Listening Glass: Science, Technology, Philosophy, Culture

Alas, we've not been smitten down by the puny hands o' the pandemic.  We're back to talk about bugs!  Not really.  We're talking about another cliche pseudoscience topic that turns out to be more science-y than we thought!  Join us as we walk you through totally unintelligible descriptions of 3-d graphs, encounter philosophical raptors, and slog through another set in our role as radio personalities posing as journalists!

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This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

This week, Robin and Arjuna tackle the world of intellectual property and ownership via an examination of the free and open source software movement. We discuss the roots of the FOSS movement, cover licensing, and dissect all the different ways software can be "free". How much free software do you use? Do you know?

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We have added a Patreon account to Listening Glass! This is a way for listeners to support our show financially, paying as much or as little a month as they like. For as little as $1 a month you can help us to continue making this show better, moving towards our eventual goals of hiring an editor and being able to devote more time to research. Find our Patreon here!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

"Study And Relax" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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We've all wondered if our phones are making us worse humans, suspecting that they tank our attention spans and and interrupt social connections.  We dig into and also give our phones some shout outs for the ways that they help us become better people.  We also dig into screen time in general, the ergonomics of working on computers full time, even get to talk about healthy gaming habits.

We have added a Patreon account to Listening Glass! This is a way for listeners to support our show financially, paying as much or as little a month as they like. For as little as $1 a month you can help us to continue making this show better, moving towards our eventual goals of hiring an editor and being able to devote more time to research. Find our Patreon here!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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On this episode, Robin and Arjuna cover the millennial phenomenon known as apocalyptic thinking. We touch upon the origins of the phenomenon, cover some of its expressions throughout the last 2500 years, and ruminate on current iterations of apocalyptic thought. The listener is asked to consider the ways in which they fall prey to apocalyptic fixation, and what the impulse is that propels it. Are our revelations world-ending? Let us know!

Something exciting we unveil on this show: we have added a Patreon account to Listening Glass! This is a way for listeners to support our show financially, paying as much or as little a month as they like. For as little as $1 a month you can help us to continue making this show better, moving towards our eventual goals of hiring an editor and being able to devote more time to research. Find our Patreon here!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Will nuclear power mishaps like Chernobyl and Fukushima bring about an early Armageddon? Or is it our best chance to avoid further climate catastrophe? Arjuna and Robin hash out the bright side and the not so bright side of nuclear energy and look at just how it measures up against other energy source options.

Update: We say in the show that 10% of electricity came from the Megatons to Megawatts program.  I fact checked this and sources say "up to 10%", so it probably was quite a bit lower than that for parts of the program's 2 decade life cycle.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Robin and Arjuna return to explore wide and wild world of personality testing! Are tests such as DISC and Myers-Briggs worth the time you spend taking them? Can you (or anyone else) draw meaningful conclusions from the results? Find out what we think... a lot.

Here are links to the tests we took:

Myers-Briggs: https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

DISC: https://discpersonalitytesting.com/

Big 5: https://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Some people think our show is real long, so we cut 20 minutes out and put it in it's own mini-show.  There.  Happy now?  Lol.  Enjoy.

These extras include some talk about how to keep anxiety and depression in check and how these phenomena may be related to a very curious netork of areas in the brain called the default mode network.  Faaaaascinating...

Also, Arjuna illuminates the history of an early indiginous ambassodor of psilocybin use to western counter culture with the story of María Sabina.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

Follow us on Twitter to keep updated on our show.

Email questions and comments to [email protected].

Until next time...

Millions of Americans use psychedelics very year to dramatically shift their consciousness in order to explore themselves and have our of this world experiences, but many have been turning to these substances for subtle, imperceptable and reportedly therapeutic effects at smaller doses.  We interview many and have discussions about the effects of psilocybin mushrooms and LSD on productivity as well as mental health, depression, and PTSD.  Is LSD the next coffee?  Are mushrooms the new prozac?  Join us and our friends to see what insights we've gained see what questions need to continue to be explored.

Naturally, those interviewed for this episode preferred to remain anonymous due to the contraband status of psycheledics, therefore I will be thanking them for their very generous and insightful contributions by their codenames. 

Thank you Space Dog, Molly, Anonymous Periwinkle, Anonymous Dude 1, and to Saumuel Taylor Raine LeClaire.

If you're looking for further information, one book you could look into would be "A really good day" by Ayelet Waldman from 2017.  Another is the Psychedelic Explorer's guide by James Fadiman which was published in 2011.  

Links to Studies: A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics, Psychedelics and mental health: a population study, Decreased mental time travel to the past correlates with default-mode network disintegration under lysergic acid diethylamide

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

Follow us on Twitter to keep updated on our show.

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Chevy SSR, PT Cruiser... Tesla? What's your nomination for the ugliest car ever? Are cars more confused in their identities than they've ever been? Did SUVs ruin everything? Robin and Arjuna will take you through the history of car design in an effort to discover whether are getting prettier, uglier, or just... more car-like.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify

Special thanks to Sage Liskey and Bryce Casen for their off-the-cuff ruminations on auto design.

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Could some UFOs actually be from outer space? Is the United States government covering up first contact from the world? How do we even begin to navigate who to believe and who to shrug off when it comes to first hand accounts of aliens, UFOs, and top-secret government facilities? And last but not least, should we storm Area 51?!  In ep 7 we explore some facts and history and employ wildly tangential thoughts lines to bound these and other pressing question in our corner of the galaxy. 

We tried to make this episode serve as a pretty good primer to the whole subject of Area 51 and UFOs, so if you've been feeling like a poser with your tin foil hat, you'll come to the right place to get caught up!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
Find Mac Woodruff's music at Bandcamp and on Soundcloud

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
Find Kneebody at https://www.kneebody.com/ and on Spotify

Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
Find Eero Johannes's music on Soundcloud and Spotify.

Special thanks to Austen Sloan, Ben, Araya Sunshine, Sara Wolf, and Alyssa for agreeing to be interviewed and contributing to this episode."Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" by Annie Jacobsen

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

The radio broadcast heard towards the beginning was ABC News Radio show "Headline Edition"
with Taylor Grant in New York broadcast on , July 8, 1947, 10:00 p.m.

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