Death Roots: Dreams and Science of Carnivorous Plants
Are humans truly safe from the hunger of mean-eating plants? Can we trust the trees that loom over us? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss myths and fictions of killer t...
18 Okt 20161h 9min
Will-o'-the-Wisp: A Light in the Swamp
There was a time when strange lights appeared in the marshlands. Commoners might have known the eerie luminescence as “Will-o’-the-Wisp” or “Hinky Punk,” while the learned pondered the mysteries of “I...
13 Okt 20161h 20min
The Creepypasta Experiments
Surf the Internet long enough and you’ll happen upon creepypasta: little cut-and-paste snippets of horror that blur the lines between reality and the fantastic. These collectively assembled amalgams o...
11 Okt 20161h 16min
The 2016 Ig Nobels: Pale Horses, Dead Flies and Quantified Bullroar
Each year, a magazine called The Annals of Improbable Research awards the Ig Nobel prizes to honor the weirdest and funniest scientific projects ever undertaken by humans. In this pair of Stuff to Blo...
6 Okt 201659min
The 2016 Ig Nobels: Rat Pants, Mooning and the Sincerity of Rocks
Each year, a magazine called The Annals of Improbable Research awards the Ig Nobel prizes to honor the weirdest and funniest scientific projects ever undertaken by humans. In this pair of Stuff to Blo...
4 Okt 20161h 14min
Conjoined Dreamers
Is the dream world a solitary creation of the sleeping mind, or can we share these spaces of fear, wonder and desire with other dreamers? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Christi...
29 Sep 20161h 14min
The Nine Dream Worlds of Frederik van Eeden
Have you ever desired a map of the dream world? Look no further than the ideas and practices of Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden. Influenced by Hindu philosophy, mysticism and panpsychism, van Ee...
27 Sep 20161h 16min
Undead Genes: Genetic Activation After Death
While more elaborate visions of the afterlife view mortal existence as a sort of larval stage in a grander human timeline, science tells us that death is the end. The human mind blinks out of existenc...
22 Sep 201633min
