Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Terminator 2"!

Topics include: Killer Robots, Why We Cry, Turing Tests, How Pain Works, and a wrap-up of what we’ve learned on this crazy journey!

Links:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19754_5-computer-hacks-from-movies-you-wont-believe-are-possible.html

http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/07181/798367-85.stm

https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-do-we-cry-the-science-of-tears-9741287.html

http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Moirai.html

https://www.fastcompany.com/3069048/where-are-military-robots-headed

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/lethal-microdrones-dystopian-futures-and-the-autonomous-weapons-debate

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/269030-did-google-duplexs-ai-demonstration-just-pass-the-turing-test

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/chinese-room-argument-artificial-intelligence/

It's the second to last episode guys!

Topics include: Space Disasters and Near Misses, Gravity Itself, Sound in Space, and Space Junk!

Links:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/most-dangerous-moments-space-shuttle-station-history/

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/

https://www.britannica.com/list/7-accidents-and-disasters-in-spaceflight-history

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/

https://listverse.com/2014/03/17/10-horrific-disasters-of-the-space-program/

https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/

https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/

https://www.newsweek.com/space-empty-space-aliens-sound-waves-listening-525073

https://www.webmd.com/lung/lung-hyperventilation-what-to-do#1

https://www.livescience.com/14012-6-weird-facts-gravity.html

Topics include: Living in a Simulation, Deja Vu, Nihilism, Humans as Batteries, and The One Phone Call Rule!

Links:

https://www.darpa.mil/program/targeted-neuroplasticity-training

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201001/what-is-d-j-vu

https://www.bustle.com/p/9-things-your-brain-is-trying-to-tell-you-when-you-experience-deja-vu-8334677

https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_nihilism.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-and-last-pay-phone-180952727/

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/news/companies/pay-phones/index.html

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/humans-batteries-matrix.html

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable

https://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/criminally-yours-your-one-phone-call/

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/really-entitled-phonecall-arrested/

Topics include: Reincarnation, Birthmarks, Nuclear Power, Cannibalism, and Microchipping Yourself!

Links:

https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm

https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/definitions-of-clouds.html

https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/bumps-and-growths/birthmarks

https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/problems/beauty/birthmark.htm

https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Psychic_Birthmarks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/06/for-ancient-cannibals-fellow-hominins-werent-a-great-meal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.04a6bec566b7

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/microchips-wisconsin-company-employees.html

Topics include: Face/Head transplants, Interpol, body morphing, and Greek mythology!

Links:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65363/15-peachy-facts-about-faceoff

https://www.thrillist.com/vice/i-talked-to-the-nation-s-top-plastic-surgeons-about-face-off-is-face-off-possible

https://www.gq.com/story/richard-norris

https://people.howstuffworks.com/interpol.htm

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/07/01/what_do_interpol_agents_really_do.html

https://mythology.net/greek/mortals/castor-and-pollux/

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ca-Cr/Castor-and-Pollux.html

http://www.thejournal.ie/two-headed-dogs-794157-Feb2013/

https://www.popsci.com/first-head-transplant-human-surgery

http://blog.heightlengthening.com/what-to-expect-when-you-have-surgery-to-get-taller

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/a-painful-way-to-grow-taller/

http://www.cracked.com/article_19095_the-5-most-shockingly-insane-modern-dictators.html

Topics include: The Insanity Defense, Meyers-Briggs, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Identity Politics, and Sea Monkeys!

Links:

https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/qa227.htm?noredirect=on

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/insanity-defense.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/twilight-mom-and-pop-motel-180963895/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/identity-question/content-section-1.1

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/24/the-evolutionary-roots-of-identity-politics/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201603/are-scores-the-mbti-totally-meaningless

http://www.businessinsider.com/myers-briggs-personality-test-is-misleading-2014-6

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56755/16-amazing-facts-about-sea-monkeys

Topics include: Crazy Game Shows, the East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, the End of the Gladiator fights, a Real Life Lord of the Flies, and Corporal Punishment!

