The Science of Hell

The Science of Hell

The Science of Hell: Artists aren't alone in their fascination with Hell. Scientists two have long sought to breach the fiery gates and figure out just how it works. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie explore scientific ponderings over the Dante's "Inferno" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" from modern mathematicians, meteorologists and even Galileo. Robert sketched THIS MAP to help you out with the weather stuff.

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Cambrian Monster Mash

Cambrian Monster Mash

Welcome to the ocean of monsters. In this episode of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast, Robert and Joe travel back 500 million years to the monster-haunted waters of the Cambrian period. Meet the mo...

19 Loka 20171h 10min

A Game of Werewolf

A Game of Werewolf

If you’ve ever played the party game 'Werewolf,' then you know the thrill of weeding out secret lycanthropes in a medieval village -- or devouring the villagers secretly in the night. But the game goe...

17 Loka 20171h 15min

Stuff to Blow Your Mind Live: Stranger Science

Stuff to Blow Your Mind Live: Stranger Science

With another season of “Stranger Things” just around the corner, the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast explores the mind rending science behind government research into psychic phenomena, sensory depriv...

12 Loka 20171h 23min

Six Ghost Stories

Six Ghost Stories

Human superstition provides us with an overwhelming wealth of ghost stories, each an unreal creation that reveals something crucial about culture, history and psychology. In this episode of the Stuff ...

10 Loka 20171h 21min

Science of It: Deadlights and Derry

Science of It: Deadlights and Derry

If you’ve read Stephen King’s “It” or recoiled in fear from the 2017 film and the 1990 miniseries, then perhaps you’ve wondered what science can reveal about Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the horror...

5 Loka 20171h 12min

Laughing During Horror Movies

Laughing During Horror Movies

Have you ever heard inappropriate laughter during a horror movie? For that matter, are you the guilty party? Join Robert and Christian as they explore our curious reactions to frightful cinema and how...

3 Loka 201746min

Bonus: R. Scott Bakker, Consciousness & Consult

Bonus: R. Scott Bakker, Consciousness & Consult

In this special bonus episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, author R. Scott Bakker returns to the show for a discussion of consciousness, philosophy, artificial intelligence, inhuman minds and the concl...

29 Syys 20171h 18min

Bicameralism, Part 2: The Silent Pantheon

Bicameralism, Part 2: The Silent Pantheon

In 1976, psychologist Julian Jaynes presented the world with a stunning new take on the history of human consciousness. His book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” hy...

28 Syys 20171h 27min

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