Techno-Religion for the Masses: Part 1

Techno-Religion for the Masses: Part 1

We often think of technology and religion as distinct and separate worlds, but what happens when they converge? Join Robert and Joe in this two-part episode as they examine religious world views shaped by technology, such as John Murray Spear's electrical messiah, the simple prayer wheel and the psycho-spiritual technologies of Scientology.

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This Present Moment: Experience and Physics

This Present Moment: Experience and Physics

What is now? What is the present moment? These questions continue to stagger us, for nothing is so simultaneously familiar and alien than the passage of time. Nothing seems more “real” to us that the ...

5 Des 201756min

Tree of Life

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...

30 Nov 201757min

Listener Mail: Leary, Bicameralism and Monsters

Listener Mail: Leary, Bicameralism and Monsters

Once more, Stuff to Blow Your Mind powers up the mailbot and considers YOUR comments, stories, insights and questions on recent episodes. In this installment, Robert, Joe and Christian discuss Timothy...

28 Nov 20171h 17min

Dangerous Foods III: A Festival of Pain

Dangerous Foods III: A Festival of Pain

Thanksgiving is a time of feasting and the wages of feasting, and so Robert and Joe are here to dish up a third installment of Stuff to Blow Your Mind’s 'Dangerous Foods' series. Do you dare bite into...

23 Nov 20171h 7min

When will the Earth become uninhabitable?

When will the Earth become uninhabitable?

Earth is our home, but how much longer can it remain so? In this episode of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast, Robert and Christian explore the many threats to terrestrial habitability, from the cos...

21 Nov 20171h 2min

An Attempt to Understand Zoophilia

An Attempt to Understand Zoophilia

Human culture emerges from a legacy of lives lived in close proximity to wild and domesticated animals. We see it in our myths and, in its most taboo and perplexing form, we see it in zoophilia. In th...

16 Nov 20171h 4min

Ig Nobels 2017: Vampires, Vaginal Music & Cheese

Ig Nobels 2017: Vampires, Vaginal Music & Cheese

Each year, the Ig Nobel prizes celebrate the most absurd and humorous efforts in legitimate scientific research – and 2017’s winners do not disappoint. Join Robert, Joe and Christian as they discuss a...

14 Nov 201740min

Ig Nobels 2017: Crocodile Slots, Twins & Old Ears

Ig Nobels 2017: Crocodile Slots, Twins & Old Ears

Each year, the Ig Nobel prizes celebrate the most absurd and humorous efforts in legitimate scientific research – and 2017’s winners do not disappoint. Join Robert, Joe and Christian as they discuss a...

9 Nov 201744min

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