Links:

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Telemachus

https://churchpop.com/2015/01/01/gladiator-rome-saint/

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators

http://www.cracked.com/article_20167_6-insane-game-shows-you-wont-believe-were-allowed-tv.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15804_the-6-most-insane-game-shows-from-around-world.html

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-real-hunger-games-battle-royale

https://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/

https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-mitsubishi-bombing/

https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-bomber-masashi-daidoji-dies-in-prison-aged-68/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/09/19/349668828/a-decision-about-your-children-thats-also-about-your-parents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/18/19-states-still-allow-corporal-punishment-in-school/?utm_term=.520bb91acaad

https://aptparenting.com/history-of-corporal-punishment

Topics include: Possible Types of Alien Life, Growing Organs Within Animals, Laser Spectroscopy, and Anthropomorphism!

Links:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-will-extraterrestrial-life-look-180950029/

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5784971/how-to-create-a-scientifically-plausible-alien-life-form

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/scientists-determine-atmosphere-planets.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-analysis3.htm

https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576

http://theconversation.com/what-species-would-become-dominant-on-earth-if-humans-died-out-53340

https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2018/02/21/howard-duck-film-marvel-too-embarrassed-talk-about

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-successful-human-animal-hybrid-sheep-embryo.html

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/anthropomorphic-animal-names-for-humans/duck

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anthropomorphism

https://psychcentral.com/news/2010/03/01/why-do-we-anthropomorphize/11766.html

https://www.tyrantfarms.com/7-amazing-duck-facts/

https://www.livescience.com/43105-synchronicity-definition-meaning.html

Topics include: Animal Rights Activism That Backfired, The First Penitentiary, Sterilization Methods, and Old Timey Bank Heists!

Links:

https://bitesizebio.com/853/5-laboratory-sterilisation-methods/

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5068

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/04/07/deer-cull-animal-rights/

http://www.cracked.com/article_20556_5-animal-rights-campaigns-that-managed-to-screw-over-animals.html

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5-times-that-people-claimed-to-be-real-life-time-travel-1822885932

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eastern-state-penitentiary

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59726/17-spooky-photos-philadelphias-eastern-state-penitentiary

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/day-bank-robber-willie-sutton-arrested-1952-article-1.2536491

https://science.howstuffworks.com/10-insane-disguises5.htm

https://www.improbable.com/2013/12/29/sam-lloyds-get-off-the-earth-puzzle/

http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/games/getofftheearth.htm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sam-Loyd

Topics include: The History of Candles, Madam Tussauds, Using Recycled Construction Materials, and Taping Your Mouth at Night!

Links:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-we-are-afraid-of-creepy-dolls-and-robots-uncanny-valley-effect-a6728161.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525447206/a-worm-may-hold-the-key-to-biodegrading-plastic

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/plastic-eating-bugs-wax-moth-caterpillars-bee

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-actually-die-if-you-have-blocked-nose-and-you-forcefully-closed-your-mouth-with-a-tape

https://www.ondietandhealth.com/why-tape-my-mouth-at-night/

http://www.build.com.au/27-amazing-homes-built-11-unusual-materials

https://io9.gizmodo.com/these-ingenious-buildings-were-all-built-using-recycled-1688172285

https://www.livestrong.com/article/156363-how-does-nair-hair-removal-work/

http://candles.org/history/

Topics include: Virtual Reality in our Minds, Schrodinger’s Cat, Waking Up With Fake Memories, and the Radioactive Boy Scout!

Links:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-reality-do-we-live-our-brains-simulation-world-david-hawkins

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25459-induced-hallucination-turns-doctors-into-pizza-chefs/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/12/guest-post-jim-kakalios-on-the-quantum-mechanics-of-source-code/#.WvGw49Pwa8V

https://justsolitaire.com/history.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/procrastination/2008/05/solitairey_confinement.html

Topics include: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Homeostasis, Music Torture and the Biosphere 2!

Links:

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-biosphere-2.html

https://mic.com/articles/87851/11-popular-songs-the-cia-used-to-torture-prisoners-in-the-war-on-terror#.xIkMpSFQ4

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809

https://www.theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/

http://homeaquaponicssystem.com/greenhouses/what-is-a-biodome/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-homeostasis/

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/chem-lab-the-do/

Topics include: The Standardization of Time, Time’s Arrow, Nukes on the Moon, and H.G. Wells Himself!

