Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

Ever reach out to the spirit world with an ouija board? Or stare into a dark mirror for Bloody Mary? Perhaps peer-assisted levitation was more your style. In this episode, Robert and Julie bust through the fantasy of these paranormal parlor tricks and examine the underlying science.

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The Matter of Everything, with Suzie Sheehy

The Matter of Everything, with Suzie Sheehy

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Joe chats with physicist Suzie Sheehy, author of "The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 Elo 20231h 15min

Listener Mail: The Color of the Fire

Listener Mail: The Color of the Fire

Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 Elo 202323min

From the Vault: Of Humans and Squids, with Martin Wallen

From the Vault: Of Humans and Squids, with Martin Wallen

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Martin Wallen about his 2021 book “Squid,” which covers the history of humanity’s scientific, folkloric and literary interest in cephalopods – from Aristotle’s understanding of the creatures to their treatment in weird fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries. (originally published 06/21/2022)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5 Elo 20231h 18min

Weirdhouse Cinema: The Maze

Weirdhouse Cinema: The Maze

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe venture into 1953’s “The Maze,” a 3-D haunted castle film with an incredibly weird twist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Elo 20231h 21min

Oil and Troubled Water, Part 2

Oil and Troubled Water, Part 2

The interaction between oil and water has fascinated us since ancient times, and it has factored into practices as diverse as divination rituals and attempts to calm turbulent waters at sea with storm oil. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the effect of oil on troubled waters. (Part 2 of 2)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 Elo 202345min

The Monstrefact: DC Comics' Killer Croc

The Monstrefact: DC Comics' Killer Croc

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses one of the most monstrous characters from Batman’s rogues' gallery: Killer Croc…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Elo 20235min

Cave of Bones, with Lee Berger

Cave of Bones, with Lee Berger

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with paleoanthropologist Lee Berger about his team’s amazing discoveries in South Africa's Rising Star cave system and previously unknown extinct species of hominin named Homo naledi. His new book is “Cave of Bones” and it’s also the subject of the Netflix documentary “Unknown: Cave of Bones.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1 Elo 202344min

Listener Mail: White Cyclosa

Listener Mail: White Cyclosa

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31 Heinä 202330min

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