Summer Reading 2016: Time Enough at Last
It's a summer tradition, so once more the hosts of Stuff to Blow Your Mind share their fiction and nonfiction reading recommendations with listeners. That means science, science fiction, horror, child...
7 Heinä 201659min
Biohacking and the Road to Transhumanism
Humanity is on the road to transhumanism, but some individuals are a little farther down the technologically-evolved highway than the rest of us. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and...
5 Heinä 20161h 31min
Incomplete/Unfinished
How are we to process an incomplete or unfinished work? Art, literature and film all present us with partial works, yet our reaction varies. Some works remain incomplete due to tragedy or neglect, whi...
30 Kesä 201659min
Mystery of the Myth-Fleshed Fossil
Are the fossilized monsters of paleontology and the fantastic monsters of myth one and the same? Join Robert and Joe as they discuss the realm of of geomythology, entailing the possible ancient real-w...
28 Kesä 20161h 6min
Pieces of a Human: The Science of Artificial Organs
Imagine a future in which much-needed transplant organs are printed on demand, grown within the bodies of humanized animals or plucked fresh and dripping from the organ vats. It's the age of artificia...
23 Kesä 201659min
A New Kingdom of Life: Synthetic Biology
Genomic maps unfurl before us and edited genetic codes alter the expression of life. The past few decades have seen tremendous advancements in genetic engineering, but exactly what takes place in mode...
21 Kesä 201658min
The Forbidden Void: Cases Against Space
For most of us, space exploration seems like a no-brainer. By venturing out into the cosmic ocean, we advance our technology, unravel the secrets of our universe and further ensure the long term survi...
16 Kesä 20161h 12min
Colossal: The Science of Human Height
From fictional obsessions with impossible giants to questions to height psychology and the upper and lower limits of human size, join Robert and Joe for a massive exploration of human height in this e...
14 Kesä 20161h 3min