Links:

http://www.nextgentoothbrush.com/infographics/brief-history-of-electric-toothbrush-detailed-analysis-with-infographic/

https://www.greenmeadowdental.com/blog/electric-toothbrush-facts/

http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/tomorrow.htm

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/04/03/599122774/time-travel-with-your-fridge

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609788/physicists-demonstrate-how-to-reverse-of-the-arrow-of-time/

https://nypost.com/2017/05/01/usa-and-ussr-planned-to-nuke-the-moon-out-of-existence/

http://www.iflscience.com/space/the-us-had-an-insane-plan-to-drop-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon-in-the-1950s/

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-standardization-time-changed-american-society-180961503/

Topics include: The History of Masks, Baby Tazmanian Devils, Norse Mythology, Turning Landfills into Parks, and Freud’s Id Ego and Superego!

Links:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a25414/tommy-gun-thompson-submachine/

https://www.thrillist.com/gear/things-you-didn-t-know-about-the-thompson-submachine-gun-tommy-gun-tommy-gun-facts

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/dumps-destinations-converting-landfills-parks/30435/

http://www.thejournal.ie/landfill-cork-ireland-578595-Sep2012/

http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/tasmanian-devil/

http://emgn.com/entertainment/10-tribal-masks-must-possessed-demons/

http://www.historyofmasks.net/

http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/

http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/death-mask/

http://www.historyofmasks.net/

http://www.historyofmasks.net/mask-facts/types-of-masks/

http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/meaning

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html

www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html

www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html

http://journalpsyche.org/is-freud-still-relevant-today/

https://mythology.net/norse/norse-gods/loki/

Topics include: Volcanoes, the La Brea Tar Pits, a Prince Who Built a Volcano, and What Happens If You Jump Into Lava!

Links:

https://tarpits.org

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/volcano.htm

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68512/15-explosive-facts-about-volcanoes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/that-time-a-german-prince-built-an-artificial-volcano-19001853/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2017/06/26/this-is-when-volcanoes-appeared-in-human-stories-for-the-very-first-time/#42ab4e615bd3

https://sciencing.com/history-volcanology-5397406.html

Topics include: The Hyperloop, Cloud Seeding, Frostbite, Perpetual Motion Machines, and The Orient Express!

Links:

https://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorologists/cloud-seeding1.htm

https://hyperloop-one.com

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frostbite/symptoms-causes/syc-20372656

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/smelling-salts/

https://www.livescience.com/55944-perpetual-motion-machines.html

Topics include: How Tornadoes Form, Early Warning Systems, the Fujita Scale, and Can You Ride a Tornado?!

Links:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150511-tornadoes-storms-midwest-weather-science/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorological-instruments/totable-tornado-observatory2.htm

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goes

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/23/tornado.history/index.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/15-facts-about-tornadoes-167469821/

Topics include: Self Surgeries, Cauterization, People With Two Heads, and How a Body Decomposes!

Links:

http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surgeries/

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/abby-and-brittany-hensel-2017-133084

https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/dying4.htm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-some-people-t/

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/finally-know-people-left-righthanded/

http://themedicinejournal.com/articles/does-cauterizing-a-wound-really-work/

https://woundcareadvisor.com/how-to-apply-silver-nitrate/

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-taser-was-invented-1643251944

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/stun-gun5.htm

Topics include: The Seven Deadly Sins, Pinkerton Detectives, Blacklight Forensics, and Eating Until You Explode!

Links:

https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/it-possible-literally-eat-yourself-death

https://www.ranker.com/list/eating-yourself-death/laura-allan?utm_expid=16418821-388.8yjUEguUSkGHvlaagyulMg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Seven_Deadly_Sins

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/metronome.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethovens-metronome-wrong-9140958/

http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/alternatelightsources.html

http://www.csitechblog.com/2011/01/alternate-light-sources-and-how-csis-use-them.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-glows-under-a-black-light-607615

https://wjwoodrow.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/fluoresence-of-semen-forensics-geekery/

Topics include: Steampunk, Earliest Hearing Aids, Operation Paperclip, Parties at the White House, and Bulletproof Vests!

