Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 42min
Horror Vacui, Part 2
Nature abhors a vacuum… and so do we? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the subject of horror vacui as it relates to philosophy, physics and the arts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 18, 2023 • 5min
The Monstrefact: The Tyranids of Warhammer 40K
In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the extragalactic threat of the alien Tyranids from the Warhammer 40K universe…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 17, 2023 • 39min
Horror Vacui, Part 1
Nature abhors a vacuum… and so do we? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the subject of horror vacui as it relates to philosophy, physics and the arts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 16, 2023 • 24min
Listener Mail: Another Morning
Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 14, 2023 • 1h 5min
From the Vault: The Kuleshov Effect, Part 2
What is the character in the film looking at? How does the object of their vision color how we interpret their countenance? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the Kuleshov effect from film theory and what studies in experimental psychology and neuroscience reveal. (01/27/2022)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 21min
Weirdhouse Cinema: Jason X
In this special Friday the 13th episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe blast into the future of terror with 2001’s “Jason X.” That’s right, with their 100th film selection, they finally venture into a new decade, century and millennium of cinema. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 12, 2023 • 54min
Humans Throwing Stuff
Focusing on the human animal, Robert and Joe continue their discussion of throwing ability and ponder how throwing ability may have impacted everything from language to ancient warfare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 11, 2023 • 5min
The Monstrefact: The Four Guards of ‘Labyrinth’
In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the four guards from the 1986 film ‘Labyrinth” and their paradoxical relationship to the truth…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 10, 2023 • 50min
Animals Throwing Stuff, Part 3
Ever longed to play a game of catch with an octopus or a chimpanzee? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss animal throwing ability. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 9, 2023 • 25min
Listener Mail: Dawn is a Feeling
Once more, it's time for a weekly dose of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and Weirdhouse Cinema listener mail...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
