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September 20, 2021127: The Science of Intrusive Thoughts
Do you ever have a thought come to mind that doesn’t feel like something you’d think, a thought that can make you feel disgusted or uneasy? Those are intrusive thoughts, and while they’re strongly associated with mental illness, they might be a bit more common than you might think…

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References & Further Reading
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/symptoms/
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-mechanism-that-helps-us-inhibit-unwanted-thoughts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364913000675
https://www.livescience.com/amp/44687-most-people-have-unwanted-thoughts.html
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/your-stories/dealing-with-intrusive-thoughts/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28776482/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27510608/
https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Journal-of-Obsessive-Compulsive-and-Related-Disorders-2211-3649
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-33292-013
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834572/

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September 13, 2021126: America’s First Black Scientist - Benjamin Banneker
American History tends to ignore the achievements of black people - which is why you probably haven’t heard of Benjamin Banneker… He was a polymath who went verbally toe to toe with Thomas Jefferson on the topic of slavery, was instrumental in the creation of the capital, and did so much more!

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https://www.whitehousehistory.org/benjamin-banneker
https://archive.org/details/bulletinunitedst2311964unit/page/17/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-things-know-about-astronomer-benjamin-bannekers-pioneering-career-180967136/
https://friendsofbenjaminbanneker.com/history/benjamin-banneker-2/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2vEQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA65&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.history.com/.amp/news/cicadas-discovery-benjamin-banneker
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112037299119&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021
https://www.biography.com/.amp/scientist/benjamin-banneker
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85984/retrobituaries-benjamin-banneker-african-american-mathematician-who-may-have-saved
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Banneker
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/benjamin-banneker-the-first-african-american-geek/am

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September 06, 2021125: The Science of Nazi Nuclear Cubes
At the end of WWII hundreds of uranium cubes made for the Nazi nuclear program were taken by the USA, but they didn't take them all. Quite a number of these nuclear cubes went missing... A few have popped up here and there, until recently it's always been near impossible to tell if a cube is real, or just a really good replica - but scientists have just found a wild new way to find which ones are fakes...

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References & Further Reading
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/hundreds-of-cubes-of-nazi-uranium-are-missing-now-scientists-have-a-new-way-to-spot-them-12389326
https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fhistory%2f2021%2f08%2f25%2fnazi-nuclear-program-failed-uranium-cube%2f
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287673-investigation-of-nazi-uranium-could-help-stop-modern-nuclear-smuggling/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.history.com/.amp/news/wwii-nazi-atomic-secrets-alsos-mission-kidnap-heisenberg
https://www.britannica.com/science/nuclear-fission
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1321436
https://www.britannica.com/science/carbon-14-dating
https://www.britannica.com/science/hydrogen/Isotopes-of-hydrogen#ref621366
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Heisenberg/Heisenberg-and-the-Nazi-Party

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August 30, 2021 124: The Alpha Male Myth
Some men label themselves alphas - citing an old study on wolves, but surprisingly the results might not be as applicable to humans (or even wolves) as you might have thought…

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References & Further Reading
Wolf Packs
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/wolf-pack-mentality.htm
https://www.wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/267alphastatus_english.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21963347
https://wolf.org/wolf-info/basic-wolf-info/wolf-faqs/#toggle-id-21
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3881436

Animal Social Behaviour & Hierarchies
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180925-with-females-in-charge-bonobo-society-is-more-chilled-out
http://amydprice.com/hypertext_narrative/primates_research.pdf
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-sex-and-society-2006-06/
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bonobo
https://www.britannica.com/video/193398/bonobos-humans
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/2180434-the-7-non-human-mammals-where-females-rule-the-roost/amp/

Human Alpha Studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30978215/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054

Alpha Male Pseudoscience
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2021/01/26/the-pseudoscience-behind-the-sigma-male-explained/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alpha-male-alpha-chimpanzee-primatologist-frans-de-waal-a8421291.html%3Famp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/no-such-thing-alpha-male-2016-10%3Famp
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTyQgwVvYyc
http://davemech.org/wolf-news-and-information/schenkels-classic-wolf-behavior-study-available-in-english/
http://davemech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ExpressionstudiesP.1-10.pdf
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s

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1 hr 2 min
August 23, 2021123: The Science of Sleepy Hallucinations
Ever seen or heard something as you were half asleep and woken up to realise it wasn’t there? Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are actually fairly common!

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References & Further Reading

Hallucinations
https://www.britannica.com/science/hallucination/Chemical-factors
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/hallucinations-hearing-voices/
Hypnagogic & Hypnopompic Hallucinations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988750/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14313158_Hypnagogic_and_Hypnopompic_Hallucinations_Pathological_Phenomena
https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/a/C9cqbVby3nqWJrKYLvBngkk/?lang=en
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/71170
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23739-8_8
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30138-X/fulltext
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvBvYrklXM
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87318-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/hypnagogia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012375038900008X
https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6638
Other Parasomnias & Related Effects
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120522-suffer-from-sleep-shudders
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781437703269000282
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11030656/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/290/5490/350?hwshib2=authn%3A1628867368%3A20210812%253Aed134caf-83e8-4fd7-9799-0ea1e0c31419%3A0%3A0%3A0%3AyeqVACDJVH2x2dHe%2FPUbZw%3D%3D
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560817/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/narcolepsy/
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1 hr 13 min
August 16, 2021122: The Science of Myers Briggs Personality Tests
Myers Briggs types are scientific evaluation of your personality… or at least that’s how they’re sold. Turns out that they might be barely more scientific than your horoscope.

