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Would you like more money? Sure, we all would. But how does greed breakdown in the human mind? Why does money feel so right and where’s the line between reasonable appreciation for the power of wealth and complete corruption?
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I dive into the world of Gordon Gekko, Scrooge McDuck and King Midas.
Blow Your Mind: Novelty Junkies and Neophilia
by Robert Lamb | March 8, 2012
Do you love new experiences and fresh ideas?
Do you maybe love them a little too much?
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I examine neophilia, the love of novelty. How can this swell-sounding human attribute lead one person down the road to ruin and another through a life of success?
When does mere appetite transform into disorder? And what are we to make of the monstrous “sport” of competitive eating? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I continue their science-guided tour of hell.
Join us as we chat with the gluttons of the Inferno’s third circle and consider modern forms of gluttony unimagined in Dante’s time.
Blow Your Mind: Tidally Locked Perpetual Darkness
by Robert Lamb | March 1, 2012
Why do we never see the moon’s backside? What would the Earth be like if one side always faced the sun? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I contemplate tidally locked planets and moons, where one side of the globe burns while the other freezes in perpetual darkness.
Along the way, I mention several science fiction visions of tidal locking, so let’s roll through those real quick…
Guided by science, Julie and I continue our journey through the pleasures and perils of the seven deadly sins. This time the vice of choice is envy, so prepare to discover the neuroscience behind schadenfreude in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. We discuss how a little envy can be a good thing and how quite a bit of it can lead to a workplace stabbing.
The Fantastic Voyage of Endoscopic Cameras
by Robert Lamb | February 23, 2012
Thanks to modern technology, you no longer have to turn yourself inside out to travel the cramped tunnels of your own digestive track. Just swallow a pill-shaped camera-bot, grab a bowl of pop corn, then just sit back and watch the bot traverse the 39-foot highway that is your guts. So join Julie and I as they look into the world of capsule endoscopy – which in turn take a look inside the world of us.
The Seven Deadlies: Pride Cometh Before the Brain
by Robert Lamb | February 22, 2012
Yes, Julie and I are here to guide you on a tour of the seven deadly sins. You know the lot: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony. In a series of podcasts, we’ll study each “sin” from a scientific, psychological and personal point of view. Plus, yeah, I’ll probably talk about hell and Satan a little bit.
Up first? The father of all sins: pride.
Blow Your Mind: In the Lair of the Rat King
by Robert Lamb | February 7, 2012
The furniture is chewed and the cupboard raided of every last crumb. Feces litters the house and very walls seem alive with the clawed scurry of diseased rodents. You’ve evacuated the the children, grandmama and the family dog.
Even now they seek refuge at the church, as you drive your axe into the floor and pull back splintered boards. As you cast your flickering lantern light down on the horror that squirms beneath your home: a dozen worm-like tails knotted in blood and excrement, gleaming mad eyes and the hideous shriek of the Rattenkönig.
Want to blast into space with Angelina Jolie and Stephen Hawking? Well Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic might just be your ticket to ride.
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I discuss the landmark space tourism venture and what it means for the future of manned space travel. Plus what might happen if Kanye West ventured into suborbital space?
Just what sort of hugger are you anyhow? Do you go squeeze random strangers in deep? Do you grapple your pals in a manly bear bug or go for the dreaded side-hug?
Our affectionate embraces come in a variety of forms and, in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I discuss the psychology, sociology and evolutionary science of hugging it out.
We’ll even get into the topic of man-hugs — and I think you may agree that the one in the accompanying photo may be the manliest hug of all time.
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