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The Hive Mind
What if the scariest thing about a hive mind isn't losing yourself, but finding out you never had a self to lose? Resistance may be futile.
May 27
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
2
6
1
1:18:00
The Mini: Planetary Defense
The crew revisits Near Earth Objects, Dante's Inferno maybe the first asteroid impact story, and "Science Holes" about smart fart-tracking underwear and…
May 20
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
3
1
1
45:00
Saving Earth from Other Worldly Impact
Tracking Near-Earth Objects, DART, tabletop defense games, and Starship Trooper conspiracies. The Rabbit Hole of Research crew heads to the Basement…
May 13
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
2
7
1:24:20
The Mini: Living Underground
The crew revisits living underground, lunar lava tube safety, and drops into a science hole about a Stanford discovery that rewrites how we think life…
May 6
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
1
3
37:00
Living Underground: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial
On the day Artemis II launched, the RHR crew headed down below the Basement Studio to ask the question fiction keeps digging up, can humans live…
Apr 29
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
1
2
1:14:00
The Mini: Splatterpunk
The crew revisits fear and horror, Georgia watches Blair Witch for the first time, and their Slay the Lake road trip. Science news: CRISPR defenses…
Apr 22
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
3
3
45:00
Fear, Phobias, and Splatterpunk: When Terror Becomes Entertainment
The RHR crew explores the neuroscience of fear, the psychology of disgust, and the genre brave enough to find out exactly where terror ends and…
Apr 15
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
6
5
1
1:17:30
The Mini: Lassoing Truth
The crew revisits truth, maps, flat Earthers, and April Fool's history. Science news: Artemis II, found time, zombie cells, and a spider disguised as a…
Apr 8
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
2
4
39:00
Lassoing the Truth Serum
No April Fools here. Philosopher David Detmer joins the RHR crew to explore the neuroscience, philosophy, and social forces that make telling the truth…
Apr 1
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
10
1:07:30
The Mini: Let's Chat about the HUMAN in AI
The RHR crew revisits chatbots and human connection, turning AI evil, neurons playing Doom, and functional recovery of cryopreserved mouse brains.
Mar 25
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
2
1
45:30
The Science of Chatbots & Future of Human Connection
What happens when machines learn to talk back? We explore the cognitive science of chatbots, the illusion of understanding, and whether we're…
Mar 18
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
5
10
2
1:19:00
The Mini: Future of Medicine
The RHR crew talks about health-span over lifespan, then dives into seed preservation, apple varieties, cloning clarifications, and pig liver…
Mar 11
•
Jotham Austin, II PhD
,
Nick Elizalde
, and
Georgia Geis
4
3
1
37:31
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