You've seen 300, you know the story, now find out what really happened at Thermopylae all those years ago, and why this moment in history has become pivotal for western culture.

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Join us for a very special interview with Joey Ramp and her service dog Sampson as we learn about the many ways the STEM field is still letting down Service Dog Handlers. We strongly encourage everyone to checkout Joey's incredible work at the links below, and reach out to us and her if you have had a similar experience.

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• Journal Article: When Should Service Dogs Be Admitted into the Lab?

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This week Cameron and Sam dive into the movie 1917. Yes it's an academy nominated masterpiece, but it's also an extremely realistic look into the day to day life of WWI soldiers. The same life that J.R.R. Tolkein lived everyday, and that would inspire the creation of The Lord of the Rings. Listen in as they draw parallels, find clues, and learn how one of the worst wars inspired a timeless adventure.

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Everyone knows the replicator as that magic box on Star Trek that can pump out everything from Altair Water to Apple Pie (they're both a thing), but in reality that technology is not as far flung as we might think. This week our resident 3D printing expert Keon Boozarjomehri (He Literally wrote the book on this) returns to tell us about the future of 3D printers and the implications of replicator technology!

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Alan Turing played key roles throughout his life in the fields of computing, cryptography, philosophy and reasoning. To this day we benefit from his vast contributions. But unfortunately he lived in a different time that was not as accepting of his lifestyle. Join us as guest expert and Turing historian Christopher Klesges guides us through a celebration of Turing's many achievements and follow his life from his early youth to his restoration years after his death.

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Pokemon, Magic The Gathering, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Counter strike, and Fortnite. All games that have found a new way to extract money from players through the randomness and excitement ofcard packs and loot boxes. But wherever there's profit, you can find cheaters, counterfeiters, and all sorts of other nefarious agents. And even then, whatever you buy is still trapped in the game. Fortunately Jesse Buonanno sees a different path forward. One where you can buy, sell, and truly own your digital assets while protecting against the less honest among us. Listen in as he shares a vision of the future of how we buy, sell, and trade.

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Scott is back, this time to teach us all about the future of sound! From classic tricks to Artificial Intelligence, learn where the sounds we love are heading and how they'll get there.

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Sound. It's all around us, and yet barely notice it. Your favorite movie, show, app. They all use sound to complete the experience and draw you into their world. Join us as Scott Holmdahl guides us through how they make the iconic sounds all around us, and the industry that makes it possible.

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Eboné Bell is the creator, founder, and editor behind Tagg Magazine. As a member of an under represented community she built Tagg to as a place for "News, culture, and events for everything lesbian, queer, and under the rainbow." We were fortunate enough to meet her at DC Podfest where she shared her incredible journey and insights for all to hear! Listen as we follow her into the risks and rewards of creating a pop culture phenomenon.

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The Mandalorian just crossed episode 5 and for the first time we got a glorious look at what Star Wars can be when Disney stops trying to force old stories and starts telling new ones. Listen as we highlight how the minds behind the show use Star Wars elements we know and love to tell a new immersive story.

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Minority Report, iRobot, Demolition Man, all these movies have let us glimpse a future where we hand over a lot of control to machines. But we don't need to wait till the robot uprising to understand the consequences of handing the wheel over to robot drivers. This week Sam takes the wheel and asks the big questions about the past, present, and future of ai drivers and autonomous vehicles.

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Dr. Tucker Peck is a clinical psychologist, sleep expert, founder of drugfreesleep.com, an online course to help people overcome insomnia. With those credentials we figured he would be the perfect person to help us decipher the incredible dream antics from that famous Chris Nolan film, Inception!

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Minority Report sure was a scary glimpse into a painfully dystopian future digital America that will hopefully never come true. ...Anyway here's all the predictions that came true.

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This week Cameron and Sam tackle the exciting world of Mecha Anime and Giant Monster Fights! They're out to pit giant robots against man made monsters, and teach you a thing or two about human anatomy along the way!

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James Kakalios is a physics professor known to the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors and granular materials. But to the general public, he's the author of "The Physics of Superheroes"; a book about superheroes from the standpoint of fundamental physics! This makes him the perfect expert to guide us through the science of Ant-Man!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host James Kakalios as they dive into physics of Ant-Man, and how the science isn't as inconsistent as you'd think!

