All Pieces for Ben Orlando
Learning to read and write rewired our brains in fascinating ways. But where and when did writing and language originate?
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 18:38
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
In this episode we break down the factors that will influence the fate of football in the United States. Is football doomed or is it immune to the ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 34:39
Weddings today do not mean what they used to, and for this very reason, people do their best to resurrect that lost meaning. In this episode, we tr...
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 17:27
In this episode we discuss the benefits and consequences of relationships and sex with synthetic beings.
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 17:47
Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 24:25
In this episode, we talk with a man married to a doll, and we begin the debate over the issue of intimate relationships with synthetic beings.
- Added: Apr 30, 2015
- Length: 19:13
Concepts like extreme choice and mobility are some of the modern realities leading us toward depression and suicide. In this episode, we look at fo...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 12:48
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
From bridges to guns to coal gas ovens, we explore the link between accessibility and suicide.
- Added: Feb 21, 2015
- Length: 14:45
With a simple blood test, scientists can now determine our likelihood of suicidal behavior. But what are the implications of this discovery?
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 11:14
Will suicide be more or less acceptable in the future? We try to answer this question by speaking with expert thinkers about the logic or lack of l...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 13:59
In this short taken from our longer episode, "Babies. Why?" we talk to Dr. Christopher Ryan about the actual origins of "Baby Fever."
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 08:59
A new study connects football in younger players to possible behavioral changes. And one high school cancels the rest of the football season becaus...
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 10:03
What most people see as a law of nature might actually be a sociological trend. In this show we speak with experts to get to the bottom of our true...
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 50:55
More little-known connections between gladiators and NFL players.
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 10:37
Solitary confinement used to be a good thing, and other revelations.
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 11:31
Americans spend so much on the criminal justice system in order to . . . make things worse. In this show we look at the problems and unconventional...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 49:58
The U.S. is one of only 6 countries that embraces embalming. Why? And why do we spend thousands on funerals when we can achieve the same goals for ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2014
- Length: 36:10
In this episode we explain the integral connection between pornography and the endurance of high heels in our society.
- Added: Sep 09, 2014
- Length: 16:14