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AIRSHIPS With Joe Scott!

AIRSHIPS With Joe Scott!

technology, elon musk, engineering, historyPhilip ShaneJuly 22, 2022

Galileo Sees The WEBB Images!

Galileo Sees The WEBB Images!

cosmology, aliens, audience, communication, evolution, psychology, society, technologyPhilip ShaneJuly 15, 2022

Beware ET Bearing GIFTS!

Beware ET Bearing GIFTS!

cosmology, aliens, audience, communication, evolution, psychology, society, technologyPhilip ShaneJuly 8, 2022

Carl SAGAN & The Alien MIND

Carl SAGAN & The Alien MIND

biology, psychology, aliens, astronomy, communication, evolution, history of science, mathematics, nasa, physics, scientific method, seti, technologyPhilip ShaneJune 17, 2022

ZAP That Cancer AWAY - with Dr. Frank KEARLY!

ZAP That Cancer AWAY - with Dr. Frank KEARLY!

biology, scientific method, physics, technologyPhilip ShaneMay 13, 2022guest

How To REBOOT Your Civilization!

How To REBOOT Your Civilization!

technology, society, communication, engineering, history, scifi, apocalypse, religion, teachingPhilip ShaneApril 29, 2022

Summiting On MARS with Chris Carberry!

Summiting On MARS with Chris Carberry!

What the IF your next awesome science conference were taking place... on MARS?

technology, biology, society, astronauts, aliens, communication, engineering, environment, exploration, history, history of science, mars, nasa, news, scifi, space travelPhilip ShaneApril 22, 2022guests

Gecko STICKY Power!

Gecko STICKY Power!

scientific method, engineering, technology, biology, evolution, physics, societyPhilip ShaneApril 15, 2022

Quantum STEAMPUNK - With Theoretical Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern!

Quantum STEAMPUNK - With Theoretical Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern!

scientific method, history, einstein, engineering, history of science, physics, quantum mechanics, scifi, technologyPhilip ShaneApril 8, 2022guests, guest

AMOK Daylight Savings TIME!

AMOK Daylight Savings TIME!

engineering, history of science, history, physics, technologyPhilip ShaneMarch 12, 2022

No FOSSIL FUEL For You!

No FOSSIL FUEL For You!

biology, audience, climate change, ecology, engineering, environment, geology, history, technologyPhilip ShaneJanuary 29, 2022

No THUMBS For You!

No THUMBS For You!

biology, audience, evolution, space race, technologyPhilip ShaneJanuary 13, 2022

Riding GRAVITY FORCE ONE with KIRBY RUNYON

scientific method, astronauts, astrophysics, engineering, exploration, geology, nasa, physics, space travel, technologyPhilip ShaneJanuary 6, 2022guests

DUNE - Holy Spit!

DUNE - Holy Spit!

communication, scifi, technology, aliens, artificial intelligence, biology, climate change, ecology, economics, engineering, environment, evolution, religionPhilip ShaneJanuary 6, 2022

World War TROLLS? Social Media During WW2!

World War TROLLS? Social Media During WW2!

communication, history, scifi, society, technologyPhilip ShaneJanuary 6, 2022

The SUPERSTITION Industrial Complex

The SUPERSTITION Industrial Complex

Factories of LUCK!

history of science, scientific method, quantum mechanics, psychology, religion, skepticism, technologyPhilip ShaneOctober 29, 2021

The Industrial BICYCLE Revolution!

The Industrial BICYCLE Revolution!

What the if there were no internal combustion engines?

history of science, physics, audience, climate change, engineering, history, scifi, society, technologyPhilip ShaneOctober 1, 2021

NAKED Mars Rats!

Is it possible to bring these real life creatures to Mars to slowly terraform it, cultivating the land from underneath, rebuilding the atmosphere, for eventual Earth-like living?

physics, geology, technology, aliens, astronauts, biology, climate change, elon musk, engineering, environment, evolution, genetics, mars, scifiPhilip ShaneAugust 20, 2021

Can You BREATHE Like A WHALE? With Vanessa Pirotta!

Can You BREATHE Like A WHALE? With Vanessa Pirotta!

Living the life of the whale!

physics, astronomy, astrophysics, geology, history of science, skepticism, teaching, technologyPhilip ShaneAugust 15, 2021guests

The Dark Art of SUNSHINE

The Dark Art of SUNSHINE

physics, astronomy, astrophysics, geology, history of science, skepticism, teaching, technologyPhilip ShaneAugust 6, 2021