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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Licking, Part 2

Licking, Part 2

In this series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the science, culture and mythology of licking.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

20 Nov 202554min

Smart Talks with IBM: Unlocking Our Quantum Future

Smart Talks with IBM: Unlocking Our Quantum Future

Malcolm Gladwell heads to San Francisco Tech Week to talk with IBM’s new Director of Research Jay Gambetta in front of a live audience. They discuss IBM’s plans to scale quantum computing power, the g...

19 Nov 202553min

Licking, Part 1

Licking, Part 1

In this series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the science, culture and mythology of licking.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

18 Nov 20251h 13min

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Reptilicus

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Reptilicus

Grab your drug bazooka! In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe dive back into the wild world of euro-kaiju films with the 1961/1962 Danish/American co-production “Reptilicus.” (orig...

17 Nov 20251h 8min

From the Vault: The Edge of Sentience, with Jonathan Birch

From the Vault: The Edge of Sentience, with Jonathan Birch

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Jonathan Birch about his new book “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” (originally publi...

15 Nov 202534min

Weirdhouse Cinema: Dark City, Part 2

Weirdhouse Cinema: Dark City, Part 2

In this two-part Weirdhouse Cinema exploration, Rob and Joe dive into Noirvember with 1998’s “Dark City,” directed by Alex Proyas and starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer C...

14 Nov 20251h 13min

Animalia Stupendium: The Musk Deer

Animalia Stupendium: The Musk Deer

Bored with dragons, the wizard Argomandanies turns his arcane attention to the fantastic fauna of the natural world. Welcome to Animalia Stupendium, a chronicle of Earth’s amazing biodiversity with al...

12 Nov 20257min

Sacred Daggers, Part 2

Sacred Daggers, Part 2

In this series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss various examples of sacred, sacrificial and novel daggers from various cultures and traditions.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

11 Nov 202554min

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