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Displaying all 3 Episode of Science Night with the tag “games”.
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Brain Games with Drs. Mikaela Stiver & Zach London
September 14th, 2022 | Season 3 | 52 mins 23 secs
arachnophobia, board games, brain, cns, dna, games, nervous system, neurology, neuroscience, pns, scicomm, science, spiders, table top games
This week we're talking to the team behind the creation of a new card game about cranial nerves and the boney openings that love them, Foramina! Mikaela Stiver and Zach London stop by to tell us what inspired the game and how they went about creating it. In the news, we're talking about doppelganger DNA & a spiderweb of misinformation.
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Gen Con: The Science of SciFi
August 24th, 2022 | Season 3 | 41 mins 42 secs
ai, biology, epidemiology, evolution, fallout, fusion, games, gaming, mass effect, microbiology, parasites, physics, scicomm, science, scifi, ttrpg, video games
This week we have another special episode from our recent trip to Gen Con in Indianapolis, IN. This time, its some of the audio from both nights of the Science of SciFi panel presented by Indiana Sciences. First up, the Science Night crew talks about the science of the Mass Effect and Fallout series. In Night two, Dr. Bill Sullivan, Matt Sauers, and Rufus Cochran talk about parasites, physics-based traps, and AI. For the full audio and video from both nights make sure you head over to indianasciences.org.
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The Science of Science Fiction from Gen Con Online
August 5th, 2020 | 56 mins 5 secs
anatomy, bigfoot, biology, cryptids, d&d, dungeons and dragons, evolution, games, gaming, geek, gen con. gencon, nerd, nessie, sci fi, scicomm, science, star wars, wookie, yeti
Audio from the "Science of Science Fiction" from Gen Con Oline 2020 presented by Indiana Sciences.