StarQuest Podcasts

Not all roads led to Rome. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle look at new research built on Itiner-e, the biggest map of Roman roads ever made, and the three myths it busts. Plus listeners share their citizen-science stories.

Two warriors who can't stand each other, a station billed as unhackable, and the day the Wraith almost walked onto Earth. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker and Lisa Jones take on Stargate Atlantis S4E17, "Midway."

Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler's parents, Revelation's scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.

Would you let an AI agent buy a jacket just because you looked at it? Meta's Muse wants to. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Fr. Andrew Kinstetter size up Meta's new VR and AI glasses and ask whether Meta deserves that trust.

The silos weren't built after the world ended — they were built by a trillionaire who decided it would. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray unpack Silo S3E8's gray goo reveal and the one thing its founders refused to save.

A cannonball ended his career at 30. Stuck in bed with a ruined leg, Iñigo López de Loyola noticed which daydreams left him empty and which left him happy. Dom Bettinelli traces how that one habit of attention built the Jesuits.

Juro is gone and Nawaam is unmasked. In Season 1, Episode 4 of The Ninth Jedi, Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey ask whether a man who uses the dark side for others can still be called a Jedi.

Two Uhuras, a year apart, and a Scotty who died in one timeline: the Strange New Worlds Season 4 finale (Episode 10) plays like a pilot for Kirk's Year One. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh its heart against its physics.

Not all roads led to Rome, and salt water doesn't turn fresh. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle read Ezekiel's impossible river for the Season of Creation, then take apart what everyone thinks they know about Roman roads.

Three people, one collapsing Genii mine, no way up. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker and Victor Lams dig into Stargate Atlantis S4E16 "Trio" — the tilting cube set, eight stunt gags, and a McKay who panics hardest right before he saves everyone.