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It's the final episode!! Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Terminator 2"! Topics include: Killer Robots, Why We Cry, Turing Tests, How Pain Works, and a wrap-up of what we’ve learned on this crazy journey! Links: http://www.cracked.com/article_19754_5-computer-hacks-from-movies-you-wont-believe-are-possible.html http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/07181/798367-85.stm https://www.painscience.com/articles/pain-is-weird.php https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-do-we-cry-the-science-of-tears-9741287.html http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Moirai.html https://www.fastcompany.com/3069048/where-are-military-robots-headed https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/lethal-microdrones-dystopian-futures-and-the-autonomous-weapons-debate https://www.extremetech.com/computing/269030-did-google-duplexs-ai-demonstration-just-pass-the-turing-test https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/chinese-room-argument-artificial-intelligence/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Gravity"! It's the second to last episode guys! Topics include: Space Disasters and Near Misses, Gravity Itself, Sound in Space, and Space Junk! Links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/most-dangerous-moments-space-shuttle-station-history/ http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/ https://www.britannica.com/list/7-accidents-and-disasters-in-spaceflight-history http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/ https://listverse.com/2014/03/17/10-horrific-disasters-of-the-space-program/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/ https://www.newsweek.com/space-empty-space-aliens-sound-waves-listening-525073 https://www.webmd.com/lung/lung-hyperventilation-what-to-do#1 https://www.livescience.com/14012-6-weird-facts-gravity.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "The Matrix"! Topics include: Living in a Simulation, Deja Vu, Nihilism, Humans as Batteries, and The One Phone Call Rule! Links: https://www.darpa.mil/program/targeted-neuroplasticity-training https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201001/what-is-d-j-vu https://www.bustle.com/p/9-things-your-brain-is-trying-to-tell-you-when-you-experience-deja-vu-8334677 https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_nihilism.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-and-last-pay-phone-180952727/ https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/news/companies/pay-phones/index.html https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/ https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/humans-batteries-matrix.html https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable https://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/criminally-yours-your-one-phone-call/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/really-entitled-phonecall-arrested/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Cloud Atlas". Topics include: Reincarnation, Birthmarks, Nuclear Power, Cannibalism, and Microchipping Yourself! Links: https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/definitions-of-clouds.html https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/bumps-and-growths/birthmarks https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/problems/beauty/birthmark.htm https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Psychic_Birthmarks https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/06/for-ancient-cannibals-fellow-hominins-werent-a-great-meal/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.04a6bec566b7 https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/microchips-wisconsin-company-employees.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Face/Off"! Topics include: Face/Head transplants, Interpol, body morphing, and Greek mythology! Links: http://mentalfloss.com/article/65363/15-peachy-facts-about-faceoff https://www.thrillist.com/vice/i-talked-to-the-nation-s-top-plastic-surgeons-about-face-off-is-face-off-possible https://www.gq.com/story/richard-norris https://people.howstuffworks.com/interpol.htm http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/07/01/what_do_interpol_agents_really_do.html https://mythology.net/greek/mortals/castor-and-pollux/ http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ca-Cr/Castor-and-Pollux.html http://www.thejournal.ie/two-headed-dogs-794157-Feb2013/ https://www.popsci.com/first-head-transplant-human-surgery http://blog.heightlengthening.com/what-to-expect-when-you-have-surgery-to-get-taller https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/a-painful-way-to-grow-taller/ http://www.cracked.com/article_19095_the-5-most-shockingly-insane-modern-dictators.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Identity"! Topics include: The Insanity Defense, Meyers-Briggs, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Identity Politics, and Sea Monkeys! Links: https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/aron/qa227.htm?noredirect=on https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/insanity-defense.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/twilight-mom-and-pop-motel-180963895/ http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/identity-question/content-section-1.1 https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/24/the-evolutionary-roots-of-identity-politics/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201603/are-scores-the-mbti-totally-meaningless http://www.businessinsider.com/myers-briggs-personality-test-is-misleading-2014-6 http://mentalfloss.com/article/56755/16-amazing-facts-about-sea-monkeys

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Battle Royale"! Topics include: Crazy Game Shows, the East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, the End of the Gladiator fights, a Real Life Lord of the Flies, and Corporal Punishment! Links: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/sherif_robbers_cave_experiment.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Telemachus https://churchpop.com/2015/01/01/gladiator-rome-saint/ https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators http://www.cracked.com/article_20167_6-insane-game-shows-you-wont-believe-were-allowed-tv.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15804_the-6-most-insane-game-shows-from-around-world.html https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-real-hunger-games-battle-royale https://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/05/01/j-cin-sundays-battle-royale-and-japanese-nationalism/ https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-mitsubishi-bombing/ https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-bomber-masashi-daidoji-dies-in-prison-aged-68/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/09/19/349668828/a-decision-about-your-children-thats-also-about-your-parents https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/18/19-states-still-allow-corporal-punishment-in-school/?utm_term=.520bb91acaad https://aptparenting.com/history-of-corporal-punishment

