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A podcast by two STEM graduate students that brings sometimes incomprehensible science into an easy-to-digest package and combats misconceptions plaguing our current economic, political, and social landscape.

S3E6: Glitch in the Matrix

Have you ever experienced something so strange that you were convinced you were dreaming, crazy, or even living in a simulation? Did you think Nelson ...
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S3E5: Who Is the True Monster?

Monsters are a part of every culture in the world, but how can we link them to discoveries in science, and how do they evolve based on these discoveri...
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S3E4: Give Up the Ghost

Ghosts are a supernatural phenomenon that has captured the imagination -- and fear -- of people for millennia. But are there scientific explanations f...
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S3E2: Tick Tock, On The Clock

We are currently 100 seconds from midnight in 2020, but what exactly does that mean? In this episode, we talk about the Doomsday Clock, invented by sc...
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S3E1: Boom Goes the Dino-mite

Dinosaurs fascinated all of us as children, but did you know how many connections are found between these giant ancient lizards and creatures of lore ...
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S2E12: Don't Fear the Reaper

We sit down with Trevor Motley to discuss organ and tissue recovery (or is it harvesting? Farming? Mining?), how tissues are recovered, and the organ ...
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S2E11: I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

We finish up our two-parter on personality disorders by discussing Cluster B, such as narcissistic and borderline personality disorders, and Cluster C...
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S2E10: The Cult of Personality

In the first of our two-part series on personality disorders, we discuss the differences between mood, psychotic, and personality disorders, the clust...
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