Alas, we've not been smitten down by the puny hands o' the pandemic.  We're back to talk about bugs!  Not really.  We're talking about another cliche pseudoscience topic that turns out to be more science-y than we thought!  Join us as we walk you through totally unintelligible descriptions of 3-d graphs, encounter philosophical raptors, and slog through another set in our role as radio personalities posing as journalists!

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This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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This week, Robin and Arjuna tackle the world of intellectual property and ownership via an examination of the free and open source software movement. We discuss the roots of the FOSS movement, cover licensing, and dissect all the different ways software can be "free". How much free software do you use? Do you know?

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This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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"Study And Relax" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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We've all wondered if our phones are making us worse humans, suspecting that they tank our attention spans and and interrupt social connections.  We dig into and also give our phones some shout outs for the ways that they help us become better people.  We also dig into screen time in general, the ergonomics of working on computers full time, even get to talk about healthy gaming habits.

We have added a Patreon account to Listening Glass! This is a way for listeners to support our show financially, paying as much or as little a month as they like. For as little as $1 a month you can help us to continue making this show better, moving towards our eventual goals of hiring an editor and being able to devote more time to research. Find our Patreon here!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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On this episode, Robin and Arjuna cover the millennial phenomenon known as apocalyptic thinking. We touch upon the origins of the phenomenon, cover some of its expressions throughout the last 2500 years, and ruminate on current iterations of apocalyptic thought. The listener is asked to consider the ways in which they fall prey to apocalyptic fixation, and what the impulse is that propels it. Are our revelations world-ending? Let us know!

Something exciting we unveil on this show: we have added a Patreon account to Listening Glass! This is a way for listeners to support our show financially, paying as much or as little a month as they like. For as little as $1 a month you can help us to continue making this show better, moving towards our eventual goals of hiring an editor and being able to devote more time to research. Find our Patreon here!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Will nuclear power mishaps like Chernobyl and Fukushima bring about an early Armageddon? Or is it our best chance to avoid further climate catastrophe? Arjuna and Robin hash out the bright side and the not so bright side of nuclear energy and look at just how it measures up against other energy source options.

Update: We say in the show that 10% of electricity came from the Megatons to Megawatts program.  I fact checked this and sources say "up to 10%", so it probably was quite a bit lower than that for parts of the program's 2 decade life cycle.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Robin and Arjuna return to explore wide and wild world of personality testing! Are tests such as DISC and Myers-Briggs worth the time you spend taking them? Can you (or anyone else) draw meaningful conclusions from the results? Find out what we think... a lot.

Here are links to the tests we took:

Myers-Briggs: https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

DISC: https://discpersonalitytesting.com/

Big 5: https://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Some people think our show is real long, so we cut 20 minutes out and put it in it's own mini-show.  There.  Happy now?  Lol.  Enjoy.

These extras include some talk about how to keep anxiety and depression in check and how these phenomena may be related to a very curious netork of areas in the brain called the default mode network.  Faaaaascinating...

Also, Arjuna illuminates the history of an early indiginous ambassodor of psilocybin use to western counter culture with the story of María Sabina.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Millions of Americans use psychedelics very year to dramatically shift their consciousness in order to explore themselves and have our of this world experiences, but many have been turning to these substances for subtle, imperceptable and reportedly therapeutic effects at smaller doses.  We interview many and have discussions about the effects of psilocybin mushrooms and LSD on productivity as well as mental health, depression, and PTSD.  Is LSD the next coffee?  Are mushrooms the new prozac?  Join us and our friends to see what insights we've gained see what questions need to continue to be explored.

Naturally, those interviewed for this episode preferred to remain anonymous due to the contraband status of psycheledics, therefore I will be thanking them for their very generous and insightful contributions by their codenames. 

Thank you Space Dog, Molly, Anonymous Periwinkle, Anonymous Dude 1, and to Saumuel Taylor Raine LeClaire.

If you're looking for further information, one book you could look into would be "A really good day" by Ayelet Waldman from 2017.  Another is the Psychedelic Explorer's guide by James Fadiman which was published in 2011.  

Links to Studies: A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics, Psychedelics and mental health: a population study, Decreased mental time travel to the past correlates with default-mode network disintegration under lysergic acid diethylamide

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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Chevy SSR, PT Cruiser... Tesla? What's your nomination for the ugliest car ever? Are cars more confused in their identities than they've ever been? Did SUVs ruin everything? Robin and Arjuna will take you through the history of car design in an effort to discover whether are getting prettier, uglier, or just... more car-like.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Sage Liskey and Bryce Casen for their off-the-cuff ruminations on auto design.