Joya and Jeff watched the 1986 movie "Howard the Duck"! Topics include: Possible Types of Alien Life, Growing Organs Within Animals, Laser Spectroscopy, and Anthropomorphism! Links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-will-extraterrestrial-life-look-180950029/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/5784971/how-to-create-a-scientifically-plausible-alien-life-form https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/scientists-determine-atmosphere-planets.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-analysis3.htm https://psmag.com/environment/planet-octopuses-animal-species-likely-rise-overthrow-humans-67576 http://theconversation.com/what-species-would-become-dominant-on-earth-if-humans-died-out-53340 https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2018/02/21/howard-duck-film-marvel-too-embarrassed-talk-about https://phys.org/news/2018-02-successful-human-animal-hybrid-sheep-embryo.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/anthropomorphic-animal-names-for-humans/duck https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anthropomorphism https://psychcentral.com/news/2010/03/01/why-do-we-anthropomorphize/11766.html https://www.tyrantfarms.com/7-amazing-duck-facts/ https://www.livescience.com/43105-synchronicity-definition-meaning.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "12 Monkeys"! Topics include: Animal Rights Activism That Backfired, The First Penitentiary, Sterilization Methods, and Old Timey Bank Heists! Links: https://bitesizebio.com/853/5-laboratory-sterilisation-methods/ https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5068 http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/04/07/deer-cull-animal-rights/ http://www.cracked.com/article_20556_5-animal-rights-campaigns-that-managed-to-screw-over-animals.html https://io9.gizmodo.com/5-times-that-people-claimed-to-be-real-life-time-travel-1822885932 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eastern-state-penitentiary http://mentalfloss.com/article/59726/17-spooky-photos-philadelphias-eastern-state-penitentiary https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/day-bank-robber-willie-sutton-arrested-1952-article-1.2536491 https://science.howstuffworks.com/10-insane-disguises5.htm https://www.improbable.com/2013/12/29/sam-lloyds-get-off-the-earth-puzzle/ http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/games/getofftheearth.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sam-Loyd

Joya and Jeff watched the 2005 movie "House of Wax"! Topics include: The History of Candles, Madam Tussauds, Using Recycled Construction Materials, and Taping Your Mouth at Night! Links: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/why-we-are-afraid-of-creepy-dolls-and-robots-uncanny-valley-effect-a6728161.html https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525447206/a-worm-may-hold-the-key-to-biodegrading-plastic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/25/plastic-eating-bugs-wax-moth-caterpillars-bee https://www.quora.com/Can-you-actually-die-if-you-have-blocked-nose-and-you-forcefully-closed-your-mouth-with-a-tape https://www.ondietandhealth.com/why-tape-my-mouth-at-night/ http://www.build.com.au/27-amazing-homes-built-11-unusual-materials https://io9.gizmodo.com/these-ingenious-buildings-were-all-built-using-recycled-1688172285 https://www.livestrong.com/article/156363-how-does-nair-hair-removal-work/ http://candles.org/history/  

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Source Code"! Topics include: Virtual Reality in our Minds, Schrodinger’s Cat, Waking Up With Fake Memories, and the Radioactive Boy Scout! Links: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-reality-do-we-live-our-brains-simulation-world-david-hawkins https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25459-induced-hallucination-turns-doctors-into-pizza-chefs/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/12/guest-post-jim-kakalios-on-the-quantum-mechanics-of-source-code/#.WvGw49Pwa8V https://justsolitaire.com/history.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/procrastination/2008/05/solitairey_confinement.html

Joya and Jeff watched the terrible movie "Biodome"! Topics include: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Homeostasis, Music Torture and the Biosphere 2! Links: http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-biosphere-2.html https://mic.com/articles/87851/11-popular-songs-the-cia-used-to-torture-prisoners-in-the-war-on-terror#.xIkMpSFQ4 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809 https://www.theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/ http://homeaquaponicssystem.com/greenhouses/what-is-a-biodome/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-homeostasis/ https://www.wired.com/2007/12/chem-lab-the-do/

