Archive for March, 2015

Podcast: Tubular

Sunday, March 29th, 2015
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How big could a space base in a lava tube be? Mining towns on the moon. The niche worlds of colonized asteroids.
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Andrew: It Follows and Halt and Catch Fire

Brian: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Justin: House of Cards and Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling

Amazing Kreskin Opens Supernatural Dating Site – Predicts It Will Take Dating to a New Dimension

Friday, March 27th, 2015

In a move only he could’ve seen coming…you know….because he’s who he is…the Amazing Kreskin has opened the gates on a new dating site…

A site for “enthusiasts of the paranormal, the unexplained, the mystical, the implausible…”

While we’re pretty sure the guy-to-girl ratio will probably be a lot like a magic club, Kreskin is predicting (yeah…we know) great things for the site:

“I have a feeling that it’s going to take on a dimension that I never realized.”

With Kreskin’s foresight that online graphic design will eventually swing back around to the geocities-era of the internet, the site will probably lure a niche market of older folks who have seen, captured or smelled a bigfoot or been abducted by time-traveling Atlanteans who need love just like the rest of us.

Which brings up some questions: What sort of beings are looking for love? Will they all be human or other things in diguise? Are there vampires and werewolves worried about the fall out from a public tryst in light of the Twilight movies? Are there off-world species seeking to swing it with a human for a cheap thrill on their way to somewhere else? Are the reptilians using the site for some sinister plot? Will other creatures find that someone special without having to brave daylight, pitchforks and torches?

Or is it just a bunch of lonely, probably really nice people just looking for a little companionship in a big and often harsh, ridiculing reality?

Answers will only come with time…

And filling out the sign up page.

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Experience the McGurk Effect: Like Weird Magic

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

The McGurk effect is something that you’ll just have to hit play on the video above to experience.

It’s like some weird magic trick and the secret is that your brain, eyes and ears have to work together to make things understandable.

But sometimes? They’re like awful college roomies and there’s a whole lot of misunderstanding going on.

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After Things: Work Versus Trophy

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
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Understanding and acting on multiple projects within your other obligations. When does money motivate you and when does it stifle your projects?
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Podcast: The Case of the Lead Mask Case

Monday, March 23rd, 2015
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Charting the mysteries of our world. Where’s the line between religion and cult? Where is MagicLeap?
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Andrew: Interstellar

Brian: Heroes of the Storm

Justin: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

MARS ONE: Mars-Bound Candidate Walks Away – Pulls Back the Curtain Revealing a Mess or is it?

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

Since the first announcement of the Mars One program, people have either picked up the story and hailed it with headlines trumpeting our colonization of the red planet or they’ve been standing there with confused looks slapped on their faces. Media outlets have just accepted that Mars One is taking us to Mars and we should all be excited.

Now the curtain has been lifted on Mars One…

By an actual finalist who’s basically packed his bags and walked away from it all.

Joseph Roche, one of the final candidates for the one-way trip to Mars, has walked away from the program recently and is revealing everything that he’s experienced during his time with Mars One.

Originally media and Mars One reported that 300,000 potential one-way ticket holders had applied.

Roche claims it’s less than 3,000 applicants.

Mars One boasted of the lengthy interview process.

Roche says it came down to a 10 minute Skype interview.

Mars One claims that there are billions behind this whole program.

Roche revealed that applicants contribute financially by spending money on Mars One merchandise to earn points.

Mars One’s selection process sounds more like a cross between filling out a Jelly of the Month Club application, joining Amway and learning that QVC is going to launch one in every ten callers to the moon if they also purchase the bonus steel cutlery set.

Roche’s revelations came about because he’s worried just how badly this entire “program” could affect the popularity that space exploration is currently enjoying:

“My nightmare about it is that people continue to support it and give it money and attention, and it then gets to the point where it inevitably falls on its face. If, as a result, people lose faith in NASA and possibly even in scientists, then that’s the polar opposite of what I’m about. If I was somehow linked to something that could do damage to the public perception of science, that is my nightmare scenario.”

In response to Roche’s claims and the interviewer, Elmo Keep, the man behind Mars One, Bas Lansdorp responded to the allegations that Mars One is quickly falling apart:

So what is actually happening at Mars One? Who knows. But even with the two year delay Lansdorp announced? The first Mars One unmanned mission is only five years away.

In 12 years we’re either going to look back and laugh at Mars One…

Or we’re going to be crossing our fingers and holding our breath when those first four astronauts are sitting in a rocket aimed at the sky.

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After Things: Triggerclip

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
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Andrew details his new 3D printed product, Triggerclip, and talks about the design process. Andrew shares a talk from the DLD Conference from Scott Galloway.
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Episode: I Have A Rock

Sunday, March 15th, 2015
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Water found on another planet. A few predictions for 2015. 3D video on YouTube–could artificial memories be far off?
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Andrew: Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Brian: How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

Justin: Meerkat

After Things: Hooked on Printing

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
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The Boys talk more about “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”. What’s more inspiring: a blank sheet of paper or repeated trial-and-error? Also, some printer talk.
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Episode: Murder Most Fowl

Sunday, March 8th, 2015
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Skepticism over the “punch-drunk gorilla” surfaces. Something killed 300,00 chickens in South Carolina and Spiro and The Fudge reunite for one last case. A horrifying animal prison break.
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Andrew: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Brian: Nerdcourt on Skybound and How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery

Justin: Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

After Things: Hyperloopy

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
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RIP Leonard Nimoy. Cred amongst “geek” and other subcultures. Forecast of the hyperloop and other public transportation tech.
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Episode: Monster Meat

Sunday, March 1st, 2015
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Spiro and The Fudge are back to investigate a mysterious death. When an owl attack isn’t the strangest part of the story. Mysterious glowing over New Mexico.

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Andrew: Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

Brian: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

Justin: Daily Tech News Show