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The entire world has been plunged into absolute madness. This week, with the help of friend of the show: Dr. Sam Laucirica, we discuss the topic that requires no introduction: COVID-19

 

SHOWNOTES

 

Pew Research Report https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/08/nearly-three-in-ten-americans-believe-covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=9a8a1fc2a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-9a8a1fc2a0-400906701

Proximal Origin of SARS-Cov-2 Article

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Guardian Article regarding Face Maskshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/should-everyone-be-wearing-face-masks

Article from Australia’s Science Channel regarding Flattening The Curvehttps://australiascience.tv/we-can-shrink-covid-19-curve-not-just-flatten/

Science-Based Medicine COVID-19 Newshttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-covid-19-news/

Kurzgesagt Coronavirus video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY

Amoeba sisters Viruses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FqlTslU22s

Our first ever VideoFacto is just to give you an update on what we've been up to for the last four months during our protracted hiatus, and get you excited for the resumption of our regular schedule next week. If you'd rather see the video, head over to our Facebook, Instagram or YouTube pages to see our ugly mugs.

As a nice follow-up to last week's GMO episode, Levi explains the process of Clustered Regularly Inter-spaced Short Palindromic Repeats (or CRISPR for short). Matt then runs us through numerology, where he assigns Levi a "name number" that dictates his personality... Or does it?

 

Show notes for CRISPR

CRISPR Timeline - https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr-timeline

 

Live Science article on CRISPR - https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html

 

Gif showing CRISPR CAS9 in action - https://www.livescience.com/60938-a-breathtaking-new-gif-shows-crispr-chewing-up-dna.html

 

TED Ed video on CRISPR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw_JVz_IEc

 

WIRED Video on CRISPR explained in 5 levels of complexity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUg

 

Diagram of CRISPR in action - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR#/media/File:Crispr.png

 

Song about CRISPR CAS9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk

 

 

Show notes for Numerology

 

Bobby McFerrin videohttps://youtu.be/Hodp2esSV9E

 

“Secrets of Numerology”

http://www.2012-spiritual-growth-prophecies.com/numerology-meanings.html

 

Pythagorean Numerology Name Number Calculator

https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

 

Jastrow Scientific Monthly Articlehttps://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

 

Numberphilehttps://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

 

Schimmel, Annemarie (1993). The Mystery of Numbers. ISBN 0195089197.

 

Lynne Kelly (2004). The Skeptic's Guide To The Paranormal. ISBN 1-74114-059-5.

This week, Matt explains a topic that we've been meaning to get to for a while, and one that get referenced weekly: The Scientific Method.

Levi then discusses Genetically Modified Organisms; how they work, and then, of course, the hysteria surrounding GMO foods.

 

Show notes for the Scientific Method

 

“Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” - Lakatoshttp://www.csun.edu/~vcsoc00i/classes/s680f11/Lakatos.pdf

 

Khan Academy Scientific Method Article

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-biology-foundations/hs-biology-and-the-scientific-method/a/the-science-of-biology

 

Khan Academy Scientific Method Video

https://youtu.be/N6IAzlugWw0

 

Show notes for GMOs

 

RationalWiki article on Seeds of Death documentary

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Death

 

“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens

 

Seeds of Death Youtube documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OxbpLwEjQ

 

Kurzgesagt GMO video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TmcXYp8xu4

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson on GMOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMDhUsxom0U

Firstly, we would like to apologise for Levi's recording quality in the first half of the episode. It's a good reminder that we are amateurs recording this in our bedrooms at home!

With that out of the way, we have put together a very interesting episode this week. Levi ticks off time-keeping devices throughout history, and Matt lets us know what all the buzz is about the new 5G cellular network.

 

Show notes for Time Keeping Devices

 

A history of time keeping devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwOBkghwWA

 

Informative video on time keeping devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At5atF4mKiU

 

The clock that changed the world - Documentary on John Harrisons Mechanical Clock to claim the longitude prize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-g27KS0yiY

 

Show notes for 5G

 

Scientific American article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/

 

asut Press Release:

https://e3.marco.ch/publish/sunrise/821_3887/20190327_MM_asut_Faktencheck_5G-EN.pdf

 

cNet Article:

https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-phones-and-your-health-what-you-need-to-know/

 

ABC Article:https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/what-experts-say-on-the-radiation-safety-of-5g-network/11143020

 

International Journal of Oncology article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5504984/

 

Steven Novella article:https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/5g-is-coming/

 

Lorne Trottier article:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-cell-phones-a-possible-carcinogen-an-update-on-the-iarc-report/

 

NTP (FDA) Study:

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/topics/cellphones/index.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=prod&utm_campaign=ntpgolinks&utm_term=cellphone

 

And its press release:https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/materials/cell_phone_radiofrequency_radiation_studies_508.pdf

 

Another FDA study:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Evaluation+of+the+genotoxicity+of+cell+phone+radiofrequency+radiation+in+male+and+female+rats+and+mice+following+subchronic+exposure

What are the chances that we would make it to episode 20? We certainly didn't see this in our Tarot Cards.

That's right listeners, in this week's episode Matt takes us through Chance and Probability, while Levi covers Tarot Cards.

