Join myself and John Luna—teacher, artist, writer, and scholar—in exploring:

Roman concrete: what's responsible for the disappearance of Roman concrete in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire? Shadowy cabals? A misplaced recipe? The arrival of a superior alternative? Was one of humanity's most advanced technologies really forgotten?

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Shifts in aesthetic trends over delineated eras: is the pace decreasing? Is the Western world today more immediately recognizable to denizens of the 1980s than the world of the 1980s was to natives of the 1940s? Just how might AI and the Internet factor into all this?

Content warning: sporadic language.

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Special thanks to Fesliyan Studios for providing all royalty free music and sound effects, from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com.

Join myself and Colleen Leonard—student, Vin Diesel expert, and lover of bad movies—in exploring:

Birds: when and how do they get enough water to survive? Can you recall seeing a bird drinking a tall glass of water? How do they find enough water in the dessert? What are our feathered fowl friends hiding?

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Corrective lenses: bifocals, trifocals... quadfocals? Is there an upper limit to hard hard you can foc? How do glasses work, anyways? Most of us remember being taught this, but—apparently—internalizing that knowledge is another matter entirely.

Content warnings: language, sporadic crude/sexual innuendo.

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Special thanks to Fesliyan Studios for all royalty free music and sound effects, from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com.

Join myself and Julie Luna—potter, teacher, and entrepreneur—in exploring:

New York City's street level "steam-stacks": a common sight on the streets of Manhattan, these tall steam funnels can be observed venting steam from below ground into the atmosphere... but why? Why are they only in New York? What are they for, and what's producing the steam?

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Midday church bells: what's with all the gonging? When the city streets reverberate with the noontime percussive stylings of Big Bell, what are we really hearing? A call to prayer? Weddings services? A mode of creative expression for the Hunchback of St. Patrick's Cathedral?

Content warning: sporadic language.

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Special thanks to Fesliyan Studios for all royalty free music and sound, from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com.