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References & Further Reading
What is MBTI?
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
https://www.mbtionline.com/en-US/Articles/2017/July/What-do-the-letters-in-the-Myers-Briggs-test-stand-for
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554596/
https://www.16personalities.com/country-profiles/global/world
The Origins of MBTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/isabel-briggs-myers.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06614-
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung/Character-of-his-psychotherapy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264783017_Isabel_Briggs_Myers_Psychological_Type_and_the_Spirit_of_CG_Jung
Is the MBTI Test Scientific & Useful?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQiYiXxmjg
https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/carl-jung/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26851600/
https://www.livescience.com/amp/65513-does-myers-briggs-personality-test-work.html
https://jobtalk.indiana.edu/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/00346543063004467
vox.com/platform/amp/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014920639602200103
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific
https://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html
1 hr 14 min
August 09, 2021121: The Uncanny Valley: Science of Creepy Robots
Robots are becoming more and more human-like, but something weird happens when things become too human without quite making it all the way - we start to hate them… This is the uncanny valley, and you’ll find a lot of things in it.

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References & Further Reading
https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2005/RBC05-007.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/507812
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-uncanny-valley-human-look-alikes-put-us-on-edge/
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-possible-source-of-the-uncanny-valley-in-the-brain
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/33/6555
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4557950
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392592/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14184
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25762967/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32526760/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130901-is-the-uncanny-valley-reallist_works&sortby=pubdate
1 hr 1 min
August 02, 2021120: The Science of Past Lives
Some children tell stories about lives they used to live… Are they just playing pretend or is this proof of reincarnation? Maybe science has some answers…

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References & Further Reading

Past Lives, Jim Tucker & UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830708000943
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/resources/advice-to-parents-of-children-who-are-spontaneously-recalling-past-life-memories/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqygg/hard-science-of-reincarnation-past-lives
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259886077/searching-for-science-behind-reincarnation?t=1626790336553
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830721000951
False Memories, Source Errors & Other Explanations
https://www.livescience.com/7272-belief-reincarnation-tied-memory-errors.html
https://www.livescience.com/7737-reality-reincarnation.html
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1363461503040001005
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pms.1996.83.3f.1107
Past Life Regression Therapy
https://www.thehypnotherapypracticeedinburgh.co.uk/why-past-life-regression-is-a-waste-of-money/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797677/
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/james-pandarakalam-a-search-for-the-truth-of-past-life-regression.pdf?sfvrsn=f5442f17_2
tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00029157.1982.10404067?needAccess=true
The Egg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI&vl=en-GB
1 hr 38 min
July 26, 2021119: The Science of Maladaptive Daydreaming
Some people report being unable to stop daydreaming, to the point that it takes over their entire lives. Maladaptive Daydreaming isn’t yet a recognised disorder, but it only gets more strange from there...

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References & Further Reading

Maladaptive Daydreaming in the Media
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_daydream_that_never_stops
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/06/25/people-with-maladaptive-daydreaming-spend-an-average-of-four-hours-a-day-lost-in-their-imagination/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/when-daydreaming-replaces-real-life/391319/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/at-home/daydreaming.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/30/health/maladaptive-daydreaming-feature/index.html
Eli Somer
https://www.youtube.com/user/SomerClinic/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZ7ivOSKjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loE6Cq8lUS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZxHmfpcsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_scn44bTEE
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cIDL8CEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Maladpative Daydreaming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810016300460?via%3Dihub
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395621000844
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28598955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426361/
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/9/4/article-p1056.xml
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1020597026919.pdf
https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/34/2/e100419
https://maladaptivedaydreaming.org/pages/maladaptive-daydreaming-test
Pathologising, Disorders, & The DSM-5
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~heiby/overheads_classification.html
https://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dtg/KILLINGSWORTH%20&%20GILBERT%20(2010).pdf
Psychopathology
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1529100617727266
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683251/
2 hr 21 min
July 19, 2021118: The Science of The Loch Ness Monster
Scientists went hunting for the Loch Ness Monster in 2019, but the search wasn’t all it seemed to be…

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References & Further Reading

Loch Ness Monster & The Myths
https://www.livescience.com/61111-unusual-creature-sightings.html
https://www.britannica.com/place/Loch-Ness-lake-Scotland-United-Kingdom
https://www.lochnessproject.org/
Gimmell & His Survey
https://www.livescience.com/loch-ness-monster-dna-study.html?_gl=1*e5q5rq*_ga*YW1wLVBxOEh1MnFUNHpkcG9VNHEzWmkyZWxoaURiOF9TYkc3ZUZ2QS1uVmNTSjFCZDduOFhRS0dQcXlQWkJsUzB3N1E.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49495145
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/05/loch-ness-monster-could-be-a-giant-eel-say-scientists
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/loch-ness-monster-dna-study-reveals-plausible-explanation-for-sightings/
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago717609.html
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/loch-ness-monster-just-big-eel
https://gemmell-lab.otago.ac.nz/research
https://gemmell-lab.otago.ac.nz/our-team
https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?hl=en&user=XGE4mdAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/loch-ness-monster-scotland-environmental-dna-science
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/eel-dna-loch-ness-07580.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/loch-ness-monster-how-edna-helps-us-discover-what-lurks-beneath/
https://twitter.com/ProfGemmell/status/1169748929887391744

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Sci Guys is a podcast all about the weird and unbelievable ways that scientists learn about the world around us. Each week, Corry (@notcorry) tells the story of a particularly strange scientific study while his cohost Luke (@lukecutforth) does his best to derail the conversation with questions, jokes, and whatever nonsense he can think of.