The Necessity of Patient Zero

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe return to the wild world of Mexican lucha films with 1968’s The Bat Woman, directed by René Cardona and starring Maura Monti and Roberto Cañedo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss various mythological concepts of what came before the creation or emergence of our universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

There’s a sticky issue scientists have to deal with – science is carried out by humans. We humans have flaws (and how) and they can end up in our work. Fortunately, science is waking up to research bias. In the meantime, here’s what to look out for.

Natural viruses and bacteria can be deadly enough; the 1918 Spanish Flu killed 50 million people in four months. But risky new research, carried out in an unknown number of labs around the world, are creating even more dangerous humanmade pathogens. (Original score by Point Lobo. ...  Show more

Today we welcome Dr. Anil Seth. He is the Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. His research has been supported by the European Research Council, the Wellcom ...  Show more

For everything we know about the human brain, consciousness is still mysterious. Could reports of people remaining conscious after being executed by decapitation be true? Learn what science has to say in this episode of BrainStuff.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www ...  Show more