The DemystifySci Podcast

Why are there electric anomalies at so many ancient structures? Why do structures built outside the classical periods of complex civilizations fail to display the same anomalies? Why do seeds taken to the top of a Mayan pyramid germinate faster than those left behind in the hotel room? Why are so many ancient buildings built with telluric currents and ley lines in mind? These are just some of the questions that Cliff Dunning of Earth Ancients Radio helps us deal with in our attempt to understand a simple question: are modern humans really the first technologically advanced civilization to grace the face of the Earth?    Support Cliff and the Podcast by buying his latest book: https://amzn.to/3RCapRd Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB  #ancienthistory #electricuniverse #archeology                  Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S      PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.        - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y     SOCIAL:   - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:   -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

We take for granted today that public health systems around the world have the capacity to trace the progression of outbreaks, to determine how cancer clusters are linked to environmental effects, how dirty water causes outbreaks of transmissible illnesses... but where did all this knowledge come from? Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't from John Snow's identifying the origin of the Cholera epidemic as the pump on Broad Street. No, John Snow was using techniques that were passed to him fully formed. The real source of epidemiological tools lies in the brutal and bloody arc of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a finding that shocked Gettysburg College history professor Jim Downs when he found it buried in the dusty archives from which his research is sourced. Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB    Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S      PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog   - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y     SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci  MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This week we have Dr. Gerald Pollack on the show, who is here to tell us about the role of electricity in weather - but to get there, we have to go all the way to the beginning and deal with the structure of the atom, the nature of charge, and what are clouds, anyways? Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB #electricuniverse #science #weather Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Matthew Johnson searches for safe and powerful ways to utilize mind-altering drugs for positive change in psychiatric patients' lives. His psych lab at Johns Hopkins focuses on behavioral modification in the wake of psilocybin, salvia, DMT, and other psychedelic therapies. On this week's episode, Dr. Johnson waxes wild on escaped patients, CIA mind control, and the myriad hijinks and challenges associated with drugging patients in a laboratory. Can psychedelics be harnessed in a clinical setting or will they always require a more wild setting? Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB #psychedelic #science #smoking      Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience  Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671 1F0f1oeKCAZ93psUVNmg

Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta is a leader in heliophysics development at NASA who is very much interested in expanding the questions and paradigms being investigated. This week we talk with Lika about her favorite projects, including the use of AI to mine data and make new discoveries. She also opens up about new initiatives aimed at determining the exact relationship between solar weather and geoseismic activity. Are the tables turning in favor of fringe ideas at the mainstream flagship?   Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB #NASA #physics #electricuniverse     Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience  Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S      PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.        - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y     SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Edo Kaal believes that it would be more useful to think about the atomic nucleus in terms of architecture rather than abstract mathematics. His Structured Atom Model (SAM) addresses the material basis of whether or not an element is radioactive, how the isotopes differ from one another, how instability occurs for large elements after lead, why alpha decay occurs, and much, much more. We ask the obvious questions to try to understand the model better. Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB More on Edo's work: https://structuredatom.org/ Support both us and Edo when you pick up his book: https://amzn.to/3Q7tFVM 00:00 Go! 00:05:01 Are things on fire yet?   #atomic #physics #electricuniverse  Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience  Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S  PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music.  They are both freelance professors at various universities.  - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog  - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss  - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y  SOCIAL:  - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci  MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Did life emerging from the Earth itself? This week on AIRWAVES we talk to Dr. Karen Lloyd about the mysterious world of the deep, hot biosphere. Miles below our feet is a dark world of filled with creatures for whom we have no context, and who far outnumber those who bask in the light of the planet's surface. Who lives down there? How will they rewrite the book of biology? Are we ready for what we'll find in the depths? We talk origin of life, bacteria that AIRWAVES is a new audio-only series from DemystifySci where we explore topics that don't yet fit into the dialogues we're releasing here every week. Let us know what you think and which of these paths we should explore even farther. Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S        PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.          - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y       SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci   MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB We've all heard the popular theories explaining the clockwork cycle of glaciations that generally boil down to a series of overlapping eccentricities in the Earths' solar exposure. These Milankovitch cycles still don't entirely satisfy our need to explain the bistability of the system: what causes the Earth to regularly jump from glacial to interglacial over the course of a few tens to hundreds of years? Lance Weaver from Utah State Geology suggests the hypothesis that a true polar wander would neatly fill in the blanks, whereby some variety of mass imbalance would cause a true pole shift event that snapped the axis of the Earth between two stable barycenters. It would certainly explain why the periodic glaciers seem to be centered directly over Greenland instead of the North Pole. #poleshift #geology #iceage    Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience  Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S      PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.        - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y     SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

AIRWAVES is a new audio-only series from DemystifySci where we explore topics that don't yet fit into the dialogues we're releasing here every week. Let us know what you think and which of these paths we should explore even farther. Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S        PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.          - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y       SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci   MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

What will the world look like when humans step into technological maturity and take evolution into their own hands? Philosopher and transhumanist David Pearce believes that this is an inevitable step in human development, and that we must turn our attention to the most noble cause imaginable - the alleviation of unnecessary suffering. But just because we can, does that mean we should?    Support the scientific revolution with a monthly donation: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB  Or by buying a book (affiliate links): David Pearce's Can Biotech Abolish Suffering?: https://amzn.to/3cECfwz Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/3csFdnC Benjamin Todd's 80,000 Hours: https://amzn.to/3POefFx Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save: https://amzn.to/3czDJIm Humans v. Transhumans  #transhumanism #stoicism #evolution           Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience   Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S      PODCAST INFO:  Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.        - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog    - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y     SOCIAL:    - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC:    -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671