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It's the final episode!! Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Terminator 2"! Topics include: Killer Robots, Why We Cry, Turing Tests, How Pain Works, and a wrap-up of what we’ve learned on this crazy journey! Links: http://www.cracked.com/article_19754_5-computer-hacks-from-movies-you-wont-believe-are-possible.html http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/07181/798367-85.stm https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-do-we-cry-the-science-of-tears-9741287.html http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Moirai.html https://www.fastcompany.com/3069048/where-are-military-robots-headed https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/lethal-microdrones-dystopian-futures-and-the-autonomous-weapons-debate https://www.extremetech.com/computing/269030-did-google-duplexs-ai-demonstration-just-pass-the-turing-test https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/chinese-room-argument-artificial-intelligence/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Gravity"! It's the second to last episode guys! Topics include: Space Disasters and Near Misses, Gravity Itself, Sound in Space, and Space Junk! Links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/most-dangerous-moments-space-shuttle-station-history/ http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/ https://www.britannica.com/list/7-accidents-and-disasters-in-spaceflight-history http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/ https://listverse.com/2014/03/17/10-horrific-disasters-of-the-space-program/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/ https://www.newsweek.com/space-empty-space-aliens-sound-waves-listening-525073 https://www.webmd.com/lung/lung-hyperventilation-what-to-do#1 https://www.livescience.com/14012-6-weird-facts-gravity.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Matrix"! Topics include: Living in a Simulation, Deja Vu, Nihilism, Humans as Batteries, and The One Phone Call Rule! Links: https://www.darpa.mil/program/targeted-neuroplasticity-training https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201001/what-is-d-j-vu https://www.bustle.com/p/9-things-your-brain-is-trying-to-tell-you-when-you-experience-deja-vu-8334677 https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_nihilism.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-and-last-pay-phone-180952727/ https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/news/companies/pay-phones/index.html https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/ https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/humans-batteries-matrix.html https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable https://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/criminally-yours-your-one-phone-call/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/really-entitled-phonecall-arrested/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cloud Atlas". Topics include: Reincarnation, Birthmarks, Nuclear Power, Cannibalism, and Microchipping Yourself! Links: https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/definitions-of-clouds.html https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/bumps-and-growths/birthmarks https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/problems/beauty/birthmark.htm https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Psychic_Birthmarks https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/06/for-ancient-cannibals-fellow-hominins-werent-a-great-meal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.04a6bec566b7 https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/microchips-wisconsin-company-employees.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Face/Off"! Topics include: Face/Head transplants, Interpol, body morphing, and Greek mythology! Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/65363/15-peachy-facts-about-faceoff https://www.thrillist.com/vice/i-talked-to-the-nation-s-top-plastic-surgeons-about-face-off-is-face-off-possible https://www.gq.com/story/richard-norris https://people.howstuffworks.com/interpol.htm http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/07/01/what_do_interpol_agents_really_do.html https://mythology.net/greek/mortals/castor-and-pollux/ http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ca-Cr/Castor-and-Pollux.html http://www.thejournal.ie/two-headed-dogs-794157-Feb2013/ https://www.popsci.com/first-head-transplant-human-surgery http://blog.heightlengthening.com/what-to-expect-when-you-have-surgery-to-get-taller https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/a-painful-way-to-grow-taller/ http://www.cracked.com/article_19095_the-5-most-shockingly-insane-modern-dictators.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Identity"! Topics include: The Insanity Defense, Meyers-Briggs, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Identity Politics, and Sea Monkeys! Links: https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/qa227.htm?noredirect=on https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/insanity-defense.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/twilight-mom-and-pop-motel-180963895/ http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/identity-question/content-section-1.1 https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/24/the-evolutionary-roots-of-identity-politics/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201603/are-scores-the-mbti-totally-meaningless http://www.businessinsider.com/myers-briggs-personality-test-is-misleading-2014-6 http://mentalfloss.com/article/56755/16-amazing-facts-about-sea-monkeys

