Science Faction Podcast

This episode cotnains: Steven built Legos, Toy R Us has a shit ton of Legos, expensive Legos, Wall-E, too much Star Wars, boxes of Legos, problems with Legos, Millennium Falcon, giant Legos, scale, Rebels, vaccinate your kids, rotavirus vaccine, Steven respond to Facebook, Steven gets a call, Skittles, we’re all gonna die

Social Uprising: Getting likes on Facebook, sense of purpose, Devon can’t find what he is looking for, Facebook theories, organized religion, faces of the Ivy’s, the psychology of social media, father’s and daughter’s talking, mountains of data

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/09/likes-less-likely-affect-self-esteem-people-purpose

Skeletons in the closet: Antikythera mechanism, teaching device, shipwreck skeleton, bone jokes, war dolphins

http://gizmodo.com/ancient-skeleton-uncovered-at-the-antikythera-shipwreck-1786843106

More Science: African migration, indigenous DNA, Steven reads an article, sequencing genomes, Mr. DNA, where did we evolve?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/science/ancient-dna-human-history.html?_r=0

Jurassic Rising: Steven spells, scaryassasorus, still talking about Jurassic Park, Steven is bothered, they will never make a movie as good as Jurassic Park, the dangers of GMO’s, park remnants, back to Red Rising, spoilers for Red Rising, Red Rising is like every other YA novel, themes can be reused, the next trilogy, toppling governments, GOT books.

This episode contains: Devon is still trying to record music, recording music can be difficult, Steven is going to help Devon, multiple monitors, Devon is happy to have a job, two monitors makes life more efficient, Steven told an employer to use two monitors, Steven times everything, Nice Guys, Shane Black loves Christmas

Nature Watch: Pigeons have politics, where are all the pigeon babies? Fast pigeons are good learners, position is everything, flocks of pigeons, clock shifting, XKCD, migrating geese, More XKCD

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-pigeon-politics-20130722-story.html

Put a link to XKCD HERE.

Eww Gross: The five second rule is wrong, Mythbusters, transfer rates of bacteria, the 5 second rule is crap, double dipping, long websites, salsa is chock full of bacteria

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160909112406.htm

BTTF/JP: Back to the Future is starting to age, HD does not do Back to the Future any favors, watching Back to the Future with people who have never seen it before, orgasm talking, how the 80’s saw the 50’s, the 50’s weren’t that great, Back to the Future names are hard to remember, rapey movies, Steven thinks a lot about Back to the Future, Back to the Future cast, Devon is uninterested, great video game endings, Devon and Jen watched Lost World, hippy vibes, Steven and Devon disagree on Lost World, Devon still gets chills when watching Jurassic Park, Devon hates Lost World, Devon is jaded, Leviathan Wakes, no more Futurama quotes, quotes from people the boys do not know, a very awkward ending, Steven is excited about Rebels, Devon is excited about South Park.

This episode contains: Long days, word fighting, Dark Tower, “long days and pleasant nights”, secret words, interesting sayings, Brooklyn, super Irish names, Terminator Genesis, stupid viewers, Steven digs time travel, listing the Terminator movies, shape shifting, the machines of Terminator, Steven reads Wiki, happy birthday Star Trek

Human Blood Lasers: Components of a laser, glowing sea creature proteins, replacement minerals, living lasers, amplifying light, nano particles, body lasers, How Stuff Works, lasers are complex, bright lights, Steven has jokes, lasers vs. MRI’s, laser classes

http://mentalfloss.com/article/85654/scientists-make-lasers-out-human-blood

Nature Watch: Giraffes, snake swallows a pig, Devon hates words, a visitor, giraffes are not all the same, inter-species breeding, grolar bears, millennials suck, we’ve only scratched the surface of giraffes, giraffes are going away, Pokemon jokes

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-four-giraffe-species-not-just-one-180960411/?no-ist

