How does climate change happen? Is global warming real, or are we heading for a new ice age? What the hell is a Fourier Law? Why does my Grandma seem to all of a sudden have some serious opinions about infrared adsorption of hydrocarbons? Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who is the average American? What the heck is a Kessel run, and how can a measure of distance also be a measure of time? What’s the science march all about? Find out in this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Have you seen those amazing instagram photos of pieces of art depicting aliens walking around with pioneer Americans? Chances are those were pieces of work by Mark Rogers, a really amazing artist who is creating pieces of art to go with our modern mythology of UFO lore. In this episode we interview him on his work, his background, and where he gets his inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Does the Flat Earth theory hold any water? How does it relate to a sort of flat river in Norfolk? How about a donut shaped Earth? Just how do we know that the Earth is solid with an iron core? Find out on this weeks Episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode we’re getting serious about a psychic cat. Mr. Charles Utkins is no joke, and was sold for something like $80,000 to a Siberian witch. All our cats seem to make is noise. Join us on this weeks episode as we discuss the Steel needed to make the Death Star, Stephen King’s IT, and this very serious Russian Psychic Cat threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week I’m very proud to say that I got to have a sit down interview with Mick West, founder of Metabunk.org, Contrailscience.com, and overall debunker extraordinaire. We talk about how we got his start debunking, conspiracy theories, contrails, Morgellons Disease, and how listeners can get involved in promoting scientific and rational viewpoints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How much water is there on the Earth? What’s a Time Crystal? Is there a bomber floating in the bottom of a river in Pittsburgh? Find out on this week’s episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As a thank you to our fans, Pints and Puzzles and I are releasing this extra episode. This features us discussing how we got started in podcasting, our histories with the paranormal, and our top 5 favorite weird topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is the disease that people online seem to think is causing them to grow hairs out of their skin? How do diseases relate to memes, and what is the science behind Morgellons? Is there any proof to this disease, and if not who is out there trying to spread this information? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Could Marie’s friend fight a Bobcat? What’s the deal with Oak Island? Is Clean Coal really a thing? Find out in this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is the first folio real, or is that just a Nicholas Cage style movie thing? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is up with magical fruits and stuff, that supposedly cure everything you can possibly become sick with? Why do people believe this stuff, is there any science behind some of it, and who thought a thing called Noni berries would ever sell? Find out in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is the very first in a new series of content from the Mad Scientist Podcast, featuring Marie Mayhew as co-host! These episodes will be much less formal, and more open to wide ranging discussions, than the more serious full episodes. Expect Roundtables in future in the 2nd and 4th weeks of the month, with full episodes in the main series coming on the 1st and 3rd weeks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What does a scientist do every day? How does one become a scientist? How does science happen? Find out in this weeks episode, kicking off the multi part feature on fake diseases, weird cures, and medical quackery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy Holidays! What kinds of weird stuff does the Mad Scientist hear around the dinner table? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is Alchemy, what did the ancient Alchemists believe, and how does Alchemy still mess with our world today? Find out this week on the Mad Scientist Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quantum mechanics has become the go to scientific like argument for paranormal stuff. But what is quantum mechanics? How does it work, and how did it develop? And what are the sorts of arguments that people use to try and fix it towards paranormal stuff? What is the Uncertainty Principle? Is the cat alive or dead?! Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is the history of actually “mad scientists”, as opposed to a grad students that puts out a podcast? Where do we draw the line between a moral and immoral scientific test or question, and what about todays questionable scientific questions? And besides mad scientists, what about those that seem to be truly evil? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zombies are such a big horror movie staple now that I’ve almost grown to resent them. Can’t they leave us alone for a few minutes, while we look for food and try to rebuild society? Does it make sense that a virus could spread without anyone noticing, until its too late? What about zombies scare us, and what sort of stuff do the horror movies miss out on? Find out in this week’s episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Poltergeists have been around for as long as humans have been telling stories, but what sort of science is there to back them up? How do noisy ghosts relate to the speed of light, and what sort of thermodynamic rules are screwed up by telekinetics? Join me this week to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Could someone go missing in todays day and age? What are the chances of going missing, and how true to life are TV shows and books where people just leave it all behind? What is going on in Boston MA, causing a whole host of college aged men to go missing after leaving social events, only to turn up in the waters surrounding the city? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is the deal with all the movies, TV shows, and video games showing nuclear war or radioactive waste creating giant monsters, super heroes, or immortal zombie ghouls? How does radiation work, and what affects does it have on the body? Should you be wearing that tin-foil hat around the house, or is it much more effective outside the home? Answers to these questions and more in Episode 6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Spontaneous human combustion is one of the weirdest historical cases of the paranormal out there, and cases continue to occur into the modern era. Bodies are found which have seemed to have been consumed by flame, without any evidence of fire damage to the surrounding area. What is the scientific explanation for these cases? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why do people expect that paranormal entities will be able to communicate with us? Can a pet psychic really tell if my cat hates me? How would a multiple dimension work anyways? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is science? What is natural? Does natural mean good? Can paranormal claims be considered scientific? Answers to these questions (well, sort of answers) in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why are we absolutely obsessed with triangles and pyramids when it comes to the paranormal? Is there any reason to think that pyramids could generate power? How do lasers work anyways? Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the very first Mad Scientist Podcast episode! Does the Paranormal have a place in the modern world? Or are paranormal ideas simply leftovers of our not so distance past? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