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Battle Royale"! Topics include: Crazy Game Shows, the East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, the End of the Gladiator fights, a Real Life Lord of the Flies, and Corporal Punishment! Links: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Telemachus https://churchpop.com/2015/01/01/gladiator-rome-saint/ https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators http://www.cracked.com/article_20167_6-insane-game-shows-you-wont-believe-were-allowed-tv.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15804_the-6-most-insane-game-shows-from-around-world.html https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-real-hunger-games-battle-royale https://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/ https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-mitsubishi-bombing/ https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-bomber-masashi-daidoji-dies-in-prison-aged-68/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/09/19/349668828/a-decision-about-your-children-thats-also-about-your-parents https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/18/19-states-still-allow-corporal-punishment-in-school/?utm_term=.520bb91acaad https://aptparenting.com/history-of-corporal-punishment

Joya and Jeff watched the 1986 movie "Howard the Duck"! Topics include: Possible Types of Alien Life, Growing Organs Within Animals, Laser Spectroscopy, and Anthropomorphism! Links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-will-extraterrestrial-life-look-180950029/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/5784971/how-to-create-a-scientifically-plausible-alien-life-form https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/scientists-determine-atmosphere-planets.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-analysis3.htm https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576 http://theconversation.com/what-species-would-become-dominant-on-earth-if-humans-died-out-53340 https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2018/02/21/howard-duck-film-marvel-too-embarrassed-talk-about https://phys.org/news/2018-02-successful-human-animal-hybrid-sheep-embryo.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/anthropomorphic-animal-names-for-humans/duck https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anthropomorphism https://psychcentral.com/news/2010/03/01/why-do-we-anthropomorphize/11766.html https://www.tyrantfarms.com/7-amazing-duck-facts/ https://www.livescience.com/43105-synchronicity-definition-meaning.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "12 Monkeys"! Topics include: Animal Rights Activism That Backfired, The First Penitentiary, Sterilization Methods, and Old Timey Bank Heists! Links: https://bitesizebio.com/853/5-laboratory-sterilisation-methods/ https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5068 http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/04/07/deer-cull-animal-rights/ http://www.cracked.com/article_20556_5-animal-rights-campaigns-that-managed-to-screw-over-animals.html https://io9.gizmodo.com/5-times-that-people-claimed-to-be-real-life-time-travel-1822885932 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eastern-state-penitentiary http://mentalfloss.com/article/59726/17-spooky-photos-philadelphias-eastern-state-penitentiary https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/day-bank-robber-willie-sutton-arrested-1952-article-1.2536491 https://science.howstuffworks.com/10-insane-disguises5.htm https://www.improbable.com/2013/12/29/sam-lloyds-get-off-the-earth-puzzle/ http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/games/getofftheearth.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sam-Loyd

Joya and Jeff watched the 2005 movie "House of Wax"! Topics include: The History of Candles, Madam Tussauds, Using Recycled Construction Materials, and Taping Your Mouth at Night! Links: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-we-are-afraid-of-creepy-dolls-and-robots-uncanny-valley-effect-a6728161.html https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525447206/a-worm-may-hold-the-key-to-biodegrading-plastic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/plastic-eating-bugs-wax-moth-caterpillars-bee https://www.quora.com/Can-you-actually-die-if-you-have-blocked-nose-and-you-forcefully-closed-your-mouth-with-a-tape https://www.ondietandhealth.com/why-tape-my-mouth-at-night/ http://www.build.com.au/27-amazing-homes-built-11-unusual-materials https://io9.gizmodo.com/these-ingenious-buildings-were-all-built-using-recycled-1688172285 https://www.livestrong.com/article/156363-how-does-nair-hair-removal-work/ http://candles.org/history/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Source Code"! Topics include: Virtual Reality in our Minds, Schrodinger’s Cat, Waking Up With Fake Memories, and the Radioactive Boy Scout! Links: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-reality-do-we-live-our-brains-simulation-world-david-hawkins https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25459-induced-hallucination-turns-doctors-into-pizza-chefs/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/12/guest-post-jim-kakalios-on-the-quantum-mechanics-of-source-code/#.WvGw49Pwa8V https://justsolitaire.com/history.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/procrastination/2008/05/solitairey_confinement.html

