Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Married, rings and watches, House of Cards, best-man scotch, rain on your wedding day, plan B, photographer, equipment issues on PBS, bus issues, Yelp reviews, negotiations, Aptos bars, crepes chat, groomsman gifts, Star Wars puzzles, married life, honeymoon, SF Giants, awesome seats, child neglect article postponed

We're Back! Back for the 100th time-ish, looking back at the last 100 episodes, Patrick, our interpretations of Ep 7 from leaks and trailers, Harrison Ford being Harrison Ford, reviews for Ep 7, women in Star Wars, EU, most downloaded ep, Scott Manley, Miles Greb, Mike Troup, Earth Collective, Nixon from Futurama, SNOW Lab, Science is Not Scary, Almost Educational, Books and the Blind, rating our own show, Futurama quote, shower thought

This episode

Interview and

Interview: The Earth Collective, Michael Troup,

http://www.tecstory.net/

https://twitter.com/TECstory

And after all that, we apologize and give a nice little shower

Clip Show!

This episode contains: Pocket Mortys, Poke Mon, Rock-Paper-Scissors, rookie mistakes, freemium games, rewards for watching commercials, Black Mirror, Clash of Clans, pay-to-win

Brain Matters: wired for gaming, the brains of gamers, internet gaming disorder, the gaming chair, DSM-5, predisposition?, specific links in the brain, impulse control, addiction, phantom vibration syndrome

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151221194124.htm

Biological Imperative: Zika virus, in Brazil, moving to the US, President Obama directing resources for study, minor symptoms, causes birth defects, microcephaly, recommended travel restrictions, national health alert, revisiting Ebola, Nationally Notifiable Condition

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obama-calls-for-rapid-zika-virus-research/

Star Wars Review: Miles Greb’s Cosplay, our non-spoiler Star Wars: The Force Awakens reviews, Devon: 4 out of 5, Steven: 5 out of 5, re-watch value

World of Tomorrow: by Don Hertzfeld: animated short, Oscar nominated, little girl visiting the future, time travel, Netflix, meteor shower, actual little girl, It’s Such a Beautiful Day movie, animation style, robots on the moon, iota drops in

From Ep 095: Futurama quote, shower thought

This episode contains: Waiting frantically, bachelor party, hand foot and mouth disease

Robot Overlords: Touching robots elicits psychological arousal in humans, robot asked participants to touch different parts of body, measured humans response, more emotion for certain body parts, “arousal,” what about different types of robots, Animatrix, serial killer sweater, deaths in Vegas, moving dead bodies

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160405093057.htm

This Week in Space: laser cloaking device, should we hide ourselves from aliens?, hiding Earth from aliens that can detect us using the transit method, spectrum and power, will aliens be peaceful?, worth the risk

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160331105930.htm

Bugs!: Biomechanics team discover how insects repair their bones, patching from within, evolution

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160405221222.htm

At the Movies with Steven Domingues: Tomorrowland, not as bad as expected, lowered expectations, dreamers, how do you make a movie out of theme park?, what did people expect?, nonsense technology, how to tell a movie will be bad based on the trailer, Jupiter Ascending, story/plot issues, trilogy?, too much going on, looked great, benefits of reading a book, spaceship design, Russian stereotypes avoided, Sense 8, Devon also saw a movie: Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, stop-motion animation, Synecdoche New York, Inception

11/22/63 Finale: SPOILERS, assassination, going back to the future, yellow-card man, our overall review of the show, disappointment, past keeps pushing back, Rick and Morty quote, shower thought

This episode contains: Thin ice, San Jose Sharks, arctic sharks, dinosaurs, ST: VOY, ancient ruins, hockey

Evolutionarily Speaking: new spider fossil, ancestor to spiders, 305,000,000 year-old rock, silk production, Charlotte’s Web, predators, megafauna, origins of spiders, is a scorpion an arachnid?, all life on Earth is connected

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/close-spider-relative-found-305-million-year-old-rocks

Tree of life:

http://www.united-academics.org/earth-environment/feeling-small-the-tree-of-life/

Brain Matters: mind wondering not all equal, zoning out/day dreaming, experiment using number identification, wondering on purpose, questioning the study, brain analysis, multitasking BS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160330085617.htm