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Godzilla is a titan among monsters, the original kaiju heavy weight champion of the world, and everyones favorite Sci-Fi lizard. But can a creature so large possibly exist? What does biology have to say about a 160 ft monster (though I guess it's more like 500 ft by 2019 estimates...).

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as we dissect what modern biology has to say about a real world kaiju!

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This is a throwback to episode "011 - So Where's My Universal Translator?!" Should you be brave enough to venture in to the archive! On this episode we revisit ...that episode... to bring you an update on what some of you clever folks think is going on when we watch the Enterprise crew rock out with their Universal Translator!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and your Neural Nutritionist as they go through your responses on how the Star Fleet Staff train to use Universal Translators!

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"Hackable?" is a podcast. A podcast made by McAfee to teach the world about the very real dangers hackers pose against your digital identity. A podcast I strongly recommend you checkout if you care at all about that sort of thing. But what sets it apart is that it's, well... Fun! Hackable is the first show we ever experienced where real experts make it possible for normal people like you and I to learn what we need to know to protect our digital identities! They take real hacks and make them easy to understand by showing us how they can happen during our day to day lives! That's why we wanted them to come on our show and teach us a thing or two about sweating the small stuff!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri, special guest host Geoff Siskind, and cyber security expert Bruce Snell as they sweat over what it takes to make complicated topics accessible for everyone!

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Ever wonder why movie hacks are so bad? Real hackers don't really have to deal with virtual rubics cubes do they? Well fortunately we found an expert to set the record straight!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and cyber security expert Bruce Snell as they explore bad movie hacks and why Oceans 8 is a rare film for getting it right!

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What is the real cost of our actions? This is a moral, economic, and spiritual question humans have wondered for millenia. Can anyone really answer this question? ...Well your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers are certainly going to try!

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Matt Brady is a full-time teacher, science communicator with experience in pop culture/comics journalism, co-founder of the award winning comics news site Newsarama.com, and founder of thescienceof.org. This week he was gracious enough to take time out of his schedule to talk to us about how we can all help get the next generation of brilliant minds excited about Science Technology Engineering and Math! And most importantly, he shares his journey bringing what he's learned to educators everywhere!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special guest expert Matt Brady as they explore the Power of Pop Culture in education!

Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book “Science of Rick and Morty” set to drop this October! And make sure to head over to our Patreon for a special bonus conversation with Matt about how he challenges young minds to take on STEM!

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Enjoy the final installment in our series on what happens when we mix real world engineering with our favorite Indiana Jones moments! Do the Templar's traps really stack up? How penitent do you really need to be? And how important is it to know how to spell Jehovah? (Yeah, we know it starts with an 'I'...)

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Engineering Expert Abdi Boozarjomehri for one last crusade!

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We're back for another installment of our series on the implications of real world Structural Engineering on our favorite Indiana Jones moments! This time we try to figure out what's really dooming the Temple of Doom! Here's a hint, not all traps need gratuitous spikes! ...I mean most do, but not when they come out of the cieling...

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and our returning Engineering Expert Abdi Boozarjomehri as we break down Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

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Star Wars has been in our hearts (and on our screens) for 43 years! But what has really been happening across all that time? Join as Cameron, Keon, and Elijah explore why Star Wars has stuck with us, until it didn't. And May The 4th blahblahblah (I prefer revenge of the 5th myself)

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Welcome to the first installment of our series on the implications of real world Structural Engineering in our favorite Indiana Jones moments! Traps, Tricks, and Tropes aren't safe from our Eagle Eyed Expert! So join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and our super special mystery guest (and expert Structural Engineer) as we investigate what they got right ...and totally wrong in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark!

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Hurricane Dorian has had the US on edge (especially Florida), but lucky for you listeners you have 3 hurricane veterans to ride out the storm with! Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri, co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers, and special celebrity guest Lisha Yang as they Sheppard you through the wind and the rain. They even explain why Toto may have had a vendetta against Florida all along, hiding in plain sight ... in 'Africa'.

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Now for something completely different. Why are so many people classified as "Mad Scientists" when they aren't even doing science?!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they sweat over whether you favorite Movie, TV, and Real Life idols are really scientists at all!

