Oh, That's a Thing!

Episode 61 - Inherent Inheritance

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

Episode 60 - Psychedelic Pilgrims

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

Episode 59 - The Art of Flight

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/

Episode 58 - Living That Goldfish Life

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

Episode 57 - Robot With a Personality Disorder

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

Episode 56 - Things Got Dark and Funny

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

Episode 55 - Imaginary Friend Fantasies - With Special Guest Rachel Bloom

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

Episode 54 - Think Outside the Cube

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

Episode 53 - Social Chameleon

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

Episode 52 - The Code Word Is "My Bad"

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/