Consider Phlebas (by Ian M. Banks): book Devon is reading, looking back at our Dune book club, Scott Manley recommendation, Use of Weapons (accidentley said Weapons of Choice, which is another good book), The Culture, dark tones, continuity, world building, long winded speeches (in Dune), minor spoilers, Firefly, anti-gravity, influencing emotions and card games, predicting not just the car but also the traffic jam

Books Steven is Reading: The Magicians: The Magician King (by Lev Grossman): comparisons to show, wild directions, book format, The Name of the Wind (by Patrick Rothfuss), rereading a fantasy book, magic and some science, “sympathy,” connections, specific magic rules, coming of age story

11/22/63: Episode 6, crazy husband, becoming friends with Oswald, second shooter, being committed, too much betting, the man with the yellow card, stopping more assignations, president McKinley assignation, The Dark Tower, Game of Drones, Futurama quote, shower thought

This episode contains: Internet naming things, boat names, hand, foot and mouth disease, Web MD, chemical burn

Nature Watch: Fungus that threatens chocolate forgoes sexual reproduction, frosty pod rot, several mating types, over 20,000 combinations, cloning when isolated from mating pair, cloning anyway

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322120406.htm

Brain Matters: What makes us conscious?, humans, animals, computers, Integrated Information Theory, differentiated information, integration, phi, range of consciousness, dreaming, difference between cerebellum and cerebrum, x factor, any brain equals consciousness?, WWW books by Robert Sawyer

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-makes-us-conscious

Batman v. Superman: Bad reviews, “A crime against comic book fans,” collateral damage and The Force Awakens, magical death lasers, what it would take for Devon to see BvS,

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_v_superman_dawn_of_justice/

No Man’s Sky: Randomly generated planets, MMORPG?, SETI simulator, virtual probes used to explore game, AI generator, might not ever see another player, spokes in the galaxy, naming things you find in the game, exploration simulator

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/

6 Insane Things About Space Travel that Movies Got Right: Cracked article!, The Martian: blood sealing spacesuit, Gravity: water landing, Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, James Bond: mirror satellite, 2010: restart old ship, Space Cowboys: tangling by a tether, biggest error in Gravity, Armageddon: hitting things to fix them, more about Packing for Mars, Futurama quote, shower thought

http://www.cracked.com/article_23642_6-crazy-sci-fi-scenes-that-mirrored-actual-events.html

This episode contains: Marriage license, state issued pamphlet, mandatory blood tests, role of government, bonus episode

Break a Leg: first prosthesis with connection to bone and muscle, titanium v. other materials, sockets, removable parts, The Borg, control of prosthesis, cricket

 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314141412.htm

Get Mental: smart phones reactions to mental health questions, conversational agents, asking Siri dumb questions, responses to different statements (such as “I was raped,” “I want to commit suicide,” or “I am depressed”), responding to physical complaints, what is the obligation of the company?, interpretation of phrasing, extent of response, liability

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314135925.htm

Follow-up: Alpha Go/Deep Mind, AI won 4 to 1, the game GO, more possibilities than Chess, brute force

11/22/63: episode 4, recap, crazy ex-husband, clothing pin, sexual kink, more on Oswald, Cracked article teaser, definition of click bait, Futurama quote, shower thought

This episode contains: Special guest host: Scott Manley!

https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg

Intro: Science fiction music, Flash Gordon, accents, academics, astronomy, internet radio, Asteroid Day (June 30th), saving the world

Kerbal Space Program: space program simulation, video tutorials, video games and science, getting to space and orbiting Kerbin, new versions and mods, planet scale: 1/10th, Manley’s Mountain, development of the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d74m3qThOoU&list=PLYu7z3I8tdEkUeJRCh083UT-Lq5ZIKI75

Ninth Planet: Gravitational pull, narrowing potential position of planet, large planet (ten Earth masses), Kuiper Belt Objects, gravitational pull of other stars, taking Neptune out of the calculation, “Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt,” Kenneth Edgeworth, the implications of finding planet nine, Oort Cloud, solar system formation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLvynZjMWM

Solar Eclipse: HD images of eclipse from Japanese satellite, seeing an eclipse from an airplane, “A Dragon is Eating the Sun!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCsfTlpk9ak