 

SHOW NOTES FOR PROBABILITY

 

“Jesus Saves” Story

https://www.today.com/health/man-wearing-jesus-saves-race-bib-collapses-t165597

 

Risk of Death - Florida Museum

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/death/

 

“Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do-not-intuitively-grasp-probabilities/

 

“How Randomness Rules Our World”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-randomness-rules-our-world/

 

SHOW NOTES FOR TAROT

 

Itai Ivtzan Paper on Tarot cards http://www.awarenessisfreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/TarotCardsPaper1.pdf

Divination with Tarot Cards: An Empirical Study: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JSPR-1983.pdf

Hey listeners, I haven't heard from you in ages! I hope you've been well. It would be so good to catch up and chat about a great new opportunity for you and us! You would basically be your own boss and work your own hours which gives you so much freedom... And the best part about it is that you can employ all your friends and family as reps! Sound like something you might be interested in? Well, listen to this week's episode on Multi-Level Marketing; a collaboration with our sisters over at "Yeah No Yeah!" Check them out wherever you get your Podcasts.

 

SHOW NOTES FOR MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING

 

Yeah No Yeah Podcast

https://yeahnopodcast.com/

 

“Multi-Level Marketing Has a Problem: YouTubers Keep Talking About It” - Molly Kendrick

https://bit.ly/34oexLn

 

“The Case (for and) Against Multi-level Marketing” FTC Report

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00008%C2%A0/00008-57281.pdf

 

“Multilevel Marketing” - Last Week Tonight

https://youtu.be/s6MwGeOm8iI

Episode 18 begins with a (not so) brief conversation with friend of the podcast, Dr. Sam Laucirica, about some of the points raised during the previous episode on NCGS. Levi then takes us back to a familiar place with a conversation about homing pigeons and Matt runs Occam's Razor over some of the more popular bigfoot sightings.

 

SHOW NOTES FOR HOMING PIGEONS

 

Homing Pigeon Navigation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXkcO6s_dI

 

Homing Pigeon Interesting Facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6HN73oIps&t=206s

 

Homing Pigeon Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJ5q9cyPmk&t=391s

 

Plus a bit of good old Wikipedia and associated articles found within

 

SHOW NOTES FOR BIGFOOT

 

Jacobs Photos - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO)

http://www.bfro.net/avevid/jacobs/jacobs_photos.asp

 

Black Bears and Mange

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/06/04/black-bears-are-going-bald-it-might-be-even-worse-than-it-looks/

 

Patterson-Gimlin Filmhttps://youtu.be/-x3__akoM5w

 

Bigfoot “discovery” confirmed as fake - The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/20/usa3

 

Patterson-Gimlin Film episode of Skeptoid

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4375

 

Genetic Analysis of Hair Samples - Proc. Royal Soc.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100498/pdf/rspb20140161.pdf

 

‘If Bigfoot Were Real’ - Scientific Americanhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/if-bigfoot-were-real/

In IdioFacto 17, Matt takes a look inside MRI and Levi attempts (and struggles) to decode the confusing language around Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity (keep your eyes out for a bonus episode with Dr. Sam Laucirica to discuss this further).

 

Show notes for MRI

“Introduction to MRI Physics”https://youtu.be/Ok9ILIYzmaY

 

MRI Soundshttps://youtu.be/6Aj2QspPf7s

 

MRI History

https://www.magnetic-resonance.org/sources/Magnetic%20Resonance%2012th%20edition%202019%20Offprint%20History.pdf

 

Show notes for NCGS

Coeliac Australia info pagehttps://www.coeliac.org.au/gluten-sensitivity/

 

Pamela Cureton presentation on NCGS anmd Coeliac Diseasehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_sjiWCdmUg

 

ABC Gluten Doccohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktpxe9gFfA

 

United European Gastroenterology Journal Articlehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406911/

 

Video featuring Dr. Joseph Murray, M.Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYczEi_l-h0

Welcome to our first real episode back in season 2.

 

In IdioFacto 16, Levi takes us on a journey that's out of this world and Matt debunks some of the more sensible (but still very silly) conspiracies surrounding the moon landing (spoiler alert: it really happened!)

 

Show notes for Space Travel

 

Challenges of leaving space 

http://www.dynamicscience.com.au/tester/solutions1/space%20science/challengeoflvnerth.htm

 

First German space rocket

https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4397678/German-rocket-is-1st-to-reach-space--October-3--1942

 

Laika the Cosmonaught Dog

https://time.com/3546215/laika-1957/

 

Show notes for the Moon Landing Conspiracy

 

Film Expert Explanation - The Conversation 

https://theconversation.com/moon-landings-footage-would-have-been-impossible-to-fake-a-film-expert-explains-why-118426

 

Lunar Landing Sites - Express

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1151363/Moon-landing-hoax-NASA-fake-lunar-landing-sites-visible-on-Moon-LRO

 

Mythbusters Season 6 Episode 3: Moon Landing Hoax

 

‘I Don’t Believe The Moon Landing Happened’ (Matthew Real interview)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zm7LfuDCu8

 

Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories - The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-began-and-why-they-persist-today-118643

 

Top Moon Conspiracy Theories - Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/65984-top-moon-conspiracies.html

 

One Giant Lie - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/10/one-giant-lie-why-so-many-people-still-think-the-moon-landings-were-faked