The Information Entropy Podcast

Electric Vehicles

ELECTRIC VEHICLES! Are they as sustainable as you think? Are they as safe as you think? Find out this week as the boys delve deep into electric vehicles and make many a bad pun along the way! After Mitch’s awesome news on Dark Matter, Tom brings things back to basics and asks just what is an electric car and what types are there. Mitch delves into batteries and their function and Tom expands how batteries in electric vehicles operate. The end of the show sees the boys debating about the practicality vs morality of electric vehicles and whether the world is really ready when it needs them most! Music - EVA - 失望した

Addiction

ADDICTION! Join the boys this week as they help you to understand addiction better! After the news about necrorobotics (animating dead spiders) and reviving organs in pigs the boys crack on with the main content. Tom explains what addiction is and how our perception has changed while also deep diving into the neurological affects of addiction and how it moulds your brain. Mitch talks about the psychological effects of addiction and talks about how games can play off of the reward pathway in the brain to get you to spend more money and play longer. But are games really that bad? Let two gamers tell you! Music: EVA – 失望した

Paradoxes

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, this week Mitch and Tom enter the mind-bending world of paradoxes! Mitch shares his news about how humans are not adapting to heat as well as first thought and Tom examines the influence of bad science. Heading into Paradoxes, join the boys as they explain what they are, the types that you might come across, and then some specific paradoxes. The ship of Theseus, the grandfather paradox, Achilles and the tortoise, the Monty-Hall paradox, and the bootstrap paradox, it is all here! Music: EVA – 失望した

Simulation Theory II

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, this week Mitch and Tom finish their discussion on Simulation Theory! This week the boys kick off with some news about bad science and detecting diseases from our teardrops. Mitch explores the anthropic principle in relation to simulation theory and how, if true, we should be at the lowest simulated level. Meanwhile Tom talks about how to complete the simulation and assumptions that must be true IF we are in one. The boys round out the show debating how the universe and consciousness could be simulated and how our lives would change if it were! Music: EVA – 失望した

Simulation Theory

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week Mitch and Tom took time out to live report on the James Webb Space Telescope’s first ever images. No doubt you have seen them but the boys go through each one and explain just what makes it so amazing! When they get onto the topic at hand they take a deep dive into simulation theory! Are there any proofs that we live in a simulation? Electrons maybe? The Mandela Effect? Mitch takes us through some of the most astonishing things we collectively get wrong while Tom explores the origins of the Simulation Hypothesis and how plausible it might actually be! Music: EVA – 失望した

The Large Hadron Collider

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast! Join Mitch and Tom this week as they actually stay slightly on topic for once :D The boys get the news of the week out of the way and then move on to the Large Hadron Collider! Mitch goes into detail about what it is, how it was built, and how it operates. Tom fills us in on the standard particle physics model, and how the large hadron collider works. To round out the show the boys discuss the latest technology and experiments to come out from CERN as well as alternate universe theories thought to be cause by its turning on 3 days ago! Music: EVA – 失望した

Coming to our Senses

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, science in theory but comedy in practice! The boys aim to return to their senses this week after last weeks tangent and they do well to stay on track… sort of. Starting out with some interesting news of the week they explore domestication syndrome and how space affects bone structure. On topic Mitch takes us through the world of electroreception and how sharks use it to their advantage. Tom will find a way to shoehorn dolphins into the podcast somehow so of course he speaks about echolocation while using some dodgy terminology! Rounding out the show bees come to the centre of attention with their amazing perception of the world! Music: EVA – 失望した

Senses and Perception

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week the boys aimed to talk about senses in the animal kingdom and tangented so hard that the title is no longer appropriate! The boys kick off the show as normal with some news of the week and a quick gander into what senses are. Soon though the boys move from senses to how our brains perceive the world differently, firstly to other animals and even to each other. Synaesthesia, aphantasia, do we all think in the same speed, does that change how we perceive events around us, and does all of this together affect our senses and thus perception of the world around us? Well, buckle up and get ready to find out! Music: EVA – 失望した

Senses

This week on The Information Entropy podcast, join Tom and Mitch as they explore how we perceive the world through our senses! As per usual the boys get side-tracked by starting the show off with some news talking about some exciting space discoveries and how scientists are using human skin to make robots more likeable… yes really, this is where Skynet begins. Back on track though the boys explore what they hell senses are anyway and how they work to make sure that we can take in the correct information about the world around us… but the caveat is we are only taking in a small portion of available information and that information is altered by the brain… so is what we see and feel even the real world? Find out here! Music: EVA – 失望した

Cognitive Biases

Join Mitch and Tom this week as they explore the mind in terms of cognitive biases! Have you every wondered why you make the decisions that you do or why you think the way that you do? Then cognitive biases may be the reason why and understanding them helps us change! The boys explore what cognitive biases are, why they exist, and then choose a few specific ones to talk about in detail such as the misinformation effect and how that has affected the world. Music: EVA – 失望した