Science Faction Podcast

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

SNOLAB website

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

benjaminlawless.com

penciledin.com

if&when

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.

Donate to the ALS Association

Mark Lawrence (Broken Empire Trilogy)

Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archives)

Peter F. Hamilton (Night's Dawn Trilogy)

This episode contains: Google maps, suggestive butts and click bait, terrible dad jokes, what is a Black Hole?, the event horizon, how Black Holes form, XKCD and mols, why we can't see Black Holes, super massive black holes in the early universe, accretion disc radiation, extra galactic jets, Big Bang Theory and the singularity, Moore's Law, entropy, AI speculation, brain copy speculation, conquering the universe, copies and death, cryogenics, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

A Mole of Moles

Human Bug Reports on Reddit

This episode contains: Snowpiercer mini-review, junk DNA, 8.2% of human DNA may be functional, ENCODE, genes expressing, sentence analogy, what percent do we actually use?, Star Wars, droids and Clone-troopers, Eureka!, Exosquad, evolution of Wolverine, Galaxy Quest and authority, genetically engineering ourselves and our children, DNA replication, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: What would happen after a short nuclear war, climate changes, rainfall shortages, frost free crop times, ozone layer depletion, UV gene damage, starvation, orders of magnitude, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Fallout video game retro-futurism, Mad Max depletion of resources, peak oil, drinking milkshakes, Sunshine, asteroids and Armageddon, Rosetta mission, why are post-apocalyptic stories intriguing?, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

Nuclear Detonation Timeline

The Spinning Duck