In This Episode, Matthew discusses the trailers for Alita: Battle Angel, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame, which all aired during the Super Bowl. Also, we discuss the new Crispr experiments happening at Columbia University 

 

Crispr

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/01/689623550/new-u-s-experiments-aim-to-create-gene-edited-human-embryos

 

Super Bowl trailers https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2019/2/3/18207185/super-bowl-2019-movie-trailers-tv-avengers-endgame-toy-story-4-scary-stories-tell-in-dark

 

Picard

http://www.treknews.net/2019/01/31/patrick-stewart-picard-series-more-than-season/

In this episode, Matt shares his thoughts on Aquaman. Love it or hate it, Aquaman has netted just over 1 billion dollars in world-wide box office sales, making it a commercial home run for the DC Universe. The science segment features a new gizmo called a scorkl, which is a small oxygen tank that allows swimmers to stay underwater for around 10 minutes.

Scorkl: https://newatlas.com/scorkl-breathe-underwater-10-minutes/49901/

Sick Sea Lion:  http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sea-lion-eats-throws-up-toddler-s-sock-at-zoo

 

In this episode, Matt share his thoughts on Vader: Shards of the Past, which is a fan film created by YouTuber Star Wars Theory. Fan films are labors of love. It's completely inspiring to see the work that goes into creating such a high quality piece of art. Matt also talks about the New Horizons space probe reaching the astroid Ultima Thule, which lies beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Astroid Belt. 

Vader: Shards of the Past: https://youtu.be/Ey68aMOV9gc

New Horizon Space Probe: 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

 

 

Episode 50! Wow! The content of this episode was selected based on responses to a recent Facebook post. Thanks everyone who submitted an opinion! The bulk of the show is about Star Trek Continues, which is like the Everest of fan-made films. (It's actually a series: eleven episodes, each an hour long.)

 

Star Trek Continues Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/StarTrekContinues

 

 

Here's another episode about time travel! It's a matchup between the frozen future of Arrival and the fluid future of Terminator Salvation. Is freewill genuine or illusionary? Matt also shares his thoughts and speculations on Aqua-man and Captain Marvel. 

A satellite screw-up reaffirms Einstein's theory of gravity: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-oops-reaffirms-einstein-theory-gravity?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2

 

Venom is destroying the box office! Matt shares his thoughts on the film and pays homage to the much beloved Stan Lee, who passed away recently. 

Genetically Modified Babies: 

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671675941/chinese-scientist-responsible-for-genetically-altered-twins-faces-intense-critic

Stan Lee Quotes: 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/addicted2success.com/quotes/35-epic-stan-lee-quotes/amp/ 

Stan Lee Didn't Invent Venom

https://www.looper.com/69291/characters-thought-stan-lee-created-actually-didnt/?utm_campaign=clip

Venom At Box Office

https://m.ign.com/articles/2018/11/19/venom-outperformed-star-wars-and-guardians-of-the-galaxy-at-the-worldwide-box-office

 

Matt talks about ridiculous "as-seen-on T.V." inventions, the amazing inventions that Jules Vern foresaw, and of course, Ant-man and the Wasp. How do the revelations and characters from this installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe play into the currently untitled Avengers 4 film? No-one knows! It's still fun to speculate though. 

 

Infomercial products: https://twentytwowords.com/hilariously-bad-infomercial-products/

 

Jules Vern Article: 

https://www.google.com/amp/www.ancientpages.com/2018/07/13/jules-verne-a-man-ahead-of-his-time-who-predicted-the-future/amp/

Time travel is a staple of the SciFi world. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells was a huge influence on the genre. Matt discusses the book and some of his thoughts on Time Travel. 

Metal Mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uYOZ1doM9Y

Gut Bugs https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/the-role-of-gut-microorganisms-in-human-health

Venom At The Box Office https://deadline.com/2018/10/halloween-opening-venom-star-is-born-first-man-global-international-box-office-1202486700/

Project Gutenberg (free public domain books) https://www.gutenberg.org

Libri Vox (public domain audio books) https://librivox.org

This is part two of our two part trilogy on Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams. This episode focuses on the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer that are discovered in HHGTTU. Adam's underlying assumption that everything is ultimately meaningless finds support in Bible's book of Ecclesiastes. It's a fascinating portion of scripture that both agrees with Adam's view of the universe and points the way to move beyond the meaninglessness of the material universe. 

 

The Science Segment details the potential discovery of the strongest material in the universe: the heart of a dying star. Could Thor's hammer be closer to reality than we realize? 

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/277383-nuclear-pasta-inside-neutron-stars-is-strongest-material-in-universe

Matt begins this two part trilogy by discussing the philosophical implications of the Babel Fish. Don't panic! This trilogy in two parts has a heart of gold, two heads, and three arms. 

Babel Fish: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Babel_Fish

Chicago Tribune Story: 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/sc-dating-apps-family-0328-gallery-20170321-photogallery.html

Intelligent Design Article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/19/intelligent-design-how-come-he-made-so-many-blunders