Joya and Jeff watched the terrible movie "Biodome"! Topics include: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Homeostasis, Music Torture and the Biosphere 2! Links: http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-biosphere-2.html https://mic.com/articles/87851/11-popular-songs-the-cia-used-to-torture-prisoners-in-the-war-on-terror#.xIkMpSFQ4 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809 https://www.theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/ http://homeaquaponicssystem.com/greenhouses/what-is-a-biodome/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-homeostasis/ https://www.wired.com/2007/12/chem-lab-the-do/

Joya and Jeff watched the 2002 movie "The Time Machine"! Topics include: The Standardization of Time, Time’s Arrow, Nukes on the Moon, and H.G. Wells Himself! Links: http://www.nextgentoothbrush.com/infographics/brief-history-of-electric-toothbrush-detailed-analysis-with-infographic/ https://www.greenmeadowdental.com/blog/electric-toothbrush-facts/ http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/tomorrow.htm https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/04/03/599122774/time-travel-with-your-fridge https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609788/physicists-demonstrate-how-to-reverse-of-the-arrow-of-time/ https://nypost.com/2017/05/01/usa-and-ussr-planned-to-nuke-the-moon-out-of-existence/ http://www.iflscience.com/space/the-us-had-an-insane-plan-to-drop-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon-in-the-1950s/ http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-standardization-time-changed-american-society-180961503/

Joya and Jeff watched the Jim Carrey classic "The Mask"! Topics include: The History of Masks, Baby Tazmanian Devils, Norse Mythology, Turning Landfills into Parks, and Freud’s Id Ego and Superego! Links: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a25414/tommy-gun-thompson-submachine/ https://www.thrillist.com/gear/things-you-didn-t-know-about-the-thompson-submachine-gun-tommy-gun-tommy-gun-facts https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/dumps-destinations-converting-landfills-parks/30435/ http://www.thejournal.ie/landfill-cork-ireland-578595-Sep2012/ http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/tasmanian-devil/ http://emgn.com/entertainment/10-tribal-masks-must-possessed-demons/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/death-mask/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/mask-facts/types-of-masks/ http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/meaning https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html http://journalpsyche.org/is-freud-still-relevant-today/ https://mythology.net/norse/norse-gods/loki/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Volcano"! Topics include: Volcanoes, the La Brea Tar Pits, a Prince Who Built a Volcano, and What Happens If You Jump Into Lava! Links: https://tarpits.org http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/volcano.htm http://mentalfloss.com/article/68512/15-explosive-facts-about-volcanoes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/that-time-a-german-prince-built-an-artificial-volcano-19001853/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2017/06/26/this-is-when-volcanoes-appeared-in-human-stories-for-the-very-first-time/#42ab4e615bd3 https://sciencing.com/history-volcanology-5397406.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Snowpiercer"! Topics include: The Hyperloop, Cloud Seeding, Frostbite, Perpetual Motion Machines, and The Orient Express! Links: https://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorologists/cloud-seeding1.htm https://hyperloop-one.com https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frostbite/symptoms-causes/syc-20372656 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/smelling-salts/ https://www.livescience.com/55944-perpetual-motion-machines.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Twister"! Topics include: How Tornadoes Form, Early Warning Systems, the Fujita Scale, and Can You Ride a Tornado?! Links: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150511-tornadoes-storms-midwest-weather-science/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorological-instruments/totable-tornado-observatory2.htm https://www.nasa.gov/content/goes http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/23/tornado.history/index.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/15-facts-about-tornadoes-167469821/

Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie "Idle Hands"! Topics include: Self Surgeries, Cauterization, People With Two Heads, and How a Body Decomposes! Links: http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surgeries/ http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/abby-and-brittany-hensel-2017-133084 https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/dying4.htm https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-some-people-t/ http://www.iflscience.com/brain/finally-know-people-left-righthanded/ http://themedicinejournal.com/articles/does-cauterizing-a-wound-really-work/ https://woundcareadvisor.com/how-to-apply-silver-nitrate/ https://gizmodo.com/how-the-taser-was-invented-1643251944 https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/stun-gun5.htm

 Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Se7en"! Topics include: The Seven Deadly Sins, Pinkerton Detectives, Blacklight Forensics, and Eating Until You Explode! Links: https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/it-possible-literally-eat-yourself-death https://www.ranker.com/list/eating-yourself-death/laura-allan?utm_expid=16418821-388.8yjUEguUSkGHvlaagyulMg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Seven_Deadly_Sins https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/metronome.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethovens-metronome-wrong-9140958/ http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/alternatelightsources.html http://www.csitechblog.com/2011/01/alternate-light-sources-and-how-csis-use-them.html https://www.thoughtco.com/what-glows-under-a-black-light-607615 https://wjwoodrow.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/fluoresence-of-semen-forensics-geekery/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Wild Wild West"! Topics include: Steampunk, Earliest Hearing Aids, Operation Paperclip, Parties at the White House, and Bulletproof Vests! Links: https://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-operation-paperclip https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-story-of-the-wildest-party-in-white-house-history/ https://www.beltone.com/hearing-aid-guides/hearing-aid-history https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/47717-Digital-hearing-aid-history https://bulletsafe.com/pages/the-history-of-bulletproof-vests http://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests https://www.ranker.com/list/old-wild-west-slang-word-and-expressions/brent-sprecher https://www.phactual.com/20-more-slang-terms-from-the-wild-wild-west/ http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/what-is-steampunk/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-steampunk-movement/241947/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Dark City"! Topics include: The Higgs Mechanism, Hypnotism, Cryptomnesia, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Links: http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-some-people-are-immune-hiv-ebola-and-other-diseases-397940 https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2014/massive-thoughts http://www.carl-jung.net/collective_unconscious.html https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/education-and-platos-allegory-of-the-cave-bf7471260c50 http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/has-hypnosis-finally-been-vindicated-by-neuroscience.html https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/can-you-quit-smoking-through-hypnosis/391577/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hypnosis-memory-brain/  https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/26/cryptomnesia-psychology-of-writing/ http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb02/glitch.aspx https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/polar-night.html http://www.sciencelet.com/2012/10/what-causes-perpetual-daylight-and-darkness.html

Joya and Jeff watched the 2000 movie "The Beach"! Topics include: Communes for Future Technologists, Longest Open Swims on Record, Urban Legends, and Secret Societies! Links: https://www.cultofmac.com/125656/this-lsd-love-guru-turned-gold-mining-billionaire-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/ http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/10/steve_jobs_at_reed_did_he_name.html http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2012olympics/2012-07/31/content_15635774.htm http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-ocean-swim https://matadornetwork.com/pulse/ate-beating-heart-live-snake-vietnam-heres-ill-never/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-societies-you-might-not-know-180958294/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html?utm_term=.4085ec641b2e http://mentalfloss.com/article/87935/origins-6-terrifying-urban-legends-and-classic-campfire-stories https://www.livescience.com/7107-urban-legends-start-persist.html

Joya and Jeff watched the 2001 Jet Li movie "The One"! Topics include: Parallel Universes, String Theory, "Internal" Martial Arts Styles, Parkour, and Steroids! Links: https://www.muscleforlife.com/side-effects-of-steroids/ https://www.livescience.com/3349-steroids-work.html https://www.livescience.com/39074-what-is-an-mri.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/mri1.htm http://www.dummies.com/education/science/physics/string-theory-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/ http://www.energyarts.com/hsing-i-chuan http://www.energyarts.com/bagua-zhang-martial-arts https://www.space.com/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/22/579666359/scientific-theory-and-the-multiverse-madness http://www.learnmoreparkour.com/how-to-parkour-article-4.htm https://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/19/beginners-guide-to-parkour/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Memento"! Topics include: Types of Amnesia, How Memories Are stored, Ginkgo Biloba, and How Polaroids Work! Links: https://petapixel.com/2011/05/18/how-polaroid-instant-film-works/ https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question605.htm https://bebrainfit.com/ginkgo-biloba-benefits/ http://www.human-memory.net/processes_storage.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Short Circuit"! Topics include: What a 'Short Circuit' actually is, Speed-Reading, War Robots Going Rogue, The "Memory Palace" Technique, and the Earliest Tanks! Note: We recorded this episode before the recent controversy surrounding Aziz Ansari, which is why we don't mention it when discussing his take on Fisher Stevens (a white actor who played an Indian man in 'Short Circuit'). And we still think the conversation was an important one to have, but just a head's up in case you're wondering! Happy listening! Links: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-tank-produced https://www.thespruce.com/what-causes-short-circuits-4118973 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/us_war_robot_rebellion_iraq/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/big-question-speed-reading-actually-possible/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/06/how-much-can-you-really-learn-while-youre-asleep https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/experiments-show-we-really-can-learn-while-we-sleep-141518869/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Truman Show"! Topics include: The Truman Show Delusion, Why We Believe Conspiracies, Japanese Contest Show "Nasubi", and Norman Rockwell! Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgC_nkU2sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzueQK-Q7gI http://www.businessinsider.com/believing-conspiracy-theories-makes-people-feel-special-2017-9

