Show Notes

Just a normal day in the studio

Relativity time travel

Jerky Charlton Heston. 99.999995% the speed of light. Time dilation.

The Mission

Settle? Explore? Three men and one women on a colonization mission. Charlton Heston is a bad person.

Moon on the brain

Exploding moons, broken moons, moon impacts. Callbacks: Cowboy Bebop, Seveneves, Deep Impact

Language

Biology of speech. Cognitive speech development. Language evolution.

Animal Intelligence

Octopuses, corvids, elephants, various apes. Mostly chimps. Tool use, language. Moving the goalposts.