Links:

https://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-operation-paperclip

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-story-of-the-wildest-party-in-white-house-history/

https://www.beltone.com/hearing-aid-guides/hearing-aid-history

https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/47717-Digital-hearing-aid-history

https://bulletsafe.com/pages/the-history-of-bulletproof-vests

http://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests

https://www.ranker.com/list/old-wild-west-slang-word-and-expressions/brent-sprecher

https://www.phactual.com/20-more-slang-terms-from-the-wild-wild-west/

http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/what-is-steampunk/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-steampunk-movement/241947/

Topics include: The Higgs Mechanism, Hypnotism, Cryptomnesia, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

Links:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-some-people-are-immune-hiv-ebola-and-other-diseases-397940

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2014/massive-thoughts

http://www.carl-jung.net/collective_unconscious.html

https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/education-and-platos-allegory-of-the-cave-bf7471260c50

http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/has-hypnosis-finally-been-vindicated-by-neuroscience.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/can-you-quit-smoking-through-hypnosis/391577/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypnosis-memory-brain/ 

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/26/cryptomnesia-psychology-of-writing/

http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb02/glitch.aspx

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/polar-night.html

http://www.sciencelet.com/2012/10/what-causes-perpetual-daylight-and-darkness.html

Topics include: Communes for Future Technologists, Longest Open Swims on Record, Urban Legends, and Secret Societies!

Links:

https://www.cultofmac.com/125656/this-lsd-love-guru-turned-gold-mining-billionaire-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/10/steve_jobs_at_reed_did_he_name.html

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2012olympics/2012-07/31/content_15635774.htm

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-ocean-swim

https://matadornetwork.com/pulse/ate-beating-heart-live-snake-vietnam-heres-ill-never/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-societies-you-might-not-know-180958294/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html?utm_term=.4085ec641b2e

http://mentalfloss.com/article/87935/origins-6-terrifying-urban-legends-and-classic-campfire-stories

https://www.livescience.com/7107-urban-legends-start-persist.html

Topics include: Parallel Universes, String Theory, "Internal" Martial Arts Styles, Parkour, and Steroids!

Links:

https://www.muscleforlife.com/side-effects-of-steroids/

https://www.livescience.com/3349-steroids-work.html

https://www.livescience.com/39074-what-is-an-mri.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/mri1.htm

http://www.dummies.com/education/science/physics/string-theory-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

http://www.energyarts.com/hsing-i-chuan

http://www.energyarts.com/bagua-zhang-martial-arts

https://www.space.com/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/22/579666359/scientific-theory-and-the-multiverse-madness

http://www.learnmoreparkour.com/how-to-parkour-article-4.htm

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/19/beginners-guide-to-parkour/

Topics include: Types of Amnesia, How Memories Are stored, Ginkgo Biloba, and How Polaroids Work!

Links:

https://petapixel.com/2011/05/18/how-polaroid-instant-film-works/

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question605.htm

https://bebrainfit.com/ginkgo-biloba-benefits/

http://www.human-memory.net/processes_storage.html

Topics include: What a 'Short Circuit' actually is, Speed-Reading, War Robots Going Rogue, The "Memory Palace" Technique, and the Earliest Tanks!

Note: We recorded this episode before the recent controversy surrounding Aziz Ansari, which is why we don't mention it when discussing his take on Fisher Stevens (a white actor who played an Indian man in 'Short Circuit'). And we still think the conversation was an important one to have, but just a head's up in case you're wondering! Happy listening!

Links:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-tank-produced

https://www.thespruce.com/what-causes-short-circuits-4118973

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/us_war_robot_rebellion_iraq/

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/big-question-speed-reading-actually-possible/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/06/how-much-can-you-really-learn-while-youre-asleep

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/experiments-show-we-really-can-learn-while-we-sleep-141518869/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html

Topics include: The Truman Show Delusion, Why We Believe Conspiracies, Japanese Contest Show "Nasubi", and Norman Rockwell!

