Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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.Social links:
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The Monstrefact Redux: The Mummy
In this classic episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the undead mummies of horror cinema and where they emerge from in modern Egyptomania… (originally published 10/25/2023)
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Urohidrosis: A Case of the Urine Sweats
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss urohidrosis: the avian habit of urinating and/or defecating onto the scaly parts of one’s own legs. Find out what it’s all about…
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Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Return to Oz
In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe venture into the magical world of Oz – not the 1939 version, but the dark fantasy stylings of 1985’s “Return to Oz,” featuring electrotherapy, nightmarish wheelers and other strange delights. (originally published 08/19/2022)
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From the Vault: The Search For Alien Life, with Astrophysicist Adam Frank
In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert discusses big questions, fears and possibilities concerning extraterrestrial life with astrophysicist Adam Frank, author of “The Little Book of Aliens.” (originally published 11/02/2023)
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Weirdhouse Cinema: The Face Behind the Mask
In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe celebrate Noirvember with a viewing of the 1941 Robert Florey crime film “The Face Behind the Mask,” starring the legendary Peter Lorre.
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Sacred Trees of the World
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the various sacred trees of the world, including the giant sequoias of North America and the ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua of Hawaii.
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The Artifact: Roman Dodecahedrons
In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses the mysterious Roman dodecahedra…
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The Edge of Sentience, with Jonathan Birch
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Jonathan Birch about his new book “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.”
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Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Ship of Monsters
Are you ready for a 1960 Mexican sci-fi comedy involving multiple alien monsters, space vampires, interplanetary politics and several música norteña songs? Also a robot falls in love with a jukebox. Rob and Joe discuss it all in this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema. (originally published 9/3/2…
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From the Vault: Where the Shadows Lie, Part 2
In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dive into the world of shadows. How do human conceptions of shadows factor into our literature, art, history and monster making? What does it mean to cast a monstrous shadow, or to cast no shadow at all? Find out… (originally publis…
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