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Could some UFOs actually be from outer space? Is the United States government covering up first contact from the world? How do we even begin to navigate who to believe and who to shrug off when it comes to first hand accounts of aliens, UFOs, and top-secret government facilities? And last but not least, should we storm Area 51?!  In ep 7 we explore some facts and history and employ wildly tangential thoughts lines to bound these and other pressing question in our corner of the galaxy. 

We tried to make this episode serve as a pretty good primer to the whole subject of Area 51 and UFOs, so if you've been feeling like a poser with your tin foil hat, you'll come to the right place to get caught up!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Austen Sloan, Ben, Araya Sunshine, Sara Wolf, and Alyssa for agreeing to be interviewed and contributing to this episode."Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" by Annie Jacobsen

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

The radio broadcast heard towards the beginning was ABC News Radio show "Headline Edition"
with Taylor Grant in New York broadcast on , July 8, 1947, 10:00 p.m.

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Have you ever found yourself wondering if it's all, in fact, a big fabrication? Could we be living in a computer program? Did Nelson Mandela die in prison in the 80s? Robin and Arjuna tackle these questions and many more in this, our simulation exploration.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Emily May for her insights on this episode, and for introducing us to the Mandela Effect.

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Where are they!?  The aliens, that is.  So far we haven't heard a peep, well at least the scientific community and Robin and Arjuna haven't.  In this episode we explore the manifold possibilities of life of other planets, the difficulties that face any life form with interstellar ambitions, and the many, many pitfalls that might prevent them from growing noggins big enough to even consider the possibility in the first place.  Will we undermine our survival before we can reach the stars?  Will aliens find us first?  Are we worthy of reaching the rank of star-faring civilization?  Join Arjuna and Robin in their discussion to get to the bottom of it all.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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"Thinking Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Special thanks to Kev (TheOneHeart) and HeathyKeithy of the Winner Winner Podcast for contributing interview content.  Also, thanks to my good friends Andrew Knoflicek and Alex Stommes-Juleen for piping in with their insights and banter as well! You're bafoons but we love you all.  :)

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Put on your listening glasses and get ready for the first major Helvetica revision in 35 years! Monotype foundry has been busy perfecting 3 new iterations of this iconic font for use in the modern digital era. Discover the history of written language as we know it, chart the course of the development of mechanical type, and follow us all the way up to computer vector graphics and, finally, Helvetica Now!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Gary Hustwit for allowing us to feature an excerpt of an interview for this episode. Find out more about Gary by visiting https://www.hustwit.com/. Watch the film 'Helvetica' here.

Our logo was done with help from Megan Brandenburg Design who can be contacted via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrandenburgdesign/

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This week we explore the connection between our minds and our senses by plunging into the dark, soundproof containers they call sensory deprivation tanks.  Can they induce psychedelic experiences or allow you to talk to your dead cat?  Can they reduce anxiety and stress?  Can they make you go mad?  Or are they just a great place to take a well-needed nap?  Tune in to find out!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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 Oytserhead - "Oz is Always Floating"

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Alana Peters, Melissa Hebin, and Ankush Vimawala of Float Om float center in downtown Eugene for their contributions to this episode.

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Robin and Arjuna return to bring you more interesting information and introspection with our episode on Kratom! What is it, where does it come from, and what does it do? Discover all of this (including a segment where we both take it) on the show!

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Kenzi, Casey, Nick, George and Angelina for their contributions to this episode.

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Welcome to episode 1 of Listening Glass! Kicking off our pilot episode is just a little something we've been discussing around the office—artificial intelligence! Join Robin and Arjuna for a discussion about the history of AI, and a rumination on humanity's future with our robot overlords.

This episode features music from the following artists:

Mac Woodruff - "Vis Insita"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Special thanks to Heidi Dixon, "Sin", Melissa, Sage Liskey and Robin Way for their contributions to this episode.

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Hello! Welcome to the Listening Glass Podcast. Here you'll find our brief ramblings about what inspired us to start this show. It's not our first rodeo, but we expect it to be the best yet. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you'll stick around for what's next.

This episode features music from the following artists (in order of appearance):

Kneebody - "Dr. Beauchef, Penguin Dentist"
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Eero Johannes - "Lipton Service Boy"
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Until next time...