Tetris Syndrome: A Mind Made of Blocks

Tetris Syndrome: A Mind Made of Blocks

To play a game of "Tetris" is to invite a geometric invasion into your mind. After hours of intense block manipulation, you finally set aside your gaming device. You take a deep breath, close your eyes -- and there the frenzied, multicolored tetrominoes continue to cascade across your vision. They build walls in your dreams and shape the patterns of your very thought. What's going on inside the mind of a "Tetris" player and what can we learn from so-called "Tetris" syndrome. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore.

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From the Vault: Christmas Island Crabs, Part 2

From the Vault: Christmas Island Crabs, Part 2

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...

21 Dec 201946min

Is Santa a god? (part 1)

Is Santa a god? (part 1)

He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, but is Santa Claus merely a magical entity or does he rise to the status of a god? In this pair of STBY...

19 Dec 201948min

Prototaxites: Shrooms Like Cedars in the Devonian Wilds

Prototaxites: Shrooms Like Cedars in the Devonian Wilds

Did 20-foot-tall giant fungi rule the earth 400 million years ago? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the puzzling prototaxites fossils from the Devonian period. Learn...

17 Dec 201954min

From the Vault: Christmas Island Crabs, Part 1

From the Vault: Christmas Island Crabs, Part 1

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...

14 Dec 201948min

The Psychology of Architecture, Part 2

The Psychology of Architecture, Part 2

The natural world evokes various feelings in the mind, but humans spend a great deal of their time within spaces that they themselves designed and built out of the environment. In this Stuff to Blow Y...

12 Dec 201957min

The Psychology of Architecture, Part 1

The Psychology of Architecture, Part 1

The natural world evokes various feelings in the mind, but humans spend a great deal of their time within spaces that they themselves designed and built out of the environment. In this Stuff to Blow Y...

10 Dec 20191h 6min

From the Vault: Thought Experiments

From the Vault: Thought Experiments

Stuff to Blow Your Mind frequently discusses thought experiments on the show, from Schrödinger's Cat to the Infinity Hotel. But what constitutes a thought experiments? How long have they been around a...

7 Dec 20191h 11min

Die Nacht des Krampus

Die Nacht des Krampus

Heute Nacht ist Krampusnacht. Besprechen Sie mit Robert und Joe auf STBYM die beliebtesten Urlaubsmonster aller. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio...

5 Dec 20191h 12min

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