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Every year people all over the world spend days worth of time stuck in traffic headed to and from work. But what is the real "toll" badum tss of all that sitting and waiting. Not just on the economy, but on your health and your life!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mensa Muscle Man Amelia Robert as they dive into the real toll of commuting to work!

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Captain America Winter Soldier sure was a fun movie! But we gotta step back and ask, why is it when Tony Stark builds killer drones no one bats an eye, but when hydra does it everyone loses their minds?! Well that's what we're asking in this weeks episode!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as they pick apart the deeper message from Spiderman Far From Home!

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Drone laws are a strange reality for us. It combines the idea that there are these several pound flying hunks of plastic with everyone's favorite thing... Bureaucracy! But they also invite a more serious question for superheroes who have to navigate these drone filled skies!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they sweat over the past, present, and potential future for drones in SciFi!

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For this bonus episode Cameron Boozarjomehri takes you through the Zima Blue episode of Love, Death & Robots. Find out how this simple episode shows you the subtle art of machine learning and how imputs impact the machines we are trying to train!

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Ex Machina is certainly not the first movie to introduce us to the questions around AI and Ethics. But it was one of the first to show us the terrifying existence of a machine that spent its whole life waiting for its creator to push the off button. The only real question was, who was the real machine?! @_@

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and AI Assistant Taylor McCorkill as they sweat over the implications of the winding road to Artificial Intelligence!

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Jurassic Park is full of cool dinosaurs! ...Or is it... Maybe there are no dinosaurs, what would that mean for the park, its staff, and those unfortunate enough to have to "inspect" it?

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers as they discuss what it's like to be on the bleeding edge badum tss of genetics research!.

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Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri for a very special interview with Dr Erin MacDonald as we pull back the curtain on what it takes to make sure your favorite Science Fiction is grounded in Science Fact!

For more of Dr Erin's work, and to hear the bonus episode about her journey becoming a SciFi consultant, head over to her website: https://www.erinpmacdonald.com/

Dr Erin Macdonald is an astrophysicist, science fiction consultant, aerospace engineer, and host of the online series "Dr Erin Explains the Universe". Her specialty is in general relativity, having previously worked in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration searching for gravitational waves. She has since found her home in science fiction, consulting with writers, teaching STEM through popular culture, and fulfilling her life goal of becoming a warp drive expert.

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We are all creators, but sometimes life gets in the way of our creative goals. Fortunately this week we get a little help from the ever talented Jessica Able. For those of you who don't know, Jessica is the mastermind behind Out On The Wire, Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars and most importantly for this week Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life. Join us for an exploration of her creative career, her insights into balancing life and creative pursuits, and her wisdom on why everyone's creative efforts matter.

Links mentioned in the episode:

• One Goal to Rule Them All

• Creative Focus Workshop

• Her Website:Jessicaabel.com

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Just a good old fashioned bonus episode full of goofs, and gaughs (whatever those are). We make references, memes, and other stuff.

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as we pick apart Jurassic World (along with Jurassic Park).

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In part 2 of our series on Jurassic Park we bring you a CEO's guide to how to treat your employees and build your organization! ...Or perhaps, how Mr "Spared No Expense" doesn't do that and how it bites him in the butt!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dive into the hiring, firing, and general treatment of staff and services at Jurassic Park!

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Pixar is a company that has been pushing the envelope on computer generated technology since the early 90s and one of the few companies to do it well! Now, almost 25 years later, we thought it would be a good time to take stock of the technical progress made by a company known for exceptional story telling!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam as they explore how every movie in Pixar's line up has been both a Master Craft in story telling and technical excellence!

You can find sources for this episode here:

• Steve Jobs ran Pixar

• Pixar's Animation Over 24 Years

• Direct Link To Business Insider Video

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So you are running an incredible new amusement park that doubles as a covert genetics research lab. And now someone has been murdered on your property by one of your "experiments". So we gotta ask, "Who should you hire to inspect Jurassic Park?!"

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he proves that Jurassic Parks business model is already a real thriving amusement park that proves everything in the movie is nothing short of incompetence!

For your sanity, our notes on OSHA violations from The Legal Eagle and TheLegalGeek.com

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The Men In Black protect the earth from all sorts of alien threats, whether we know it or not. But the secrecy and neuralyzing comes at a cost. A cost to our freedom, a cost to our individual liberties, and a cost to our society. So we had to ask: "If the MIB are real, do we live in a police state?"