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgC_nkU2sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzueQK-Q7gI

http://www.businessinsider.com/believing-conspiracy-theories-makes-people-feel-special-2017-9

Topics include: Rachel's "Space Jam" Musical Sketch, the Deepest Living Organisms, Hollow Earth Theory, the invention of Basketball, the Placebo effect, and a discussion about the intersection of Art and Commerce! 

Links:

https://gizmodo.com/terrifying-facts-about-the-worlds-deepest-gold-mine-1484301368

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110601-deepest-worm-earth-devil-science-animals-life/

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/7/15792188/placebo-effect-explained

Topics include: Prime Numbers, Problem Solving on LSD, Savants and Booby Trapped Houses!

LINKS:

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/10-most-fascinating-savants-in-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/nature/how-does-dead-sea-salt-form-giant-cubes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7K5KjOdLD8

Topics include: The Discovery of Infrared (and how to avoid Infrared Detection), Invisibility Cloaks, Awesome Animal Camouflage, and, of course, Choppas!

Links:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/helicopter.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_vulture

https://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/discovery.html

Topics include: Ergot Poisoning, Harmful Algal Blooms, The Bystander Effect, and Why Body Parts Sag!

Links:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Salem-Witch-Trials-The-Fungus-Theory/

https://seanmunger.com/2014/02/20/we-interrupt-this-program-the-terrifying-ebs-false-alarm-of-1971/

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/02/most_dangerous_mushroom_death_cap_is_spreading_but_poisoning_can_be_treated.html

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/the-happening-s/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a3365/4268571/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/bystander-effect

https://www.verywell.com/the-bystander-effect-2795899

http://themedicinejournal.com/articles/do-your-ears-and-nose-continue-to-grow-as-you-age/

Topics include: Lost Confederate Gold, Quantum Computing, The Double Slit Experiment, and Freezing and Shattering Your Dead Body!

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

http://www.promessa.se/about-life-death/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22280/double-slit-experiment-even-weirder/

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/13/researchers-say-there-may-be-140m-worth-of-confederate-gold-at/21884507/

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-timecop-modern-masterpiece/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/time-travel-possible-time-machine-dr-who-tardis-spacetime-university-of-british-columbia-university-a7711411.html

http://time.com/4517897/nobel-prize-physics-2016/ 

https://www.popsci.com/what-is-quantum-cryptography

Topics include: Killer Robots, Pooping in Space, The Origins of Man, and The Future of Humanity!

Links:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-big-questions-about-the-future-of-humanity/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-first-tool-users.html

https://www.space.com/28150-zero-gravity-day-hoax.html

https://blog.bufferapp.com/promote-a-podcast

https://airwaysmag.com/airchive/pan-am-ceases-operations/

https://petergreenberg.com/2014/05/02/you-wont-believe-what-pan-am-planes-looked-like/

https://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/is-the-future-crap-a-comparison-of-toilets-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-and-the-2013-iss/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/bathroom-in-space.htm

http://www.macroevolution.net/australopithecines.html

Topics include: The Dino Extinction Event, Mario Bros, Parallel Universes, and Antimatter!

LINKS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_COcHHvte-0

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/apr/26/competing-claims-over-cause-of-cosmic-cold-spot

https://www.britannica.com/science/K-T-extinction

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/science/chicxulub-crater-dinosaur-extinction.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

Topics include: The Discovery of Dinosaurs, Ancient Amber, Bringing Back the Wooly Mammoth, and Chaos Theory!

LINKS:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-fossil-reveals-velociraptor-sported-feathers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chaos-theory-simplified-droplet/

http://www.abarim-publications.com/ChaosTheoryIntroduction.html#.WfZWiRNSwdU

http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos_theory

http://mentalfloss.com/article/73608/15-clear-facts-about-amber

https://selfhacked.com/blog/lysine-health-benefits/#Symptoms_Of_Lysine_Deficiency

Topics include: UFOs, Dolphin Communication, The Bermuda Triangle, and The Game Simon!

