R. Scott Bakker: On Alien Philosophy and Fantasy
Canadian author R. Scott Bakker is best known for his Second Apocalypse saga, a series of dark fantasy novels that explore philosophical and even neuroscientific ideas through a world of sorcery, holy...
23 Touko 20171h 11min
Hook Suspension and the Complexity of Pain
Hook suspension challenges our perceptions of pain. We see practitioners, pierced through the flesh with hooks, suspended by chains and yet smiling as if lost to a state of bliss. What are they feelin...
18 Touko 201751min
Escape Velocity: Jack Parsons and the New Magick
Jack Parsons wanted to break free, from both the limits of Earth and the boundaries of traditional early 20th century American thought. He devoted his short life to the scientific pursuit of rocket en...
16 Touko 201750min
Weird Wonders of House Gastropoda
The world of slugs and snails is a grotesque circus of fever-dream horrors and biological marvels. Join Robert and Christian for a six-species dive into their life cycles of slime, iron plating, deadl...
11 Touko 201748min
Jade Immortality: Burial Armor of the Han Dynasty
Chinese aristocracy of the Western Han Dynasty embarked on their journey into the afterlife within garments of stone -- luxurious suits of jade armor entailing thousands of individual plates sewn toge...
9 Touko 201741min
Push the Frontier
You’ve seen enough Westerns and Game of Throne episodes to know a frontier when you see it, but what exactly is this boundary between the laws of your world and the promise or threat of another? In th...
4 Touko 20171h 2min
STBYM Live: Weird Science in the Windy City
Robert, Christian and Joe transport you back to the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, when the neoclassical architecture of Daniel Burnham’s White City loomed on the shores of Lake Michigan, Nikol...
2 Touko 20171h 16min
Listener Mail: In One Ear, Out the Third Eye
Robert, Joe and Christian call in the mailbot for yet another dose of listener feedback. Join them as they read your thoughts on everything from the uncanny valley and the Black Stone of Mecca to hook...
27 Huhti 20171h 12min
