retro science fiction genre taking place in the steam powered world of the Victorian Era. It is known for gear-based robots, hydrogen airships, and of course a reliance on steam engines to power their society. This week we break down what it would be like to advance society without electricity, in including […]