Old and New: Jurassic Park, tangent on tangents, Jen reviews Jurassic Park, the book is close to the movie, Steven depends on the logic of the book, Crichton loves explosions, Jen gives Jurassic Park 4/5, Steven approves, Star Wars Rebels, Rebels is expensive, trade paperback “Vader”, Vader has a son... #spoilers, Bobba Fett fights Luke, Star Wars plot holes, Star Trek is old, Star Trek is inspirational, Devon went to a museum, is Star Trek the future? Where are all the other Star Treks? Avatar did not break new ground, next step in sci-fi

This episode contains: Skype problems, Devon is quiet, the guys are not in the same room, Steven doesn’t know geography, the coastline paradox, how map makers get their +/-, squiggles, measuring the coastline is confusing, now Steven agrees, Devon faces is mortal enemy, Anal Cavity, petty lawyers, sleazy lawyers, Devon wins at gambling

Nature Watch: People are enhancing the planet? Trees grow better where people are, “first nations people”, shell fish help trees grow, click bait articles, 100% usage of the fish, idiots, defining health, learning about meters

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160830113739.htm

This Week in Space: We found aliens! CNN, radio signals from space, civilization stages, Kardashev scale, strong signals, earth aliens, science people, analyzing a signal takes a long time, we have not been looking for aliens for very long, the wow signal

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/europe/seti-signal-hd-164595-not-alien-civilization/

Kardashev Scale: Mass Effect, talking clean is not interesting, harnessing the power of the sun, earthquake car batteries, space Nazis, Q is a type 5 civilization, no wait they are a type 4, no type 5… the singularity, downgrading Q, the meaning of life, we can’t understand this stuff.

This episode contains: Devon is sick, taking Airborne, there is a kid in the background, sleep is good, medicine doesn’t work, doing nothing is good, killing time, Hell or Highwater, banks are crappy, modern westerns, The Nice Guys, Steven likes his blu-rays, renting vs. buying

This week in space: Unpacking the story, new planet, Proxima Centari is dim, Goldilocks zone, MPH is detectable by math and science, no indications of life, nano probes, close enough to visit but still really far away, space is really big, Pale Red Dot Data, Devon’s fault, Steve Baxter predicted the future

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/

Well I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle: Great apes, a dead gorilla is polling for president, cooperation over competition, enforcement strategies, chimp police, chimp morality, cooperation is natural, humans prefer competition, mouthful university, definition of competition

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822155920.htm

Books and Movies: Devon and Jen listen to audio books together, Jen has never read Jurassic Park and Steven is flabergasted, pirate book, Michael Crichton books, West World, Red Rising, let’s get nerdy with it, new Star Wars EU, the Star Wars comics are good, Rogue One theories, corrections from Twitter, gobbledegook is not racist but barbarian is, bonus annotated podcast.

This episode contains: pressing buttons, jokes with no payoff, Devon tends toward sweet things, Devon is watching HarmonQuest, Rick and Morty, Sci-Fi, RPG’s, excited texts

Bird Brains: Races for Cheetos, science people, Mag Pies vs. Crows, crows are magpies body guards, beaker Cheetos, crows are cautious, bad jokes, Steven reads his article, metal words, Steven can’t hear Devon, registering products, Line 6 is making a mistake, Bonus show plug

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811101146.htm

Where was that now? Cognitive off loading, pronouncing Illinois, Steven can’t make a joke, we are giving up on learning, the internet is easy, people are lazy, Devon bumps his mic, more metal band rants, Google is making us dumb, Steven thinks people are inherently lazy, Google ticks

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/cognitive-offloading-how-the-internet-is-changing-the-human-brain

Red Rising: Steven did not like Red Rising in the beginning, written by “Somebody Pierce”, massive spoilers for Red Rising, Spoilers for Star Trek Beyond, Futurama quote, shower thought.

Buy Red Rising Here!

