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Isolated BS part 3: ancient tattoos, zombie satellites, and running sandals
Prank’d! Kids and aliens and not understanding how pranks work. Losing your arm to a racoon attack, but then turning into a cyborg so maybe it’s okay. Zombie satellites! Joe shared with us this recent development in zombie satellite communications.
Picard Season 1: mortality, great filters, and synthetic life w/ Jolene Creighton
Nostalgia Like all the things with Star Trek in them - feeling nostalgia for good Trek. Prophecy/Not Prophecy Conquering the Three Body Problem and moving on to the… eight body problem? Breaking your brain. Tidal forces and planetary ejection. Game
Isolated BS part two, the mayonnaisening - volcano edition
Not just bread anymore.. But also mayonnaise! Definitively “The Best Sauce.” Coolio’s Ghettalian Garlic Bread. Japanese mayonnaise appreciation. Miscellany Dune set photos!. Sting’s codpiece. Manly housework. NVidia RTX Real-Time Noise-Reduction Dem
The Three Body Problem: mathy math math and first contact game theory w/ Adrian
Books! A larger time investment, generally… but high idea-load! That one time we did a book in the past. And that next one we’ll probably do in the future. Context Chinese science fiction. This book as the first Asian Hugo Award-winner. The difficul
Bloodshot: overdoing nanotech, comics bubbles, and flour bombs
What if Memento, but with nanites? Movies post pandemic Everything is either postponed or straight-to-streaming now. What do we expect the film industry to do after this debacle? Comics! The 1990s comics bubble. Chromium gimmick covers (Bloodshot
Isolated BS: coping with copious amounts of bread
Just a conversation in isolation! Things “Free time” for parents working from home with children. Catching up on movies and video games. Stress. Running marathons with bikes. Remote learning, remote work, and video meetings. Bunnies and allergies in
Another Life: visible rogue planets, visible dark matter, and other smart stuff
First contact Aliens. Alien intelligence. Alien vessel shapes and what it says about the show you are about to watch. Moebius ships? CETI Crystalline FTL space antennae. The realities of lightspeed communication and why The SETI Institute doesn’t do
On Decipher History: 1917 w/ Josh!
The taste of another episode of Decipher History! Featuring Josh
Contagion: epidemiology, snake oil, and curve-flattening
Current events Our world is on the brink of some possibly extreme unpleasantness. Known unknowns threats to civilization. Humanity is bad at planning for statistically-likely-but-not-definite disaster. Bullshit The anti-scientific garbage that start
On Decipher History: Alexander
The taste of another episode of Decipher History! Featuring Ryan Stitt of the History of Ancient Greece Podcast