Joya and Jeff watched the 2002 movie "The Time Machine"! Topics include: The Standardization of Time, Time’s Arrow, Nukes on the Moon, and H.G. Wells Himself! Links: http://www.nextgentoothbrush.com/infographics/brief-history-of-electric-toothbrush-detailed-analysis-with-infographic/ https://www.greenmeadowdental.com/blog/electric-toothbrush-facts/ http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/tomorrow.htm https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/04/03/599122774/time-travel-with-your-fridge https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609788/physicists-demonstrate-how-to-reverse-of-the-arrow-of-time/ https://nypost.com/2017/05/01/usa-and-ussr-planned-to-nuke-the-moon-out-of-existence/ http://www.iflscience.com/space/the-us-had-an-insane-plan-to-drop-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon-in-the-1950s/ http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-standardization-time-changed-american-society-180961503/

Joya and Jeff watched the Jim Carrey classic "The Mask"! Topics include: The History of Masks, Baby Tazmanian Devils, Norse Mythology, Turning Landfills into Parks, and Freud’s Id Ego and Superego! Links: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a25414/tommy-gun-thompson-submachine/ https://www.thrillist.com/gear/things-you-didn-t-know-about-the-thompson-submachine-gun-tommy-gun-tommy-gun-facts https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/dumps-destinations-converting-landfills-parks/30435/ http://www.thejournal.ie/landfill-cork-ireland-578595-Sep2012/ http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/tasmanian-devil/ http://emgn.com/entertainment/10-tribal-masks-must-possessed-demons/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/death-mask/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/ http://www.historyofmasks.net/mask-facts/types-of-masks/ http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/meaning https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html http://journalpsyche.org/is-freud-still-relevant-today/ https://mythology.net/norse/norse-gods/loki/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Volcano"! Topics include: Volcanoes, the La Brea Tar Pits, a Prince Who Built a Volcano, and What Happens If You Jump Into Lava! Links: https://tarpits.org http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/volcano.htm http://mentalfloss.com/article/68512/15-explosive-facts-about-volcanoes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/that-time-a-german-prince-built-an-artificial-volcano-19001853/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2017/06/26/this-is-when-volcanoes-appeared-in-human-stories-for-the-very-first-time/#42ab4e615bd3 https://sciencing.com/history-volcanology-5397406.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Snowpiercer"! Topics include: The Hyperloop, Cloud Seeding, Frostbite, Perpetual Motion Machines, and The Orient Express! Links: https://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorologists/cloud-seeding1.htm https://hyperloop-one.com https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frostbite/symptoms-causes/syc-20372656 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/smelling-salts/ https://www.livescience.com/55944-perpetual-motion-machines.html

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Twister"! Topics include: How Tornadoes Form, Early Warning Systems, the Fujita Scale, and Can You Ride a Tornado?! Links: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150511-tornadoes-storms-midwest-weather-science/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/meteorological-instruments/totable-tornado-observatory2.htm https://www.nasa.gov/content/goes http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/23/tornado.history/index.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/15-facts-about-tornadoes-167469821/

Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie "Idle Hands"! Topics include: Self Surgeries, Cauterization, People With Two Heads, and How a Body Decomposes! Links: http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surgeries/ http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/abby-and-brittany-hensel-2017-133084 https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/dying4.htm https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-some-people-t/ http://www.iflscience.com/brain/finally-know-people-left-righthanded/ http://themedicinejournal.com/articles/does-cauterizing-a-wound-really-work/ https://woundcareadvisor.com/how-to-apply-silver-nitrate/ https://gizmodo.com/how-the-taser-was-invented-1643251944 https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/stun-gun5.htm

 Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Se7en"! Topics include: The Seven Deadly Sins, Pinkerton Detectives, Blacklight Forensics, and Eating Until You Explode! Links: https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/it-possible-literally-eat-yourself-death https://www.ranker.com/list/eating-yourself-death/laura-allan?utm_expid=16418821-388.8yjUEguUSkGHvlaagyulMg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Seven_Deadly_Sins https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/metronome.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethovens-metronome-wrong-9140958/ http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/alternatelightsources.html http://www.csitechblog.com/2011/01/alternate-light-sources-and-how-csis-use-them.html https://www.thoughtco.com/what-glows-under-a-black-light-607615 https://wjwoodrow.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/fluoresence-of-semen-forensics-geekery/

Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Wild Wild West"! Topics include: Steampunk, Earliest Hearing Aids, Operation Paperclip, Parties at the White House, and Bulletproof Vests! Links: https://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-operation-paperclip https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-holds-open-house-at-the-white-house https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-story-of-the-wildest-party-in-white-house-history/ https://www.beltone.com/hearing-aid-guides/hearing-aid-history https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/47717-Digital-hearing-aid-history https://bulletsafe.com/pages/the-history-of-bulletproof-vests http://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests https://www.ranker.com/list/old-wild-west-slang-word-and-expressions/brent-sprecher https://www.phactual.com/20-more-slang-terms-from-the-wild-wild-west/ http://www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/what-is-steampunk/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-steampunk-movement/241947/