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The entire world has been plunged into absolute madness. This week, with the help of friend of the show: Dr. Sam Laucirica, we discuss the topic that requires no introduction: COVID-19   SHOWNOTES   Pew Research Report https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/08/nearly-three-in-ten-americans-believe-covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=9a8a1fc2a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-9a8a1fc2a0-400906701 Proximal Origin of SARS-Cov-2 Article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 Guardian Article regarding Face Maskshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/should-everyone-be-wearing-face-masks Article from Australia’s Science Channel regarding Flattening The Curvehttps://australiascience.tv/we-can-shrink-covid-19-curve-not-just-flatten/ Science-Based Medicine COVID-19 Newshttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-covid-19-news/ Kurzgesagt Coronavirus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY Amoeba sisters

Our first ever VideoFacto is just to give you an update on what we've been up to for the last four months during our protracted hiatus, and get you excited for the resumption of our regular schedule next week. If you'd rather see the video, head over to our Facebook, Instagram or YouTube pages to see our ugly mugs.

As a nice follow on from Last weeks GMO episode, Levi explains the process of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats...or CRISPR for short. Matt then runs us through numerology where he assigns Levi a name number which dictates his personality.....or does it?   Show notes for CRISPR CRISPR Timeline - https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr-timeline   Live Science article on CRISPR - https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html   Gif showing CRISPR CAS9 in action - https://www.livescience.com/60938-a-breathtaking-new-gif-shows-crispr-chewing-up-dna.html   TED Ed video on CRISPR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw_JVz_IEc   WIRED Video on CRISPR explained in 5 levels of complexity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUg   Diagram of CRISPR in action - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR#/media/File:Crispr.png   Song about CRISPR CAS9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk     Show notes for Numerology   Bobby McFerrin videohttp

This week Matt explains a topic that we've been meaning to get to for a while and one that get referenced weekly; The Scientific Method. Levi then discusses Genetically modified organisms, how they work, and then of course the hysteria surrounding GMO foods.   Show notes for the Scientific Method   “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” - Lakatoshttp://www.csun.edu/~vcsoc00i/classes/s680f11/Lakatos.pdf   Khan Academy Scientific Method Article https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-biology-foundations/hs-biology-and-the-scientific-method/a/the-science-of-biology   Khan Academy Scientific Method Video https://youtu.be/N6IAzlugWw0   Show notes for GMOs   RationalWiki article on Seeds of Death documentary https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Death   “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens   Seeds of Death Youtube documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OxbpLwEjQ   Kurzgesagt GMO vi

First of all we would like to apologise for Levi's recording quality in the first half of the episode. It's a good reminder that we are amateurs recording this in our bedrooms at home.  With that out of the way, we have put together a very interesting episode this week. Levi ticks off Time-Keeping devices throughout history and Matt lets us know whats all the buzz about the new 5G cellular network   Show notes for Time Keeping Devices   A history of time keeping devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwOBkghwWA   Informative video on time keeping devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At5atF4mKiU   The clock that changed the world - Documentary on John Harrisons Mechanical Clock to claim the longitude prize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-g27KS0yiY   Show notes for 5G   Scientific American article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/   asut Press Release: https://e3.marco.ch/publish/sunrise/821_3887/20190327_MM_asut_Faktencheck_5G-EN.pdf   cNet Arti

What are the chances that we would make it to episode 20? We certainly didn't see this in our Tarot Cards. That's right listeners in this weeks episode Matt takes us through chance and probability and Levi covers Tarot Cards   SHOW NOTES FOR PROBABILITY   “Jesus Saves” Story https://www.today.com/health/man-wearing-jesus-saves-race-bib-collapses-t165597   Risk of Death - Florida Museum https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/death/   “Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do-not-intuitively-grasp-probabilities/   “How Randomness Rules Our World” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-randomness-rules-our-world/   SHOW NOTES FOR TAROT   Itai Ivtzan Paper on Tarot cards http://www.awarenessisfreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/TarotCardsPaper1.pdf Divination with Tarot Cards: An Empirical Study: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JSPR-1983.pdf

