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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Podcasts · Science

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

1,679 episodes · 20 with AI analysis

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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Akira Kurosawa's filmmaking philosophy and directorial approachDream logic and surrealism in cinemaJapanese folklore and yokai in film adaptationNuclear anxiety and environmental disaster in post-war Japanese cinemaTechnology versus nature in modern societyIndividual responsibility versus collective blameMortality and acceptance in traditional Japanese cultureVincent van Gogh's artistic vision and influenceWorld War II trauma and military responsibilityHinamatsuri and Japanese cultural traditions

Analyzed Episodes

Jun 8, 2026

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

Akira Kurosawa's filmmaking philosophy and directorial approachDream logic and surrealism in cinemaJapanese folklore and yokai in film adaptation

Jun 9, 2026

STBYM Listener Mail: All Reason Departs

Star Wars Sith Philosophy and Master-Slave DialecticsGenesis Creation Narrative Translation and CosmologyFulgarites in Fantasy Media and Game Design

Jun 10, 2026

The Monstrefact: The Purple People Eater

1950s Novelty Music HistoryPurple People Eater Song AnalysisMythological Creature Taxonomy

Jun 11, 2026

Diatoms and Diatomaceous Earth, Part 1

Diatom biology and cellular structureDiatomaceous earth composition and propertiesMechanical insecticide mechanisms

May 26, 2026

From the Vault: You’ve Got Pee-Mail, Part 1

Amazon River Dolphin (Boto) Behavior and EcologyUrine-Based Animal Communication SystemsVoluntary Urination Control Mechanisms

Jun 12, 2026

Weirdhouse Cinema: Paganini Horror

Italian Gothic Horror Film Production (1980s)Development Hell and Script EvolutionLow-Budget Genre Film Financing Strategies

Jun 13, 2026

From the Vault: The Manta Ray, Part 1

Manta ray biology and anatomyFilter feeding mechanisms and plankton consumptionManta ray social feeding behaviors and group dynamics

May 5, 2026

Star Wars Week 2026, Part 1: Hoth

Tauntaun creature design and morphologyWampa predator behavior and ecologyHypothermia survival techniques

May 6, 2026

The Monstrefact: The Miraluka of "Star Wars"

Miraluka species biology and Force sensitivityStar Wars creature design and loreEvolutionary sensory adaptation

May 9, 2026

From the Vault: The Great Eye of Jupiter, Part 1

Jupiter's Great Red Spot atmospheric dynamicsAnti-cyclonic versus cyclonic storm systemsCoriolis effect in planetary atmospheres

May 11, 2026

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Daughters of Darkness

Vampire mythology and Lady Bathory historical references in cinemaPsychological horror and relationship dynamics in filmVisual symbolism and color theory in cinematography

May 12, 2026

From the Book of Sand

Fulgurites and lightning-formed glassSand as ballistic protection materialRegolith engineering for space construction

May 14, 2026

STBYM Listener Mail: Darkness There and Nothing More

Spatial Orientation and Inversion IllusionsCognitive Heuristics in Artistic PerceptionStar Wars Expanded Universe Lore

May 15, 2026

Weirdhouse Cinema: Mutant Hunt

Practical Effects and Puppetry in Low-Budget Cinema1980s Cyberpunk Aesthetics and Visual LanguageGuerrilla Filmmaking Techniques in Urban Locations

May 16, 2026

From the Vault: The Great Eye of Jupiter, Part 2

Jupiter's Great Red Spot formation and originAtmospheric chromophores and color mechanisms on gas giantsJovian atmospheric structure and zonal wind patterns

May 18, 2026

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Mothra vs. Godzilla

Godzilla franchise chronology and thematic evolutionKaiju film monster design and practical effects techniquesPost-war Japanese cinema and social commentary

May 19, 2026

Way of the Sith, Continued: Palp Facts

Anger and Performance Enhancement in Goal PursuitRumination and Self-Sustaining Negative Emotional CyclesFunctional Accounts of Emotions in Evolutionary Psychology

May 20, 2026

The Monstrefact: The Hammerpedes of “Prometheus”

Prometheus film creature designBlack Goo biological pathogen mechanicsXenomorphic life form evolution

May 21, 2026

The Science of Rumination, with Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Default Mode Network and rumination neuroscienceMIST Framework for interrupting thought loopsRumination as survival response and evolutionary biology

May 13, 2026

The Monstrefact Omnibus: Even More Marvel Monsters

Galactus and cosmic horror in science fictionFermi Paradox and extraterrestrial life hypothesesDark Forest Hypothesis and cosmic silence