LINKS:

http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/swedish-startup-uses-ai-to-figure-out-what-dolphins-talk-about

http://www.cracked.com/article_18690_5-ufo-sightings-that-even-non-crazy-people-find-creepy.html

http://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-flight-19

http://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle-may-finally-be-solved/

http://www.history.com/topics/bermuda-triangle

http://www.unmuseum.org/mob/triangle.htm

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1302005

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/not-so-simple-simon-proved-young-were-swifter-than-old-180953561/

http://mashable.com/2016/02/11/simon-air-touch-free/#tXsC6EHBPGqD

Topics include: The Gaia Theory, Planarian Flatworms, Metabolism, and Arsenic Based Life!

Links:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/61665/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-planarians

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/12/this_paper_should_not_have_been_published.html

https://www.nature.com/news/arsenic-life-bacterium-prefers-phosphorus-after-all-1.11520

https://science.howstuffworks.com/napalm.htm

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/pyura-chilensis-the-closest-thing-to-getting-blood-from-a-stone/

Topics include: Liquid Ventilation, Atmospheric Diving Suits, Bioluminescence, and Why Chlorine Turns Your Hair Green!

Links:

http://www.history.com/news/the-midget-subs-that-beat-the-planes-to-pearl-harbor

https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/aug/21/james-cameron-on-deepsea-challenge-im-not-just-some-rich-guy-on-a-ride

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060414015051.htm

https://gizmodo.com/the-evolution-of-the-atmospheric-diving-suit-1537111854

https://gizmodo.com/this-awesome-next-generation-exosuit-goes-1-000-feet-un-1532765164

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iron-man-like-exosuit-to-expand-ocean-exploration-video/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cameron-deep-sea-drug-research/

https://www.swimuniversity.com/why-blonde-hair-turns-green-in-your-swimming-pool/

Topics include: "Gremlins in the Machine", Asexual Reproduction, Animal Songs, and the History of Chuck E. Cheese!

Links:

http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/09/09/gremlins-highly-mechanical-creatures-in-mythology/

https://byjus.com/biology/fragmentation/

https://gearjunkie.com/swiss-army-knife-history

http://www.care2.com/causes/5-animals-you-didnt-know-can-sing.html

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/8-unexpected-animals-that-sing/people-arent-the-only-animals-that-can#top-desktop

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-rat-population-is-hard-to-measure-2017-8

http://www.newsweek.com/new-york-kids-are-running-away-rats-bigger-their-baby-sisters-so-citys-635652

http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/472-17/de-blasio-administration-32-million-neighborhood-rat-reduction-plan#/0

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545333203/say-goodbye-to-the-pizza-time-players-chuck-e-cheese-retires-its-band

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kkn7y/a-history-of-chuck-e-cheeses-animatronic-band

Topics include: Opposable Thumbs, Topiaries, Automatons and Waterbeds!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-do-humans-have-thumbs-180953393/

http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=49036

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-early-robots-and-automatons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed

https://www.boredpanda.com/dragon-shaped-hedge-topiary-john-brooker/

http://home.howstuffworks.com/gardening/garden-design/topiary.htm

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/the-5-strangest-cemeteries-in-the-world

http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1067055-the-craziest-graveyards-in-the-world

https://www.vincentprice.com/

https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025

Topics include: Megacities, Puzzles, Cannibalism and Police States!

Links:

https://www.ancient.eu/Janus/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/22/515668867/cannibalism-its-perfectly-natural-a-new-scientific-history-argues

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-hammurabis-code

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/statue-of-liberty-arrives-in-new-york-harbor

https://www.siammandalay.com/blogs/puzzles/95858310-chronological-history-of-puzzles-a-timeline

http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/why-solving-puzzles-is-fun-qa-with-consciousness-researcher-daniel-bor/

http://www.wonderslist.com/countries-worst-police-brutality/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/08/31/us-worst-police-state-world-numbers

Topics include: Crazy Anaconda Facts, Dynamite, New Nature Doc Technology, and Totem Poles! 

