Oh, That's a Thing!

Episode 81 - Survival of the Most Empathic

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/

Episode 80 - The Ultimate Harsh Environment

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

Episode 79 - But There Is a Spoon

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/

 

Episode 78 - Life's a Bitch and Then You Don't Die

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

Episode 77 - Like Looking in a Mirror... Only Not

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

Episode 76 - Extreme Coping

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

Episode 75 - Kids Can Be Tactless

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

Episode 74 - Lame Duck

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

Episode 73 - The Cassandra Complex

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

Episode 72 - Deep In the (Uncanny) Valley

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/