Give the Gift of a Mystery Box

Give the Gift of a Mystery Box

Give the Gift of a Mystery Box: Why are mystery packages so appealing? How do they improve our mental faculties and fuel our creativity? In this episode, Julie and Robert share tales of sealed envelopes, quantum thought experiments, virginity boxes and things Pandora should never have opened. You might even score a gift idea or two. To learn more about the illustration, visit Art Spotlight: Arthur Rackham's Pandora.

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The Manta Ray, Part 2

The Manta Ray, Part 2

In this series of episodes from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the majestic manta ray. In this episode, learn all about manta ray reproduction and accounts of their pulling boats arou...

8 Jul 202538min

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Shocking Dark

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Shocking Dark

In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the shameless 1989 “Aliens” knock-off “Shocking Dark,” directed by Bruno Mattei and written by “Troll 2” scribes Rossella Drudi and Cl...

7 Jul 20251h 18min

From the Vault: Hair on Fire, Part 1

From the Vault: Hair on Fire, Part 1

In this classic two-parter from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the chemistry, space science and mythology of burning hair. So strap in for a discussion of everything from pirates and ...

5 Jul 202540min

Weirdhouse Cinema: Ravenous

Weirdhouse Cinema: Ravenous

In this special July 4th episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1999 frontier cannibal horror film “Ravenous,” directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle.See om...

4 Jul 20251h 26min

Dinner with King Tut, with Sam Kean

Dinner with King Tut, with Sam Kean

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Sam Kean about his new book “Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost...

3 Jul 202543min

The Monstrefact: Manta Rays of Dungeons & Dragons

The Monstrefact: Manta Rays of Dungeons & Dragons

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses uses of the manta ray in Dungeons and Dragons, the fictional Ixitxachitls and what it all seems to reflect about humanity’s relationship to...

2 Jul 20256min

The Manta Ray, Part 1

The Manta Ray, Part 1

In this series of episodes from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the majestic manta ray, from its biology and lifecycle to conservation issues and its portrayal in mythology, folk belie...

1 Jul 202546min

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: It! The Terror from Beyond Space

In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1958 space horror film “It! The Terror from Beyond Space,” considered one of several key influences on the 1979 classic “Alien.” (...

30 Jun 20251h 24min

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