This episode contains: Special guest Ben Dorst fromt he Pure BS podcast, The World Series, superstitions, riots, bucket lists, baseball field sizes, pitchers arms and resting, joint speed, the Most Dangerous Game, Surviving the Game, the Hunger Games, gambling and sports, the Running Man, gameshow host, 3 triad and pyramid, Rollerball, Quidditch, 3 teams, Z-ball, Ender's Game, Pacific Rim, Space Jam, Futurama quote, what we all learned.

This episode contains: Special Guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the sports that we played, the reasons that we have sports, how sports may have evolved, the Mesoamerican ballgame Ollamaliztli or 'pitz', sacrifice and competition, the physics of sports balls, throwing a baseball with the magnus effect, concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the repercussions of not having long term health care, changing rules and penalties, players trying to cheat the system, Futurama quote, what Ben Dorst learned.

This episode contains: Plague Inc, where and when Ebola started, Outbreak and the Hot Zone, the latest news from Texas, five strains of Ebola, quarantine procedures, exponential infection rates, fruit bats as possible transmission, climate change, Captain Trips, Legacy Virus, Motaba, Rage, rebooted zombies, Bone-itis, Irumodic Syndrome and anti-time, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: how electricity works, potential to kinetic energy, solar panels to power the world, solar bale house, Germany and renewable energy, bird exploding solar farms, new solar battery technology, free energy, dilithium crystals, matter and anti-matter, saving the whales, hypermatter, tachyonic particals, more Death Star talk, Eureka and soft sci-fi, generating 1.21 gigawatts, 88 mph, Mr. Fusion, Arc reactors and Tony Starks bright ideas, Futurama quotes, what Steven learned.

German Energy Records

This episode contains: NASA contracts to Boeing and Space X, Cosmonaut Lance Bass, Orion module, non-caloric artificial sweeteners, aspartame, sucrose, saccharine, glucose intolerance, explaining the study, alcohol and ethanol, extremes, dig up stupid, rats and mice, gut microbiota, critical thinking with chain emails, sugar in soda cans, Star Destroyers, Star Trek ships, Wall-E ships, Warhammer, Romulan mining vessel, designing and redesigning ships, galactic commerce, petitioning congress for a Death Star, how generational ships could work, Stephen Baxter and Ring, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

All the Sci-Fi ships!

This episode contains: Special Guest Steve Maguire, chemist and nearly a doctor, molecular stuff, understanding chemistry for physicists, SNOLAB, nickel mine, neutrino explanation, scintillator medium and tellurium, neutrino reactions and detections, attempting to observe double beta decay, Nanocar, Bucky ball wheels, allotrope of carbon, chromophore crank, possible uses, Ant-man powers, additional experiments, movies and science, CSI realism, magical analysis, yeast pee and farts, Stargate and semi-correct star/iron science, unpaid extra, Stargate Atlantis and Farscape, how science can be accurately represented on TV, the Simpsons version of Twin Peaks, using Simpsons to teach catalysis, the Flame challenge, Futurama impression of David X. Cohen, Futurama quote.

Science Isn't Scary

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The Flame Challenge: What is Time?

This episode contains: The Postman movie recap, Death Valley moving rocks, frozen ground, pushing wind, Europa and frozen tectonic plates, water vapor geysers, the Himalayan mountains, more findings at Stonehenge, Super Henge, sucking out the mystical, pyramids, building in phases, mysteries of science, before the Big Bang, how we experience time, life simulation, other dimensions and realities, infinities, The Long Earth, Steven's time travel story, manifold space and time by Stephen Baxter, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Super special guest Benjamin Lawless, aerospace engineering, contingency plan for the Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Atlantis launch prep, recapping Columbia disaster, the CO2 problem, the people problem, Enterprise and Gravity, the inclination problem, docking, crowd funding a space program, Star Trek talk, fantasy and fiction debate, why we love Trek, favorite Trek episodes, Futurama quotes, what Ben learned.

ars technica: Rescue Plan

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Shout out to: @TNG_S8

This episode contains: Self driving car update, California DMV rules, lawyers being lawyers, culture changing more quickly, grey matter and white matter in the brain, physical processes, right and left brain, remembering alien abductions with hypnosis, "Alien Abduction" on Netflix and a semi-review, Fire in the Sky, old special effects, Unsolved Mysteries stories, time traveling human aliens, temporal prime directive, alien butt handshakes, Europa might need Freedom, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

Alien Abduction Trailer

Unsolved Mysteries

This episode contains: Special Guest Patrick Spain, awkwardness, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, explaining names, Google cars, facial recognition, saving lives, repairing vehicles, driverless future, the difference between science fiction and fantasy, chat about The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence, the Stormlight Archive chat, Tolkien stereotypes, the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, believable magic and lazy writing, Futurama quote, what Patrick learned.

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Mark Lawrence (Broken Empire Trilogy)

Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archives)

Peter F. Hamilton (Night's Dawn Trilogy)