Joya, Jeff and special guest Rachel Bloom watched the movie “Space Jam”! Topics include: Rachel's "Space Jam" Musical Sketch, the Deepest Living Organisms, Hollow Earth Theory, the invention of Basketball, the Placebo effect, and a discussion about the intersection of Art and Commerce!  Links: https://gizmodo.com/terrifying-facts-about-the-worlds-deepest-gold-mine-1484301368 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110601-deepest-worm-earth-devil-science-animals-life/ https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/7/15792188/placebo-effect-explained

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cube"! Topics include: Prime Numbers, Problem Solving on LSD, Savants and Booby Trapped Houses! LINKS: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/10-most-fascinating-savants-in-the-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/nature/how-does-dead-sea-salt-form-giant-cubes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7K5KjOdLD8

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Predator"! Topics include: The Discovery of Infrared (and how to avoid Infrared Detection), Invisibility Cloaks, Awesome Animal Camouflage, and, of course, Choppas! Links: https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/helicopter.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_vulture https://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ir_tutorial/discovery.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Happening"! Topics include: Ergot Poisoning, Harmful Algal Blooms, The Bystander Effect, and Why Body Parts Sag! Links: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Salem-Witch-Trials-The-Fungus-Theory/ https://seanmunger.com/2014/02/20/we-interrupt-this-program-the-terrifying-ebs-false-alarm-of-1971/ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/02/most_dangerous_mushroom_death_cap_is_spreading_but_poisoning_can_be_treated.html https://www.wired.com/2008/06/the-happening-s/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a3365/4268571/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/bystander-effect https://www.verywell.com/the-bystander-effect-2795899 http://themedicinejournal.com/articles/do-your-ears-and-nose-continue-to-grow-as-you-age/

Joya and Jeff watched the Van Damme movie "Timecop"! Topics include: Lost Confederate Gold, Quantum Computing, The Double Slit Experiment, and Freezing and Shattering Your Dead Body! Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10 http://www.promessa.se/about-life-death/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22280/double-slit-experiment-even-weirder/ https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/13/researchers-say-there-may-be-140m-worth-of-confederate-gold-at/21884507/ http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-timecop-modern-masterpiece/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/time-travel-possible-time-machine-dr-who-tardis-spacetime-university-of-british-columbia-university-a7711411.html http://time.com/4517897/nobel-prize-physics-2016/  https://www.popsci.com/what-is-quantum-cryptography

Joya and Jeff watched the Sci-Fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" Topics include: Killer Robots, Pooping in Space, The Origins of Man, and The Future of Humanity! Links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-big-questions-about-the-future-of-humanity/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-first-tool-users.html https://www.space.com/28150-zero-gravity-day-hoax.html https://blog.bufferapp.com/promote-a-podcast https://airwaysmag.com/airchive/pan-am-ceases-operations/ https://petergreenberg.com/2014/05/02/you-wont-believe-what-pan-am-planes-looked-like/ https://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/is-the-future-crap-a-comparison-of-toilets-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-and-the-2013-iss/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/bathroom-in-space.htm http://www.macroevolution.net/australopithecines.html

This week we put together a handful of our favorite segments from the first 49 episodes of the show!

