Height, Health and Human Happiness
Tall people. Short People. Somewhere-in-between people. What are we to make of human height and its relationship to overall health and personality? Robert and Christian explore in this episode of the ...
30 Touko 201757min
Five Reasons to Never Take Your Space Helmet Off
You've consumed enough science fiction to know something the average red shirt doesn't: Never take your space helmet off on a foreign planet. But if you're still tempted to breathe deep the gathering ...
25 Touko 20171h 15min
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
