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The Mad Scientist Podcast

Welcome to the very first Mad Scientist Podcast episode! Does the Paranormal have a place in the modern world? Or are paranormal ideas simply leftovers of our not so distance past? Find out on this weeks episode!
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1: Episode 1: Does the Paranormal have a place in the Modern World?

Why are we absolutely obsessed with triangles and pyramids when it comes to the paranormal? Is there any reason to think that pyramids could generate power? How do lasers work anyways? Find out in this weeks episode!
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2: Episode 2: Pyramids, Ipso Facto, Aliens

What is science? What is natural? Does natural mean good? Can paranormal claims be considered scientific? Answers to these questions (well, sort of answers) in this episode!
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3: Episode 3: The One Without a Name

Why do people expect that paranormal entities will be able to communicate with us? Can a pet psychic really tell if my cat hates me? How would a multiple dimension work anyways? Find out on this weeks episode!
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4: Episode 4: The Language of the Paranormal

Spontaneous human combustion is one of the weirdest historical cases of the paranormal out there, and cases continue to occur into the modern era. Bodies are found which have seemed to have been consumed by flame, without any evidence of fire damage to the surrounding area. What is the scientific explanation for these cases?
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5: Episode 5: Spontaneous Human Combustion

What is the deal with all the movies, TV shows, and video games showing nuclear war or radioactive waste creating giant monsters, super heroes, or immortal zombie ghouls? How does radiation work, and what affects does it have on the body? Should you be wearing that tin-foil hat around the house, or is it much more effective outside the home? Answers to these questions and more in Episode 6.
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6: Episode 6: Attack of the 50 foot Radioactive Monsters!

Could someone go missing in todays day and age? What are the chances of going missing, and how true to life are TV shows and books where people just leave it all behind? What is going on in Boston MA, causing a whole host of college aged men to go missing after leaving social events, only to turn up in the waters surrounding the city?
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7: Episode 7: The Missing Men of Boston

Poltergeists have been around for as long as humans have been telling stories, but what sort of science is there to back them up? How do noisy ghosts relate to the speed of light, and what sort of thermodynamic rules are screwed up by telekinetics? Join me this week to find out!
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8: Episode 8: Poltergeists!

Zombies are such a big horror movie staple now that I’ve almost grown to resent them. Can’t they leave us alone for a few minutes, while we look for food and try to rebuild society? Does it make sense that a virus could spread without anyone noticing, until its too late? What about zombies scare us, and what sort of stuff do the horror movies miss out on? Find out in this week’s episode!
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9: Episode 9: The Only cure for Zombie Fatigue Syndrome is more Brains

What is the history of actually “mad scientists”, as opposed to a grad students that puts out a podcast? Where do we draw the line between a moral and immoral scientific test or question, and what about todays questionable scientific questions? And besides mad scientists, what about those that seem to be truly evil? 
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10: Episode 10: MAD SCIENCE

What made the government response to the Irish famine so ineffective? What were the social and economic issues which made the blight lead to such significantly worse outcomes for the Irish than other countries in Europe? We dig it into these issues on this episode.
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