The Marshall family was no ordinary family. Rick Marshall, a brilliant scientist passionate about exploring the unknown, had dedicated his life to studying time and space anomalies. His expertise and groundbreaking research caught the attention

Emergent Situational Subcultures and The Industrial Folk Phenomenon

Jun 13th, 2023 58m 23s

A relatively large proportion of the early backcountry immigrants were Ulster Scots—later known as "Scotch-Irish", a group mostly originating from southern Scotland and northern England, who were seeking cheaper land and freedom from Quaker lea

Persistence of Vision, The Nude Descending Staircase and Temporal Elasticity

May 22nd, 2023 1h 2m

What you are experiencing, right now, is not real. How we perceive moving through time is a coping mechanism our brains have developed to bring the vast stream of information into a singular understanding of temporal continuity, this is referre

Retrogressive Nostalgia and Utopian Futurism

May 15th, 2023 1h 6m

Swiss physician Johannes Hofer coined the term Nostalgia in his 1688 medical dissertation, from the Greek nostos, or homecoming, and algos, or pain. The disease was similar to paranoia, except the sufferer was manic with longing, and feelings o

Quantum Immortality, Agents with False Memories, and the Ship of Theseus

May 3rd, 2023 1h

The ship of Theseus, also known as The Theseus paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorde

Plato's Cave, Alternative Realities and False Narratives

May 2nd, 2023 59m 53s

In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them

The Gateway Experience, Sonic Warfare and Mesmerism

Apr 27th, 2023 48m 45s

The technique was dubbed the Gateway Experience by the secret CIA program and was essentially described as a training system to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left an

Seance, Spiritual Telemetry, and The Ghosts of ChatGPT

Apr 20th, 2023 52m 16s

Are ghosts echoes of the past? If we look at them that way we could also conclude that seance is a way to conjure the echoes of those who have been captured by the mentalist or channel conjuring knowledge and feelings transmitted from the past,

The Templar's Demon Core

Apr 17th, 2023 48m 41s

On August 21, 1945, the plutonium core produced a burst of neutron radiation that led to physicist Harry Daghlian's death. Daghlian made a mistake while performing neutron reflector experiments on the core.The core was placed within a stack o

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