Mike's Multiverse

This week on Ask Science Mike, we covered these questions: What are quantum computers? What do you make of children who remember details from a “past life?” Is there a link between suicide and religiosity? Are the brains of trans people different in any way?

Here are resources for people who want to dig deeper:

What are quantum computers?

How Google’s Quantum Computer Could Change the World

How Does a Quantum Computer Work?

Michio Kaku: How to Program a Quantum Computer

What do you make of children who remember details from a “past life?”

Parents Think Boy Is Reincarnated Pilot

Expert Investigates 10-Year-Old’s ‘Reincarnation’ Claims

Is there a link between suicide and religiosity?

Episode 126 - Suicide, New Earth, and the Flat Earth Society

Religion and Completed Suicide: a Meta-Analysis

NEW STUDY SUGGESTS RELIGION AFFECTS SUICIDE RATES DIFFERENTLY AROUND THE WORLD

The Surge in Suicides Has Nothing to Do With Marriage or Religion

Are the brains of trans people different in any way?

Is There Something Unique about the Transgender Brain?

How Science Is Helping Us Understand Gender

It’s finally here! This week is the long awaited #AskBiblePete episode. All the questions are about scripture and our guest host is the one and only Pete Enns. Pete is the author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty, and hosts the podcast The Bible for Normal People (with a new season coming next week!).

Click here to check out Pete’s podcast, The Bible for Normal People.

We covered these questions on Ask Science Mike this week: Can antipsychotic medications impact how we experience God? Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why am I bored with I’m not intellectually stimulated? If “love is love,” how can we say that pedophilia is immoral?

Here’s some resources for anyone wanting to dig deeper into the questions covered in this episode:

Can antipsychotic medications impact how we experience God?

Is Mania A Spiritual Experience?

Is there any scientific evidence for God?

Finding God in the Waves

Listen to “We Dreamed in Monochrome” by The1Harris here.

This week we're talking about why we often feel like different people when we visit home, as well as talking about what it's like to question your faith for the first time.

Here's a few resources mentioned in this episode:

Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies

The Power of Habit

The Happiness Hypothesis

Finding God in the Waves

For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: Do other animals feel guilt? What happens in our brains when we get frustrated? Is there an age when we get set in our ways? What does a “call from God” mean when you don’t believe that way anymore?

You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com.

Do other animals feel guilt?

Do animals feel guilt?

Chimps don't just get mad, they get even

Other Minds

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

What happens in our brains when we get frustrated?

Effect of Frustration on Brain Activation Pattern in Subjects with Different Temperament

NEUROSCIENTISTS CONDUCT THE MOST FRUSTRATING BRAIN SCANNING STUDY EVER

4 Tips to Deal With Frustrating People

Is there an age when we get set in our ways?

What It Takes To Change Your Brain’s Patterns After Age 25

What does a “call from God” mean when you don’t believe that way anymore?

When God Talks Back

Preproduction by Andrew Galucki.

Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin.

The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy.

You've got questions, he's got answers.

Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway.

You've got problems, he won't solve them,

But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face.

Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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This week, I'm doing daily episodes to answer questions from my crew on Patreon. Want to be a part of this? Learn more here.

This week, I'm doing daily episodes to answer questions from my crew on Patreon. Want to be a part of this? Learn more here.

This week, I'm doing daily episodes to answer questions from my crew on Patreon. Want to be a part of this? Learn more here.