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Have no fear, listeners, for Abby and Sarah finally reveal how to make a real-life Philosopher's Stone! This week is all about Genshin Impact, the great work of alchemists, and some recipes that are questionably about food..Resources:1. Read, J
We're back from our hiatus and on a new Thursday release schedule! This week, Marcus and Abby jump through the multiverse as they try to record this episode, explain the man behind the many-worlds theory, and find some hope in our parallel exis
Persona 5 is a fever dream of a JRPG, so it's no surprise that the protagonists' friendships are labeled with the major arcana from a tarot deck. From Italy to France (but DEFINITELY not Egypt), tarot cards have been used for gaming, divination
This week we discuss Mass Effect and faster-than-light travel. Scientists may not have figured out how to make it work yet, but we crack the solution wide open. Spoiler alert: it’s hatred..Resources:1. Baez, J. (1998) "Is Faster-Than-Light Trav
In this episode, we continue our discussion of Battlestar Galactica and AI. We go into more details about the underlying technology, and how decentralization can save us from a dystopian future. Also, our love of Michael B. Jordan..Resources:Jo
The debate about whether AI are really human is a key feature of Battlestar Galactica, so this week we discuss the history of real-world AI, the philosophy behind AI personhood, and the ways in which computers “dreaming” mimics human behavior.
In our last episode for The Viscount Who Loved Me, Abby discusses pall-mall, croquet, and late-1800s feminism. Speculative Friction is our bite-sized spinoff podcast about the nonfiction side of romance novels, to be released when Marcus and Sa
This week Abby talks about another phobia from The Viscount Who Loved Me: thunderstorms! Which is more electric: lightning, or the romance between Anthony and Kate? Listen to get the facts so you can decide! Speculative Friction is our bite-siz
Abby hosts solo this week to talk about The Viscount Who Loved Me and bee allergies! This is our first Speculative Friction episode, a series about the nonfiction side of romance novels, which will come out when Marcus and Sarah have other obli
This week, we leave fantasy behind and jump into science fiction with Battlestar Galactica (especially the mini series). Cylon sleeper agents play a large role in the show, so we discuss a few real-life examples of spies for comparison. So say
This week, we continue talking about Skyrim and dive into the world of crime. While their real-world counterparts of the medieval period probably didn't exist, we at least have the Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild to support us in these t
Hey, you. You’re finally awake—just in time to hear our episode about Skyrim and blacksmithing! We discuss the philosophy of the mechanical arts, the history of blacksmiths in the Western world, and some… interesting smithing-related terminolog
In our last* X-Men episode, we discuss the shortcomings of a popular analogy, racial diversity in Uncanny X-Men, and some Black comic book history. We also talk about Kevin Bacon and a guy who kind of looks like him! (*for now).Music: "Dance Ro
In our second episode about the X-Men and other mutants, we discuss trans metaphors and the conflict between assimilation and rejection, with a special focus on Mystique and Rogue..Resources:Alexander, D. (2018) "Faces of Abjectivity: The Uncan
In our first episode about the X-Men and other mutants, we discuss LGBTQ+ representation in the comics, including allegory for real-world history and issues. This episode is part one of two about the X-Men as queer allegory..Resources:Miller, P
This week we have a guest expert, Frances Cole, to talk to us about hybrid animals in the real world and in Avatar: The Last Airbender! The critters in Avatar sure are cute, but biologically… not so likely..Music: "Dance Robot ACTIVATE" by Loya
In our third Avatar: The Last Airbender episode we talk about martial arts and some funky physics necessary to make bending possible in the real world. We also definitely don't talk about Korra! (Narrator: they definitely did.).Resources:Rousse
Avatar: The Last Airbender kicks off with Aang emerging from an iceberg, so this week we launch into cryonics. Some of it is scientific, and some of it . . . really isn’t, but people are still willing to shell out thousands for a chance at resu
In our first Avatar: The Last Airbender episode we discuss the four classical elements in Buddhist, Persian, and Greek antiquity. Content warning: repeated use of the word “moist.”.Resources:Hammerstrom, E. (2015) The Science of Chinese Buddhis
In our last One Hundred Years of Solitude episode, we delve into the development of photography and imagine a beautiful, but made-up, love story between its early inventors!.Resources:Tobisch, V. (2019) “Highly Photosensitive Daguerreotypes and
This week, we dive into a differential diagnosis of the insomnia plague in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional disease is a classic example of magical realism, but it also shares some interesting, wild, and frighte
In an uncharacteristically serious episode, we discuss Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, magical realism as resistance to oppressive forces, and the United Fruit Company’s destructive power in Central and South American hi
Buffy the Vampire Slayer takes place on a hellmouth, so this week we dive into the historical and religious origins of hellmouths, as well as their representation in art and theater. This one gets wild—we’d like to officially apologize to our m
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has its own vampire lore, but there are folklore traditions for vampires and vampire-like creatures around the world, from demonic women to shapeshifting fireflies to vampire controversies. And if you're feeling inspire
In our first Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, we talk about the science of vampires, including possible medical origins for the myths and what biologists would have to do to make a real-life vamp. There’s a lot of blood in this one, folks..Res
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