Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Steven is hosting, PBS co-hosting, “The Big Chair,” Devon’s game show voice, what game shows we watched, Super Market Sweep, Chopped, game show education, Alex Trebek’s age, quadriplegic women flies F-35 with nothing but her thoughts, Flight simulator, thinking of flight, teaching our brains, the first future of War Conference, learning to drive a manual vehicle, video game controls, GTA and Call of Duty controls,  medical uses for brain-computer interfaces, neurogaming, The Force Unleashed with real force, true virtual reality, Oculus Rift, complete immersive entertainment, Devon has a new toy, Alien Queen, points of articulation, new Alien movie from Neill Blomkamp, early concept art, infiltrating the xenomorphs, more concept art, building aliens, new movie changing Alien canon?, Aliens on Earth, Sigourney Weaver’s love of Aliens, younger characters for the Aliens film, CEO fights, Aliens’ natural habitat, Alien reality show, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: the great LEGO purge, office toys, Stephen Hawking's recommendations, colonizing planets, earth sustainability, AI dangers, dangerous aliens, what the earth looks like from other planets, cops and murderers, asteroids, climate change, fixing our errors, the doomsday clock, nuclear war, nuclear war, mutually assured destruction, gamma ray bursts, super nova intensity, too much sunlight, raccoon danger, traveling faster than the speed of light, communication, governments, resources, Traveller RPG, the Firefly 'Verse, different alien races with same government, the Farscape universe, Foundation, Dune, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: One way trip to Mars, Dutch non-profit space mission, mystery plume on Mars, baffled scientists, Asteroid belt, Kyper belt Oort cloud, Devon makes first mistake of his life, Ceres white spot, Dark spots in the moon, Dawn mission, Europa, Life in our solar system, Origin of the Solar System, planets in sci-fi, Elite: Dangerous, simulated galaxy, Single biome planets, Star Wars planets, Star Trek alien cultures, ISIS, diversity of cultures on Earth, Klingon scientists, Military as explorers, Pitch Black solar system, number of plants in universe that could sustain human life without modification, Definition of life, Futurama Quote, worst planetary joke ever.

This episode contains: Girl Scout cookies, the lottery and offices, loot drops, glass half full and marketing spin, 10% fat and 90% lean, fruits and nuts, designing studies, changing grunts for apples, grunts and vocal structures, drunk gorilla punching photographer, fermented bamboo stems, rugby playing apes, gut fermentation syndrome, tree beer, linx coffee beans, books and sci-fi authors, Alistair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, George RR Martin and release dates, Harper Lee's next book, Robert Sawyer "Calculating God", Aliens and evolution on Earth, Alien theology, Rebels and Clone Wars, Cloud Atlas, Jason Gurley "The Dark Age",  apreciating what we have, short stories, Joshua Dalzelle "Warship", Futurama quotes, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: sick Steven and healthy family, movie plot holes, Star Trek (2009), Nero and his crew, deleted jail scene, Back to the Future, recognizing Marty, bad memory, old and young Doc Brown, future heist, Wraith of Chekov and Khan, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jehovah begins with an I, ancient traps, Jurassic Park and the T-Rex enclosure, Nedry not knowing dangerous dinosaurs, sneaky T-Rex, The Lost World and the T-Rex killing everyone aboard the boat, Dark Knight and school buses, Hong Kong air space, the Joker's plan, Khan's ship, Terminator model number, "Cheers" star in Empire, Aliens survival, Newts real name, hidden magazine, time travel date, DeLorean license plate, quotes, dinosaurs species in Jurassic Park, odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field, what killed Hiram Coffey, Futurama Quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: "John Edwards," critical thinking, health secrets, counter-culture and anti-vaxxers, Shock-top and PBR, extra chromosomes, types of vaccinations, inactivated, attenuated, toxoid, subunit, conjugate, experimental, recombinant vector, DNA, t-cell receptor, valence, heterotypic, Andrew Wakefield, fraudulent research paper, MMR vaccines, autism and bowel disease, substitute vaccines, cake metaphor, detecting autism before vaccinations, how the news reports, education and choice, true believers, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t - Vaccinations

This episode contains: Ebola-AIDS, Star Wars trailer prediction comes true, Star Wars comic, kindle app on the pocket computer, paralyzed rats, bridging the gap between severed spines, Dura matter, connecting neurons, timing and atrophy, radiculopathy, brain plasticity, ancient nose replacement, six armed people, Darth Vader Xmas ornament, attaching robotic limbs, analyzing Episode V, prequel hindsight, Robert Sawyer and WWW book series, Borg crap and assimilating species, remembering Robocop, Evil Dead and chainsaws, Futurama quote, what Devon learned

This episode contains: Sick host, LEGO AT-AT and snow speeder, Egyptian museum, dyes, calcium copper silicate, complex firing techniques, traded throughout the world, visible red light reflects infrared, practical medical uses, pigment processes, lapis lazuli and Minecraft, 3D printing and LEGOs, how the pyramids were built, celestial objects, patterns and measurements, arbitrary calculations, pi, self-organization, Stargate, UFOs in ancient artwork, speculation on celestial objects, artistic telephone, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episodes contains: Steven's back!, birth of Emily, baby poo, New Years, looking back at 2014, gravitation waves, universal expansion, practice cloaking technology, focusing light, Rosetta Comet, Lander, programming space probes, Ebola, death rates, health care workers for Ebola, Mr. Burns diseases, Exo planets, goldilocks zone, age of the Sun, looking ahead, Star Wars Legacy, New EU, Star Wars: Rebel Dawn, tidally locked planets, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ant Man, Marvel Shows, Agent Carter, Jupiter Ascending, Westworld, Futurama Quote, what we learned.

This episode contains: Ben lawless, Xmas, evil santa, NORAD, deceiving kids, Harry Potter, wonder as a kid, parenting, memories of Xmas, Quantum mechanics of Santa, Elf on the Shelf, spying on kids, secular guilt, lethargic FTL, cloud cities on Venus, temperatures on Venus, new ways to get to Mars, Hohmann transfer, Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter, Star Trek, fan made shows and films, Star Trek comics in new timeline, TNG/DS9/VOY in new timeline, Federation's last stand at Wolf 359, Q, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Trek: Continues, Attack on Titan, Nemesis, Prelude to Axenar, The 4 Year War, Star Trek: Renegades, why TOS?, iconic pop culture, TNG sweet spot, Mission Logs podcast, Kirk diplomacy, The Prime Directive, Shatner, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Search for Spock, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Romulans as the enemy in Star Trek three, incomplete self-destruction of the Enterprise, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, The Improvised Star Trek, TNG Recut, Futurama quote, Ben's Xmas present, Red Shirts by Jon Scalzi, Timothy Zahn Star Wars trilogy, new Star Wars canon, what Ben learned