Joya and Jeff watched the movie “Super Mario Bros.” Topics include: The Dino Extinction Event, Mario Bros, Parallel Universes, and Antimatter! LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_COcHHvte-0 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/apr/26/competing-claims-over-cause-of-cosmic-cold-spot https://www.britannica.com/science/K-T-extinction https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/science/chicxulub-crater-dinosaur-extinction.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

Joya and Jeff watched the 1993 classic "Jurassic Park"! Topics include: The Discovery of Dinosaurs, Ancient Amber, Bringing Back the Wooly Mammoth, and Chaos Theory! LINKS: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-fossil-reveals-velociraptor-sported-feathers/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chaos-theory-simplified-droplet/ http://www.abarim-publications.com/ChaosTheoryIntroduction.html#.WfZWiRNSwdU http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos_theory http://mentalfloss.com/article/73608/15-clear-facts-about-amber https://selfhacked.com/blog/lysine-health-benefits/#Symptoms_Of_Lysine_Deficiency

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"! Topics include: UFOs, Dolphin Communication, The Bermuda Triangle, and The Game Simon! LINKS: http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-with-a-human/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/swedish-startup-uses-ai-to-figure-out-what-dolphins-talk-about http://www.cracked.com/article_18690_5-ufo-sightings-that-even-non-crazy-people-find-creepy.html http://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-flight-19 http://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle-may-finally-be-solved/ http://www.history.com/topics/bermuda-triangle http://www.unmuseum.org/mob/triangle.htm http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1302005 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/not-so-simple-simon-proved-young-were-swifter-than-old-180953561/ http://mashable.com/2016/02/11/simon-air-touch-free/#tXsC6EHBPGqD

Joya, Jeff and special guest Ryan Kasmiskie watched the movie “Evolution”! Topics include: The Gaia Theory, Planarian Flatworms, Metabolism, and Arsenic Based Life! Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/61665/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-planarians http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/12/this_paper_should_not_have_been_published.html https://www.nature.com/news/arsenic-life-bacterium-prefers-phosphorus-after-all-1.11520 https://science.howstuffworks.com/napalm.htm https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/pyura-chilensis-the-closest-thing-to-getting-blood-from-a-stone/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie “The Abyss”! Topics include: Liquid Ventilation, Atmospheric Diving Suits, Bioluminescence, and Why Chlorine Turns Your Hair Green! Links: http://www.history.com/news/the-midget-subs-that-beat-the-planes-to-pearl-harbor https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/aug/21/james-cameron-on-deepsea-challenge-im-not-just-some-rich-guy-on-a-ride https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060414015051.htm https://gizmodo.com/the-evolution-of-the-atmospheric-diving-suit-1537111854 https://gizmodo.com/this-awesome-next-generation-exosuit-goes-1-000-feet-un-1532765164 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iron-man-like-exosuit-to-expand-ocean-exploration-video/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cameron-deep-sea-drug-research/ https://www.swimuniversity.com/why-blonde-hair-turns-green-in-your-swimming-pool/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Gremlins"! Topics include: "Gremlins in the Machine", Asexual Reproduction, Animal Songs, and the History of Chuck E. Cheese! Links: http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/09/09/gremlins-highly-mechanical-creatures-in-mythology/ https://byjus.com/biology/fragmentation/ https://gearjunkie.com/swiss-army-knife-history http://www.care2.com/causes/5-animals-you-didnt-know-can-sing.html https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/8-unexpected-animals-that-sing/people-arent-the-only-animals-that-can#top-desktop http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-rat-population-is-hard-to-measure-2017-8 http://www.newsweek.com/new-york-kids-are-running-away-rats-bigger-their-baby-sisters-so-citys-635652 http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/472-17/de-blasio-administration-32-million-neighborhood-rat-reduction-plan#/0 http://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545333203/say-goodbye-to-the-pizza-time-players-chuck-e-cheese-retires-its-band https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kkn7y/a-history-of-chuck-e-cheeses-animatronic-band

Joya and Jeff watched “Edward Scissorhands”! Topics include: Opposable Thumbs, Topiaries, Automatons and Waterbeds! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-do-humans-have-thumbs-180953393/ http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=49036 http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-early-robots-and-automatons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed https://www.boredpanda.com/dragon-shaped-hedge-topiary-john-brooker/ http://home.howstuffworks.com/gardening/garden-design/topiary.htm https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/the-5-strangest-cemeteries-in-the-world http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1067055-the-craziest-graveyards-in-the-world https://www.vincentprice.com/ https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025