Misc.: Things Scott is not: meteorologist (although that’s not totally true) and musician, performing on stage, early computers and video games, Elite: Dangerous, importance of sound in games, smuggling spice across the galaxy, being a minor character is real life, civilizations resorting to the Matrix, The Expanse, Iain (M.) Banks, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Matter, Hydrogen Sonata, The Culture, Dune, A Fire Upon the Deep, technology limitations at different parts of the galaxy, Stephen Baxter, Raft, Flood and Ark, computational physics, floating point numbers, Futurama Quote, shower thought, private space industry, Space X

This episode contains: Commodore Craft and Demigod Domingues, Republican Presidential Primary, Star Wars analogies, Mitt Romney, Trump (the fun’s over), small hands…, Clinton v. Trump, presidential candidates and space, written questions

This Week in Space: breaking the cosmic distance record, furthest galaxy, 13.4 billion years old, red-shifting, what if extra-terrestrial observers called but nobody heard?, transit method of detecting planets, focusing on where they can see us, repeating signals from space, FRB (Fast Radio Bursts), bursts from other galaxies, The WOW Signal, possibly from comets

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-team-breaks-cosmic-distance-record

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160301074243.htm

http://www.popsci.com/strange-signals-from-space-repeat-for-first-time?src=SOC&dom=fb

Ugk, Math: how math geeks almost found Banksy, geographic profiling, testing on Banksy, “minor terrorism related acts,” Exit Through the Gift Shop, meta prank, legal issues

http://gizmodo.com/how-math-geeks-almost-doxxed-banksy-1762604210

Sci-Fi: Rick and Morty season 3 sooner than expected, more episodes, South Park, World of Tomorrow, We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/rick-and-morty-season-3-release-date-earlier-expected-plus-bonus-episodes-516455

Ghostbusters: trailer dropped, same director as Brides Maids, building proton packs as kids, last time we saw originals, taped from TV, Ghostbusters development hell and Dan Aykroyd, alien-ghost tangent, nature of ghosts (trapped or free to go wherever?), 3 or 4 scientist?, the only African American women is not a scientists, breaking gender stereotypes but not racial stereotypes, Ghosttica, giant white ghost (not Stay Puft), is this in the same Ghostbusters universe?, cameos?, video game: true sequel to the originals, possession, Slimer, hard PG, childish jokes, gender choice, why is this the movie to make a statement with? SNL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ugHP-yZXw

11/22/63 ep 3: quick recap, totally different story structure, lots of time passes, settling in to the past, portrayal of Oswald, accent, Quantum Leap, leaping into parts of Oswald’s life, Jack Ruby, X-Men, counting gun shots, Futurama Quote, shower thought

This episode contains: Flying down mountains, snowboarding, steep learning curve, cost of entry, ski bus, maintenance of equipment, Straight Outta Compton, NWA, dropping knowledge

Biological Imperative: alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects multiple generations, rats, drinking during pregnancy, wine, drunk on their back, back in their forepaws, alcohol sensitivity and alcohol preference, drinking and driving, alcohol tolerance = becoming an alcoholic?, alcohol and pregnancy guidelines, Bulleit Bourbon, binge drinking

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160223132543.htm

Sociological Kickassery: muscular men perceived as better leaders, only seeing chest and face, rated in multiple areas, no difference between men and women, tribal sense, controlled for faces, tested tallness, TV examples, tall people and salary, we get trolled, evolutionary explanation, snap judgments

http://www.metronews.ca/life/health/2016/02/25/muscular-men-perceived-to-be-better-leaders-study.html

Existential Crisis: odd thoughts, tracking devises, high tech world, two types of people in the world: people making the advancements and those just living in the world, contributions to society, what's money?, school loans, music and Devon's emotions, scotch whisky, Glass Cast

World of Tomorrow: by Don Hertzfeld: animated short, Oscar nominated, little girl visiting the future, time travel, Netflix, meteor shower, actual little girl, It's Such a Beautiful Day movie, animation style, robots on the moon, iota drops in

11/22/63 ep 2: weekly review, deviation from main plot, Stephen King style, time to kill, more characters, clever exposition, Time pushes back, multiple trips to the past?, alternate history, Almost Educational Podcast, more space exploration?, Cold War, kinetic torpedoes, Chrononauts, time line changing game, saving John Lenin, butterfly effect, The Gore Years, Timeline card game, Futurama quote, shower thought