Hey listeners, I haven't heard from you in ages! I hope you've been well. It would be so good to catch up and chat about a great new opportunity for you and us! You would basically be your own boss and work your own hours which gives you so much freedom. And the best part about it is that you can employ all your friends and family as reps! Sound like something you might be interested in? Well, listen to this week's episode on Multi-Level Marketing; a collaboration with our sisters over at "Yeah No Yeah!" Check them out wherever you get your Podcasts.   SHOW NOTES FOR MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING   Yeah No Yeah Podcast https://yeahnopodcast.com/   “Multi-Level Marketing Has a Problem: YouTubers Keep Talking About It” - Molly Kendrick https://bit.ly/34oexLn   “The Case (for and) Against Multi-level Marketing” FTC Report https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00008%C2%A0/00008-57281.pd

Episode 18 begins with a (not so) brief conversation with friend of the podcast Dr. Sam Laucirica about some of the points raised during the previous episode on NCGS. Levi then takes us back to a familiar place with a conversation about homing pigeons and Matt runs Occams Razor over some of the more popular bigfoot sightings.   SHOW NOTES FOR HOMING PIGEONS   Homing Pigeon Navigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXkcO6s_dI   Homing Pigeon Interesting Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6HN73oIps&t=206s   Homing Pigeon Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJ5q9cyPmk&t=391s   Plus a bit of good old Wikipedia and associated articles found within   SHOW NOTES FOR BIGFOOT   Jacobs Photos - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) http://www.bfro.net/avevid/jacobs/jacobs_photos.asp   Black Bears and Mange https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/06/04/black-bears-are-going-bald-it-might-be-even-worse-than-it-looks/   Patterson-Gimlin Filmhttps://youtu.be/-x3__akoM5w   Bigfoo

In IdioFacto 17 Matt takes a look inside MRI and Levi attempts (and struggles) to decode the confusing language around Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity (keep you eyes out for a bonus episode with Dr. Sam Laucirica to discuss this further.   Show notes for MRI “Introduction to MRI Physics”https://youtu.be/Ok9ILIYzmaY   MRI Soundshttps://youtu.be/6Aj2QspPf7s   MRI History https://www.magnetic-resonance.org/sources/Magnetic%20Resonance%2012th%20edition%202019%20Offprint%20History.pdf   Show notes for NCGS Coeliac Australia info pagehttps://www.coeliac.org.au/gluten-sensitivity/   Pamela Cureton presentation on NCGS anmd Coeliac Diseasehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_sjiWCdmUg   ABC Gluten Doccohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktpxe9gFfA   United European Gastroenterology Journal Articlehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406911/   Video featuring Dr. Joseph Murray, M.Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYczEi_l-h0  

Welcome to our first real episode back in season 2.   In IdioFacto 16 Levi takes us on a Journey that's out of this world and Matt debunks some of the more sensible (but still silly) conspiracies surrounding the moon landing (spoiler alert; it really happened!)   Show notes for Space Travel   Challenges of leaving space  http://www.dynamicscience.com.au/tester/solutions1/space%20science/challengeoflvnerth.htm   First German space rocket https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4397678/German-rocket-is-1st-to-reach-space--October-3--1942   Laika the Cosmonaught Dog https://time.com/3546215/laika-1957/   Show notes for the Moon Landing Conspiracy   Film Expert Explanation - The Conversation  https://theconversation.com/moon-landings-footage-would-have-been-impossible-to-fake-a-film-expert-explains-why-118426   Lunar Landing Sites - Express https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1151363/Moon-landing-hoax-NASA-fake-lunar-landing-sites-visible-on-Moon-LRO   Mythbusters Season 6 Episode 3: Moon Landing Hoa

Matt and Levi chat about nothing in particular and preview Season Two of IdioFacto, which starts October 16, 2019. Apologies for the occasional audio clipping, we have a new setup that we're still getting the hang of.

