Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into consciousness. What is it, does every living thing have it, and are we part of some greater collective consciousness?

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious. It is the problem of explaining why there is “something it is like” for a subject in conscious experience, why conscious mental states “light up” and directly appear to the subject.

Duration: 59:47:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• What Is Consciousness?
• Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?
• The Footprints of Consciousness
• How to Make a Consciousness Meter
• Harvard Scientists Think They’ve Pinpointed The Physical Source of Consciousness
• The Hard Problem of Consciousness
• Sight and blindness in the same person: Gating in the visual system

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Download: Episode 59: Consciousness

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into consciousness. What is it, does every living thing have it, and are we part of some greater collective consciousness?

Duration: 59:47:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 59: Consciousness

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the rather complex and pervasive ssue of cyberbullying. What’s it like to be a kid growing up with Facebook and Snapchat? Have you ever experienced it or have known someone who has?

Discussion of online harassment and defamation has taken place since as early as 1996, when Canadian lawyers David Potts and Sally Harris presented a paper titled Defamation on the Internet at the Legal Issues on the Internet conference on May 14th, 1996. The term “cyberbullying” was coined by Canadian teacher and public speaker Bill Belsey, who launched cyberbullying.ca] on March 3rd, 2003 in conjunction with the anti-bullying website he launched three years prior, bullying.org.

Duration: 1:15:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• What Is Cyberbullying
• Law Enforcement’s Reminder: the Negative Effects of Cyberbullying
• Cyber Bullying Statistics
• 11 Facts About Cyber Bullying
• It’s Time To Call Out Bullying By Social Justice Warriors
• 15 Teen Bullying Cases With Tragic Ends
• Cyberbullying Court Cases
• Tyler Clementi, student outed as gay on internet, jumps to his death
• Cyberbullying Laws
• Anti-Cyber Bullying Site Gets Cyber Bullied By 4chan
• Cyberbullying: Part of a series on Internet Slang
• Whatever happened to Star Wars Kid? The sad but inspiring story behind one of the first victims of cyberbullying

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Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the subject of brain hacking, the current science behind it, and what it means for the future of human society.

Duration: 49:00:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• Hacking the Brain
• Nootropics Defined and Explained
• How to Hack Your Brain
• PIRACETAM – WHAT IS PIRACETAM?
• Here’s What’s Possibly Causing Your Smartphone Separation Anxiety
• Brain Hacking 101: Simple Steps to Improving Your IQ
• Future of Humanity Institute

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Download: Episode 57: Brain Hacking

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the subject of brain hacking, the current science behind it, and what it means for the future of human society.

Duration: 49:00:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 57: Brain Hacking

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the subject of willpower and the science behind it. Wait, there’s actual science behind the concept of willpower? Do you think you have willpower?

We have many common names for willpower: determination, drive, resolve, self-discipline, self-control. But psychologists characterize willpower, or self-control, in more specific ways. According to most psychological scientists, willpower can be defined as: the ability to delay gratification, resisting short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals.The capacity to override an unwanted thought, feeling or impulse. The ability to employ a “cool” cognitive system of behavior rather than a “hot” emotional system.Conscious, effortful regulation of the self by the self.A limited resource capable of being depleted.

Duration: 1:05:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• What You Need to Know about Willpower: The Psychological Science of Self-Control

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Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the subject of willpower and the science behind it. Wait, there’s actual science behind the concept of willpower? Do you think you have willpower?

Duration: 1:05:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 56: Willpower

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into what eSports are, its long history, and why it’s so lucrative. Can you really make a full-time living as a career gamer?

The first eSports event happened all the way back in the October of 1972 at Stamford University where students competed on the video game Spacewar. The grand prize for the winner was a year long subscription to the Rolling Stones magazine. However, it wasn’t until 1980 whereby the first video game competition was held. The Space Invaders Championship had a great attendance of 10,000 participants and received widespread media attention since Space Invaders (the game of the tournament) was a household name at that point of time.

Duration: 50:43:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

• The History and Evolution of Esports
• Twin Galaxies
• Esports Earnings
• Best esports games in 2018
• ‘Super Bowl of esports’ coming to Vancouver this summer
• Overwatch backers push pro video games as big-league esports spectacle
• Epic Games announces $100 million prize pool for upcoming Fortnite season

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Download: Episode 55: eSports

Synopsis: This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into what eSports are, its long history, and why it’s so lucrative. Can you really make a full-time living as a career gamer?

Duration: 50:43:00

Present: Aaron Stewart, Rich Plumb

Download: Episode 55: eSports