Oh, That's a Thing!

 Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Se7en"!

Topics include: The Seven Deadly Sins, Pinkerton Detectives, Blacklight Forensics, and Eating Until You Explode!

Links:

https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/it-possible-literally-eat-yourself-death

https://www.ranker.com/list/eating-yourself-death/laura-allan?utm_expid=16418821-388.8yjUEguUSkGHvlaagyulMg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Seven_Deadly_Sins

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/metronome.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethovens-metronome-wrong-9140958/

http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/alternatelightsources.html

http://www.csitechblog.com/2011/01/alternate-light-sources-and-how-csis-use-them.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-glows-under-a-black-light-607615

https://wjwoodrow.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/fluoresence-of-semen-forensics-geekery/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Wild Wild West"!

Topics include: Steampunk, Earliest Hearing Aids, Operation Paperclip, Parties at the White House, and Bulletproof Vests!

Links:

https://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-operation-paperclip

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-story-of-the-wildest-party-in-white-house-history/

https://www.beltone.com/hearing-aid-guides/hearing-aid-history

https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/47717-Digital-hearing-aid-history

https://bulletsafe.com/pages/the-history-of-bulletproof-vests

http://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests

https://www.ranker.com/list/old-wild-west-slang-word-and-expressions/brent-sprecher

https://www.phactual.com/20-more-slang-terms-from-the-wild-wild-west/

http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/what-is-steampunk/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-steampunk-movement/241947/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Dark City"!

Topics include: The Higgs Mechanism, Hypnotism, Cryptomnesia, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

Links:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-some-people-are-immune-hiv-ebola-and-other-diseases-397940

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2014/massive-thoughts

http://www.carl-jung.net/collective_unconscious.html

https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/education-and-platos-allegory-of-the-cave-bf7471260c50

http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/has-hypnosis-finally-been-vindicated-by-neuroscience.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/can-you-quit-smoking-through-hypnosis/391577/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypnosis-memory-brain/ 

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/26/cryptomnesia-psychology-of-writing/

http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb02/glitch.aspx

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/polar-night.html

http://www.sciencelet.com/2012/10/what-causes-perpetual-daylight-and-darkness.html

Joya and Jeff watched the 2000 movie "The Beach"!

Topics include: Communes for Future Technologists, Longest Open Swims on Record, Urban Legends, and Secret Societies!

Links:

https://www.cultofmac.com/125656/this-lsd-love-guru-turned-gold-mining-billionaire-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/10/steve_jobs_at_reed_did_he_name.html

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2012olympics/2012-07/31/content_15635774.htm

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-ocean-swim

https://matadornetwork.com/pulse/ate-beating-heart-live-snake-vietnam-heres-ill-never/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-societies-you-might-not-know-180958294/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html?utm_term=.4085ec641b2e

http://mentalfloss.com/article/87935/origins-6-terrifying-urban-legends-and-classic-campfire-stories

https://www.livescience.com/7107-urban-legends-start-persist.html

Joya and Jeff watched the 2001 Jet Li movie "The One"!

Topics include: Parallel Universes, String Theory, "Internal" Martial Arts Styles, Parkour, and Steroids!

Links:

https://www.muscleforlife.com/side-effects-of-steroids/

https://www.livescience.com/3349-steroids-work.html

https://www.livescience.com/39074-what-is-an-mri.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/mri1.htm

http://www.dummies.com/education/science/physics/string-theory-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

http://www.energyarts.com/hsing-i-chuan

http://www.energyarts.com/bagua-zhang-martial-arts

https://www.space.com/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/22/579666359/scientific-theory-and-the-multiverse-madness

http://www.learnmoreparkour.com/how-to-parkour-article-4.htm

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/19/beginners-guide-to-parkour/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Memento"!

Topics include: Types of Amnesia, How Memories Are stored, Ginkgo Biloba, and How Polaroids Work!

Links:

https://petapixel.com/2011/05/18/how-polaroid-instant-film-works/

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question605.htm

https://bebrainfit.com/ginkgo-biloba-benefits/

http://www.human-memory.net/processes_storage.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Short Circuit"!

Topics include: What a 'Short Circuit' actually is, Speed-Reading, War Robots Going Rogue, The "Memory Palace" Technique, and the Earliest Tanks!

Note: We recorded this episode before the recent controversy surrounding Aziz Ansari, which is why we don't mention it when discussing his take on Fisher Stevens (a white actor who played an Indian man in 'Short Circuit'). And we still think the conversation was an important one to have, but just a head's up in case you're wondering! Happy listening!

Links:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-tank-produced

https://www.thespruce.com/what-causes-short-circuits-4118973

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/us_war_robot_rebellion_iraq/

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/big-question-speed-reading-actually-possible/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/06/how-much-can-you-really-learn-while-youre-asleep

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/experiments-show-we-really-can-learn-while-we-sleep-141518869/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Truman Show"!

Topics include: The Truman Show Delusion, Why We Believe Conspiracies, Japanese Contest Show "Nasubi", and Norman Rockwell!

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgC_nkU2sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzueQK-Q7gI

http://www.businessinsider.com/believing-conspiracy-theories-makes-people-feel-special-2017-9

Joya, Jeff and special guest Rachel Bloom watched the movie “Space Jam”!

Topics include: Rachel's "Space Jam" Musical Sketch, the Deepest Living Organisms, Hollow Earth Theory, the invention of Basketball, the Placebo effect, and a discussion about the intersection of Art and Commerce! 

Links:

https://gizmodo.com/terrifying-facts-about-the-worlds-deepest-gold-mine-1484301368

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110601-deepest-worm-earth-devil-science-animals-life/

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/7/15792188/placebo-effect-explained

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cube"!

Topics include: Prime Numbers, Problem Solving on LSD, Savants and Booby Trapped Houses!

LINKS:

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/10-most-fascinating-savants-in-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/nature/how-does-dead-sea-salt-form-giant-cubes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7K5KjOdLD8