Supernormal Stimuli

Supernormal Stimuli

No longer limited by the constrains of their environment or biology, humans have remade their world. Why walk when you can soar? Why shout when you can whisper in the ear of a listener halfway round the world? And why limit yourself to normal stimuli when you can condense the sensory world into nuggets of superstimuli. Join Robert and Julie in this classic episode as they discuss junk food, gaming, pornography, the Internet and beauty itself all in the framework of natural biology.

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Listener Mail: The Fires of Orc

Listener Mail: The Fires of Orc

It's a new year full of new topics, but first comes a final bag of listener mail from 2018. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick consider your thoughts and experie...

1 Jan 201955min

From the Vault: Artificial Gravity

From the Vault: Artificial Gravity

Humans are creatures of gravity. We’re born into it. Life as we know it evolved to thrive in it. So what’s a gravitational organism to do in the low-gravity and zero-gravity expanses beyond Earth? You...

29 Des 20181h 24min

Christmas Island, Part 2: Deca Deca Pod Y’all

Christmas Island, Part 2: Deca Deca Pod Y’all

Welcome to Christmas Island, a place where it’s still only Christmas once a year… but where red crabs swarm across the land and enormous coconut crabs feast on carrion in the forests. So deck the hall...

27 Des 201845min

Christmas Island, Part 1: Crabs Rule Everything Around Me

Christmas Island, Part 1: Crabs Rule Everything Around Me

Welcome to Christmas Island, a place where it’s still only Christmas once a year… but where red crabs swarm across the land and enormous coconut crabs feast on carrion in the forests. So deck the hall...

25 Des 201847min

From the Vault: Tree of Life

From the Vault: Tree of Life

Sacred trees. World trees. Holy trees of wisdom, immortality and the soul. They seem to grow from every culture on Earth and their roots dig deep into the soil of prehistory. What do they mean? Why ar...

22 Des 201858min

Virgin Birth

Virgin Birth

For Christians, the Christmas centers around a miraculous virgin birth. But don’t worry, secular holiday revelers, because nature has its own virgin births to wonder over. In this episode of Stuff to ...

20 Des 201841min

Invention: The Guillotine

Invention: The Guillotine

Stuff to Blow Your Mind hosts Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick have a brand new show -- and they're dropping a full episode of it into the STBYM feed. The show is INVENTION and this episode dives into th...

19 Des 201852min

Ritual of Oak and Mistletoe

Ritual of Oak and Mistletoe

Twas the night before Christmas and deep in the woods, a sacrifice was planned by the Gauls and their Druids… Yes, in this holiday episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick exp...

18 Des 201845min

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