This episode contains: Definitions for Steven, lots of nothing, Witcher 3, No Mans Sky, 18 quintillion planets, survival exploration, gobbledygook is racist, mixing colors

We are all gonna die: We are using all of our resources too fast, ecological debt day, Steven reads his article, Steven does not have excel, too many people, Dazed and Confused, transmuting matter, we’re screwed

http://gizmodo.com/we-ve-devoured-a-year-s-worth-of-natural-resources-in-j-1784968887

Bullsh*t Pseudoscience: Steven hates the country, green pools, cupping, making fun of friends, octopus attacks, ancient Chinese medicine, placebo effect, uncited sources, “my own personal what do you call them”, cupping pictures, bad cupping

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/what-are-the-purple-dots-on-michael-phelps-cupping-has-an-olympic-moment/?_r=0

Movies and Theatre: Lobster review, Devon likes weird movies, 2 out of 5 stars, In Bruges, yelling at midgets, Harry Potter characters, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child spoilers, talking to Periscope

This episode contains: Devon has a lot of passports, passports are alien to Steven, hole punching old people

This week in space: Io’s collapse, volcanic activity in space, how do you determine the most volcanic object in space? Io’s is cold, Devon has trouble talking, colonizing planets may be dangerous, tidally locked planets, super clusters, expansion of the universe is hurting space exploration

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160802133701.htm

Data: Steven has jokes, creepy robots, wiggly robot, neural networks, no programming, wiki searches, machine learning, what do we use neural networks for? Reverse Google image search, neural networks are really cool, Steven first heard about neural nets from Star Trek, baby robots, learning by moving, babies are unsettling, robots will one day kill us all

http://qz.com/747467/this-exceedingly-creepy-robot-moves-on-its-own-and-will-haunt-your-dreams/

Sci-Fi: Devon saw the new Star Trek movie, 3/5 stars, average Star Trek movies, simple plots, we are not set up to broadcast on Periscope, some cool things in Star Trek, no more character introductions, character dynamics, Star Trek has to be bad guy vs. good guy, old movie theaters, bad movie screens, gimmicks in movies, immersion vs. distraction, watching Star Trek is like looking at a kaleidoscope, watching a movie in IMAX, more pixels, panorama vision, Enterprise A, destruction of the Enterprise, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, the Mars thing, Devon reads at an incredible rate, Steven is learning a programming language, learning programming from YouTube, Twitter Bots, Markov chains

This episode contains: Old school intro, Devon gets drunk, Russian River, Steven has bad jokes, day drinking, rope swings, knots to the crotch, busted eardrums, lost Giants hat, mystery bruises, rope swing disasters, Steven was in the Bay Area, fact checking the museum, trolling SFP, Stranger Things

Cryo-Medicine: ALS Ice bucket challenge, Steven didn’t donate money, Hawking has ALS, 220 million raised, NEK1, jean jokes, what could we do with unlimited funds? Quantum computing, killy us first, global warming or cancer 

http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/significant-gene-discovery-072516.html

You're expired!: Wasting food, 140 trillion calories wasted, misconceptions, expirations dates are not scientific, wholesome and fit according to the FDC, food poisoning not based on expiration dates, dad in the grocery game, “real expiration dates”, baby formula, suggestions, x amount of water, don’t drink if you’re not thirsty, Keto diet, cramps, water with your beer, us your senses

http://gizmodo.com/the-incredibly-wrong-reason-americans-waste-so-much-foo-1784042306

Star Trek Discovery: More on Steven’s diet, Reddit, Star Trek news, Devon may be out on Star Trek, #Discovery, new ship, big Trekkies, triangular bodies, angry Devon, the ship looks dumb, aesthetics are imported, old sci-fi sketches, weird red lights, the Prime universe, only so many variations, Star Wars show, Stranger Things, Steven says 5/5, Devon on Ghostbusters, Cheech? Ghostbusters was fun.

This episode contains: Nice Guys, 5 out of 5, Ryan Gosling,

Monkey Tools: different stones used for cashew processing, “hammer
stones,” technological development, PBS video series, monkey’s hunting
footage

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711150920.htm

Symphony of Destruction: Why we like the music we do, cultural influence,
western music theory, dissonance, consonance,  testing different
populations, finger nails on a chalkboard, evolution

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713143021.htm

Sci-Fi: Pokémon Go, Predictions About the Future that Should Scare the
Hell Out of You

http://gizmodo.com/10-predictions-about-the-future-that-should-scare-the-h-1783538821

create your own pandemic, minds to computers, authoritarianism,
privacy, robot manipulating us, climate change, end of antibiotics,
robots killing humans, losing satellites, no contact with aliens,
Futurama quote, shower thought