Joya and Jeff watched the 1995 movie "Judge Dredd"! Topics include: Megacities, Puzzles, Cannibalism and Police States! Links: https://www.ancient.eu/Janus/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/22/515668867/cannibalism-its-perfectly-natural-a-new-scientific-history-argues http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-hammurabis-code http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/statue-of-liberty-arrives-in-new-york-harbor https://www.siammandalay.com/blogs/puzzles/95858310-chronological-history-of-puzzles-a-timeline http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/why-solving-puzzles-is-fun-qa-with-consciousness-researcher-daniel-bor/ http://www.wonderslist.com/countries-worst-police-brutality/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/08/31/us-worst-police-state-world-numbers

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Anaconda"! Topics include: Crazy Anaconda Facts, Dynamite, New Nature Doc Technology, and Totem Poles!  Links: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/snake-eating-cat-whole-in-brisbane-backyard-not-for-the-fainthearted/news-story/12479bc277158237d0465dc0482f41d1 http://listverse.com/2014/08/30/10-wild-facts-about-the-amazon-rainforest/ https://youtu.be/0ktd1gdgcfE http://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/dynamite_history/370/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/60015/11-fun-facts-about-anacondas http://ipfactly.com/anacondas/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/68816/6-sssecrets-snake-sound-scientissst https://www.wired.com/2017/03/crazy-new-camera-tech-made-planet-earth-2-possible/ http://www.ranker.com/list/totem-pole-facts/t-l-perez

Joya and Jeff watched the 2000 Schwarzenegger movie "The 6th Day"! Topics include: Pet Cloning, the Human Genome Project, Fingerprints, and the XFL!     Links! http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/i-spent-more-than-100000-to-clone-my-dog/ https://viagenpets.com http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/xfl-espn-30-for-30-vince-mcmahon-dick-ebersol-1201976706/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-years-after-dolly-the-sheep-led-the-way-where-is-cloning-now/ https://www.pcmag.com/news/350867/smart-fridge-showdown-lg-smart-instaview-vs-samsung-family https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/human_genome.htm https://www.genome.gov/12011238/an-overview-of-the-human-genome-project/ https://www.genome.gov/11006943/human-genome-project-completion-frequently-asked-questions/ http://www.fingerprintamerica.com/fingerprinthistory.asp http://www.crimescene-forensics.com/History_of_Fingerprints.html

Joya and Jeff watched "Beetlejuice"! Topics include: Purgatory, 'Betelgeuse' the Star, The Winchester Mystery House, Why Ghosts Wear Sheets, and A Brief History on Goths!

Joya, Jeff and special guest Dan Eckman watched the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"! Topics include: How We’re Mostly Made of Empty Space, The Homunculus, The History of the Remote Control, and How Honey is Basically Bee Puke!

Joya and Jeff watched the 2002 Eddie Murphy movie "The Adventures of Pluto Nash"!   Topics include: Cloning Pets, How Battery Acid Works, Artificial Gravity, Mining in Space, and Oxygen Bars!

Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie "The Mummy"!   Topics include: Ancient Boobytraps, Mummification, the Truth Behind the Ten Biblical Plagues, Scarabs, and how Mirages Work!

Joya and Jeff watched the 1996 movie "Mission: Impossible"! Topics include: Crazy Spy Gizmos and Techniques, Super-vaults, Floppy Disks, Face Masks, and Smoking On Planes!  

Joya and Jeff watched the 1978 movie "Piranha"!Topics Include: Crazy Piranha Facts, Killer Algae, Electric Fences, and Weird Government Experiments to Weaponize Animals! 

Joya and Jeff watched the 1988 movie "The Blob"!Topics include: Animal digestive systems, the history of health insurance in the United States, fun uses for plungers, and the truth about Pop Rocks!

Joya and Jeff watched Guillermo Del Toro's "Mimic"!Topics include: biomimicry, how insects breathe, "royal jelly", the "mole people" of the New York subways, and forensic entomology!