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host/Neural Nutritionist Sam as we probe the cost of not knowing what's out there.

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Black Mirror is Back Y'all and this season is just as poignant as ever! But one episode really stood out. I'm talking about S5E2 "Smithereens". This episode covers so very much but we figured we could stick to the high level stuff here. 1) Just how much data can these companies get (even when they aren't tracking you?) 2) Who's really at fault for making our smart devices so addictive? 3) Can you really Google your way through a kidnapping?!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as we shine a light on the shadier parts of the digital landscape!

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Matt Basta is a full-time programmer, and we do mean full time! By day he develops for the global technology platform Stripe. By night he is the visionary driving the technology, development, and support for the popular podcast hosting service Pinecast! And for anyone interested, he was nice enough to include a promocode for 2 free months of Pinecast, but you'll have to listen to the episode to find it!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Matt Basta as they discuss Matt's incredible journey building Pinecast, and explore the meaning of Sweating The Small Stuff when you are trying to build a game changing service from scratch!

You can find all Matt's Work at the links below:

• Facebook

• GitHub

• Instagram

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Website

Matt was even nice enough to stick around for a little extra Q&A about the Podcast that almost took down pinecast! You can find that part of the interview and more over on our patreon.

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It's time to answer that most heinous of questions. What happens when you drop a freaking mountain out of the sky!!! This is potential spoilers for The Adventure zone Amnesty Episode 28 but I gotta get it out there!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri as he does the literal math of what happens when you drop a solid mountain peak out of the sky!

Here some fun reference articles I found to go along with this episode:

• XKCD Dropping mountains

• Quora dropping a cubic mile of molten core 10 miles above the earth!

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John Wick is a movie/comic series steeped in "Cool Factor". From tattooed supermodels to ...guns... it's the greatest hits of how to ooze style! But with all that cool factor we gotta ask, how do carrier pigeons and slide phones compare to good old fashioned encryption?!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and Mind Fiend Keon Boozarjomehri as they examine why the Nokia 8800 might make sense as the assassin phone of choice!

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On this bonus episode your Personal Brain Trainer and Neural Nutritionist wrestle with that most simple of questions. How Genie Magic Work?! This is actually a tough one so if you have thoughts pretty please do send them our way!

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Kick back, relax, and explore listen in as we explore the many lessons Tom Nook has to teach us about desert island economics.

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John Wick 3 has been out for at least a week so you should have had plenty of time to take in all the none people getting shot a bunch spoilers! But while rewatching John Wick 2 in preparation for its sequel, I realized there was an easily overlooked detail worth sweating over!

So join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and co-host and your Neural Nutritionist as we explain what exactly a "Social Economy" is, and try to understand whether it can still have inflation!

Big thanks to Alex Wells! Alex stepped up and helped us by editing this episode in a few hours with almost 0 notice. Alex is an excellent composer and Podcast Editor, and we are big fans of his work. You can find him on Facebook, Instagram, and SoundCloud.

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The economy is very important, but as a listener of our show you probably already knew that... What's interesting is how fast a populations health can plummit (along with its GDP).

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and special co-host and Neural Nutritionist Sam Spiers as they sweat over a case study out of Venezuela and the unfortunate consequences a poor economy can have on national and global health!

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Congratulations, you are now a giant organization with a grand vision! Maybe you wanna flood the world (looking at you Team Aqua), maybe you want a portal to another dimension! (Black Mesa cough cough) ...or maybe you just wanna see captain falcon crash at 800 km/h! So what's stopping you?!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer Cameron Boozarjomehri and very special co-host and host of the Retrospectives Podcast Patrick Arthur as they dive into videogame villain's corporate strategy!

If you liked the episode we hope you'll go checkout more of their stuff on the Retrospectives Podcast Website.

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Futurama is a real banger of a TV show (Why'd you think it was smart to cancel it Fox?!), but one of it's most excellent elements maybe one of the biggest things most fans overlook. So this week we are taking a (uniquely long) deep dive into the themes and detail that make Futurama's intro one of the most visually entertaining and easily overlooked aspects of the shows incredible run!

Join your Personal Brain Trainer (Cameron Boozarjomehri) and special co-host and Mind Fiend... Keon Boozarjomehri as they dig into the stunning details of Futurama's opening sequence

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