Links:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/snake-eating-cat-whole-in-brisbane-backyard-not-for-the-fainthearted/news-story/12479bc277158237d0465dc0482f41d1

http://listverse.com/2014/08/30/10-wild-facts-about-the-amazon-rainforest/

https://youtu.be/0ktd1gdgcfE

http://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/dynamite_history/370/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60015/11-fun-facts-about-anacondas

http://ipfactly.com/anacondas/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68816/6-sssecrets-snake-sound-scientissst

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/crazy-new-camera-tech-made-planet-earth-2-possible/

http://www.ranker.com/list/totem-pole-facts/t-l-perez

Topics include: Pet Cloning, the Human Genome Project, Fingerprints, and the XFL!

Links!

http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/i-spent-more-than-100000-to-clone-my-dog/

https://viagenpets.com

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/xfl-espn-30-for-30-vince-mcmahon-dick-ebersol-1201976706/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-years-after-dolly-the-sheep-led-the-way-where-is-cloning-now/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/350867/smart-fridge-showdown-lg-smart-instaview-vs-samsung-family

https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/human_genome.htm

https://www.genome.gov/12011238/an-overview-of-the-human-genome-project/

https://www.genome.gov/11006943/human-genome-project-completion-frequently-asked-questions/

http://www.fingerprintamerica.com/fingerprinthistory.asp

http://www.crimescene-forensics.com/History_of_Fingerprints.html

Topics include: Purgatory, 'Betelgeuse' the Star, The Winchester Mystery House, Why Ghosts Wear Sheets, and A Brief History on Goths!

Topics include: How We’re Mostly Made of Empty Space, The Homunculus, The History of the Remote Control, and How Honey is Basically Bee Puke!

Topics include: Cloning Pets, How Battery Acid Works, Artificial Gravity, Mining in Space, and Oxygen Bars!

Topics include: Ancient Boobytraps, Mummification, the Truth Behind the Ten Biblical Plagues, Scarabs, and how Mirages Work!

Topics include: Crazy Spy Gizmos and Techniques, Super-vaults, Floppy Disks, Face Masks, and Smoking On Planes!

Topics Include: Crazy Piranha Facts, Killer Algae, Electric Fences, and Weird Government Experiments to Weaponize Animals! 

Topics include: Animal digestive systems, the history of health insurance in the United States, fun uses for plungers, and the truth about Pop Rocks!

Topics include: biomimicry, how insects breathe, "royal jelly", the "mole people" of the New York subways, and forensic entomology!

Topics include cryogenically freezing a human body, the history of bungee jumping, metal foam, heterochromia, laserdiscs, materials based on shark skin, and Bloomberg's big soda ban!

Topics include crazy military technology, abandoned invasion plans, the Tunguska event, Krav Maga, badass soldiers and the "let's all go to the lobby" theme!

Topics include quicksand, what is talc, earthquakes, animals communicating through vibrations, volcanoes in space and the history of the pogo stick!

Topics include BMI nonsense, history of Romani, the tongue patch diet, the oldest person who ever lived and the legality of road head!

Topics include the history of "unlucky 13", the advancement of supercomputers, numerology and the CIA playing World of Warcraft!

Topics include moon conspiracies, Helium 3 and 4, physical effects of solitary confinement, Thorium and genetic kill switches!

Topics include the mirror test, animals being dicks, project Nim, animal language, level 1 parallel universes and the story of Dr. Livingstone!

Topics include children of Thalidomide, spontaneous human combustion, infrasound induced panic, trephination and The Monster Study.

Topics include the real Soylent, bugs as the future of food, Earth's max capacity, the history of soap and an update on the banana extinction! 

Topics include contagiousness in general, history's craziest pandemics, the autism/vaccine link, mass hysterias and the Great Stink!

Topics include walled in cities, escapes from Alcatraz, crime in New York, escape pods and the real use for eyepatches!

Topics include spores, zombie fungi, Capgras delusion, why scary sounds are scary, killer bees and plants that like music!

Topics include what's at the south pole, panspermia, cryogenics, expeditions into the arctic and ancient flame throwers!

Topics include near death experiences, being buried alive, early days of emergency medicine and the 21 grams myth!

Topics include Area 51, anal probes, beryllium spheres in the Manhattan project, and breathing liquids!

Topics include colonizing Mars, selectively removing memories, the uncanny valley, and the color blue!

Topics include Playstation VR, nanotechnology, moving atoms with microscopes, quantum mechanics, upcycling and more!