Science
Mindcore Podcast Episode 14: The Body
On this episode Diana Sparx, Shmooie Bueno, Reverend Grimes, and Enrique Recuero discuss the human body. Its biology, how culture has responded to it, in philosophy, in art, and speculate about the future of our bodies. ...
Top 6 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About the Brain
Brains are my thing. Some people are nerdy about space, some people are nerdy about evolution — I am nerdy about neuroscience. In fact, I am nerdy enough about neuroscience that I have a degree in it (albeit a Bachelors)...
Mindcore Podcast Episode 13 Reign of Science
Diana Sparx, Nordic Jesus, Enrique Recuero, Reverend Grimes and Bear Zombies discuss why science is so very important and how screwed we all are because no one cares. Show Notes: Framing Science Blog Chris Mooney’s blog o...
Zombie Virus Reaches United States
It has finally happened. The virus that was spreading among children in Africa has mutated and found its way to the US. CDC isn’t sure how or how many may be affected yet, but they do know that it has mutated. This is wha...
Why Mindcore Won’t Play Dungeons & Dragons
We are the outlaws of intellect here at Mindcore Studios. In our quest to bring you, dear reader, the most stimulating, titillating forms of radical self-education, we find ourselves at times conducting field research, which on...
In Memorandum to a Brillant Scientist
Lynn Margulis, mother of Endosymbiotic theory, died this last November. I have wanted to write something about her since then but it has been hard to commit the words to posterity. What could I possibly say about her that could...
SHMOOIE BUENO HATES THE STATE OF TENNESSEE VS SCIENCE
Let’s roll back the clock, kiddies, all the way back to 1925, in the city of Dayton, Tennessee. It was there that a high school science teacher, John T. Scopes, was put on trial for violating the state’s Butler Act,...
YouTube Roundup: A Brain Disease that Makes you Feel Like Jesus!
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy has a side effect that you have messianic type revelations following your seizures. This video shows world famous Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran interviews a young man with this disorder. Though I...
The Brain and Human Potential
Mindcore Studios is all about the brain. Not just metaphorically. My college education was in neuroscience, and what I learned in the pursuit of this degree influences me greatly. Everything I do is filtered through neurosc...
Banana Hand Hates: Creationism vs. Evolution
Disclaimer: This is not an argument against religion; this is an argument against ignorance. There are plenty of religious people who are not “Creationists” and accept evolution. This is for the others. There is a concept t...
What’s Left To Say?
The first draft of this piece was an informative essay on the presence of atheism in current society, and was full of facts, and… numbers. And such. And I couldn’t seem to finish it no matter how hard I tried. Sudde...
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