In the final episode for season 1 Matt employs the help of his brother Michael to educate (and confuse) us about the internet and Levi walks us through the pseudoscience behind Glyphosate scaremongering.   Show notes for the Internet   The never ending knowledge of Master Michael McCabe   Show notes for Glyphosate Glyphosate LD50 http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html Comment on IARC report https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wk/cej/2018/00000027/00000001/art00012 Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/110/5/509/4590280 IARC Report https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono112-10.pdf IARC list of carcinogens https://monographs.iarc.fr/list-of-classifications-volumes/?fbclid=IwAR1lP3nzKqbNFqI7oX3Cu8uLyVT61EQHYqlpw1S-Ly0fS8KKeppI6eT1J3M European Chemicals Agency report https://echa.europa.eu/-/glyphosate-not-classified-as-a-carcinogen-by-echa  

This week Levi takes us on a virtual tour through the ISS and Matt discusses close encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects   SHOW NOTES FOR THE ISS   ISS Live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfcoT_lO80 ISS timeline https://www.issnationallab.org/about/iss-timeline/ Configuration diagram https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/ISS_configuration_2017-06_en.svg Wikipedia article on all scientific research conducted on the ISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_International_Space_Station   SHOW NOTES FOR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FIRST KIND   The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe book is an invaluable primer for all things extraterrestrial, check that out for a crash course in the skeptical bent on UFOs. Daily Mail article: https://dailym.ai/2K9WOS4 CNET article: https://cnet.co/2pf1itG CIA Database of UFO Research (Declassified): https://bit.ly/2rRa8jj  

This week on IdioFacto Matt discussed the strange and wonderful Class of Cephalopods and Levi gets realistic about Antioxidants   SHOW NOTES FOR CEPHALOPODS.   Octopus escape: https://youtu.be/949eYdEz3Es Cuttlefish changing colours: https://youtu.be/K5CZ74ybnbE Octopus beak and radula: https://youtu.be/Q-jBksy7z8U Again, I used my Campbell, Reece & Meyers first year biology textbook, Biology for a bunch of information, and a lot of knowledge I had from a great Invertebrate Zoology class I did back in my second year at Uni.   SHOW NOTES FOR ANTIOXIDANTS   Cochrane review on effect of antioxidants on mortality - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007176.pub2/full Cochrane review on antioxidants vs gastrointestinal cancers - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004183.pub3/full? Victorian government advice on antioxidants - https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/antioxidants Australian government health advice on antioxidants - https://www.he

Our weather series is over! This week Levi runs you through nuclear energy and Matt pulls apart Simon Sineks pop psychology.   NUCLEAR POWER   Uranium energy density https://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm Information on Uranium and nuclear energy http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/introduction/what-is-uranium-how-does-it-work.aspx Video on Thorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuxjHLLk0E Chemical equations and reaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBdVK4cqiFs How uranium becomes nuclear fuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apODDbgFFPI   SIMON SINEK   Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace: https://youtu.be/hER0Qp6QJNU Simon Sinek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsinek/ Simon Sinek Biography: https://startwithwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Simon-Sinek-Bio_April-2019.pdf Millennials in the Workplace - A Communication Perspective on Millennials’ Organizational Relationships and Performance: https://link.springer.com/content/

If you haven't listened to IdioFacto 10 or our weather based IdioFactoid, we recommend you check those out first to give you a good understanding of some of the concepts we discuss in this episode. Matt and Levi both discuss Climate Change and dispel some of the common myths and arguments from climate change "skeptics" (climate change deniers).   Greenhouse Gases https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-campus/climate-system/greenhouse-gases/ Thermohaline Circulation https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/ocean-conveyor-belt/ A good general resource for an overview of skeptical climate change arguments: https://skepticalscience.com/ Joel Pett comic: https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13 “Consensus on consensus” article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002/pdf “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 years” in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1198.abstract Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

With time running out in a busy weekend we decided to save our climate change special until we could give it the time it deserves. Enjoy this meteorologically themed Idiofactoid in the mean time

This week we start introducing important meteorological concepts before our climate change special next episode.   Matt givs us a run down of the Carbon Cycle and Levi gets an interview with Senior Climatologist Robyn Duell to discuss long range weather forecasting   Show notes for the Carbon Cycle   Khan Academy video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-ecology/hs-biogeochemical-cycles/v/carbon-cycle   World Meteorological Organisation: https://youtu.be/E8Y6L5TI_94   Show Notes for Long Range Weather Forecasting   Interview with Robyn Duell - Senior Climatologist, Bureau of Meteorology  

 In this short installment of IdioFactoid Levi clears up the myth behind water down the plug hole and Matt runs us through some Spurious Correlations   Show notes on DRAINING WATER   Video on draining paddle pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaad0rsV38 Show notes on SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS   Spurious Correlations website: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Inhibitory Spillover Paper: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/282526/3/MO_1007.pdf